• The way of being to which our culture has devoted itself has proven toxic to the life of the world around us. TEPP enables you to explore a different way of being.
• We boldly challenge a six-thousand-year-old paradigm that binds our daily lives in a state of division, disconnection, willfulness, and isolation…
• The work is not about substituting a new set of ideas about how to live for an older one. It’s about discovering how cultural patterns of restriction are held in the body, and through that discovery gaining the freedom to return to the spaciousness of presence and the grace of being…
• The work acknowledges that the word radical means ‘root’. Radical Wholeness is about being rooted in the present, alive to the relationships that sustain your life.
• TEPP appreciates that everyone’s path to freedom is unique, just as everyone’s body is. And that everyone’s path is facilitated by a surrender to the wholeness that is our reality. Developed as an experiential complement to Shepherd’s groundbreaking books New Self, New World and Radical Wholeness, this workshop offers skills and practices to last a lifetime. As they help you deepen into the unified intelligence of your being, you’ll feel yourself carried into the intimacy of the world. An experience of radical wholeness is simply an experience of your wholeness, rooted in the nourishment of the Present.
Although the body is considered to be largely without intelligence, what can be known through its deep wisdom is actually more inclusive, subtle, grounded and vast than anything we could conceptualize in our heads. But we have been encouraged to neglect the body, live in our heads, and undertake a desperate agenda of trying to outthink our circumstances. This exhausting strategy keeps us skittering along the surface of things, never truly connecting with the life around us. Finding your way back home to your body’s vital wisdom, though, is more than a little challenging, because our neurology has been shaped by the disembodied culture we live in.
Location:
Accidental Theatre
12-13 Shaftesbury Square
Belfast, BT2 7DB
Class size limited maximum 18 particpants
In this workshop, Philip Shepherd will introduce you to a series of simple, gentle, unique practices that help you encounter the habits of disembodiment within yourself that otherwise remain invisible. Once you bring those limiting patterns into awareness, they begin to soften and change. As you feel your relationship with your body transform, you feel your relationship with the world anew – discovering nourishment in both. Over the course of our days together you will develop a set of skills that will serve you for a lifetime.
