Philip Sheperd (Books)

Philip Sheperd Books

Philip Shepherd is an internationally recognized authority on embodiment. His unique techniques, developed to transform our experience of self and world and articulated in his acclaimed book, aim to heal the frantic pace of the head's intelligence by uniting it with the body's deep, present, and calm intelligence. Moving beyond the common approach of 'listening to the body' from the head, Shepherd's method helps us listen to the world *through* the body. Shaped by youthful adventures, deep study of bodywork, and a career in acting, his lifelong pursuit of freedom has led him to teach international workshops and author seminal works on embodied consciousness.

Radical Wholeness

280 pages
10 hours of reading

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There are qualities we all yearn to experience in our lives—peace, simplicity, grace, connection, clarity. Yet these qualities evade us because each of them arises from an experience of wholeness, and we live in a culture that enforces divisions within each of us. In Radical Wholeness, Philip Shepherd shows the countless ways in which we are persuaded to separate from the body and live in the head. Disconnected from the body’s intelligence, we also disconnect from the wholeness of the present. This schism within us is the primary source of stress not just in our personal lives, but for the systems of the planet. Drawing from neuroscience, anthropology, physics, the arts, myth, personal stories and his experiences helping people around the world to experience wholeness, Philip Shepherd illuminates what true wholeness means and offers practices designed to help readers soften into the intelligence of the body. Radical Wholeness is a call to action: to recover wholeness and experience a new way of being.