Dance Your Way Into Your CallingUNLEASHED: Body Temple Dance Teacher Training
What if healing happened through your body, not just in your mind?
AUGUST– OCTOBER 2026 | RESIDENTIAL INTENSIVE: COSTA BRAVA, SPAIN SEPTEMBER 1–8GRIEF, RAGE, LOVE, DEATH, AND SEX AS PATHWAYS TO COLLECTIVE LIBERATION.You'll become a certified Body Temple Dance facilitator who can guide embodied love, trance dance and Tantra immersion spaces, work with the nervous system as medicine, and lead with devotion (not performance).
For Therapists, Healers, Coaches & Somatic Practitioners ready to deepen their practice through movement, mysticism and the wisdom of the body.
WITH ADRIANA RIZZOLO AND GUEST BODY TEMPLE DANCE TEACHERS
International Dance Council, official partner of UNESCO
Hi everyone, and welcome! This video is a quick introduction to our Body Temple Dance Teacher Training Program, perfect if you’d rather listen than read. We’ll give you a sense of what’s ahead, but please do check out the full page for all the details, and don’t hesitate to email us if you have any questions.
Body Temple Dance
This is for the practitioners who know that the body holds what the mind can't reach.
The therapists sitting with clients who are doing everything right — and still stuck. The coaches who feel the limits of talk-based work. The somatic workers who want more ritual, more depth, more aliveness in the room. The healers who came to this work through their own body and know there is so much more to excavate.
You came here to serve love.
→ UNLEASHED gives you the framework, the embodied authority, and the community to go deeper — in your practice, in your facilitation, and in yourself.
This is your invitation
Step into your next layer of purpose, pleasure, and embodied power.
We’re calling in those who:
→ Are ready to lead with their full presence, not just their training
→ Want to weave movement, nervous system work, and sacred practice into their offerings
→ Know that the most profound shifts happen in the body — and want to know how to hold that for others
Let this be your return to the medicine of movement, intimacy, and belonging.
FEATURED IN
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. Her generosity is unmatched. I learned how to hold all parts of me, how to move in and out of regulation. I received so much Somatic Education and Ritual rooted in the Tantric tradition.
— Ali F.
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 language — the language of my body, my soul, my shadow, my light, my spirit and the union of all in connection to the greater body of humanity, earth and divinity. It taught me PERMISSION. What I got far superseded all that I consciously could have hoped for.
— M.J.
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.
Your movement is your medicine. Your pleasure is revolutionary. Your rage, your softness, your sensuality—none of it fits inside colonial, patriarchal, white-supremacist culture.
So they told us not to dance. They told us not to cry too loudly. They taught us to hold our breath.
Because if we can move… we can act. We can disrupt. We can reclaim what was stolen.
UNLEASHED helps you do exactly that.
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. We all need support to keep leading as we’re learning, receiving as we’re giving and re-member if as we’re working the wound as the cauldron where our medicine is made.
Hybrid IN-PERSON + Online
The 3-month container includes a full week residential immersion on the Costa Brava, Spain - accommodation and food included in your investment.
This is where the work stops being theoretical and becomes lived.
Salt air, bare feet on Spanish earth, dancing through grief and pleasure and rage with a small group of people who are completely in it with you.
This is where your body stops performing transformation and starts enacting it.
Spain week dates: September 1st - 8th
15 places only.
What I received through this training has been so much more than just the ability to facilitate. I feel like a different person. I have learned more about myself, the nervous system, our window of tolerance, the vagus nerve, how to expand my capacity for feeling both physically and emotionally. Adriana creates a special space that feels sacred. - P.T
The last 9 months gave me the permission I needed to dive deeper into self — to feel into my body without fear. 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. - Kelly
I have noticed a 'working with myself' instead of a 'working against myself' shift since being part of this community. I have come to embrace my body, my a-lotness, and my way of being human. All in all I would do this again and again! My life is forever changed. - Caroline
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. Together, we work with the nervous system as a holy channel, the body as altar, and the Goddess as creative muse, guide, and Source.
This training is for those who long to lead and create from wholeness, not performance. To turn grief into medicine, eros into devotion, and voice into prayer.
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.
Her work integrates ritual theater, energy healing, embodied astrology, therapeutic yoga, voice and movement training, trauma release, and somatic education. She has guided thousands of people worldwide in awakening to their aliveness.
"Adriana's work is psychedelic without the plant medicine. It's decolonization from the inside out, held by the most gorgeous humans. Where else can you move through eros to elation to rage to sorrow and feel completely sacred in all of it? This rewrites you at the cellular level. Community like this changes EVERYTHING.”
THE THREE ARCS OF TRANSFORMATION
A THREE-MONTH JOURNEY THROUGH THE TEMPLE OF YOURSELF
Arc One: Nervous System, Dharma & Drama
Start with your story. Rewire your nervous system. Reconnect to the sacred through somatic ritual and Goddess practice.
Uncover your personal process with the nervous system and the states that arise. Develop your sacred practice (sadhana) with the Tantric tradition and Goddess work. Somatic education, Tantric Goddess practices, and coaching calls.
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Arc Two: The Art of Facilitation & Ritual Theatre
Step into your role as a vessel. Learn to guide transformational spaces and create healing performances that leberate truth.
Facilitation to us is how available we are to allow our body to be the vessel for the work that the soul came here to do. It is also about our perception, which comes from our Autonomic Nervous System. We facilitate everything in our lives from our relationships to the creative and soul work we came to offer the world.
Arc Three: Soul-Led Service & Being Seen
Reclaim your visibility. Launch your offerings. let your expression become service - and your leadership devotional.
In the last phase of our time together you will have more space to integrate and also get support from your peers in small groups for practice as well as sharing an offering unique to you. Together we will open up the portal to being seen and taking the Goddess as your forever business partner.
Secret Fourth Arc: Community for Life.
Ongoing support, friendship, and collaboration in a container that keeps growing with you.
People make new friends and mostly have a place to come and have their truth, beauty, worth and love vibrationally mirrored, which in itself changes the ways we relate to ourselves and the world.
WHAT YOU’ll receive:
EMBODYING TRANSFORMATION INTO REAL LIFE
Body Temple Dance Certification — lead trauma-informed movement rituals with depth and artistry
Ritual Theater Training — use the power of performance as protest and prayer, rooted in the nervous system
Somatic & Nervous System Education — polyvagal-informed tools for healing and collective care
Goddess Sadhana & Tantric Arts — work with Kali, Durga, Magdalene & more to root your leadership in embodied devotion
Facilitation & Business Mentorship — birth your soul-led offerings with sacred structure and creative integrity
2 x 1-hour 1:1 sessions with Adriana (value: $900) — personal mentorship woven through your journey
1-week residential in Costa Brava, Spain — accommodation and food fully included
Full access to the Body Temple Membership for the duration — weekly classes, monthly Yoni Temple + resource library
Live training calls — weekends, 1–2x per month, all recorded with lifetime access
Guest teachers from India and beyond
Anti-racism and gender-affirming facilitation training
A private community app for ongoing connection
CID (UNESCO) accredited certification
VOICES FROM THE TRAINING
“I loved doing the prayer performance. I have received so much over the last 9 months. The biggest thing for me is knowing that I am not broken, I don’t need “fixing”. I don’t just live in my healing vortex now, but I have the tools to get to relate to my patterns and my trauma vortex in a new way and I know how to come back to myself.” - Prudence
"What I most appreciated during the training was the possibility to be seen and to express our authentic voice, our vulnerable and intimate self without any judgment. I always felt that there was no topic that was too much or too taboo and it was truly liberating.”Alli F.
“This training has reconnected me to my primal self - the part of me that wants to sing, dance, rest, and simply BE. My embodied presence now becomes a sacred offering to others, guided by the Goddess herself.” - Erin
THIS TRAINING IS FOR YOU:
✔ You're a healer, therapist, coach, somatic worker, 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 want to bring nervous system work, ritual, and somatic movement into your existing offerings
✔ You crave a community that refuses to buy into systems of unworthiness and smallness
✔ You're ready to transform spiritual downloads into soul-led service
✔ 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.
Real QUESTIONS, Real ANSWERS
“Will this make me a certified facilitator?”
Yep - but more importantly, it’ll make you an embodied one. I don’t hand out paper for people who just “studied” the material. You’ll sweat it, dance it, rage it, grieve it, pray it, fuck it up and try again. That’s what makes you trustworthy.
“I’ve been burned by spiritual spaces that felt culty, performative, or just… lame. How is this different?”
Same, babe. That’s why I built UNLEASHED. Too many “sacred sexuality” or “somatic trainings” skip the paradox of pain + pleasure, or they get lost in anatomy with no Mystery. Here, we weave grief rituals, Italian shamanism, goddess devotion, nervous system science, and community accountability. No spiritual bypass, no cult vibes. I talk a lot because I’m an Oracle and that’s part of my transmission, but this training is about you and the other people in it and that is the main thing people receive from this is the support of the community and the ways that sinking into that even online in this aquarium age changes us for the better.
“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. We learn how to not drown in our own intensity, but also not numb out. 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.”
“I’m queer / kinky / neurodivergent / a parent / a priestess in training / messy AF… do I belong here?”
YES. UNLEASHED is literally built for the ones who never felt like they fully belonged anywhere. Your identities, edges, contradictions, and raw humanity are not just welcome — they’re the curriculum.
“Is this training only for women?”
Nope. It’s for humans who want to meet the Divine Mother in their body, regardless of gender. If you’ve got the courage to dance with grief, eros, rage, and devotion, you’re in.
“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 - I offer payment plans, and there’s scholarship support because liberation isn’t just for the rich BETCH.
INVESTMENT
from $5,500
Early Bird — from $5,500 Available until June 15th
Pay in full: $5,500
Deposit + 9 months: $1,000 then $500/month
Deposit + 12 months: $1,000 then $375/month
What's included:
Full 3-month online training container
1-week residential in Costa Brava, Spain (accommodation + food fully included)
2 x 1-hour 1:1 sessions with Adriana (value $900)
Full BTD certification (CID/UNESCO accredited)
Body Temple Membership access throughout
Lifetime access to all recordings
After your application is accepted: secure your place with a $1,000 deposit, or pay in full. 12-month payment plan available.
$6,500 — June 15th to July 15th. Payment plans available on application.
$7,500 — July 15th to Aug 1st. Payment plans available on application.
Doors close August 1st.
If you are someone who feels deeply, who leads from care and connection, then you know:
We need strong containers for the power we carry.
In UNLEASHED, we:
Sing, dance, and grieve together
Reconnect to the Earth through ritual
Share our stories and our medicine
Practice joy — even when it feels impossible
This is healing that honors both the raw and the radiant.
Where your heartbreak is holy.
Where your aliveness is sacred.
Let’s walk this path side by side.
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
ARE YOU READY TO:
✦ Lead spaces that feel like ritual, not performance?
✦ Turn trauma into embodied truth through movement and voice?
✦ Undo internalized systems of fear, shame, and perfectionism?
✦ Bring healing, activism, and artistry into one body of work?
✦ Remember what your ancestors already knew: movement is freedom?
The feminine always wants more.
When this is filtered through our wounding, we search outside for what we will only ever receive from within.
In Body Temple, we awaken and celebrate the holiness of our humanity that includes sensuality, sexuality, aliveness, worth, beauty, eros, and our sense of belonging.
The mystics teach us that ecstasy is our true nature and we need to have access to what is true within us if we came here to serve this broken world. We teach you both physical and energetic anatomy, Earth-based rituals, and connecting to the abundance of elements inside you.
"When by the flood of your tears the inner and the outer have fused into one, you will find Her whom you sought with such anguish, nearer than the nearest, the very breath of life, the very core of every heart." - Anandamayi Ma
Ancestral shame gets liberated in this shamanic dance and journey work. We heal the split and disconnect between us and the Earth, us and the body. This will give you the access to the support you actually need to go deep in your own healing while also showing up for your life.
Bring these ancient ways into our modern world. It is such a joy and pleasure to do this work and I am changed by every person that takes our training!
VOICES FROM PAST TEACHER TRAINEES
"This training was such a beautiful healing container where I felt held, supported and allowed to open my heart, to cry, laugh, scream, dance, to welcome all my emotions and to kiss my wounds with softness and tenderness.”
"All in all I would do this again and again! So grateful to Adriana and team for this container My life is forever changed! Much love and deep bows!”
“Adriana is the pure embodiment of Shakti. Durga, Kali, Lakshmi, Saraswati, Radha — all pulsate and move through Adriana in a beautiful dance that will love you to your core. This work is revolutionary, Adriana is revolutionary. Generosity and joy radiate from her being. She gives so much and is genuinely lit up by it. She has given more in this training than all of my other teacher training combined. Her generosity is unmatched.”
"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.”
““This training has given me so much. Going from predominantly a yoga practice to BTD has expanded my awareness to be more fully alive with my life. Moving with my eyes open, taking up space with my eyes open, and claiming my space has been a profound re-awakening for me. The orientation section of the practice was something new for me and I was surprised how profound that was.”
“I loved the breakout rooms and really being able to connect with the others in the space. I also appreciated the amount of practice teaching that we got during the 9 months. I think it helped in growing confidence and in knowing that I am capable even now.”
“What I received through this training though has been so much more than just the ability to facilitate. I feel like a different person. This past 9 months has been so healing to me. I have learned more about myself, the nervous system, our window of tolerance, the vagus nerve, how to expand my capacity for feeling both physically and emotionally, tools to work with the nervous system and especially how we move from freeze”
This is sacred rebellion.
This is nervous system revolution.
This is where performance becomes prayer, and facilitation becomes art.
And take your place in the lineage of embodied liberation.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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A three-month somatic and spiritual mentorship in facilitating Body Temple Dance, movement, ritual, meditation, and sacred service. It’s designed for healers, coaches, visionaries, and artists seeking to deepen impact and share their gifts.
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Healers, therapists, coaches, sacred rebels, creatives, and intentional leaders.
Anyone ready to step into embodied leadership and heart-led service.
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Integrates somatic movement, Tantra-based meditation, ritual, and relational healing.
Focuses on personal transformation and collective liberation through the Body Temple Dance method - research based effective Somatic healing.
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Module 1: Dive into dharma, trauma, and self-awareness.
Module 2: Facilitation practice, creative movement, meditation, and 1:1 mentorship.
Module 3: Teach your own sessions, share offerings, and embody your service design.
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Live calls are weekends, 1–2x per month — all sessions recorded with lifetime access. The centrepiece of the training is the Spain residential in Month Two: a full week on the Costa Brava with accommodation and food included. You just need to get yourself to Barcelona. Expect to dedicate real time to this — this is not a light-touch training, and that's exactly the point.
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We're based at a private venue near Castell Beach — one of the most unspoiled stretches of coastline on the Costa Brava, surrounded by nature, with natural beaches right on the doorstep.
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Accommodation and all meals are fully included. You just need to get yourself there — fly into Barcelona and it's about 1.5 hours north, closest town is Palamós. We'll send full travel details once you're in.
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Expect deep immersion — morning practices, full facilitation training days, ritual, movement, and the kind of conversations that only happen when you're away from your ordinary life. There's nature, there's the sea, there's real time to integrate. This isn't a retreat where you're scheduled every minute — there's space to breathe, to be, to let things land.
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Completion of minimum live participation.
Submission of a closing facilitation video (due within 6 months after program end).
Ongoing mentorship during and after the training.
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The full cost of the training is $7500 - the early rate $6500 is available until June 1st.
Waitlist opens ahead of annual enrollment for first-access and discounts
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Yes: many cohort members had little to no prior experience in facilitation or movement arts.
The container supports radical embodiment and cultivating confidence.
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A rich, global community container for somatic & spiritual growth.
Rituals, guest teachers, fire ceremonies, BIPOC-specific spaces, and peer mentorship integrated throughout.
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We invite you to join this program with intention and care. We’ve done our best to describe the training clearly so you can feel confident in your decision. To honor the energy and commitment we pour into this work, all registrations are final and non-refundable.
Body Temple collective
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Alexandra Gonzalez
Alexandra Gonzalez (she/her) is a mystical, multi-passionate, neurodiverse, life time creative + ritualist. She works as a care-centered + community aimed, somatic educator & guide with over 4 years of in-depth training and mentorship in Yoga philosophy and somatic education + care.
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Varsha Choudary
Varsha is a homoeopathic doctor, psychologist, meditation teacher, poet, mother of two beautiful daughters, owner of a counseling center, Awakened Living, and lives in Pune, India.
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Maia Rose
Maïa-Rose Uslaro Jemima Ashongowei is a Cosmic Explorer, Ancestral Custodian, Soul-Purpose Doula, Medicine Woman, Wisdom Keeper, Writer and Sovereign Mama from Nigeria, on a journey to fully reclaiming her power and sovereignty and erotic innocence.
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Alli Caw
Alli Caw is a sacred voice liberator, vocal alchemist, wound tender, lover of play and wonder, writer and intuitive channel. They are the creator and facilitator or Sacred Voice Liberation and the ceremonial practice Singing Shadow Work.
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Harshada
Harshada Wagner is a meditation teacher, spiritual guide, author, and classical Yoga Philosophy teacher on a mission to help people walk the spiritual path and live happier freer lives.
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Jackie Paulson
Jackie has almost two decades of experience in the helping field. She specializes in working with adults and couples who may be experiencing a wide array of concerns; including, relationship difficulties, sexual function challenges, depression, anxiety, trauma, grief and loss, addiction, and life transitions
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FABIANA GAYA
Mystic FREE spirit, artist and healer, a pilgrim on a SPIRITUAL JOURNEY of ART & MAGIC, ritualizing life through Dance, Oracle Cards, Astrology and Sacred Sexuality. SOUL Priestess, believing in the power of the Goddess, the energies of Nature and the sacred pleasure of the Body as a path towards HEALING, LOVE and FREEDOM.
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Brandy Cunningham
Artist. Somatic & Spiritual Guide Movement is the Medicine 🌀Body Temple ⇅ Student of the Mystery
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Allena Allen
Allena is a native of Southern California who has spent the last 20+ years learning with Master dancers and drummer in West African Dance (Yoruba Style). She has traveled and performed in various venues over the years.
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Miguel Angel Hura
DescriptÁngel Hura (Miguel Ángel) is a two-spirit Puerto Rican-Dominican somatic healer, ceremonialist & healing justice facilitator with a decade of experience working as a public health practitioner in the fields of sexual health, human rights, and mental health for queer and BIPOC liberation. ion goes here
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Kim Krans
Though revered for her drawings and publications, Krans is also a multi-media artist, filmmaker, and musician.
A prolific creative influenced by a range of mystical traditions, Kim’s published works include several oracle decks and children’s books, The Wild Unknown Journal, the graphic memoir Blossoms and Bones, and the board game Renunciation
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Sah D'Simone
A spiritual teacher of global reach, Sah has impacted millions through bestselling books, viral transmissions, and radical trainings. He’s spoken at the DAVOS World Economic Forum, Columbia University, Google, the United Nations, and received the City of Los Angeles CARE Award. His film Touching the Ungrieved Grief won Best Experimental Film at the Cannes World Film Festival. He also hosted the groundbreaking British television series Big Celebrity Detox.
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Mirabai Starr
Award-winning author, contemporary translator of sacred literature, international speaker, and world-renowned teacher of contemplative practice and inter-spiritual dialog. A certified bereavement counselor, Mirabai helps mourners harness the transformational power of loss. Her book, WILD MERCY: Living the Fierce & Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics, continues to sell widely and has been translated into multiple languages.
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Nathan Hirschaut
An artist, spiritual practitioner, and guide in the healing arts.
Nathan’s work lives at the intersection of performance, embodiment, and transformation.
He’s trained as a choreographer. He’s walked the Buddhist path. He’s burned out and found my way back through ritual, stillness, and raw creative honesty.
Now, he helps others alchemize their pain and story into something sacred—not through talking, but through feeling, witnessing, and ritual art.
INVESTMENT
from $5,500
Early Bird — from $5,500 Available until June 15th
Pay in full: $5,500
Deposit + 9 months: $1,000 then $500/month
Deposit + 12 months: $1,000 then $375/month
What's included:
Full 3-month online training container
1-week residential in Costa Brava, Spain (accommodation + food fully included)
2 x 1-hour 1:1 sessions with Adriana (value $900)
Full BTD certification (CID/UNESCO accredited)
Body Temple Membership access throughout
Lifetime access to all recordings
After your application is accepted: secure your place with a $1,000 deposit, or pay in full. 12-month payment plan available.
$6,500 — June 15th to July 15th. Payment plans available on application.
$7,500 — July 15th to Aug 1st. Payment plans available on application.
Doors close August 1st.