Elisha Goldstein, PhD Elisha Goldstein, PhD, is a Psychologist and a trained teacher of the increasingly popular Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). A respected clincial therapist for adults, adolescents, and couples across threee organizations, he stands at the progressive end of integrating mindfulness into the therapeuitc setting. He has personally been integrating concepts and behaviors of mindfulness into his daily life, and has helped his clients apply these concepts in both clinical settings and their daily lives. Dr. Goldstein has published the article Sacred Moments: Implications on Well-Being and Stress in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. His study found that integrating mindful principles into daily life for just 5 minutes a day over 3 weeks resulted in significant reductios in stress and significant increases in life satisfaction, positive relations with others, and environmental mastery - all key players in creating a satisfying sex life. He has also given workshops and lectures in multiple settings on therapeutic benefits of mindfulness, including Kaiser Permanente and the Mindfulness and Psychotherapy Conference at UCLA headlining Thich Nhat Hanh, Jack Kornfield, and Daniel Siegel in October, 2007. Today Dr. Goldstein lives with his wife, who is also a Psychologist, in Los Angeles California where he works as a freelance writer, a mindfulness coach and group leader, and clinical therapist in private practice. Along with Bonnie Zylbergold, MA, Elisha Goldstein is co-founder of Mindfulness-Based Sex Therapy (MBST) and co-author of the upcoming book Buddha in the Bedroom: A guide to MBST. | Bonnie Zylbergold, MA Bonnie Zylbergold, MA, is an expert in the field of human sexuality and Assistant Editor for American Sexuality Magazine. She has leant her sexual savvy ot projects ranging from documentaries on VH1 ("Women Seeking Women: A Bi-Curious Journey," October, 2006) to sex positive workshops and trainings in the greater San Francisco area. She is a pioneer in teh study of heteroflexibility, the newest permutation in sexual identities to hit the Western cultural landscape, and has presented her reseach in various social and academic arenas, include San Francisco State's Human Sexuality Summer Institute Film Exposition and the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society. She also claims four years of sex reserach working at the Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality in San Francisco where she worked on longitudinal studies focusing on adolescent sexual health and the media. She is currently the Assistant Editor to American Sexuality Magazine and SexLiteracy.org, both online publiscations of the National Sexuality Resource Center. NSRC is administered by SFSU and is one of the major Ford Foundation projectecs for the Blogal Initiative on Sexual Health and Well-Being. Mrs. Zylbergold's degrees in both Communication and Journalism from Montreal's Concordia University, along with her Master's degree in Human Sexuality from SFSU, have further supported her social and academic aptitude for writing on everything from media to sexuality to culture and politics. A sampling of her more recent: "No Strings Attached: Women discover lesbian pleasures but say not to relationships" and her more academic work, "from sex to sexuality: Expsing the heterosexual script on primetime network television," is currently in press and will be published in the Journal of Sexuality Research. More of her work can be found @ http://nsrc.sfsu.edu. Along with Elisha Goldstein, PhD, Bonnie Zylbergold, MA, is co-founder of Mindfulness-Based Sex Therapy (MBST) and co-author of the upcoming book Buddha in the Bedroom: A guide to MBST. MBST is designed around awareness training and employs innovative sexual approaches aimed at enhancing connection and intimacy with oneself and others while recognizing and experiencing people's sexual thoughts, feelings, and sensations. |