ABSTRACT
Questioning is a process of initiating. Finding one’s direction for research and/or beginning an intellectual journey: these are familiar ways of initiating done through questioning. Questioning the moving body certainly is a type of reflection or introspection, yet it differs from these activities usually done sitting in a chair, writing prompts in a journal or wordsmithing inquiries surrounded by books and notes to start a research project. Tugs, tensional relationships, and sensations of one’s energy flowing in the body make up the linguistic elements of the language of the body. The brain’s information that it synthesizes for cognitive processes comes from the moving body. It’s a duet, a pas de deux, body and mind: bodymind. Physiologically, the reason is that the moving body creates a line of pull, a kinetic chain of muscular and soft tissue connections depending on the specific spot where the body begins the movement.
