ABSTRACT
We carry the history of our relationships in our bodies. As layer upon layer of creative adjustments are updated or remain outdated, the patterns we form in our relating to our world unfold. As long as we are a living body, we will body forth in the world in the way we hold ourselves, the way we move, the way we walk, and the way we make physical contact with others and the world. In doing so our histories of our contacts with the world show themselves. Our bodies forever carry information that cannot be verbalized and the way in which we body forth is a record of our on-going dialogue with the world. It is the way in which I reach out to the world, a movement in relation to my situation that defines my relationship with that situation. As person and environment are parts of a single system, ‘Each participates in the creation of the other’ (Beaumont, 1993). Person and environment define one another in relationship and as they define one another the degree of bodying forth and the style of that bodying forth will form.
