ABOUT
meet Adriana
Adriana Rizzolo is a 13-year sober mystic, somatic healer, and creator of Body Temple Dance - where grief becomes prayer, rage becomes power, and the body becomes the altar.
She helps people unhook from oppression and come home to their bodies through practices that honor the full spectrum of being human: grief, rage, love, death, and sex as pathways to collective liberation.
It's not performance—it's prayer in motion. It's the body remembering what the mind has forgotten.
Body Temple Dance is a devotional trance space where grief and rage are alchemized into aliveness through ritual, expressive arts, and prayer-formance.
Through sacred sexuality education, participants learn orgasm and ejaculation mapping, womb healing practices, and trauma-informed approaches to pleasure as medicine and revolutionary act.
In somatic healing containers, people meet their nervous systems with curiosity instead of judgment, learning to move through fight, flight, and freeze states into embodied presence and choice.
The retreats and pilgrimages take groups to sacred sites—Mary Magdalene's cave in France, goddess temples in India—where ancient lands hold the frequency for modern transformation.
The teacher trainings (UNLEASHED for Body Temple Dance facilitators, Womb Healer certifications for sacred sexuality practitioners, Dark Goddess Doula for business and embodiment) create lineage-holders who can carry this medicine forward with integrity.
This is a place to remember who you are — together.
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MEDIA & RECOGNITION
Adriana's work has been featured in The New York Times and has reached thousands of people worldwide through her trainings, retreats, and community offerings.
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TRUSTED TRAINING
Body Temple Church School holds 200-hour CID accreditation for its teacher training programs.
GLOBALLY RECOGNIZED
Her teachings have created a global community of practitioners, with students and trained facilitators across six continents bringing this embodied, trauma-informed work into their own communities.
the Origin of Body Temple
Body Temple was not created as a brand. It was born as a survival prayer.
Like many who find their way here, Adriana grew up highly sensitive in a world that did not know how to hold feeling. She learned early how to leave her body — through dissociation, perfection, over-giving, and eventually addiction. Sobriety became her first initiation back into the flesh. Fourteen years ago, she chose to stay. To feel. To listen.
The body became the teacher. Grief became the curriculum. Desire became the compass.
In mythic language, Body Temple began the moment truth replaced goodness as the guiding principle. When rage stopped being something to heal away and became something to ritualize. When grief stopped being private and became communal. When eros stopped being dangerous and became devotional.
This work is about remembering how to walk home through the body — together.
Core Values & Approach
Body Temple is grounded in:
• Trauma-informed, nervous-system-centered practice
• Anti-spiritual bypassing — nothing is rushed, minimized, or made wrong
• Embodied spirituality rather than transcendence-based ideals
• Body-as-temple philosophy — sensation as sacred intelligence
• Ritual, movement, and devotion as tools for transformation
• Social justice integration — healing does not exist outside systems
• Community over commodification
• Accessibility — scholarships, sliding scale, and mutual aid when possible
• All genders welcome
COMING SOON:
THE BOOK
Adriana is currently writing Body Temple, which brings forward the principles of her work: consciously relating to the full spectrum of human experience—grief, rage, love, death, and sex—as a devotional act of embodied awakening.
The book weaves personal story, somatic practices, and goddess wisdom into a roadmap for collective liberation through the body.
FEATURED IN
Meet Adriana Rizzolo
Somatic healer, oracle, artist, adult sex educator, trance dance guide, and founder of Body Temple Church
Adriana Rizzolo has been featured in The New York Times and on numerous respected platforms for her work bridging spirit and matter, art and healing, lineage wisdom and modern somatic practice.
She is a trauma-informed, Tantra-aligned spiritual mentor with over 13 years of sobriety, whose work is deeply shaped by lived experience, devotion, and long-term study. Adriana’s approach is known for its honesty, depth, humor, and refusal to bypass the hard, holy truths of being human.
Her life’s work centers on helping people heal trauma and patterns of helplessness, reclaim pleasure and agency, and feel at home in their bodies so they can live in alignment with their soul’s truth.
Through classes, retreats, trainings, coaching, and ritual spaces, Adriana has supported thousands of people worldwide in awakening to their aliveness.
LINEAGE & TRAININGRooted in Ancient Wisdom
Adriana's work is deeply rooted in the mystical lineages of Kashmir Shaivism and Southern Italian Shamanism, where the body becomes both the altar and the oracle.
• Sacred sexuality and female anatomy studies with Deborah Sundahl
• Southern Italian shamanism and ritual theater with Alessandra Belloni
• Mysticism and sacred storytelling with Mirabai Starr
• Embodied astrology with Heidi Rose Robbins
• Therapeutic yoga training
• Trauma release and somatic education with TRE, SE and many others
• Voice and movement trainings
• Intimacy and relational healing work
• Adult sex education
• Devotional practice and study in Tantra, Kashmir Shaivism, and Bhakti Yoga
Equally important is her lived experience — recovery, grief, devotion, service, and the ongoing practice of choosing presence over dissociation.
Our IMPACT
Thousands of participants served worldwide
Global community spanning multiple countries
Teacher trainings with CID-recognized certification pathways
Retreats, pilgrimages, and rituals across sacred lands
Work With Us
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Train as a facilitator through Teacher Trainings
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Attend Retreats & Pilgrimages
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