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Self psychology’s experience-near premise places the client’s and therapist’s subjectivities central to the therapeutic process. Represented abstractly, symbolically, motorically or sensorily, our affective subjectivity carries therapeutic power. If nuanced somatic/motoric awareness is included, clinical observations expand, and the client feels more deeply met in nonverbal spaces. However, a somatic sensibility does not need to be “applied” to psychoanalytical self psychology as it is already embedded within the body of self psychology literature. Knowing how to access and include it in psychoanalytic treatment provides insight into the ever-flowing lived experience, expands the capacity to observe and language pre-symbolic relational experience, and offers greater potential for embodied responsiveness. Daniel Stern proposed that vitality affects provide the historical and clinical “how” of relationship and brings it alive with embodied meaning. The author offers a clinical case where the sensory-motor communications underpinning the therapeutic interactions were experienced and understood using the concept of vitality affects in an embodied manner. Through a physical, felt understanding of vitality affects, therapist and client somatically entered the temporal spaces, relational forces, spatial interactions, and flow of rhythmic interactions forming their dynamic intersubjective field and holding historical and clinical relational meaning.