RADIX™ is a third-generation neo-Reichian body-oriented personal growth practice. Like sister body- psychotherapy disciplines such as Bioenergetics, Core Energetics, Hakomi, etc., Radix is founded upon the work of psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich M.D. It was developed by Charles Kelley, PhD, who established a well-grounded training program which incorporated Reich's principles of bodywork, enhanced by eyework developed from the Bates Method of vision improvement. Dr. Kelley chose the word "Radix" from the Latin work meaning "root" or "source," referring to that force which underlies all movement, feeling and growth in a person and in life.
The goals of Radix work are to help people become more fully alive and more authentic. RADIX is applied differently to clients according to their individual needs, and yet common themes underlie the work such as mind/body integration, grounding, centering, creating effective and flexible boundaries, developing the ability to contain feelings, ego strengthening, pulsation, charging, discharging, intimacy, pleasure, choice, and awareness.
