Upcoming Courses
Radical Wholeness Taster at the Bristol College of Massage & Bodywork
With Sarah Stewart-Brown
Saturday 24 January 3 – 5.30pm – Bristol
This is a taster session for those who would like to learn more about Radical Wholeness and Philip Shepherd’s approach to embodiment. It can be a standalone session or a prelude to the full Weekend Workshop in Bristol or Oxford. Radical Wholeness is aimed at those who live in their heads and long for something more in their lives. More than listening to the body, it presents another way of paying attention, another way of thinking and being. The idea of body wisdom is familiar to many, but finding your way back home to this inclusive, subtle, grounded, vast, deep wisdom is more than a little challenging, because our neurology has been shaped by the disembodied culture we live in. Radical Wholeness or Embodied Presence offers a different way of looking at the world and introduces a series of simple, gentle, unique practices that will help you encounter the unconscious habits of disembodiment.
Book here https://www.bristolmassage.co.uk/calendar
An Embodied Presence Weekend
With Sarah Stewart-Brown & Ron de Brito
7-8 March 2026 – Oxford
A journey back into the intelligence of your body, your belonging with Earth, and the wholeness of being.
Why This Matters
In our fast-paced, head-driven culture, many of us live from the neck up — thinking more than sensing, striving instead of resting, reacting instead of attuning. These ways bring about tension, exhaustion and disconnection from our bodies, each other, and the living world. This make us vulnerable to illness and unhealthy relationships. This weekend introduces you to embodiment author and practitioner Philip Shepherd’s Embodied Present Process (TEPP) — a body of work created to help you return to the wisdom of your body.
You’ll explore practices that reconnect you with:
Groundedness — every cell rooted in the Earth
Spaciousness — like air flowing through and around you
Fluidity — the living waters that make up most of your body
Balance — centring between being and doing, sensing and thinking
Attunement — receiving wisdom directly from life
What You Will Experience
Through guided somatic practices you will learn:
- A deeper, felt sense of being
- Tools to nurture calm and ease in daily life
- Embodied resources to draw on in challenging moments
- A taste of living from your truth, in harmony with the world
- A path to gradually make this embodied way of living your new normal
- Discounts to join the TEPP online monthly membership community
Practical Details
When: 7-8 March 2026 10-6pm
Where: Oxford OX3 7PJ
Cost: £200 (concessions available upon request)
Bring: Loose clothing, water bottle, journal
Book here: https://pay.gocardless.com/BRT00048KKDQW16
About the facilitators
Sarah and Ron weave Embodied Coaching and trauma-informed guidance throughout the weekend. Sarah brings her unique understanding of health and illness developed from a lifetime working in the UK NHS and Universities combined with exploration of a range of alternative approaches to health and healing. Ron is an Embodied Facilitator, Empowerment and Compassion Coach, who brings a deep understanding of interpersonal relationships from her teaching of Embodied Nonviolent Communication.
The weekend is a safe and resourced space to:
- Gently meet stored patterns of tension and reactivity
- Support emotional acceptance, allowing and integration
- Co-regulate with you to stay grounded, regulated and empowered
About Sarah
Sarah is a retired doctor with a wide range of interests. She has worked in clinical, public health and academic settings and is now attached to Warwick University as Emeritus Professor. She researched and developed public mental health with a focus on wellbeing and developed teaching on wellbeing and its determinants for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and staff. Sarah has explored many different approaches to wellbeing at a personal level and trained to practice and teach those she was most impressed by including Deep Massage and Zero Balancing, Emotional Freedom Technique and Embodied Presence. Sarah has been a student of the Ridhwan School of Human Development for 15 years. Combining expertise and experience from a lifetime of curiosity and exploration she now offers workshops on Wellbeing and Embodiment, as well as coaching and consultancy to others who are interested in developing greater wellbeing in the context of their work life, home, health or relationships.
About Ron
Ron was born in London UK to Indian/ African Trinidadian parents and attended Grammar School in Finchley, North London and the University of London. Ron is a Radical Wholeness Facilitator certified with The Embodied Present Process, Embodied Facilitator, Empowerment and Compassion Coach, Nonviolent Communication Trainer, Conflict Resolution Trainer and Mediator. She holds Grief Circles and is Trauma Educated. She is passionate about welcoming people as they are and creates spaces that help people to (1) uncover gentleness and compassion within themselves and integrate emotional tapestry (2) unearth and touch their innate inter-connection with abundant elemental resources and (3) experience resonant vitality and peace, day to day. Ron is a former Secondary Science/ Chemistry schoolteacher, Personal Children’s Tutor, Research Biochemist and a mother. Ron coaches 1:1, holds group trainings and is a public speaker.
Wellbeing for Health – A one-day course in health enhancement and life enrichment in Oxford
Sunday 15 March
Saturday 11 April 2026
Saturday 18 June 2026
Developed to support health professionals, these days have proved popular among people from many walks of life – addressing personal wellbeing, resilience and ways to support these essential qualities.
If you find yourself feeling weary and uninspired, these days offer an opportunity to turn your world the right way up again. They address personal wellbeing, resilience and the ways these impact our health and experience of life.
- Take advantage of the knowledge and expertise I’ve acquired over decades of wellbeing research, teaching and practice
- Develop new insights into resilience and wellbeing
- Learn approaches and practices that are effective and easy to adopt
- Take stock of your situation, decide what can be changed and what can’t
- Leave recharged and resourced
Price: £100 | Concessions available on request
Contact sarah@wellbeing-ventures.co.uk
Radical Wholeness Weekend Workshop at the Bristol College of Massage and Bodywork
Saturday 28 – Sunday 29 March: Bristol
This weekend workshop is for those who live in their heads and long for something more in their lives. More than listening to the body, it presents another way of paying attention, another way of thinking and being. It offers a different way of looking at the world and introduces a series of simple, gentle, unique practices that will help you encounter the unconscious habits of disembodiment. The idea of body wisdom is familiar to massage therapists, but finding your way back home to this inclusive, subtle, grounded, vast, deep wisdom is more than a little challenging, because our neurology has been shaped by the disembodied culture we live in. By bringing limiting patterns into awareness and enabling them to soften and change, these ideas and practices have transformed lives and developed skills that last a lifetime. The workshop is experiential teaching skills that will strengthen practice even for those who already know how to drop out of their heads into their bodies, and offer a new framework for helping clients help themselves.
This workshop was developed by Philip Shepherd author of Radical Wholeness and New Self New World whose year-long facilitator training Sarah has just completed.
Testimonials
Courses in Wellbeing
I offer courses in holistic approaches to health and wellbeing.
Courses aim to develop deeper understanding of personal wellbeing, what determines it and how it can be enhanced.
They are valuable both for personal wellbeing and for health care practice. They provide insight into ways in which the wellbeing of patients or clients can be supported with positive effects on their health.
Courses are small – maximum 10 participants and include taster days, two and four day courses. They can be tailored to different professional groups.
At Warwick University I developed and taught courses for postgraduate medical students, for postgraduate public health professionals and for undergraduates in all disciplines. Consultants, GPs, trainee doctors and many other health professionals have enjoyed and benefited from these courses.
Courses in Embodiment
I now offer a two-day Embodied Presence workshop
These workshops take you beyond listening to your body. They offer another way of paying attention and another way of thinking and being that together bring you home to the body’s vital wisdom. They were developed by Philip Shepherd as an introduction to The Embodied Presence Process (TEPP).
This course is (in Philip’s words) for those who live in their heads and long for something more in their lives.
Courses in Bodywork
I offer courses in bodywork to health professionals
I am offering an exciting four-day course in Bristol. It is designed for those, already working with the body, who want to develop new skills and insights into psychological as well as physical wellbeing, exploring the energy of bone in the context of a broad body-mind-spirit framework.
Offered over 2 weekends, it introduces the practices of Zero Balancing and Embodiment as well as the insights of Polyvagal Theory and other psychological approaches. Integrating insights from a range of perspectives from the world of trauma to the world of biomedicine, the teaching trains new skills, offers new perspectives and potentiates many different approaches to practice.
Venue - Annex@No4
I have a workshop space, purpose built for courses and workshops on wellbeing. I offer this for hire to teachers of human development and wellbeing when I am not using it myself.
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