The Samhain Edition
ALIVEAn Annual Samhain Ritual on embodying the art of being seen and creating from a wild and embodied place
Being seen, using your authentic voice and creating from your wild and embodied center.
Sensitive healers let everything come in, but have a hard time setting boundaries as a form of love in the very culture they came to change. You're already a cycle breaker and wisdom keeper, someone who came to learn about the sacredness of sex, love, death and money, because you were born into a world that held no reference for it or right relationship to it, and you know you came to change that. Let me help you take 20 minutes per day of the time you usually spend on social media to craft a clear call for the work you're here to share, for the mission and the movement you came here to create. We ALL fall in and out of Love with our lovers and soul work.
It’s up to us to find the truth inside and reclaim the power we were taught to fear. A gathering for the womb warriors (as in protector or guardian) — to hear your body’s yes and no, reclaim your rage as life force, and slow down enough to listen to the ancient ones stirring your dreams.
We (Temple of Wild Lovers Collective) gathered in person in Santa Fe in June and listened to the updated story Medusa wanted to tell… turns out she is not only powerful but a kinky af witch… who knew? (We knew.) It's free for members, or sign up below for the Samhain weekend ritual ($44).
10am–12pm PT • Online via Zoom (recorded)
Investment: $44
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What we're up to
Friday, Oct 30: Body Temple Dance® ritual
A WITNESS YOUR SACRED RAGE AND ANCESTRAL BRILLIANCE RITUAL.
Saturday, Oct 31: Womb Temple session
The art of emotional expression, edging, womb mapping, sex magic and erotic ecology.
No experience necessary. It is an experiential practice, but we lead with consent and you won't go anywhere you aren't consenting to go! Plus, we are only afraid because the patriarchy taught us to hate our bodies and power and disregard our love!
Photos and videos by Nico Nelson.
Photo by Emma Zeck
For women and femmes, they/thems and anyone who has a vulva and is ready to take action in alignment with their soul. We will share practices that take us from shame to a more limitless perception and capacity to stay rooted in love. The kind that protects, speaks up and can find deep safety within too.
Dance, oracular writing, ritual theatre that releases shame and the power to fight and fall in love again and again.
We’ve been trained to stay small to survive and now is the time to take off a layer and re-member your true voice. The living sacred body as a home for God.
You know how to protect everyone else. But can you protect yourself?
Maybe you can read a room in seconds, feel what everyone else needs, and sense the smallest change in someone else's energy. But when it comes to your own body, the signal gets harder to find.
You say yes before you have felt your yes. You override your boundaries and call it being nice. You carry rage that feels too big, too dangerous, too much. Grief that lives in the chest and won't move. Numbness in the pelvis. Shutdown in the body.
This does not mean your body is broken. It means your body has been protecting you. It's your nervous system saying "not yet" or "go slower."
ALIVE: The Samhain Edition is a two-day virtual ritual for the womb warriors who know the medicine lives in the body and are ready to wield it.
This is womb warrior work — as in protector or guardian. Love not only as tenderness, but as a fierce and protective force: tender enough to hold what hurts, powerful enough to defend what is sacred.
This is an invitation to listen. And then to take action.
Caravaggio, Medusa (c. 1597), Uffizi Gallery. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Photo by Emma Zeck
Inside the Samhain Edition
We don't think about our spirituality… we get our hands and feet involved. We tune in to the womb in the heart and we take action.
Together, we'll explore:
Self defense as sexy: hear your no before you override it
Your body is always giving you information. Your nervous system is telling your brain "we are not safe," even when, right now, you are — and sometimes it's telling you the truth.
You'll learn to recognize your body's yes, no, maybe, not yet, and I don't know — in real time — so you can draw a boundary, tell the truth, and remain. Energetic boundaries. Somatic safety. Choosing fierce love instead of collapse, performance, or self-abandonment.
Rage as sacred medicine: the holy temper tantrum
Rage as information. Rage as life force. Rage as the thing we've been told to make small and quiet, reclaimed.
We'll move it through Body Temple Dance® and a kick boxing temper tantrum session — ritual theater and rage release — because we need the body's intelligence more than ever.
We rage, yes. And we also rest in the eternally soft embrace of the Rose.
Soul vision: the ancient ones stirring your dreams
How to go into the soupy unknown waters of the subconscious — and also how to spring back up and out for air when you need it too.
Through womb walks, trance dance, and devotional practice, we'll slow down enough to listen to the ancient ones stirring our dreams and showing up for us. Through sensation. Through image. Through a yes, a no, a maybe, or an "I don't know."
This month we are diving into Grandmother Ritual Medicine — the rites of passage carried through the line of women who came before us. The Samhain Edition is where we bring it into the body.
Retelling the old stories, now
We retell the ancient myths in a modern context, so Medusa isn't a monster in a museum but a living mirror for what we carry today. We become bridges for the beauty that wants to emerge from the darkness.
This is the truth of intimacy: it will take us to our knees again and again. We're not here to avoid the fall. We're here to learn how to keep standing back up inside ourselves.
What we fear becomes what protects us
I've always been obsessed with the horrible, with what scares us. I have a Libra stellium in the 8th house, which is basically me extending a very warm hand and invitation into the underworld: a door into right relationship with sex and death, with intimacy, where we explore all things transmutation and power. We are not in right relationship when all we experience is fear.
“You stand in my danger. You stand in the aura surrounding me that is funded by my heart, my soul and my spirit that says, certain things of this earth are so precious, they can never be allowed to be harmed or vanish from the face of this earth. You stand in my danger. Because I will protect, I will help, I will create, I will defend, I will unleash, I will hold back, I will restrain, I will open up. I will carve doors in walls. You stand in my danger.”
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Join us for this 2 day Samhain ritualBy the end of our time together, you will have new ways to:
- Hear your body's boundaries before you override them so that you can express your yes, no, maybe, or not yet before discomfort becomes shutdown, resentment, or regret.
- Meet rage as information and life force so that it stops feeling too big, too dangerous, too much — and starts moving.
- Call on fierce protection without abandoning tenderness so that you can stay connected to yourself and your power when grief, desire, anger, vulnerability, or intimacy become real.
- Relate to numbness, fear, and uncertainty without treating them as failure so that you can remain in relationship with yourself even when your body says "not yet."
- Listen to your dreams, your womb, and your lineage so that your soul's vision has somewhere to land — in your body.
The point is not to become tougher. The point is to become better at not abandoning yourself.
10am–12pm PT
Pleasure is not a bonus. It's the medicine.
Let's be real: your body will keep shutting down if you're not into what you're doing. No amount of discipline, healing protocols or self-improvement can override a body that's bored, dutiful and turned off.
We need to HAVE FUN. We need to MAKE ART. Not as a reward after the "real work," but as the work itself. Play is how the nervous system learns it's safe to come back online. Creativity is how grief, rage and eros find somewhere to go besides stuck in your chest or your pelvis.
This isn't just opinion. It's how your autonomic nervous system (ANS) works. Your body is constantly scanning for safety and connection, below thought. When there's no pleasure, no play and no meaning, it reads the moment as threat or emptiness and goes into fight, flight, freeze or shutdown. When you're genuinely engaged, curious and turned on by life, it opens the pathways for presence, connection, creativity and healing.
This is what we mean by reclaiming our erotic ecology: eros as the life force that moves through all living things, not only between lovers. We're reclaiming the innate wisdom and intelligence of the body, not as a solo project, but woven into the web of interconnectedness with our environments, the land, each other and everything living.
Medusa didn't become a monster by being too much. She was punished for being alive. This is where we take that aliveness back: messy, wild, ridiculous, sacred. Feminine healing and embodiment that actually feel good to be in.
Come play with us.
Photo by Emma Zeck
Meet Adriana
Somatic Healer • Oracle • Artist • Adult Sex Educator • Trance Dance Guide
She helps people unhook from oppression and come home to their bodies.
Adriana is the founder of Body Temple Church School and creator of Body Temple Dance® — where grief and rage become aliveness through ritual and prayer-formance.
14 years sober. Trauma-informed. Tantra-aligned.
Her work is rooted in Kashmir Shaivism and Southern Italian Shamanism, ancient lineages where the body is both altar and oracle. Her womb rituals and rites of passage were passed to her by Deborah Sundahl, who gave her (ecstatic) permission to share these practices.
She's studied with Deborah Sundahl, Alessandra Belloni, Mirabai Starr, and Heidi Rose Robbins, weaving ritual theater, energy healing, trauma release, and devotional practice into a path of collective liberation.
Her invitation: Dance with the sacred in all things — grief, rage, love, death, and sex.
Currently writing her first book: Body Temple.
Meet our guest teachers
Savanna Wonderwheel
Savanna Wonderwheel is a multidisciplinary healing artist and lover of all things human. Bodies, breath, movement, grief, joy, art and the great mystery that is what it means to be alive.
She has been a massage therapist since 2013, a rehabilitative pilates instructor since 2015 and has been immersed in a deep study of somatic movement, sex education and pelvic care since 2023. Savanna is also the cohost of the little gifts podcast.
The ethos behind all of her work is that when we become more free in our own bodies we create more freedom for everybody. She full heartedly believes that your capacity to show up for others grows exponentially by showing up for yourself and giving your body the intentional care and support that it truly deserves.
Connect with Savanna → @savannabeing
Jacky Pelcastre
Jacky Pelcastre is a Latinx-Afro Indigenous curandera y chamana whose work centers decolonized spirituality and Indigenous wisdom. In service to the Great Mystery, she guides people in reclaiming their power and wholeness, making room for joy, love, pleasure, play, and rest.
Jacky has some of the most potent medicine and wisdom we have ever experienced.
Connect with Jacky → @loveambassadora“A safe and effortless space for exploration and healing.”
The yoni workshop holds a special place for me... Adriana's sensitive and graceful guidance provides an atmosphere of security, making it feel safe and effortless to become fully immersed while at the same time encouraging individual decisions, allowing for complete freedom of choice.
— Chrissy Godt
“You allowed me to connect with a spirituality I didn't think I'd ever have.”
Your work has allowed me to connect with a spirituality I didn't think I'd ever have but always longed for within myself and is allowing me to break open and safely heal intimacy wounding that I didn't think I could ever heal. I'm feeling so grateful today. Thank you for all that you do and the healing you give to the collective.
— Kelly Jo
Your body is always speaking to you. Are you ready to listen — and to defend what is sacred?
This 2 day Ritual Madness is for you if…
- You say yes, keep going, or perform pleasure before you know what you actually want—and you want to make choices that do not require leaving yourself behind.
- You feel numb or disconnected from your body—and you want a gentle way to rebuild trust without forcing yourself to feel, open, or become aroused.
- The old ways of getting turned on are no longer working—and you want to discover what becomes possible when intimacy moves more slowly and actually listens to your body.
- You are curious about your anatomy but do not want sex education that feels clinical, pornified, or focused on achievement—so that you can explore your body with more knowledge, choice, and wonder.
- You intellectually understand consent but struggle to feel your yes, no, maybe, or not yet in real time—and you want consent to become a living relationship with your body.
You do not need to be sexually confident.
You do not need to be partnered.
You do not need to feel ready for everything.
You only need enough curiosity to begin listening.
Save my seatFAQ’s
Is this for me if I have trauma?
In general, our answer is a big ol' FUCK YES.
And — we strongly recommend that you have worked with your trauma with a trained therapist before diving into this work solo. But if you have, or are currently working with someone, this is a powerful tool to take back your power.
Just make sure you're working with someone who helps you understand that what happened wasn't your fault and that you are not broken.
I feel numb/disconnected from my body. Is this for me?
YES. Numbness is not a dead end — it's a doorway.
Your body is not broken. It's communicating. That numbness, that disconnect — it's protective. It's your nervous system saying "not yet" or "go slower." These practices teach you how to listen instead of force — by meeting yourself exactly where you are.
Who is this for? Is it only for women?
ALIVE: The Samhain Edition is for women and femmes. If you're trans, non-binary, or gender expansive and this calls you — you belong here. This work is for witches, queers, and anyone ready to reclaim their power.
Is this online or in person? Will there be replays?
Online via Zoom, and recorded, so you'll have the replay.
What makes this different?
We will share our ritual theater piece, Medusa: a thespian love story, and practices that take us from shame to a more limitless perception and capacity to stay rooted in love. The kind that protects, speaks up and can find deep safety within too.
The practice itself is the medicine. The listening. The presence. The reclaiming of your body as yours.