Is Radix work physically demanding?
No. The old styles of Reichian work can indeed be intrusive and demanding, given the practitioner’s possibly forceful manipulations of the body’s muscles. But later generations of neo-Reichian work, especially Radix, have tended to become much softer in their approach to working with the body. Keep in mind that neo-Reichian schools such as RADIX, Bioenergetics, and Core Energetics have been around for almost 40 years. During that time, their theories have evolved significantly from Reich’s old-school of orgonomy therapy. Furthermore, the RADIX experience draws not only upon traditional Reichian methods, but also since its inception, it has borrowed techniques from a variety of schools of humanistic psychology. Additionally, the evolution of RADIX theory over the past 40 years has lead to especially “soft” and yet effective methods of working with persons.
