Place rediscovered by means of body?

Since plato to Descarte, Modern philosophy splites body(sense) and mind(mental).
And the body is a subordinated factor to the mind.
for any appearance to be apprehended it must assume the format of a representation("idea", "apperception", VOrstellung..) and the sum total of representations is considered to make up Mind itself.
Thus, space, the very basis of the perception of a permanent external world, is itself based on mind. Or, rather, in mind.
So... now. how we can perceive the space(place) with our living body?