My interest is in one of your therapeutic modalities. You refer to it as the 'five steps', or the 'how exercise', or 'the bodying practice' or 'a somatic-emotional practice' or simple as 'a practice'. The purpose of the exercises is to be able to have an influence on your behavior. In this particular instance, we're talking about depressive and panic behavior. Your brain influences your body and your emotional life by shifting its attitudes.
Attitudes are an emotional and physical shape.
This is partly the neurophysiology of emotional behavior. The exercises continue this dialog between brain and the muscular attitude with the emphasis on managing depression and panic. I'll relate a depressed form to five steps. In this person, everything is moving in, compressing and compacting. They are squeezing and stiffening themselves, maybe as a defense against be overwhelmed.