A session usually begins with a small talk for setting the intention followed by a body scan. The participant’s experiences are allowed to lead. Throughout that time, I keep in touch with my own physical and emotional state, which informs me intuitively where the other person is, which direction we should follow, and how I personally experience in relation to them (Chodorow, 2004). They act as an inner compass that can be described as the way my unconscious is speaking to their unconscious. The unconscious communicates to me through the somatic sensations, letting me know of things I cannot understand with the mind. It is the Self in me that remains aware of these occurrences. It perceives the unconscious material within the body and brings it to the conscious mind by including it as a knowing (Pollaro, 2007). Staying there, it begins to unravel and reveal more in a very mysterious and non-literal way. A process of moving imagination (Chodorow, 2004) takes the mover and me on an unforeseen exploration. The conscious mind learns the final product at the end, rarely before the process has finished. However, it is not compulsory to understand anything at all as it is always an ever-developing process (Edinger, 1992). Sometimes it is best not to know and to stay with the sensation.
A mover remains with closed eyes, or lightly opened eyes with an internal gaze (Pollaro, 2007). They usually embody their ego-self or their unconscious. In the progression of tuning to the soma, they travel between these levels of the psyche in a process of integration. A conversation is maintained to further name experiences. By the end, the individual is able to embody an internal transformation.