A seasonal body-led creative ritual through movement, sensation, object, image, art, and expression.
A somatic gathering for women who want to explore what comes through the body when it is given room to lead.
Next gathering:
Thursday, January 7, 2027, 1- 4 PM
Lotus Ranch
Wimberley, TX
Body Creature is not a workshop.
It’s not networking.
It’s not group therapy.
It’s not self-improvement.
It’s a small circle of women slowing down enough to listen through the body.
This next Body Creature lands on the first new moon of the new year. A potent transition from what we have held, carried, fought with in 2026 (or longer) into what we are opening to in 2027. Our time together falls directly at the threshold, a window where darkness begins turning toward light.
And so, we’ll be feeling into the body for what is ready to be laid down. Something we’ve been carrying or working through. Something that is no longer ours. No longer useful. No longer necessary, or simply, has completed.
We’ll honor this release by creating a descanso – a signpost of the journey. It is not hidden or forgotten but witnessed and laid down with care. A place we can return to, knowing it mattered.
Then, after some movement to shake 2026 loose and a light snack, we’ll come back to our bodies and feel into the energy of 2027. What our bodies are opening to.
Not in resolution, but in opening, in welcoming. In sitting by the fire with a cup of tea and letting the hope move in you. And the desire to know and feel what your body is calling for, needing, or even craving. This may come through in color, shape, texture, image, word, energy, movement, or something surprising.
And, from the same Southwestern tradition as the descanso, we’ll create luminarias – personal beacons, guiding us through the darkness into the new year. Both will travel home with you: one honoring what you laid down, one lighting what you’re welcoming in.
Most women are living from the neck up.
Thinking.
Planning.
Managing.
Performing.
Body Creature is a space to drop back down.
To notice what your body has been carrying.
To let sensation become movement.
To let movement become color, shape, image, texture, word, or symbol.
To experience what appears when you stop managing the process.
You won’t be asked to share anything you don’t want to.
You are simply invited to follow what wants to come through.
There may be movement.
There may be stillness.
There may be art-making, mark-making, words, color, ribbon, fabric, thread, image, or symbol.
No one is trying to make good art.
No one is trying to perform insight.
We are simply following what the body wants to show us.
Sometimes there is laughter that feels like relief.
Sometimes something takes shape before anyone understands what it means.
Sometimes a woman recognizes herself in what her body has made.
Not improved.
Not optimized.
Just… closer to herself.
Thursday, January 7, 2027, 1 PM, at Lotus Ranch, Wimberley
Each gathering is intentionally small.
Because the body needs room.
Body Creature meets seasonally at Lotus Ranch in Wimberley, Texas, in a quiet, indoor setting surrounded by nature.
The next gathering is Thursday, January 7, 2027, 1-4 PM, Lotus Ranch, Wimberley
(Gatherings run 2.5 - 3 hours. We don't rush the ending - the closing time depends on what the circle needs that day.)
This gathering is limited to 7 women.
Investment: $111
You may also bring a few small creative pieces if you feel called: ribbon, fabric, paper, thread, beads, dried flowers, images, or natural objects.
Everything else will be provided.
Come with your body and your curiosity.
Hi. I'm Carol Holguin. I've been a Licensed Massage Therapist since 1991, and since 2015 I've focused my practice on Trauma Touch Therapy — a modality for working with trauma held in the body.
In my early years, I also coached swimming — teaching technique, yes, but really teaching feel: helping swimmers sense how their own bodies responded to the smallest shift, so they could feel how it translated to ease of movement.
I've spent my life close to the body — its strength, its holding, its grief, its relief.
Over years with clients, I began to notice something:
The body has a voice. Simple, subtle, honest.
And when a woman is given real spaciousness — without obligation, without performance — that voice can be followed. Through movement. Into expression. Into art.
Body Creature is what grew from that noticing.
I live and work in Wimberley, Texas.
You don’t need to know what you're ready to release.
You don’t need to explain it beautifully.
You don’t need to make anything impressive.
You don’t need to arrive knowing what 2027 holds.
If you like, bring something small that carries a little of what you're ready to lay down
A weight.
A grief.
A role.
An old story.
A question that has run its course.
Something that has simply completed.
Then let the body show you what's leaving.
You don’t need to become anything new this year.
Just come as you are.
If you feel a quiet pull reading this, trust it.
Next gathering Thursday, January 7, 2027, 1 PM, Lotus Ranch, Wimberley, Tx.
No. Nothing here is about skill or outcome. You're simply following what wants to come through
Come as your body is. Movement is optional and self-paced — there's no requirement to get on the floor or move in any particular way.
No. Body Creature isn't tied to any tradition — just a shared willingness to slow down and listen to the body.
Comfortable clothing you can move in. The space is a lovely indoor, air-conditioned studio. Full location details are sent after registration.
Deposits are non-refundable, but never wasted — they can always be applied to a future Body Creature gathering.
If you know you can't make it, please let me know as soon as possible so I can offer your spot to someone else. If I'm able to fill it, I'll happily refund your deposit or apply it toward a future circle — your choice.