“… [W]e are in and through our gestures stitched into and held by a tradition. Our gestures are the habitat of a history, its embodiment, testimony that as beings in time we do belong to a community of others. The body that one is, the body that one is born with, has been crafted long before one’s birth.”

∆ Don Hanlon Johnson, The Body in Psychotherapy: Inquiries in Somatic Psychology