ABSTRACT

In this chapter, the author describes what he see and tell their body that he paying attention to its concern. His body is listening to their body. On 20 December 1969, while visiting her father in North Carolina, at twenty-nine years old, the authors' wife was thrown from a horse and died. His wife gone, he awoke to a dream of his house engulfed in flame. At thirty-five years old with his four-year-old son, at the completion of his teaching job, he drove across the country in his Ford Torino to Berkeley, California. Years later in 1978, after being worked on by Rolfers, chiropractors, acupuncturists, masseurs—finally, licensed as a psychologist, the author stumbled into a Bioenergetics training. Bioenergetics is a neo-Reichian process developed by Al Lowen, a student of Reich, in which a range of postures, standing and lying down, and the inclusion of verbal and somatic analysis are employed.