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Abstract
The interrelationships between emotions and environment are intrinsic to human existence. The way we feel about our surroundings affects deeply how we feel about ourselves and others. Our bodies embody our feelings, perceptions, thoughts and memories. The experience of the body moving through space and responding to the built environment on myriad levels simultaneously is an essential aspect of body psychotherapy. Writing within the framework of biodynamic body psychotherapy and my work as an architectural designer and educator, the primary focus of this article is on the intimacy of the body being in space and the psychotherapeutic implications of this. Relationships between the invisible and the visible, and between emotions and environment, are explored. Through making links between philosophical, phenomenological and psychological aspects of existence, I then discuss levels of reality that become manifested in the realm of the visible, the architectural, the physical and the practicality of lived experience.