Existence / early grounding

Lower-leg and foot response locus

This locus represents Bodynamic developmental work on existence, grounding, and early bodily support. The lower-leg coordinate is an editorial anchor for a distributed muscle-response teaching set, not a claim that one muscle stores a character structure.

Existence / early groundingExistence / early groundingNeed / reaching and receivingAutonomy / boundary movementWill / active agencySelf-worth / supportLove / relational contactExpression / voice and assertionSolidarity / social support

Point 1 of 8 in Bodynamics — Marcher Character–Muscle Map

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

Lisbeth Marcher and Sonja Ørting, Body Encyclopedia: A Dictionary of Bodily Responses (scholarly_modern)

Bodynamic character-structure and ego-function teaching links developmental themes with muscle responses; exact muscle lists and developmental interpretations vary by training edition.

Bodynamic International, Bodynamic Analysis training materials (scholarly_modern)

Practitioner curriculum for the Bodynamic system’s developmental phases, character structures, ego functions, and psychomotor muscle testing; used here as lineage context, not as independent clinical validation.

Marianne Bentzen, The Neuroaffective Developmental Model (scholarly_modern)

Adjacent body-psychotherapy scholarship supporting developmental and relational framing; it does not establish the specific Bodynamic muscle correspondences rendered here.

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