ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author describes personal journey in transforming from a conventional psychotherapy practice to one in which bodied communication becomes an acceptable norm and a rich source of therapeutic potential. He focuses on the personal resistances arising in psychotherapists as they begin to allow the body to be more fully part of the clinical interpersonal framework. He discusses personal change from a frightened boy, to a science graduate, to dairy farmer, to psychotherapist and then a body-orientated psychotherapist. The crucial change for his arose during the MindBody training, through being confronted by the need to include his body in the clinical space. He begins study in the AUT University MindBody Healthcare post-graduate programme, and another struggle ensued with his restricted world view. This capacity developed out of working with his own resistance to his body experience during the MindBody course.
