Q: Why does Radix include a focus on the body?

A: The mind and body are a unity. Each is mirrored in the other. For example, the unconscious is mirrored in the body's patterns of chronic muscular tension. The principle of mind/body unity confirms Wilhelm Reich's discovery that you cannot effect lasting psychological change without also having changed the body, especially its chronic tensions. More obviously, we experience emotion when the body's subtle biophysical energy (orgone, qi, prana) flows through the body. "Stuck" feelings of fear, pain, anger, longing, complexes, character defenses, repressions, and other issues are held in the chronic tensions of your body. These tensions distort the flow of our life force, and we experience these distortions as psychological discomfort. If the principle of mind/body unity is real, then it follows that working with the body's tensions can provide us yet another avenue for affecting psychological change.

Q: Is Radix work physically demanding?

A: No more than feels enlivening for the client. Any physical ‘work’ on the part of the client or touch or massage to the muscles have the purpose of helping the client feel more alive. So with one client, they may work very softly with no physical demands at all, and with another get the client to move to access their energy. With some, the physical mobilisation may be the eyes or the breath and with another it may be leg work for strength and grounding. The practitioner is always working at a level which feels right for the client.