The Body is Alive: Somatics for Recovery

The Recovery and Wellness Community Centre (RAWCC) welcomes Coral Short to lead a virtual somatics workshop for those in recovery from substance use or alcohol addiction.

Coral offers an experiential workshop around the topic of addiction. How can we create inner resources to call upon during times of intense craving? How can we offer compassionate support and regulation to the body? Is it possible to resource yourself in joy? Before coming to the workshop, reflect on a time when you felt most like yourself. Or a time when you felt most alive. Bring your open mind to the zoom room and attempt to start feeling the embodied liberation that somatics can bring to your life.

Wear comfortable clothes and have a favorite blanket or pillow nearby if that feels supportive to you. Prepare a hot beverage to help you enter back into connection with your body.

There will be introductions, a centering practice, a group resourcing practice, small break out rooms for discussion and a short meditation to end the hour.

The workshop will be 1 hour with space to stay and chat at the end.

BIO

Coral Short has 21 years of recovery from alcohol and 16 years of meditation under their belt. Both aspects of their life history have led them to intensively study somatics during the pandemic. They are now a licensed somatics practitioner who specializes in addictions. Coral practices both Generative Somatics and Somatic Experiencing and their teachers include Stacey Haines and Prentis Hemphill. During the last year of the pandemic they have been offering somatic meditations on their weekly youtubes on the True North Insight channel which you are welcome to try out before the workshop.