Radical Wholeness The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being [Paperback]

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. InRadical 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 Wholenessis a call to action: to recover wholeness and experience a new way of being.“Philip Shepherd has gifted us a book that reframes our basic understanding of getting the most out of body intelligence. It rearranges the familiar top-down authorship from cerebral brain to body and restores body presence to a borderless merging of intelligence that includes inside/outside and sensory awareness. Ingest this book and let it ruminate throughout your daily dance. Take Shepherd’s experiences to heart and practice the exercises he shares with us to reclaim our inheritance as fully functional breathing sensing alive awake beings.”
—Vinn Arjuna Martí, Designer of Soul Motion®. A conscious dance practice.
 
“Radical Wholenessis an important book. It’s a “deep dive” into understanding our  somatic  experience of being and provides a path back to wholeness. And for students of the Enneagram, this is a book not to be missed. You’ll be amalÃ3