This Is My Body: Resurrecting Self Sovereignty, Embodiment & Pleasure is a 4-part interactive and somatically informed workshop series brought to you by Kori Doty of Soft Touch Bodies and Jess DeVries of Beloved Coaching.

This workshop series comes from a desire to share what we know about embodiment and pleasure while holding space for the deep inquiry it takes to define sexual values that are in alignment with the truth within yourself and your deeply personal relationship to spirit and community. We crafted this offering into what felt like a familiar framework; a liturgical structure that borrows from traditions that our bodies know and integrates somatics and embodiment tools, intersectional analysis, and our own theologies of pleasure.

In This is My Body, we hold the door open for others to follow us into the liberation we have found through nervous system care, embodied awareness, practicing personal agency, and pleasure education. These skills were learned and cultivated as professional sex & embodiment coaches; and we share them in the way that is flexible to each participant’s body, sexuality, and relationship to the divine.

We both grew up in Christian church traditions and felt some calling to ministry in our younger days and left when we felt that living in the fullness of who we were as people was not welcome in the church. When we later found our ways back to our bodies, including sexuality and gender experiences that were at odds with our upbringing, we each longed for and crafted individual rituals and practices to bridge the expanses between where we came from and where we found ourselves.

What to Expect:

This series is open to not just those who have left the church, but also folks who attend regularly, are deconstructing, or lead congregations. If you want to attend to the ways that church doctrine has harmed your relationship with your body and sexual expression, you are welcome.

We facilitate in a way that allows folks to be on or off camera, share out loud, in the chat or anonymously. Our goal is to create a space that lets attendees move at the pace that is just right for their nervous system and participate as they choose from their own embodied yes.

Each session is carefully initiated as a ritual container that includes readings, "sermon" time, embodiment practices, discussion, and take home content for further exploration. These sessions are crafted to be a package and build upon each other. Attending the first session is a requirement to attend the other sessions as a part of establishing the group safety.

Session 1: Upon this Rock: Investigating the Foundations

We dive into how messaging and power structures of patriarchal church doctrine impact our sense of self, worth and agency in our bodies. We get big picture as to how these doctrines have created intergenerational impacts and look at how they live in our bodies now.

Session 2: Beyond the White Picket Fence: A Choose Your Own Adventure!

We look at the limited versions of healthy sexual relationships we likely have been exposed to within church upbringing, closed cultural enclaves and/or purity culture. The expansive truths of human sexuality and desire are far beyond anything those worlds were ever willing to give us, together we learn about the breadth of possibilities.

Session 3: Feeling Into Self-Sovereignty and Interconnectedness

We get expansive, stepping into practices to help us find ways to feel into relationships with our gender, bodies, pleasure and each other that are reflective of our own truths. Learning to trust our inner voice takes a lot of practice, we will offer tools and applications of somatic based approaches to develop your sense of personal agency & boundaries.

Session 4: Honoring Our Embodied Pleasure

We discuss and practice strategies for cultivating embodied pleasure and ways that we can support ourselves and each other in this. Whether your flavour is more about the sensory, sensual or sexual; pleasure is for every body and we are here to celebrate what that looks like for you.

Other Details:

Dates: Sundays; March 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd 2026

Time: 1:00 - 3:00 PST

Location: Zoom Room with Captions

Cost:

$250- Full price: For those who are gainfully employed and/or have other trappings of financial security like owning a home or having access to intergenerational wealth. Folks who can pay this price help make it possible for us to offer the other scales to those who need it.

$175- Medium price: For folks who may have consistent income, but also have consistent significant draws to your funds like rent that’s too damn high and/or credit card or medical debt. Folks who pay this middle price help support the livelihood of the providers while also taking into consideration the need to be modest with their spending.

$125- Budget price: For folks who may have inconsistent or insufficient access to income, including gig workers, emerging artists and disabled folks without support pensions to compensate for their inconsistent ability to perform within capitalism. If this price is outside of your ability and you would like to participate in the course, please be in touch with us by email (jess@belovedcoaching.net or softtouchbodies@gmail.com).