This paper presents major achievements of a centennial phenomenology of the living body, in order to elucidate the specific advantages a phenomenological approach to the issue of the body has. As to the difference between the common understanding of the body and the "phenomenon of the body", this paper mainly discusses Husserl's "functioning body", Merleau-Ponty's "body in the world", the "body in attunement" and the "body in relation" according to Heidegger, as well as to Levinas. Aiming at a further development of these important phenomenological insights, this paper then unfolds a transdisciplinary, as well as transcultural, approach, taking Henry, contemporary dance and the Zhuang Zi as further evidence, so as to demonstrate how the living body essentially originates in movement. As a result, it is argued that the "body in movement" deploys some kind of paradoxical moving pattern, namely "reverting and taking back", thus being intimately connected with the temporality of human existence.