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Sacred Theatre
Shadow Work & Soul Wisdom. Stop trying to heal everything all the time, and start creating with every state your nervous system brings.
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Does this sound like you?
You know art heals. You're tired of healing.
- You've done the somatics, the breathwork, the therapy, the reading.
- You understand your patterns, and healing still feels like a job that never ends.
- Rage, grief, desire and numbness keep coming back, and you keep trying to regulate them away.
- You lead, teach, perform or hold space, and want a way to work with these states, not around them.
"Ritual theatre is not about showing something. It's about moving something."
The body holds past experiences, emotional patterns and unexpressed energy. Sacred Theatre doesn't ask you to fix that energy. It asks you to move it, shape it and let it be seen.
What's inside · 14 chapters · 78 pages
What you'll get, chapter by chapter
Is this for you?
Who this is for
- You already know the healing power of art and somatics, and want to go further than regulation.
- You're bored of trying to heal everything all the time, and ready to create with what you feel.
- You want to use your nervous system states and emotions (rage, grief, desire, freeze) as creative fuel.
- You hold circles, teach or perform, and want a grounded framework for ritual theatre.
Who this is not for
- Anyone looking for a beginner's introduction to somatics or embodiment.
- Anyone hoping to fix themselves. This book won't treat you as a problem.
- Anyone who wants theory without practice. It asks your body to take part.
What shifts · why it works
Your states become material
Self-love
"Shame cannot survive a loving witness." Being seen in the part you hid changes your relationship to it.
Your perception
Fight, flight and freeze stop being problems to manage and become energy you can give form and voice to.
Why it works
Embodiment, repetition and witnessing. "In sacred theatre, repetition becomes a prayer." The work happens in the body, where the pattern lives.
In their words · the ritual theatre collective
"Ritual theatre creates a safe space where the parts of us patriarchal culture refuses to hold become embodied. Rage, grief, desire, longing—they take the stage, get witnessed, and leave transformed."— CHRISTINA
"Sacred theatre is a prayer to your younger parts which never had a chance to be seen or speak. … It's a space to claim those hidden parts and find your power again."— DOM
"Ritual theatre is the opportunity to bring what is aching inside you—out. And have it be lovingly witnessed."— SYD
"Ritual theatre is: a sacred offering, a somatic laboratory for unexpressed potentials, and a portal for transcendence."— SHERRI
"It is the opportunity to take up space, finally for the first time, to exhale so deep down into the core of our being."— MAIA
About Adriana
Adriana Marie Rizzolo
Founder of Body Temple Church and creator of Body Temple Dance®.
A writer and ritualist, Bhakti and Tantra yoga teacher, feminine embodiment teacher and certified love, sex and relationship coach. An Italian-American woman whose ancestry traces back to Calabria, she has studied the pre-Christian ritual traditions of Southern Italy, made 17 pilgrimages to Mother India, and leads this work in person and online. "Shadow Theatre is where these lineages meet."
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Questions
What do I get?
A 78-page PDF with 14 chapters and photographs from our ritual theatre productions, delivered instantly and to your inbox.
Do I need to know Body Temple Dance®?
No. The foundations chapter walks you through it.
Is this therapy?
No. It's a ritual and creative practice. It doesn't replace care from a therapist.
Sacred Theatre · $22
This is ritual. And ritual is how we remember who we are.
78 pages, 14 chapters, instant PDF download.
GET THE BOOK · $22With love,
Adriana