Soft Animal Bodies:
A 7-Month Somatic Journey
There’s something about the colder months that call us inward. As the natural world around us slows and turns quiet, our bodies need each other more than the isolation that can beckon us. That’s exactly why I created Soft Animal Bodies - a monthly gathering space where we can remember what it feels like to truly come home to ourselves amidst a world that is becoming more and more dysregulated.
This 7-month somatic journey is designed specifically for trans and queer folks who wish to explore what it means to live with more ease in their bodies. Led by Coral Short, a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, these monthly sessions from September 2026-March 2027 aren’t about fixing anything that’s “wrong” with you. Instead, they’re about rediscovering the wisdom your body already holds and learning to trust it again.
Over the course of our time together, we’ll gently explore the fundamentals of somatic healing: learning to regulate your nervous system when life feels overwhelming, discovering how to connect safely with others, developing a clearer sense of what’s happening both inside and around you, and building a toolkit of practices that actually support you in your daily life. This is a space where you can remember that your body is your ally-it’s been looking out for you all along.
Program Details:
Format: Online group sessions
Frequency: Second Sunday of every month at 1pm ET
Duration: 90 minutes per session with a break
Community size: Limited to 20 participants for intimate connection
All somatic group practices are recorded, but not the shares
This seven-month somatic cohort moves through themes that build on one another, following the natural arc of nervous system healing. We begin in September with Safety, establishing the conditions for real work: felt sense of the body, trust between participants, and a container that can hold what arises.
October's focus on Boundaries grows directly from that foundation. When we feel safe, we can begin to sense where we end and others begin, and to honour what our bodies actually need.
November brings Belonging, a theme of particular importance for us as queer and trans people. So much of our collective experience has involved being marginalized.This month explores what it means to feel into to be received, and to belong to ourselves and to one another.
December's theme of Self-Regulation arrives when we need it most. The holiday season brings its own pressures, and this month offers practical, embodied tools for staying with ourselves through it.
In January, we work with Dignity. The new year is a fitting time to reconnect with inherent worth, not as something to earn or perform, but as something already present inside our precious bodies.
February opens into Resilience. In a political moment that is actively working to exhaust, isolate, and wear down queer and trans communities, resilience is not just individual. It is a collective practice and a form of resistance. This month is about the body's capacity to find ground again, together, even when the world keep shifting.
We close in March with Joy. For many of us joy has been interrupted, discouraged, or survived rather than inhabited. This final month is an invitation to let more aliveness be present.
Each month builds naturally on the last. Come home to yourself again and again, in the company of others.
I believe deeply that healing should be accessible to everyone who needs it, not just those who can easily afford it.
The full investment for all seven 1.5 hour sessions is 350 USD/CAD/GBP/EUR, but I’m offering an early bird rate of 300 if you register by August 15th.
I also have scholarships specifically available for BIPOC and trans femme participants.
This isn’t just about learning techniques, though you’ll definitely leave with practical tools you can use. It’s about something deeper: remembering that your body is not a problem to be solved but a home to be tended. It’s about finding your way back to the animal wisdom that lives in your bones, the soft intelligence that knows how to rest and how to fight, how to connect and how to protect.
Join me to practice coming back home. Take time to remember the wisdom of your body. Together, we’ll practice the art of returning home to ourselves, again and again.
Questions? Reach out to coralshort@gmail.com
REFUND POLICY
If you need to cancel more than 30 days before the programme starts, you'll receive a full refund minus a $50 administration fee (early bird) or $60 (standard rate). Cancellations made 15-29 days before receive a 50% refund, and cancellations less than 15 days before are non-refundable. You're welcome to transfer your spot to another person at no cost up until 7 days before the programme begins. In cases of serious illness or family emergency we can find a solution together.
