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This article pulls together and expands upon a range of key concepts and ideas that were first explored in two separate talks given by the writer highlighting the importance of intercultural ground in body and somatic psychotherapy. After speaking at the European Association for Body Psychotherapy (EABP) Congress in Berlin 2018 and then presenting an opening keynote speech at the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP) conference in California later that year, the writer explores macroscales of culture and multiculturalism, social and socioeconomic considerations, political cultures and microscales of signs, symbols, rhythms, creativity, societal symptoms, and embodiment, leading to the idea of intercultural ground. Throughout the writer attends to pitfalls and possibilities for both body and somatic psychotherapy, with a specific focus on organizational, practitioner, training, and supervisory levels in the context of the wider world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]