Be more here in each moment as the one perceiving, rather than flooded by the past or watching yourself from the outside.
The Embodied Presence Course
Presence is the integration of body, emotion, language, and attention to be here whole. It is a perceptual capacity, the quality of how you meet experience, and it may not be our default setting but it can be developed and strengthened.
Designed to be completed over three months but available to take at your own pace, this online coure builds presence across the whole person, moving through the physical body, the emotional body, the cognitive mind, and the essential sense of self, with embodied practice grounded in neuroscience and timeless contemplative insight.
This is an inside out approach to nervous system regulation, emotional growth, and personal and interpersonal development.
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Introduction to basic somatic awareness through exploration.
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2.2: Sensory Awareness
Moving through each sense deliberately as a way of anchoring attention in the present moment.
Moving through each sense deliberately as a way of anchoring attention in the present moment.
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From over breathing to soft and deep breathing.
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2.4: Vocal Expression & Resonance
Using vocal vibration and resonance to settle the nervous system and deepen the felt sense.
Using vocal vibration and resonance to settle the nervous system and deepen the felt sense.
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Release is activating and movement based.
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Settling is downregulating and quiet.
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2.7: Progressive Muscle Relaxation
A progressive muscle relaxation exercise (tense and release) followed by an interoceptive body scan.
A progressive muscle relaxation exercise (tense and release) followed by an interoceptive body scan.
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What makes presence both challenging and possible.
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3.2: Postural & Facial Expression
A practice in the body’s innate ability to express and generate emotional states through posture and expression.
A practice in the body’s innate ability to express and generate emotional states through posture and expression.
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Fluidity and rhythm versus accumulation.
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Meeting and moving through emotions in the moment.
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Strengthening the muscle to receive.
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Presence begins with acknowledgment.
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An exercise in attention training.
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4.3: Non-distortion
Rather than presence as non-judgement, we explore presence as the non-distortion of our perception.
Rather than presence as non-judgement, we explore presence as the non-distortion of our perception.
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4.4: Uncertainty
Discovering that the open space of uncertainty and lack of control is as generative as it is uncomfortable.
Discovering that the open space of uncertainty and lack of control is as generative as it is uncomfortable.
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Meeting your past and future from the present instead of from inside them.
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Making room for two truths at once.
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5.1: The Self's Edges
Our sense of self is the boundary between inner stability and outer overwhelm.
Our sense of self is the boundary between inner stability and outer overwhelm.
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The layers that cover the heart and distort our perception.
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5.3: Relating
Presence in contact with other: the paradox of open-hearted vulnerability and discerning boundaries.
Presence in contact with other: the paradox of open-hearted vulnerability and discerning boundaries.
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5.4: The Observer
Becoming the one who sees your experience with the same kindness you first needed from someone else.
Becoming the one who sees your experience with the same kindness you first needed from someone else.
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What You'll Learn
Feel More Grounded and ClearThrough the practices and self-inquiry in this course, you'll develop greater capacity to return to a grounded state, meet experience without being overwhelmed by it, and respond from clarity rather than habit.
Understand Yourself More DeeplyThrough the four bodies of your experience — physical, emotional, mental, and subtle — you will develop genuine insight into the patterns, defenses, relational templates, and thinking habits that shape how you meet yourself and the world.
Gain Accessible Tools & Develop a Sustainable PracticeEach module includes practices you can return to and build on over time, from functional breathwork and somatic awareness to emotional processing and contemplative meditation, designed to integrate into real life rather than remain confined to a practice session.
