Upcoming Courses
Wellbeing for Health – A one-day course in health enhancement and life enrichment
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.
When you’ve had enough of feeling weary, this is an opportunity to turn your world the right way up again.
- 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
- Take away ideas for your patients and as well as yourself
- In a delightful setting in central Oxford
Upcoming dates for Wellbeing Taster Days:
- Sunday 9th November 2025
Price: £100 | Concessions available on request
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An Embodied Present Process Weekend
A journey back into the intelligence of your body, your belonging with Earth, and the wholeness of being.
With Sarah Stewart-Brown & Ron de Brito
Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd November 2025 Oxford OX3 7PJ
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.
What This Workshop Offers
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: 22-23 November 10-6pm
Where: Oxford OX3 7PJ
Cost: £175-£250
Bring: Loose clothing, water bottle, journal
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.
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Upcoming Courses in Bodywork
Bone to Bone
This new four-day course is designed for those who work with the body and want to develop skills and insights into psychological as well as physical wellbeing, exploring the energy of bone in the context of the practices of Zero Balancing and Embodiment as well as the insights of Polyvagal Theory and other psychological approaches. Bringing ideas and exercises 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 the practices of different approaches to bodywork.
Bodies take the brunt of everyday stresses and distress because these interfere with physiological functioning and musculoskeletal patterning. Eventually they become painful or diseased. The Bone to Bone approach offers the deeply and holistically restorative experience of being held through the skeleton. This allows the release of long -standing tension patterns and offers an opportunity to reset the nervous system.
The course covers:
- Properties of bone and how to work with bone to greatest effect.
- How bodywork can directly affect the nervous system enhancing aspects of wellbeing as we age.
- The practitioner qualities essential to this work – presence, awareness, sensitivity and mindset.
- Polyvagal theory and how it can potentiate bodywork.
- Embodiment practices for therapists and clients
Participants report that the course has a personal impact, for example one said that the course seemed to ‘thaw places of holding in my body, sufficient that I have less fear and more grounded courage available’. Another said ‘I’m feeling more boundaried, with a greater self-awareness’.
This powerful gentle technique has a capacity to enable bone, the deepest and most structural component of the body, to relax and heal. When your very skeleton is held in kindness, curiosity and gentleness you can feel safe enough to step away from deeply held patterns, whatever your history.
Upcoming dates:
- New dates coming soon
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 the 2-day Radical Wholeness 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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