From the editors: We have included this excerpt, Chapter 4, from Jeff Maitland’s book Spacious Body: Explorations in Somatic Ontology as a companion piece to the articles on Biodynamics. This chapter, “The Allowing-Will,” speaks to the spacious holistic presence from which a practitioner can engage or allow the biodynamic process. To quote Maitland, “Allowing is a surrendering of the body-self and its conflicts into a spaciousness greater than itself from which empowered willing and action can manifest.” (North Atlantic Books, 1995, p. 117)
