The objective of this work is to analyze the body/psyche unity and the hindrance to personal expression that arises from the dissociation of these two dimensions, complicating professional activities and life itself. The education of a teacher requires more than just the acquisition of contents and teaching techniques. More profound changes in the pedagogical practice entail a change of attitude from educators, a new stance before life and education, and not merely a cognitive change with the acquisition of knowledge, but also emotional, bodily and spiritual changes, learning to integrate the various dimensions of the human being. It is necessary to know how to overcome or minimize barriers that life imposed as protections, as shown by the works of Wilhelm Reich and his followers - Alexander Lowen, Stanley Keleman and David Boadella -, which constitute the theoretical background for the present study. It is necessary to know how to create opportunities to transform patterns acquired in the academic formation, which eventually congeal, as disclosed by the psychological investigations considered here. One possible way to do that is through expressive activities, such as ludic activities and art-education. Relations are constituted in the social environment; the process of growth takes place in the contact with the other, in the perception of the differences, in accepting the multiplicity of thinking, in evaluating one's own doings. The theories considered here are meaningful for the studies in the field of Education insofar as they point to the possibility of a new outlook on the classroom practices and the relations established therein.
Body-psyche; Pedagogical practice; Expressive activities; Self-care