11/02/2025
Body Intelligence Academy
Our mission is to create a world where women lead with confidence, presence and connection in every area of their lives.
Lily Shepard is passionate about connecting with and empowering women through movement, positivity and community. Based in Austin, Texas, Lily shares her unique style of dance with women of all shapes, sizes, fitness levels and backgrounds by incorporating a variety of movement modalities, including: Twerk N Burn (her signature dance fitness class), Afro-Caribbean dance, jazz, contemporary dance a
11/02/2025
10/16/2025
1988. Rochester NY.
I was 7 years old and the only kid to appear on Dance Beat— a local teen dance show that was a big deal back then.
My brother who was a regular kept telling the producers about his little sister who was “a cute kid who could actually dance”.
They’d never had a little kid on the show before but they gave me a shot.
I didn’t think much of it at the time.
I just knew I loved to dance and if there was a room with music playing and people moving I wanted to be in it.
I was a quiet kid. I remember the lights, the cameras, the energy in the room. I remember thinking “I feel right at home here”.
I’ve been on club dance floors long before I was the appropriate age to be there, and I’ll be on them long after I’m supposed to age out.
I love what happens when bodies move together.
That wordless connection, that shared energy, the way a room full of strangers becomes something else entirely when the music hits right.
Everything I’ve built has been in service of that connection.
09/01/2025
If you’ve ever felt like you had to edit your essence to be seen - come sit with us inside the Collective.
We’re on a new wave.🌊
DM me and let’s chat.
08/28/2025
The parts of you that feel like “too much” aren’t the problem. Suppressing them is.
Join us at Sensual Revival on 9/21 in person and reconnect with your body’s full range.
This is pillar 2 of the Body Intelligence Confidence Method.
Link in bio. 😤
08/23/2025
Honestly, how have you been running your life?
08/08/2025
Please let me introduce myself.
My name is Lily and my mission is to dismantle the self abandonment in industrial complex by helping women leaders trust their embodied knowing more than any expert, algorithm or system built to extract from them.
❌ What You Won’t Find Here
➡️Performing wellness for the algorithm .
➡️Spiritual mumbo jumbo
➡️Hustle culture disguised as empowerment.
➡️Empty “self-care” platitudes that never touch your nervous system.
✅ What You Will Find Here
➡️Accessible movement you can weave into your real life.
➡️Conversations that honor the whole woman, not just her productivity.
➡️Permission to be powerful, sensual, and unapologetically yourself.
➡️Practices that help you lead without abandoning your body.
🤔 What You Might Be Surprised to Find Here
➡️How much you can shift in just seven minutes of movement.
➡️That joy can be a leadership strategy.
➡️How sensuality makes you more focused, not less.
➡️That slowing down can actually make you more magnetic.
➡️How much power lives in your hips.
✨ If this feels like the home you’ve been craving…
The Body Intelligence Collective is where we take these conversations off the feed and into your body. Link in bio to join.
08/01/2025
Control equals safety.
Be realistic.
Map it out & calculate before you move.
Make a list.
If it’s not on the calendar, it doesn’t exist.
It’s all up to me to figure it out.
Everything requires a strategy.
Sound familiar?
This month inside the Collective I’m opening the door and inviting you into a different kind of knowing.
Join us and sing out what happens when you stop trying to manage mystery & dance with it instead. 💃🏽✨
07/07/2025
There’s a lingering societal view that women’s value is tied to their youth and attractiveness, and that their influence diminishes with age.
Over here we’re not clinging to youth, although we are beautiful, we don’t owe anyone beauty and we celebrate the wisdom, discernment and misplacing of f***s to give that come with getting older.
Is this you?
07/02/2025
I remember a beautiful conversation with a lovely woman I met on the beach about womanhood, trauma and living a free spirited life among other things.
I love me some random deep conversations with strangers…. 😍
Anyhow, she asked me why I believe so whole heartedly that 𝙈𝙊𝙑𝙀𝙈𝙀𝙉𝙏 has to be a huge part of a persons process of deciding that they will reject the status quo and instead pursue a more fulfilling life.
I explained to her that when I 𝙢𝙤𝙫𝙚 I’m reminded of the possibilities my life holds.
I can go fast, I can go slow, I can leap.
I can feel the sexual energy when I move my hips.
I can feel rooted & solid when I plant my feet, stand tall & breathe deeply.
I can feel my capacity to stretch just a little beyond what’s comfortable.
I can feel the animal in me when I crawl and thrash on the ground.
I can feel playful & whimsical when I spin and twirl about.
I can feel a connection to a joyful past memory.
I can release an old hurt.
I can remember that I have the power to create.
I can feel comfortable in the seat of power and leadership.
These feelings live in my body making it much easier for these concepts to take root in my mind. I don’t have to 𝙏𝙃𝙄𝙉𝙆 my way there.
That’s why movement is at the heart of the work that I do with clients in the Body Intelligence Academy.
Check out my story highlights to hear from my clients. This work is life changing.
I have space for 3 women who are ready to work 1:1 and upgrade their capacity to lead.
If you’re curious about Body Intelligence and the impact it can have personally and professionally, shoot me a DM and let’s chat.
And by chat,I mean you and I.
Not a chatbot🤖😉
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