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The Mother Gaze™ Guidebook
From self-conscious freeze to fuck yes I'm ALIVE. A free 25-minute guidebook with four body-first practices to unwind the gaze that taught you to shrink.
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Does this sound like you?
You know the language of healing, and you still freeze
- You leave yourself the moment someone else has a need or a mood.
- Rest and love feel like a paycheck for being good or useful.
- Some part of you is always waiting to be told you did it wrong.
- A photo, a stage or a sales page makes you want to disappear.
- You say "I don't know" when you do know.
- The throat closes, and the launch gets postponed again.
This isn't a marketing problem. It's an attachment wound wearing a business costume.
None of this means you're doing healing wrong. It means your body is loyal. A wound that happened before language rarely moves through language alone. It asks for a different experience of being seen.
What's inside · 12 pages · about 25 minutes
What you'll get, page by page
Is this for you?
Who this is for
- Healers, facilitators and space holders who have taken training after training, and the wisdom still stays in the drawer.
- Women and femmes who freeze or hide when it's time to be seen or to lead.
- Anyone still looking at her body through the patriarchal gaze: Is she pretty? Is she good? Is she too much?
- You, if you're ready to feel it in your body, not just understand it.
- You, if your weirdness, your strange little obsession and your offering want somewhere to go.
Who this is not for
- Anyone looking for a quick fix or a positivity script.
- Anyone who wants another certification to earn love with.
- Anyone who wants to stay "untouchable." This is not immature Goddess culture that says we're flawless.
- Anyone who only wants to read about the body without moving it, making sound, or saying the true thing out loud.
What shifts
When you receive the Mother Gaze™
Your body image
You stop looking at yourself through the eyes that taught you to shrink. You witness yourself without immediately correcting, shaming or abandoning what you find.
The patriarchal gaze
You catch the places you still participate in your own diminishment, and you stop confusing that voice with truth. "That is not my voice. That was never mine to carry."
Shrinking and "I don't know"
The "I don't know" softens. Your impulse comes back. You say the things you were trained to swallow: "I want this." "I'm so angry."
In their words
"I have come to embrace my body, my a lotness, and my way of being human. BTD has helped me to accept me (as fully and wholly humanly possible!)"— C.O
"Somewhere in between who I was and who I thought I needed to be I found who I was meant to be."— K.L
"What I most appreciated … was the possibility to be seen and to express our authentic voice, our vulnerable and intimate self without any judgment."— A.F
In Womb Temple, one woman came in frozen and left able to say of her younger self: I love her. I'm proud of her.
About Adriana
Adriana Marie Rizzolo
Founder of Body Temple Church and creator of Body Temple Dance®.
Based in Ojai, California and teaching worldwide, Adriana leads Body Temple as a feminine somatic, sex education and mystery school, where the Goddess, the Primordial Mother and the Dark Mother meet the body, the stage and the circle.
The Mother Gaze™ was born from burying her father on her 25th birthday, from 15 years of sobriety this New Year's Eve, and from Body Temple Dance®, which "did not arrive as choreography. It arrived as regulation."
She rejects white wellness and quick-fix coaching in favor of leadership rooted in the body.
Questions
Is it really free?
Yes. Enter your name and email and it goes straight to your inbox.
How long does it take?
About 25 minutes: around 12 minutes of reading and four short practices.
Do I need to know Body Temple Dance®?
No. You only have to let the floor hold your weight.
You're not broken. You're becoming.
Ready to be seen by a gaze that doesn't look away?
Come as you are: affected, unfinished, magnificent. Get the free guidebook and take the first 25 minutes home to your body.
GET THE FREE MOTHER GAZE™ GUIDEBOOK