Body Temple Church
Primordial Mother
Fierce Faces of the Feminine: Embodying Shakti & Giving From the Ground
A 3-Week Live Immersion with Adriana Rizzolo& Varsha Choudhari
Exploring the embodied wisdom of Kali, Lajja Gauri & Durga through the lenses of traditional Tantra, somatic healing, mantra meditation, movement, nervous system science, ritual, and devotion.
Open to all genders.
Enroll NowThree live online classes · DATES HERE · $88 early registration · Lifetime access to recordings.
You are carrying a paradox. You care deeply. You feel deeply.
You want to create beauty, justice, intimacy, and healing in the world... and yet your nervous system stays caught between two ancient survival strategies.
You freeze. You disappear. You procrastinate on the things your soul most longs to create. You know you're capable of more, but your body says not safe.
Or you become fire. You overwork. You over function. You become everyone's caretaker. You can't stop moving, because slowing down feels terrifying.
You oscillate between collapse and intensity. Softness and control. Devotion and resentment. You long for rest but don't know how to trust it. You long for power but fear becoming harmful. You long to surrender, but your body has learned that surrender isn't safe.
This is not about fixing you. It's about remembering the intelligence beneath the survival strategy.
Before there was shame, there was Shakti
Before the Goddess was reduced to a symbol, she was the earth
She was birth. She was destruction. She was erotic intelligence. She was fierce protection. She was the mystery that creates worlds and dissolves them.
The earliest images of the feminine weren't asking us to be nicer, quieter, more productive, or more spiritual. They invited us into relationship with life itself.
- Not goddess spirituality as aesthetic. Not mythology as self help, and not ancient traditions flattened into empowerment slogans.
- Traditional philosophy, met by the body. Adriana and Varsha weave Indian philosophy and traditional Tantra with contemporary somatic practice.
- Built for modern nervous systems. Freeze and burnout aren't failures of motivation. They're adaptations, and they respond to practice, not pressure.
- An inheritance, not a gender role. Woman, man, nonbinary, trans, queer, anywhere along the spectrum... these are expressions of consciousness, courage, protection, and life force that live in every body.
The problem we are actually addressing
Neither freeze nor burnout is a failure of motivation
Most personal development asks us to think differently. Most spirituality asks us to transcend. Most productivity asks us to push harder.
But these are adaptations. When your nervous system has learned that life is unsafe, creativity becomes difficult. Love becomes exhausting. Boundaries become confusing. Leadership becomes performance. Pleasure becomes something you earn.
Many of us end up giving from adrenaline instead of abundance. Serving from obligation instead of devotion. Creating from urgency instead of inspiration.
You build a life that looks meaningful from the outside while feeling disconnected from your deepest source on the inside. This immersion is about reconnecting to that source.
A different kind of goddess work
This is not goddess spirituality as aesthetic
Not mythology as self help, and not ancient traditions flattened into empowerment slogans. Adriana and Varsha weave traditional Indian philosophy with contemporary somatic practice, honoring both the depth of these lineages and the realities of modern nervous systems.
We will explore these archetypes through
- Traditional Tantra and Bhakti
- Indian mythology and philosophy
- Nervous system regulation
- Somatic embodiment
- Meditation
- Ritual
- Journaling
- Creative inquiry
- Relational practice
An invitation to experience these goddesses not simply as stories, but as living forces that reshape the way you inhabit your body, your relationships, your work, and your creativity.
Three weeks, three faces
What we move through together
Week One
Kali
The fire that liberates
For those trapped in perfectionism, over-responsibility, chronic activation, or fear of change.
Kali doesn't destroy your life. She destroys the identities that keep you from living it.
Together we will explore
- Healthy aggression versus reactivity
- Sacred anger as life force
- Ego death and transformation
- Burning away what no longer serves
- The courage to let endings become beginnings
Week Two
Lajja Gauri
The unashamed mother
Long before the feminine became hidden, she was depicted as radically open.
Headless.Rooted.Birthing.Abundant.
Creativity emerges not from striving, but from relationship with the earth, the pelvis, and the mystery.
Together we will explore
- Creativity as devotion
- The pelvis as a center of intelligence
- Embodied fertility beyond reproduction
- Releasing inherited shame
- Receiving from the ground instead of performing for love
Week Three
Durga
Fierce compassion
Compassion without boundaries becomes martyrdom. Strength without love becomes domination.
She embodies the mature feminine... the capacity to protect life without abandoning tenderness.
Together we will explore
- Boundaries rooted in love
- Courage without violence
- Discernment in relationships
- Sacred leadership
- Becoming someone your own nervous system can trust
What you'll receive
Three weeks of live teaching, practice, and integration
$88 if you register early, $188 after. Everything is recorded, so if you can't make a session live, the material is yours to keep and return to.
Enroll NowThree live online classes
Roughly two hours each, with teachings on Kali, Lajja Gauri, and Durga drawn from traditional Tantra, Bhakti, Indian mythology, and philosophy.
Somatic and devotional practice
Guided embodiment practices, meditation, mantra, and nervous system regulation. Ritual you can carry home, so this lives in your body and not just your notes.
Integration material
Journaling prompts, creative inquiry, relational practice, and integration exercises to metabolize what moves through you between sessions.
Lifetime access to recordings
Every class, held for you. Return to Kali in a season that calls for her, and to Durga in one that doesn't.
Meet Your Guides
Together they hold reverence for these traditions while making them accessible in a trauma informed, relational, and deeply human way.
Varsha Choudhari
Psychologist, meditation teacher, lifelong sadhaka · Pune, India
Varsha offers a deeply rooted understanding of Indian philosophy, traditional Tantra, and goddess traditions, bridging contemplative practice with psychological insight and lived devotion.
Adriana Rizzolo
Founder of Body Temple Church, creator of Body Temple Dance
Somatic educator, ritual theatre facilitator, and teacher of embodied spirituality. Adriana brings together nervous system science, ritual, movement, grief work, and devotional practice to help people reclaim the body as a sacred site of transformation.
Why giving from the ground?
Many of us learned to give from survival. We perform. We hustle. We rescue. We over-function. We abandon ourselves in the name of service. But the primordial traditions teach something radically different.
The earth gives because she is connected to source. Not because she is trying to prove her worth.
When we become rooted in the body, generosity ceases to be depletion. It becomes an overflow.
This is what we mean by giving from the ground.
This is for you if...
- You oscillate between freeze and burnout
- You feel deeply but struggle to act on what matters most
- You want to stop creating from survival and begin creating from devotion
- You long for a grounded relationship with the Goddess that honors both tradition and embodiment
- You want to deepen your understanding of Shakti through philosophy, practice, and lived experience
- You're ready to discover that your sensitivity isn't your weakness... it may be the very place your power is waiting
The Primordial Mother does not ask you to become someone else. She asks you to remember.
To remember the intelligence beneath your trauma. The creativity beneath your fear. The courage beneath your collapse. The tenderness beneath your armor. The life force that has never left you.
She is older than shame. Older than perfectionism. Older than performance. Older than the stories that taught you your body was something to overcome.
She is waiting beneath your feet, within your breath, and in the ancient wisdom of your own being.
Come sit with the Fierce Faces of the Feminine. Come remember how to give from the ground.
Take your place in the circle
Three live classes, lifetime access to the recordings, and a body that remembers how to give from the ground.
$88
Early registration
through DATE HERE
$188
Regular registration
after that
DATES HERE · Open to all genders · Lifetime access to recordings.