Steuart Gold
“You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for houses and livable acreage. Occasionally the river floods these places. ‘Floods’ is the word they use, but in fact it is not flooding; it is remembering. Remembering where it used to be. All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”
The practice of remembering you
Every person enters the world called; there are no ungifted people. However to keep ourselves feeling safer, loved and connected we’ve silenced our voice and dimmed our radiance. It’s really difficult to exist in a system that was not designed to support a spirit like yours.
One’s degree of suffering is proportionate to the degree one is out of alignment with one’s original nature, and the most common form of despair is not being who you are. Maybe your peace is about unbecoming everything that isn't really you, so that you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.
Healing includes acknowledging that the guides to our vitality, creativity, and deeper purpose live within our embodied ‘beforeness’ (our original self before the layers of conditioning) yet these guides are guarded by well-intended, protective dragons. Together you and I commit to risking the dragons.
If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done; what you’re not changing, you’re also choosing. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth: The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.
*The above is full of other people’s wise words. If you’re interested in the references, I’ll be happy to share them with you.
“I’m beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn’t pleasant, it’s not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.”
Steuart Gold
(fluid using he/him pronouns):
I’ve worked in various aspects of the field of psychology for three decades. Having come to the field after 25 years as a professional dancer, I integrate humanistic, psychodynamic theories and techniques within body-oriented methodologies. I have held numerous teaching positions with universities and institutes throughout North, Central and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Mid-East.
My somatic psychotherapy private practice consists of working with individuals and couples/families. Practicing as psychotherapist, professor, clinical supervisor/consultant and clinic director, I center dynamics of multicultural humility, inclusiveness and an awareness of sociocultural factors while encouraging an exploration of the body's central role in the development and ongoing lived experiencing of our lives.
I hold a Master of Arts degree in Counseling Psychology (concentration in Somatic Psychology) from CIIS, as well as a Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance from the University of Illinois and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance from the Juilliard School. In addition I am a certified massage therapist, Rosen Method Bodywork practitioner, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, and the co-author of the Somatic Post-Encounter Clinical Summary (SPECS)©, an instrument for practitioners and researchers to measure the wisdom of somatic intelligence.
I am currently offering sessions remotely from my home office in California’s Mojave Desert where I live with Ruth (Chihuahua/terrier mix).
