Erotic Awakening: Move Your Shadow. Ignite Your Aliveness
A free guidebook + 25-minute Body Temple Dance class to explore shadow work, sacred theatre, and somatic awakening
BY ADRIANA RIZZOLO
What if the aliveness you're craving is hidden in the parts of yourself you've been taught to exile?
For too long, we've been told that spirituality means transcending the body. That shadow work is about "fixing" what's broken. That our erotic nature, our raw feelings, our untamed edges need to be tamed before we can be holy.
But what if your wholeness lives in those exiled places?
What if the rage you've been suppressing, the grief you've been avoiding, the desire you've been shaming - what if these are the doorways to your most alive, most creative, most sacred self?
The feminine path doesn't ask you to purify yourself before you enter the temple. She invites you to make a temple of your whole self -shadow and light, wild and tender, eros and grief.
This is not spiritual bypassing. This is embodied liberation.
What You'll Discover
Through sacred theatre, shadow work, and the somatic practice of Body Temple Dance, you'll be guided into relationship with the parts of yourself that patriarchal spirituality has exiled. This is medicine for anyone who has been taught that being "good" means being small, quiet, and palatable.
In this free offering, you'll receive tools to:
Awaken to your shadow as sacred: Transform shame into creative power through the lens of sacred theatre and embodied ritual
Move energy that's been stuck: Learn the three phases of Body Temple Dance to metabolize rage, grief, and erotic aliveness in your nervous system
Reclaim your creative fire: Discover how your "too muchness" is actually your medicine, and how to share it with confidence
Build capacity for intimacy: Practice being witnessed in your wholeness, so you can show up more authentically in your relationships and your work
This offering is designed to give you a taste of the embodied, relational spirituality that lives at the heart of Body Temple Church, and to prepare you for the deeper work available in our Membership and trainings.
Each chapter offers both reflection and practice, guiding you to step forward with courage and compassion.
Your Erotic Awakening Toolkit Includes:
📖 Shadow Work & Sacred Theatre Guidebook
A spiritual companion to explore trance dance, soul retrieval, and the art of making your life a living ritual. Discover how to gently bring hidden feelings and memories to light, and reclaim the wisdom of your exiled parts.
🎥 25-Minute Body Temple Dance Class
A guided somatic practice to move energy, awaken your body, and experience the three phases of Body Temple Dance. This class will help you metabolize what's been stuck and ignite your creative fire—all you need is yourself and a willingness to move.
✨ Instant Access
Sign up and receive immediate access to both offerings. Watch, read, move, and integrate at your own pace.
About ADRIANA
With years of experience weaving sacred theatre, embodied movement, and transformational ritual, Adriana created this guide as a companion for those ready to meet their shadows and awaken their creative soul.
Adriana Rizzolo is the founder of Body Temple Church and the creator of Body Temple Dance, a trance space that welcome grief and rage to be transmuted into aliveness through ritual, expressive arts including prayer-formance and intuitive movement. She is a 13 year sober trauma informed, Tantra aligned, spiritual mentor, mystic, somatic healer, adult sex educator, and guide to the unseen realms.
Who This Is For…
This guide is for seekers ready to explore the depths of their being:
⚔️ You're done with spiritual bypassing and "love and light" bullshit that asks you to transcend your humanness
⚔️ You know you're made for more but you're stuck in numbness, people-pleasing, or performing "goodness"
⚔️ You're both terrified and obsessed with being fully seen, and you're ready to practice that edge
⚔️ You crave a spirituality that includes your body, your anger, your sexuality - not one that asks you to purify them away
⚔️ You're ready to stop being palatable and start being powerful
⚔️ Anyone craving aliveness but feeling stuck in numbness or people-pleasing
⚔️ Those ready to metabolize rage, grief, and desire through movement
The feminine path doesn't ask you to be pure before you enter.
She asks you to bring all of you - the wild, the wounded, the wanting.
Your shadow is not your enemy. It is your creative power, waiting to be danced.
This medicine has been waiting for you.
This is not work for the faint of heart. It's for the brave-hearted seekers ready to stop performing spirituality and start LIVING it - in all its messy, wild, holy aliveness
What People Are Saying:
"Working with Adriana and the Body Temple Dance community is a homecoming. It's decolonization from the inside out, held by the most gorgeous humans I've ever encountered. Where else can you move through the full spectrum of emotion - eros to elation, rage to sorrow, joy to the depths of grief, and feel completely seen and sacred in all of it? This work is psychedelic without the plant medicine." - Sara Yamitch
"Your work has allowed me to connect with a spirituality I didn't think I'd ever have but always longed for within myself... I'm feeling so grateful today. Thank you for all that you do and the healing you give to the collective." - Kelly Jo
"It is so rare to be invited to connect fully to your body, your shadow, your creativity, AND your joy all at once... It felt like a sacred privilege." - Leo G
"I danced, cried, yelled, laughed, it was magical. I keep singing the mantra every day... it was like hearing it, my heart recognized it... I can't wait for the next one!" - Moni
“We gather to make spells.
We gather to move grief, to write prayers, to melt shame, and to lead.
You don’t have to do it alone. You’re not too much. You’re not too late.”