Philip Shepherd

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  • little bit about the passion behind my work. If you want to experience some of my work, check out the Eight Essential Embodiment Exercises available on my website. Use discount code “insta8” and save 18%! Link in bio.
  • Spent a couple of magical days with Andrew Harvey. Do yourself a favour and check out his new book Turn Me To Gold, his brilliant translation of the poetry of Kabir, accompanied by stunning photographs by Brett Hurd.
  • Six Characteristics that Distinguish my Work ::: TEPP (The Embodied Present Process) is an experiential modality that that brings you home to wholeness by integrating your body’s intelligence with your thinking. It’s a modality unlike any other and is distinguished by six primary characteristics: 1. TEPP places the body’s intelligence front and center. Most modalities, without realizing it, are top-down. We are immersed in a culture that lives in the head, thinks in the head, issues instructions to the body from the head, and is resolutely top down in its approach to the world. Many body-centered modalities instruct us about what we should do with the body and how, and often what we should feel as that happens. The intention behind such modalities is benign, but they inadvertently reinforce the top-down primacy of idea over sensation; as such, they further estrange us from the body’s intelligence. This matters deeply, because the body’s intelligence is attuned to the present and holds within it a realm of subtle awarenesses. Those awarenesses are what enable us to be present, to connect with our deepest truth, and to harmonize with the world around us. Read the other 5... link in bio!
  • The grapes of my body can only become wine After the winemaker tramples me. I surrender my spirit like grapes to his trampling So my inmost heart can blaze and dance with joy. Although the grapes go on weeping blood and sobbing “I cannot bear any more anguish, any more cruelty” The trampler stuffs cotton in his ears: “I am not working in ignorance. You can deny me if you want, you have every excuse, But it is I who am the Master of this Work. And when through my Passion you reach Perfection, You will never be done praising my name. –Rumi, translated by Andrew Harvey- Author (from his book The Way of Passion) Photo by Jesse Belleque on Unsplash
  • I’m thrilled to be heading to Calgary early February to teach a Radical Wholeness workshop! If you know anyone in the area who might be interested I would appreciate you spreading the word!
  • "You can’t do it alone. Not because you haven’t got what it takes, but because that’s not how things are. We are told the contrary, of course – “Stand on your own two feet! Make something of yourself! Be independent!” But reality whispers another message through every twig and scurrying ant and sounding whale: there is no independence. Everything depends on everything. Everything leans on and affects everything. British physicist Michael Berry has established that the presence of a single electron at the outer fringe of the known universe affects cloud formations you see, and gusts of wind you feel..." To read the full post click link in bio. * * * #radicalwholeness #theembodiedpresentprocess #alliesandpartnerships

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