ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses two different layers of integration: bodily integration using movement—integrating the various body patterns and phrasing them for fuller movement possibility; and the integration of movement and bodily knowing into life. As the movement patterns are being established, each individual is at the same time forming his/her unique expressive interaction with the world (way of “moving in the world”) and, therefore, that interaction and its “meaning” is included within the body patterning. When the stages of bodily differentiation are complete and all the patterns are laid down, it is the effective functioning of changing relationships according to context that takes us to the integral stage with our moving. The concept of connectivity is meaningless without differentiation. Polarization is part of that differentiation. However, if we never move beyond polarity, we will feel “stuck” and unable to be present as a whole person.
