BODY TEMPLE PRESENTSS3X, Descent & Art: An Inanna Initiation Ritual Film Release Party
Full Moon in Pisces Eclipse
August 26th 2026
10-12p PST
with Adriana Rizzolo, Nico Nelson song by Alli Caw + Ritual with The Temple of Wild Lovers Collective
Come for the film. Stay for the ritual. Leave remembering something your body has always known.
FREE + BY DONATION FOR MAIA’S BLACK MADONNA PILGRIMAGE
The Initiate.
The Descent.
Surrender.
Resurrection.
Eros.
Rebirth.
The Initiate. The Descent. Surrender. Resurrection. Eros. Rebirth.
On August 26, under the Full Moon in Pisces Eclipse, we are gathering for the premiere of our new short ritual film inspired by the descent of Inanna.
This is an initiation into art, shadow, death, creation, and the embodied support we need to die well—and return with more of ourselves intact.
This Full Moon is a little moment to stop trying to get somewhere else and come back to the world that lives beneath your skin. We'll receive blessings, get into mutual aid, massage our mouths, write, yell into the void and tell stories that matter.
We're going to watch the film together.
We're going to ritualize.
We're going to remember.
We're going to let Inanna speak to the part of us that knows that sometimes something has to be surrendered before we can receive what is actually ours.
And maybe something in you is ready for that.
Maybe something is ready to come back.
🌕THE INITIATE🌕
An Initiation of Inner Worth through the Journey of Innana
A Full Moon Film Release + Ritual
A little portal into descent, surrender, body wisdom, and the ancient remembering that you were never separate from the Goddess in the first place.
Come descend into your delicious desire with us.🔥
Together, we will experience:
The premiere of our short ritual film on Inanna
Protection Prayer for Public Witches by Jacky LoveAmbassadora, Body Temple Dance® with Adriana, and song sharing by Alli Caw
An exploration of the skills and support we need to “die well,” with an interview with the Temple of Wild Lovers Collective
A moderated conversation + Q&A on Shadow Theater, the Inanna ritual, the womb as portal, grief as embodiment, and the creative process
Art-making as sacred witness and holy union with Nico Nelson
A collective ritual exploring what it takes to live, create, facilitate, and serve from an embodied place—and what we need to sustain this work together
We will gather around the question of how primal, feral feminine power can become an antidote to the forces of oppression, domination, and disembodiment.
Not as an idea. As something lived through the body.
You don't heal by avoiding the underworld.
You awaken and integrate by remembering you were never meant to walk through it alone. I know you want to be fully seen without having to perform. And to reclaim your erotic aliveness without abandoning your spirituality. And to create meaningful art without leaving your body and soul behind. And to descend into the Mysterywithout doing it alone.
You can have all of that—but not by staying on the surface.
Descent asks something of us. It asks us to loosen our grip on certainty. To become intimate with what we've hidden. To let shame become a doorway instead of a prison.
That is why we are gathering for Sx, Descent & Art: An Inanna Initiation + ritual film release party August 26 2026 10-12p PST live + recorded on Body Temple Dance® Zoom.
We want you to experience what happens when ritual becomes art...
When art becomes prayer, devotion awakens desire, where eros, love and power unite. And when your own body becomes the temple where the myth comes alive. The community calls it forth, together.
We want you to witness the birth of our ritual film on Inanna's Journey in 7 stages. To hear the stories behind its creation. To explore Shadow Theatre with us.
To enter a collective ritual where we ask:
What wants to be released?
What wants to descend?
What wants to rise?
What must die for your truth and art to live?
What kind of support do we need to descend without abandoning ourselves?
And what becomes possible when art is no longer something we make for approval—but a sacred witness, a holy union, and a portal into the primal, feral feminine power that patriarchal culture has worked so hard to sever us from?
I know you want to know that you are worthy without needing someone else to want you, choose you, approve of you, or tell you that you are.
And you want to surrender without giving your power away.
And you want to move through grief, shame, endings, death, desire and all the weird fucking passages of being alive without thinking you are doing something wrong.
Art can become a portal.
A place where grief is witnessed.
Where death becomes initiation.
Where the exiled parts of us are given form.
Where the body remembers that creation has always belonged to her.
This gathering is for the artists, facilitators, ritualists, healers, holy troublemakers, and community builders who are willing to descend—and who know we were never meant to make the journey alone.
A Ritual of Community Support
This is a by-donation community event, with all proceeds supporting our beloved community member Maia and her baby in traveling from Nigeria to Spain to join us for our Black Madonna pilgrimage.
Together, we have already raised more than 1,000 Euros.
Now we are continuing to build the bridge that brings her to a week where her and her baby can rest and tot he Black Madonna too—through relationship, reciprocity, and the collective power of community care.
Your presence and your donation are part of that bridge.
We neeed HER….The Goddess. The Mystery. Love. Your own body.
And that is why we made this INANNA short. We have done two ritual theatre productions of Inanna- one is Santa Fe in 2025 and one in NYC in 2024.
I want you to have a little taste of the initiation that has been moving through my own life for years.
The descent.
The stripping away.
The grief.
The rage.
The erotic.
The death.
The fucking mystery of finding yourself again when you thought you had lost yourself.
And I want you to remember that your worth isn't waiting for you at the end of some journey.
It is here.
It was here before you got good enough.
Before they wanted you.
Before you made the money.
Before you became visible.
Before you figured out what the fuck you were doing and who you were…
