Joán Gutiérrez,CSB

Intimacy, Embodiment & Nervous System Ecology

Available to individuals, couples, organizations, and communities
Internationally — Online
Brooklyn, NY / Chicago, IL — In-person** English & Spanish

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Approach

My orientation is relational rather than prescriptive. I pay attention to the thresholds where awareness refines, consent becomes meaningful, and desire deepens or dissolves. I am interested in how people learn to stay with experience without overriding themselves or performing an outcome.I was raised in the Ciudad Juárez–El Paso borderlands, a place where categories blur and contradictions are ordinary. Living between cultures, languages, and moral systems taught me early that power is not abstract, that safety is negotiated moment by moment, and that beauty often emerges from careful attention rather than force. That sensibility continues to guide my work.I move between body-based art and somatic education. These are not separate for me. Art asks for risk, precision, and vulnerability. Education asks for clarity, pacing, and responsibility. Both require discipline. Both require listening.Many people who come to my work are highly sensitive, perceptive, and capable. Desire may feel compelling while difficult to approach without control or shame. Rather than aiming for release, transformation, or catharsis, I focus on learning how to be in relationship with sensation, choice, and meaning. Slowly. With curiosity.Sessions are experiential and consent-based, shaped by movement, awareness, dialogue, and, when agreed appropriate, touch.I prefer to work in-person because I value physical presence and it's growing ever more rare. Online work is considered.

Offerings

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About

My training is interdisciplinary and lineage-based. I came into this work through the arts, with early training in psychology and fine art, and was shaped most deeply through sustained study of Butoh and Noguchi Taiso. These movement lineages teach me how to listen to gravity, work with subtle force, and let movement emerge through presence.I am certified in Sexological Bodywork and consent-based facilitation, with additional training in holistic pelvic care, nervous system–informed embodiment, and Japanese somatic methods. Currently a student of Chinese Medicine and Zen Shiatsu, where attention to rhythm, pressure, and relationship is central.Fundamentally, I am a Zen student. This tradition informs how I embody attention, ethics, and limits, especially in spaces involving intimacy, power, and vulnerability. I am less interested in answers than in how one lives the question.I currently work between Chicago and Brooklyn and remain open to travel.

Schedule

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“When we begin to live from within outward, in touch with the power of the erotic within ourselves, and allowing that power to inform and illuminate our actions upon the world around us, then we begin to be responsible to ourselves in the deepest sense.”
— Audre Lorde