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Healing into wholeness: psychotherapy practice informed by the Discipline of Authentic Movement

Abstract In this article I offer personal reflections as a somatic and movement psychotherapist whose practice is profoundly influenced by the Discipline of Authentic Movement. The fundamental elements of the Discipline are discussed: close attention to embodied experience on the part of a mover and a witness; the relational resonance between them; and the rigour of speaking directly from experience. This foundation serves as the core of my therapy practice, whether or not we are working within the movement form itself. Attention is drawn, in particular, to the intersection between psychological processes and experience of utter presence in the moment. At this gateway the concentration on personal embodied history may open out to spaciousness, no longer bounded by the personal, and a knowing that we are whole and complete, just as we are. Here we meet the healing that is inherent in the relational practice of presence.