Embodiment Training focuses on the following nine practices. All practitioners explore the first six of these practices. The last three depend on circumstances and personal inclinations.

Ordinarily, we think of meditation as an activity involving our minds, but in truth meditation is initiated by assuming a specific gesture with our bodies. Meditation practice that focuses on breath, balance, and body is an important technique through which we can come to a more accurate appreciation of the nature and process of embodiment. Through the practice of meditation we train ourselves to experience the truth of the present moment and purify ourselves of whatever residue makes it difficult for us to do so. Embodiment practitioners will often explore the vipassana practices of U Ba Khin as well as the Kum Nye practices of Tarthang Tulku. The basic manual for sitting practice is The Posture of Meditation (Shambhala, 1996) by Will Johnson.