UNLEASHED Body Temple Dance® Training
From feminine somatics and sex education to soul leadership.
A year-long mentorship with me that will absolutely change the course of your work and life: a year of support to serve your clients better with somatic education, sex education and dance.
An embodied education for those who feel called to teach, facilitate, and bring their creative work into the world.
A somatic art school for the art of loving — deep, wide and alive like what artists create. If you don't think you're an artist, Body Temple will prove you wrong.
November 2026–November 2027
Online
With Adriana Rizzolo and guest facilitators
Early-bird tuition: $4,500 through November 15
3-month, 6-month, and year-long payment plans available.
Calling in more witches.
Witches with big visions who need the somatic support and the biz strategy to make the next layer of their work in the world obvious and unstoppable…
Witches who are ready to stop ignoring their pussy and take action around being seen (our specialty ;) and making real progress on their dreams.
This round of UNLEASHED is for three kinds of people. Witches in business who want to come out of feast or famine. Witches in biz who want to hold the Mother Gaze Medicine, whose vision is one of matriarchal madness and miracles. And artists and psychics who want more grounded somatic support, so you can keep serving from a full cup.
And on Nov 13 we'll show our It's Not Pee film and premiere it together. Come watch it with us.
Deep, wide and alive.
Watch this 90-second introduction to the movement, ritual, and expressive practices at the heart of Body Temple.
Who this is for
- For people in their soul work who want to take it to the next level, both in somatic skill and financially.
- People already working with people who want more depth of emotion and empowerment through ritual and sexuality, rooted in lineage.
- People reconnecting to their aliveness after holding everyone else, recommitting to passion and pleasure in their work and relationships.
- New to this? Many cohort members had little to no prior experience in facilitation or movement arts.
What gets in the way: habitual hyper independence, and overwhelm hardening into a shame-based identity.
A somatic ART school for the art of loving
It's the NEW Body Temple: a brand new, refined somatic ART school that doesn't ignore your vagina, your sexuality, your relationship to money or the collective.
This is the school that takes therapists from bored to breakthrough sessions. It takes energy healers into the grounded emotional body and relational intimacy, as LOVE coaches.
This is the transformative power of love. This is the art of intimacy.
We are part dharma and part DRAMA – because as a human who came to care this deeply you also have to create...
Unlike other somatic schools that talk about the body but don't actually allow you to feel big things together in community, we do. Feeling big things together is part of grief tending and culture building.
What this training brings together
Movement & ritual theater
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.
Grief, death & eros
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 & sexuality education
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.
Business & pleasure
Weekly business and pleasure coaching calls — receive guidance to birth your soul-led offerings with sacred structure and creative integrity.
Because how we receive money mirrors how we learned to receive love and pleasure, we work with both, in the body.
Schedule
- Opening Ceremony: Sunday, November 22 | 9–11am PT
- Live training calls: Tuesdays | 9–11am PT, plus 2 Saturdays per month | 9–11am PT. Specific dates TBD. All recorded with lifetime access.
- Weekly Body Temple Dance® classes: Fridays | 10–11:30am PT
- Monthly Womb Temple healing ritual: last Saturday of each month | 9–11am PT
- One monthly ritual with Adriana: held on a Saturday | 9–11am PT. Specific dates TBD.
- Weekly Q&A with Adriana and Alli Rune, our somatic therapist: Tuesdays | 9–11am PT
Leading these trainings online for the past 6 1/2 years, plus 6 more in person, I have really gathered the necessity to bring it all into one mentorship so we can find greater ease in the slowing down that's necessary and also give people the appropriate feedback and support that they need to really put their work out into the world.
Big news. UNLEASHED and Dark Goddess Doula had a baby. Bringing together what was formerly Dark Goddess Doula and Unleashed, with Womb Healer training woven in, this training leads to Body Temple certification.
We are artists, world builders, and doulas to the world that is ending...
And to the one being born.
UNLEASHED: The Mother Gaze Curriculum
Month 1. The Mother Gaze. We leave the male gaze behind and come home to seeing ourselves, our bodies and our money through the eyes of the Mother, in right relationship.
Month 2. Marketing and Business. Witches with spreadsheets: we structure our offerings, run them by the moon (not our mood) and commit to taking action.
Month 3. Dance as Medicine. Pleasure is the medicine. Through Body Temple Dance® we let the erotic aliveness of the Earth move through our bodies.
Month 4. Making Space in Service to Clarity: Grief, Rage and Eros. We dance, grieve and let it all move with the coven, and learn to listen to the body's languages as a mediumship skill that gives us more capacity.
Month 5. Pelvic Health and Pussy Reclamation. The systems need us depleted and dry. We deserve better, so we practice staying juicy, resourced and connected.
Month 6. Anointed and Annoying. You have to be annoying AF to fulfill your mission, sorry babe. Being anointed opens the doorway to our erotic expression and to getting our relational needs met.
Month 7. Goddess at the Center: Wounded Healer to Holy Mother. We weave earth and Spirit together and build our lives and our work around the Divine within us.
Month 8. Miracles, Madness and Money. We give the soul's mission and madness a place to create, and we welcome miracles and money as part of the same flow.
Month 9. Making Beauty. Our art and our work in the world are how we heal, so we make beauty that leaves a mark.
Month 10. Dark Goddess Initiation. We descend into the underworld together, meet the dark goddess within, and rise with our grief, rage and power digested into medicine.
Month 11. Big Mouth, Big Mission. We find our authentic voice and say the thing out loud, because you have to take up space to fulfill your mission.
Month 12. Disrupter Delivered. We birth the work, the offering and the art we came here to create, and step into the world as the disrupters we were born to be.
Apply now at the early ratePart dharma.
Part DRAMA.
because as a human who came to care this deeply you also have to create...
We are creating a field of momentum for the unleashed feminine: women who stop waiting for permission and start leading from the body.
This is a somatic art school: the container for that momentum, where women and they/them folks become artists of the body and space holders who can hold rage, grief and Eros for others without flinching.
More rooted in feminine leadership, meaning they're not shutting down other people's expressions and emotions, but instead making more space for them to be worked with in service to connection, both relationally as well as creatively. Feminine leadership is a path of relatedness and depth.
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.
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, too much and fully human — 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.
You don't need another training or another method. You need a container: containment that creates more space, and a place to keep you on track. Many of us are neurodivergent (I am too). We need purpose, goals and a way to make sense of our intense experiences.
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.
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.
Read more
The separation of somatic and spiritual is no longer working.
The separation of art and love is no longer working.
The separation of strategy and soul 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.
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
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
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.
Create from your eros
Eros: the unstoppable current of our passion.
Eros as the life force that moves through all living things, not only between lovers.
- We need to HAVE FUN.
- We need to MAKE ART.
- Not as a reward after the "real work," but as the work itself.
Play is how the nervous system learns it's safe to come back online. Creativity is how grief, rage and eros find somewhere to go besides stuck in your chest or your pelvis.
To feel desire moving toward something you haven’t made yet.
Now they're out there, sharing their gifts shamelessly
“Today I held my first class. IT WAS SO FUN.”
— T.P
“It taught me PERMISSION.”
— M.J.
“My life pivoted in the direction I always wanted.”
— Olivia Pavlov | Author & Intimacy Coach
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.
Your turn.
Apply now at the early rateInside the yearlong training
Business + Pleasure
Somatic Ritual Arts Training
Do you want to create more sustainable income with your soul work, with pleasure?
- Offers your body can actually hold.
- Pricing from pleasure, not pressure.
- Money tending as a ritual art.
The full year of Body Temple Training is $4,500, with 3, 6 and 12 month payment plans available. Alum of one of our trainings? You get half off: $2,250, with payment plans up to 12 months ($189/month). Use code ALUMNI2250.
Apply nowNever fit in to spiritual spaces?
You could feel them judging your humanness. You want something different.
Body Temple is not a safe space. Safe-space culture pathologizes everything, until we're no longer allowed to be human in order to be worthy of love.
Other spaces hold the big feelings and the “too much,” then leave no space for the mystery, or for the way life and the Goddess challenge our egos. Same old church built on the male ego. Except maybe with a woman's flavor.
We hold a brave and mirrored space.
- Feel it. Don't numb it.
- Rage is fuel.
- Authentic or nothing.
When you slip back into contraction and play small, touch the rage and let it move you into action. Take your inner child by the hand. Turn up the techno. Play. Let the tears come. Come back into your power, your clarity, your truth.
Imperfectly perfect. Proud to be human.
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.
Meet Alli Rune
Somatic Therapist, Somatic Educator & Shadow Theater Facilitator
Alli Rune brings 10 years in the field of somatics to her work with individuals and groups. Her approach weaves somatic therapy, nervous system education, shadow theater, depth psychology, and mythopoetic exploration.
Born with spina bifida, Alli’s relationship with her own body has shaped a lifelong curiosity about adaptation, resilience, and the intelligence of our protective patterns. Her work rests on the understanding that many symptoms are intelligent adaptations—and that healing begins with curiosity, relationship, and choice.
As a queer, neurodivergent practitioner, she brings fierce, passionate care to the ways we learn to contort ourselves to belong. She supports people in developing greater capacity for feeling, expression, boundaries, connection, and so much more.
Alli offers individual somatic therapy through her practice, Primordial Medicine, and teaches and facilitates within Body Temple.
Most trainings teach you how to stay calm.
This one teaches you how to stay present.
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 people's shares in somatic fieldwork: not as counselors or fixers.
- 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.
Business building with integrity
Business building with integrity making as an art - unhooking your nervous system from money so you can expand and dream out of underearning and into abundance.
- Facilitation & Business Mentorship — receive guidance to birth your soul-led offerings with sacred structure and creative integrity.
- The inner CEO — not the hustle bro, not the punishing taskmaster, but the creative, ecstatic, orgasmic business beloved who knows how to steward energy, money, time, and visibility without abandoning eros or soul.
- Business, money, and structure are not separate from your spiritual work—they are where it gets tested, resourced, and embodied.
- Money & sensuality as sacred mirrors — what you believe you're worthy of receiving is reflected in how you meet money and pleasure.
- Your relationship with money, business, and the nervous system... somatically, honestly, without spiritual bypass.
- The Soul Client Sheet — a devotional act of leadership: speaking directly to the people you are here to serve. This is how money, eros, and service begin to trust you.
For people who want to take action
Read more
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.
Bringing the work into the world
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.”
— Olivia Pavlov | Author & Intimacy Coach
Shame slayers.
Soul activators.
Coming out of freeze. It's not weakness. It's brilliance.
What you’ll receive
Your learning and practice
- 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, every Friday — your practice and your own experience
- A monthly Womb Temple workshop, the last Saturday of every month, 9–11am PT — tending pelvic health, intimacy and relational practices, where we'll be exploring intimacy, sex magic and the art of eros through consent, self touch and edging
- One monthly facilitation ritual with Adriana — to help people step into leadership in the ways that their soul's work is calling them towards
- Live training calls — live virtual sessions every Tuesday plus two Saturdays per month, weekly check-in calls, and embodiment practices every Friday, all recorded with lifetime access
- 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
- CID (UNESCO) accredited certification
Your support throughout the year
- Weekly somatic business calls — coaching sessions where you bring your soul work questions into the mix to get coaching from me, with somatic education sprinkled throughout. Whether you're in business already or beginning to build, you'll get so much out of being there with the community.
- Facilitation & Business Mentorship — receive guidance to birth your soul-led offerings with sacred structure and creative integrity.
- A private community app for ongoing connection
- Private covens — small groups to practice, witness and be witnessed throughout the year
- A WhatsApp community — for celebrations and challenges, so you're never doing this alone
A year of support to serve your clients better with somatic education, sex education and dance. $4,500 at the early rate, with 3, 6 and 12 month payment plans available. Alumni of our trainings: $2,250 (up to 12 months, $189/month) with code ALUMNI2250.
Apply now at the early rate
“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.”
— M.J.
Video testimonials
Voices from the training
Read their words
“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.
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
Body Temple Dance® is a dance certification rooted in ancestral repair work and a reunion with the body. It is a yearlong apprenticeship in deep somatic, sex education and ritual spiritual work—a feminine mystery school.
The year at a glance
- Orientation · This Is About You
- Phase One · The apprenticeship descent: six modules of ritual theater, tantra and embodied love
- Phase Two · The method of Body Temple Dance®: seven modules where everything is lived, and you facilitate and receive feedback
- Phase Three · Pathways, business building with integrity, and certification
Orientation: This Is About You
Orientation: This Is About You
All mystics had to resist the pull of society's expectations and stay true to their own calling. This is the brave work we do here.
- The Trance That Lives in Our Blood — the origin of Body Temple Dance®, a practice that has moved through me over more than a decade.
- The Heart of Body Temple — your body is a temple—a vessel for fire, transformation, love, and grace.
- How We Begin — presence over perfection. Pleasure over performance. Faith against all odds.
- Sacred Agreements — creating a supportive, brave, and healing container.
Phase One: The apprenticeship descent
Six modules, each a portal of ritual theater, tantra and embodied love.
See all six modules
Every module includes teachings, practices and a short recorded embodiment, always as an invitation: let this be a reclamation of choice in your body.
Module 1 · Ritual Theater, Archetype & Lilith
You'll be able to: become myth in motion through ritual theater, archetype and Goddess work, grounded in boundaries, consent and agency.
Ritual Theater is the art of becoming myth in motion.
- Protection, ritual theater, archetype & Goddess, Lilith.
- Ritual, theater, and tantra braid to awaken the body, heart, and soul.
- Embodied love: boundaries, consent, agency, and also surrender, vulnerability, and connection.
Module 2 · The Dark Mother & the Inner Teen
You'll be able to: strengthen your relationship to the Great Mystery and move out of control and co-dependency into co-creation.
The Great Mystery, the lineage of somatics, the Black Madonna, Saraswati.
- Strengthening our relationship to the Great Mystery. Not just our “parts” or our stories, but Her.
- Moving out of patterns of control and co-dependency and into co-creation.
Module 3 · Venus, Aphrodite & Lakshmi
You'll be able to: integrate the parts of you that were never safe enough to be seen, through beauty that asks for presence, not perfection.
The power of beauty to hold us through the sadness of becoming.
- The kind of beauty that doesn't demand perfection, but presence.
- Integrating the parts of us that were never safe enough to be seen.
Module 4 · The Emperor
You'll be able to: lead with structure as safety and authority as receptivity: command, not control.
Structure as safety · authority as receptivity · command vs. control.
- Shadow work and celebration: boundaries don't restrict us—they give us the space to play.
- Gnosis, not interpretation.
- The inner CEO · creative, ecstatic, orgasmic.
Module 5 · The Crone
You'll be able to: facilitate with the unknown at the center and hold grief as collective, ancestral and political.
Facilitation with the unknown at the center. Die Before You Die.
- Dropping the waiting, the wishing, the bargaining with time.
- Grief is collective, ancestral and political.
Module 6 · Becoming the Mother of Your Own Life
You'll be able to: let grief move without abandoning yourself and cultivate pleasure as nourishment rather than escape.
Lakshmi, Magdalene, the Black Madonna, and the alchemy of pleasure, grief, and rage.
- You protect what is sacred in you. You nourish the parts that were neglected.
- You allow grief to move without abandoning yourself. You cultivate pleasure as nourishment rather than escape.
- The nervous system · rage, sexuality, and the life force.
Phase Two: The method of Body Temple Dance®
Nothing in Unleashed is taught only through lecture. Everything is lived.
The methods of Body Temple Dance® are movement meditation, oracular writing, expression as emotional tending and intimacy practice and ritual/shadow theater.
- Module 1: Building Resilience & Ritual Art as Community Care — the river of life: nervous system flow & Body Temple Dance®.
- Module 2: The Theatre of the Shameless: Inanna, the Freeze, and the Deep Acting of Facilitation.
- Module 3: Origin & Pedagogy of Body Temple Dance® — participants facilitate. Receive feedback. Move. Dance. Practice ritual.
- Module 4: Our Main Medicine as Shame Slayers & Soul Activators — coming out of freeze. It's not weakness. It's brilliance.
- Module 5: Mother Rupture & Repair — healing the mother line looks like giving ourselves the rebirth we need as often as needed.
- Module 6: Fight Response Somatics for Body Temple, by Alli Rune — fight is not inherently dysregulation.
- Module 7: Facilitation + From Fawning to Freedom in the Body — alongside compassion, we also need comedy.
How you practice and receive feedback
How you practice + what you learn to hold
- You facilitate. In Module 3, participants facilitate. Receive feedback. Move. Dance. Practice ritual.
- You practice live. Weekly Body Temple Dance® classes every Friday, for your practice and your own experience.
- You submit your work. Quarterly assignments, including fun videos of rituals and practices and written projects.
The practice you'll learn to hold
- The Three Phases — Unravel · Shake · Surrender into Service.
- Languages of the Body — physical sensation, emotional sensation, image, behavior/pattern and meaning making.
- Facilitating Body Temple Dance® — keep it simple, keep it light. Leave lots of space for just music.
- Love Council — relational, reparative and real.
- Somatic Fieldwork — holding people's shares: not as counselors or fixers.
Cultivating CHOICE
How we learn to cultivate CHOICE in how our body relates to the pillars of sex, death, money, creativity and love.
Phase Three: Pathways & certification
You won't just learn this work. You'll become it.
Unleashed: Body Temple Dance®
Body Temple Dance® Certification — lead trauma-informed movement rituals with depth and artistry. Optional certification through the International Dance Council (CID/UNESCO).
Womb Healer Level One
Certifying you to lead womb healing circles and hold one-to-one somatic sessions rooted in the Deborah Sundahl lineage. Monthly Womb Temple, where we'll be exploring intimacy, sex magic and the art of eros through consent, self touch and edging.
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.
Business building with integrity is part of this phase. See “Business building with integrity” above.
Woven through the year
Woven through the year
- Weekly Body Temple Dance® classes
- A monthly Womb Temple
- One monthly facilitation ritual with Adriana, to help people step into leadership in the ways that their soul's work is calling them towards
- Weekly somatic business calls: coaching from me, with somatic education sprinkled throughout
- The full training manual
Completion requirements
The certificate and the devotion grow together.
The optional certification through the International Dance Council (CID) is called the Unleashed Teacher Training. It asks for two offerings.
- Step One · Record a 15–30 minute practice
- Step Two · Create a prayer performance
- Form + payment · Complete the certification form and submit payment of $100 USD total
To certify: attend live sessions every Tuesday and two Saturdays per month, plus quarterly assignments, including fun videos of rituals and practices and written projects.
See the full certification details
Step One · Record a 15–30 minute practice
Share the three phases with an individual or a group. Demonstrate and articulate the phases. Show how they can be taught to others, creating a safe, empowering space for exploration. If working with a group, observe the flow of energy and how each person responds. Holding space for others' experiences is a key skill for a teacher.
Step Two · Create a prayer performance
Express yourself through song, movement, or sound centered on rebirth and the metamorphosis of your apprenticeship year. Reflect on your trauma vortex and healing vortex—consider what you've experienced and the lessons learned during this journey.
Current apprentices who choose certification complete a final project during the final stretch of the yearlong apprenticeship, which is focused on embodied facilitation.
Form + payment
- Complete the certification form
- Submit payment of $100 USD total
This payment covers $80 for annual CID membership and a $20 administrative processing fee. Future membership renewals and administrative fees are your responsibility. The certification process cannot begin without both form submission and payment.
Sneak peek inside the manual
Body Temple Dance® teaches what your body already knows.
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Body Temple Dance® in motion
Performance becomes prayer.
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 Contreras
“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
Oh my god
I'm free.
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.”
Investment
$4,500 early rate
Available until November 15.
$5,800 regular
$2,250 for alumni of our trainings
Half off the early rate, with payment plans up to 12 months ($189/month). Use code ALUMNI2250 at checkout.
3, 6 and 12 month payment plans available.
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 facilitation ritual with Adriana • Live virtual sessions every Tuesday plus two Saturdays per month, weekly check-in calls, and embodiment practices every Friday • Weekly somatic business calls • Private covens • A WhatsApp community for celebrations and challenges • 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
Apply now at the early rate
Real questions, real answers
Will this make me a certified facilitator?
Yep - but more importantly, it’ll make you an embodied one. Certification criteria: attending live sessions every Tuesday and two Saturdays per month, quarterly assignments, 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.”
How do you handle consent?
We don't take anyone anywhere they're not consenting to go, so everything is rooted in choice and cultivating more and more choice.
Is this a one-year training?
Some complete in a year and some continue for multiple years. They're often the first people setting a new tone for relationship.
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 training: live virtual sessions every Tuesday plus two Saturdays per month, weekly check-in calls, and embodiment practices every Friday — all sessions recorded with lifetime access. Weekly somatic business calls are included. 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.
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 3, 6 and 12 month payment plans.
Refunds
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.
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 alive, 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.
Apply now at the early rateAs seen in
- The New York Times — “This ‘Witch’ Casts Spells With Scissors and Sage,” by Marisa Meltzer, April 17, 2017
- Who What Wear — “Here’s Proof That ‘New Age’ Beauty Treatments Are a Thing”
- It’s Not Pee! — Raindance Film Festival 2026 Premiere. Directed by Kat Mills Martin. Written & Produced by Adriana Marie Rizzolo
- Returning with Rebecca Campbell — “Ecstasy, Embodiment and the Way of the Mystic with Adriana Rizzolo”
- Solving the Riddle of Being Human with Sah D’Simone — “Grief, God, and the G-Spot” and “The Pain of True Joy”
- The Radiance Project with Heidi Rose Robbins — “Adriana Rizzolo: It’s Probably Gonna Work Out”
- Wild Heart Podcast — “Wildness & Devotion with Adriana Rizzolo”
- The Art of Relating — “Ancestral Healing and Loving Beyond Co-dependency” and “Healing Through Performance”
- Cosmic Cousins — “Rightful Relationship”, “Grief as a Spiritual Path” and “Welcoming Gemini Season 2025”
- Ways of Life with Christa Wells — “Embodiment, Expansion & Feeling It All”
- Rising Women Leaders Podcast — “God, Love, Sobriety & Finding Your Voice”
- Accredited Somatic Dance and Ritual Healing School via the CID (International Dance Council, UNESCO)