UNLEASHED Body Temple Dance® Training
From feminine somatics and sex education to soul leadership.
An embodied education for those who feel called to teach, facilitate, and bring their creative work into the world. Bringing together what was formerly Dark Goddess Doula and Unleashed, with Womb Healer training woven in, this training leads to Body Temple certification.
November 2026–November 2027
Online
Optional in-person 5-day immersion add-on: Ojai (March 2027) or Italy (May 2027), +$2,000
With Adriana Rizzolo and Alli Rune
Early rate $4,500 • Regular $5,800 • Payment plans over 1 year
All sales are final. No refunds.
Who holds you while you hold everyone else?
There is a part of you that still wants to dance until the prayer comes through. To laugh from your belly. To grieve with sacred witnesses. To feel desire moving toward something you haven’t made yet.
Let her have a place here.
An immersion into somatics, ritual, tantra, movement, nervous system restoration, grief work, sacred theater, money tending, business coaching, and laughter that reminds you who you were before you became everyone’s mentor, teacher, mother, lover, and friend.
For therapists, healers, coaches, teachers, and somatic practitioners ready to deepen their practice through movement, tantra, mysticism, somatic education, and the wisdom of the body—and who know that the most sustainable business isn't built on better marketing, but on deeper embodiment. For all genders in service to the feminine, including men.
Body Temple is a high-level somatic and ritual training space for those who want to lead without dissociating, teach without bypassing, hold erotic charge without shame, track their nervous system in real time, and transform trauma responses into creative authority.
We break the rules
Including the sanitized somatic world that pathologizes everything and also ignores vaginas.
Something is happening beneath the surface of healing work right now.
The separation of somatic and spiritual is no longer working.
Practitioners are running out of road with the tools they were trained in. Artists need language for the healing worlds they are already creating. Clients arrive carrying things that talk therapy can't touch. Grief that lives in the chest and won't move. Rage that feels too big, too dangerous, too much. Numbness in the pelvis. Shutdown in the body. Desire buried under years of survival.
You can feel it. Because you're already holding space for it. And at a certain point, you realize... you don't need more information. You need a deeper relationship with the body.
We need more grief-literate somatic sex educator humans on this planet. Those who can walk between worlds without shutting down.
Three pathways, one training
Unleashed: Body Temple Dance®
Body Temple Dance® Certification — lead trauma-informed movement rituals with depth and artistry so that you can facilitate experiences that are embodied, transformative, and unforgettable.
Ritual Theater Training — harness the power of performance as protest and prayer, rooted in the nervous system.
Dark Goddess Doula
A journey of eros, belonging and cultivating right relationship with sex, death, money and the soul.
Grief & Death Doula Level One — certifying you to hold grief circles, support people through death and dying, and facilitate ritual around loss, rebirth, and threshold.
Womb Healer
Womb Healer Level One — certifying you to lead womb healing circles and hold one-to-one somatic sessions rooted in the Deborah Sundahl lineage.
Womb healing practices you can hold for others... in circles, in one-to-one sessions, in ceremony. Pelvic mapping. Embodied erotic intelligence. The body as the primary text.
What you’ll receive
- The full training manual — Body Temple Dance®: Remembering the Trance That Lives in Our Blood, all seven Unleashed modules and the Body Temple Dance® teachings
- Weekly Body Temple Dance® classes
- A monthly Womb Temple workshop
- One monthly ritual with Adriana
- Weekly Q&A with Adriana and Alli Rune, our somatic therapist
- Body Temple Dance® Certification — lead trauma-informed movement rituals with depth and artistry.
- Ritual Theater Training — so that the parts of you longing to be seen, expressed, and witnessed can come alive—expanding your capacity to guide profound emotional expression, healing, and collective transformation.
- Somatic & Nervous System Education — develop a deep understanding of the body's protective patterns and capacity for change so that your work is grounded in science, compassion, mysticism and embodied wisdom.
- Goddess Sadhana & Tantric Arts — work with Kali, Durga, Magdalene, and more so that your leadership is rooted in devotion, intuition, and embodied spiritual practice.
- Womb Healer Teacher Training and Grief + Death Doula work
- Facilitation & Business Mentorship — receive guidance to birth your soul-led offerings with sacred structure and creative integrity.
- Optional in-person 5-day immersion (add-on) — immerse yourself in embodied learning, community, and practice. Choose Ojai, CA in March 2027 or Italy in May 2027. Additional $2,000; accommodations not included. All sales are final. No refunds.
- Live training calls — weekends, 1–2x per month, all recorded with lifetime access
- A private community app for ongoing connection
- CID (UNESCO) accredited certification
All sales are final. No refunds.
“Adriana is the pure embodiment of Shakti. Durga, Kali, Lakshmi, Saraswati, Radha — all pulsate and move through her in a beautiful dance that will love you to your core. She has given more in this training than all of my other teacher trainings combined.”
— Ali F.
“Wanting to name all that I've received from this space, which is WAY MORE than I could've ever imagined—shamelessness, the most life-changing connections, a soul-deep stability and capacity to share my medicine… SO SO MUCH.”
— Maia-Rose
“BTD Teacher Training was a rapturous homecoming to all of the parts of me that will never be enough for a sickly emaciated society. It taught me PERMISSION.”
— M.J.
Body Temple Dance® in motion
Performance becomes prayer.
Video testimonials
Voices from the training
“The levels of love and community in my life has amplified. I initially signed up for BTD training to take steps out of a depressive state. I felt far from the Goddess and myself. *it worked* Everything feels very alive again.
Today I held my first class. IT WAS SO FUN. I LOVE MAKING PLAYLISTS. I LOVED BRINGING IN ASTROLOGY AND THE UNIQUE MOMENT OF TIME WE WERE IN. I loved facilitating a practice that I am participating in, where I don’t have to guess where people are because I am there with them.”
— T.P
“The last 9 months gave me the permission I needed to dive deeper into self-to feel into my body without fear-with permission of self to explore-to be curious and excited about all the things I found.
This training has gifted me so much in my personal life but also with working with clients. Somewhere in between who I was and who I thought I needed to be I found who I was meant to be.”
— K.L
“It feels a bit daunting to try to put into words what I all gained from this experience because it doesn’t feel like it can be put into a particular value. All I can say, mostly, is that this love has been a mirror - reflecting back to me - a way of being with the pain of the world in a way that is inclusive, compassionate and honest. I am beyond grateful for the genorosity of your love and the blessings of the Goddess that move through you, Adriana. For those that are magnetized to your path and voice - as they are my brothers and sisters too…and you have helped me find my way back to a home within myself that I continue to walk toward every day
I learned so much about space holding and facilitation that wildly transformed my ability to be both more authentic and sustainable in my care for my community.”
— J.P
The curriculum
Body Temple Dance®: Remembering the Trance That Lives in Our Blood
Unleashed Teacher Training Modules
- Module 1: Building Resilience & Ritual Art as Community Care
- Module 2: The Theatre of the Shameless: Inanna, the Freeze, and the Deep Acting of Facilitation
- Module 3: Origin & Pedagogy of Body Temple Dance®
- Module 4: Our Main Medicine as Shame Slayers & Soul Activators
- Module 5: Mother Rupture & Repair
- Module 6: Fight Response Somatics for Body Temple, by Alli Rune
- Module 7: Facilitation + From Fawning to Freedom in the Body
Woven throughout
- Embodied Facilitation — to stay present without fixing, directing, or managing what wants to move.
- Ego Death + Tending — supporting the psyche through threshold moments.
- Rage Rituals — rage as information. Rage as life force.
- Sacred Theater + Ritual — womb constellations, embodied movement, and shadow work as theater.
- Dark Femme / Queer Witch astrology class (Lilith), Grief + Death Doula work, Dark Goddess studies from the Tantric traditions, Kali devotional exploration …and more.
Sneak peek inside the manual
Body Temple Dance® teaches what your body already knows.
What you’ll be trained in
Most trainings teach you how to stay calm. This one teaches you how to stay present.
- How to track and work with nervous system responses... fawning, collapse, dissociation, activation.
- How to facilitate grief and rage in ways that are grounded, contained, and transformational.
- How to guide clients into pelvic awareness and embodied erotic intelligence with clarity and consent.
- How to recognize when someone is leaving their body and skillfully bring them back.
- How to hold space for loss, transition, and death as a grief doula.
- What somatics really is, trauma responses as brilliant protection rather than pathology, developmental physiology, and why insight alone does not lead to transformation.
This training is for you if:
- You're a business baddie who needs a break, a healer, therapist, coach, somatic worker, doula, or artist ready to deepen your impact through embodied facilitation
- You already facilitate or know you're called to — but want more depth, more structure, more embodied authority
- You know that what you're holding in session isn't just personal... it's ancestral
- You're queer, kinky, neurodivergent, a parent, a priestess in training, messy AF — all of it is curriculum here
- You know that healing happens through the body, not just in the mind
- You're ready to be seen. Fully. Even in the parts that terrify you.
This is not for those who want a quick fix, prefer rigid hierarchy, resist inner work, or aren't ready to rethink money, love, and power from the ground up.
For people who want to take action
This is a program for people who want to take action, not just get another certification or training, but really apply strategy to the work they're already doing and bring in a greater awareness as well as skill to hold space for the de-armoring of the body.
That could look like supporting women in reconnecting to who they are on a soul level while also reclaiming the power to release themselves from stuck and stored emotion. That could be a result of generational trauma, it could be a result of injuries, or living life on life's terms.
We hold a strong spiritual component because we are also here to be in touch with reality and have a wide enough capacity to do so, especially when it comes to groups and the ways we are choosing to love ourselves and one another.
Dismantling the girl conditioning
The dismantling of the girl conditioning: helping women, femmes and they/thems learn what to do with their wants and needs and how to create new worlds through asking, and being absolutely insane for what it is they're here to do.
You have to be kind of insane to listen to the call of the soul. And so we do the dance between learning how to tend to our nervous system, and also learning how to listen to the soul, which will continually ask us to do the thing that doesn't feel safe and comfortable.
Truly making breakthroughs in their relationship to their body through learning the languages their body speaks (physical sensation, emotional sensation, image, behavior/pattern and meaning making) and learning how to keep going deeper and deeper through life, so as we age, we truly become wisdom keepers and get the most out of this lifetime in service rooted in the power of love.
Lajja Gauri. Photo: Body Temple Church
Lajja Gauri: the unashamed mother
Long before the feminine became hidden, she was depicted as radically open. Lajja Gauri sits in the posture of birth, knees wide, yoni open, a blooming lotus where her head would be. She doesn't ask to be looked at politely. She asks you to remember that creativity comes not from striving but from relationship with the earth, the pelvis, and the mystery.
Here we work with the body as sacred, eros as creative power, and the shame we inherited: laid down on ground that is older than it.
Rose Transmission
Music: “direct line to My Creator” by duendita
From UNLEASHED and the womb work
“My third pregnancy was a big shift for everyone in our family, I knew that a new soul landing on this earth needed me to show up differently for everyone. I knew I needed to find support in a new way to birth my son the way I wanted. I found this and so much more in Unleashed training. I found true unconditional love, pure compassion, magical friendships, and a deep connection to the wealth of wisdom of my ancestors that lives in my body. I found a well of Love there, that sustained me through our birth portal, my daughter’s first period, and the blending of our families.”
— Adriana
“I’m reflecting on how this womb work has become such an awakening and remembering of myself as an artist (and many other things, but focusing on this!). Ive been studying with Adriana for about a year now and am feeling like the butterfly emerging from the sacred slop — the cumulative effects of being in this container have been supporting me through this next initiation.”
— Daria
“My marriage is completely changed because of your teachings. I have been able to access levels of sexual pleasure and erotic communication that I hadn’t experienced before. I went from painful sex and rarely having sex to ecstatic blissful sex 3-5 times a week (sometimes more!). It’s been a genuine Miracle.”
— Jenna
Hi, I'm Adriana.
I guide folks like you — healers, therapists, artists, witches — into their full creative expression through trauma-informed movement, Tantric ritual, and devotional theater.
Growing up, I had a spiritual awakening at my father's deathbed that led to many years of both unpacking and learning what to do with grief, rage, and the power of love that we call Eros: the unstoppable current of our passion, and how it can save us from our addictions, including the ones that we create with other people.
Adriana Rizzolo is the founder of Body Temple Church and the creator of Body Temple Dance® — a trance space that welcomes grief and rage to be transmuted into aliveness through ritual and expressive arts. She is a trauma-informed, Tantra-aligned spiritual mentor, mystic, somatic healer, adult sex educator, and guide to the unseen realms — with 13 years of sobriety.
I trained in the Deborah Sundahl lineage of somatic sex education, in death doula work, in sacred theater and womb constellations. I received these rituals and rites of passage from Deborah Sundahl, who taught this work for forty years before she died in 2024. She gave me (enthusiastic) permission to share this work with others.
Investment
$4,500 early rate
Available until November 15.
$5,800 regular
Payment plans available over 1 year.
Optional in-person 5-day immersion add-on: +$2,000. Choose Ojai, CA (March 2027) or Italy (May 2027). Accommodations not included. Not included in the training price. All sales are final. No refunds.
What's included: full 1-year-long online training • The full training manual • Weekly Body Temple Dance® classes • A monthly Womb Temple workshop • One monthly ritual with Adriana • Weekly Q&A with Adriana and Alli Rune, our somatic therapist • Full Body Temple Dance® certification (CID/UNESCO accredited) • Womb Healer Level One and Grief & Death Doula Level One certification • Lifetime access to all recordings
After your application is accepted: secure your place with a $1,000 deposit, or pay in full. This container is an investment in yourself and we ask that you book with full intention and commitment to the journey. Payment plans are a commitment, and each installment is your responsibility whether or not you attend every session.
Scholarships available for POTGM practitioners.
Doors close November 22, 2026
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Why now? Why this work?
Because we were taught to fear our own bodies. Because regulated, expressive, feeling humans are dangerous to systems built on suppression.
When we move, we remember. When we remember, we resist.
We don’t teach anything your body doesn’t already know, but we give you the containment and the structure you need to let your unique gifts expand out of the bubble they are in.
Core values & approach
- 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
- Social justice integration — healing does not exist outside systems
- Community over commodification
- Accessibility — scholarships, sliding scale, and mutual aid when possible
- All genders welcome
From Dark Goddess Doula
"As a new mother, this training helped me feel supported in doing the work for myself so I can be the mother and human I want to be in this world.
For a very long time, I felt like I was being chased by wounds I wasn’t ready to look at. Anxiety, unease, avoidance… Adriana guides you through your subtle body into the darker beautiful places that have been waiting. The wound IS the medicine—as long as you’re willing to go with love, which is always her approach… I began to notice more space in my body and heart. We are all wounded healers.”
— Lauren Bratman
“Adriana holds you accountable with fierce love, compassion, and respect. If you’re ready to step into a new phase of life—fueled by passion and guided by the heart—dive into mentorship with her. Her leadership will ignite a sacred fire of transformation.”
— Michelle Williamson, Artist & Teacher
“Working with Adriana was like a cosmic launchpad… I achieved everything I dreamed of… and even more emotional capacity, self-holding, and facilitation power. My life pivoted in the direction I always wanted.”
— Olivia Pavlov | Author & Intimacy Coach
Real questions, real answers
Will this make me a certified facilitator?
Yep - but more importantly, it’ll make you an embodied one. Certification criteria: completion of minimum live participation, submission of a closing facilitation video (due within 6 months after program end), and ongoing mentorship during and after the training.
I’ve been burned by spiritual spaces that felt culty, performative, or just… lame. How is this different?
Same, babe. Here, we weave grief rituals, Italian shamanism, goddess devotion, nervous system science, and community accountability. No spiritual bypass, no cult vibes.
What if I’m scared of being seen in my rage / grief / erotic power?
Perfect. That means you’re human. We go slow. We titrate. You’ll practice in community until it feels less like “oh my god I’m too much” and more like “oh my god I’m free.”
Is this training only for women?
Nope. It’s for humans who want to meet the Divine Mother in their body, regardless of gender.
Can I join if I'm not experienced in Body Temple Dance®?
Yes: many cohort members had little to no prior experience in facilitation or movement arts.
What is the weekly/monthly commitment?
Live calls are weekends, 1–2x per month — all sessions recorded with lifetime access. Rituals are the sacred anchors of this container; please do everything you can to be present live.
Is the training online or in person?
The training is online. There is an optional in-person 5-day immersion you can add on: Ojai, CA in March 2027 or Italy in May 2027, for an additional $2,000. Accommodations are not included. All sales are final. No refunds.
What if I can’t afford it?
First - ask yourself if that’s really true, or if money is the last place you hide from your power. Second - we do offer payment plans over 1 year.
Refunds + travel arrangements
To honor the energy and commitment we pour into this work, all registrations are final and non-refundable. You are responsible for making all of your payments if you opt for the payment plan option. This training requires a minimum number of participants to run. In the unlikely event we don't reach that number and need to cancel, you'll be fully refunded - your deposit and any payments made. If you add the in-person immersion, travel and accommodations are your responsibility; we recommend booking refundable travel tickets just in case.
Questions? Email support@bodytemple.church
Come, come — whoever you are
This is sacred rebellion. This is nervous system revolution. This is where performance becomes prayer, and facilitation becomes art. Heal the false separation between grief and love, loss and fertile aliveness. Queer the prayers. Be held by your ancestors.
This is the art of loving
It's deep and it's wide and it's wild, the kind of things that we see artists create. And if you don't think you're an artist, we will absolutely 1,000,000% prove you wrong. And if you don't think you have what it takes to put out your work in this world and to keep going, amidst every failure, every no, we are here to help witness you and also walk together as Outspoken Beauty tenders and earth-worshipping stewards.
If your body is responding—let’s talk.
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