Body Temple Church

SHAMELESS

40 days to stop abandoning yourself in the places you most want to be loved - an initiation for women having more voice, more choice, more access to information, and far less willingness to disappear inside relationships—

and all of us learning what the fuck that actually means.

Your desire. Your fear of abandonment. Your rage. Your pussy. Your power. Your grief. Your boundaries. Your need. Your erotic initiation into leadership. Your dark feminine. Your wildness. A somatic and ritual initiation into staying in relationship with yourself when intimacy gets real.

Begins September 19 • $88

5 Rituals + Q + R with Adriana Rizzolo • 6 Live Integration Calls

with support guides Jacky Pelcastre, Alli Caw, Savanna Wonderwheel, Maïa Rose, Adriana Contreras, and Alli Rune

$88


This is a results-based somatic initiation.

Not results in the sense of “complete these 40 days and your trauma disappears.”

Results in the sense of real, observable shifts in your capacity: to feel your body, recognize your patterns, stay present with activation, experience pleasure, hold boundaries, understand your protective parts, make choices, receive connection and remain in relationship with yourself.40-Day Journey

We are not here to become less wild so our relationships can survive us.

We are here to become intimate enough with our wildness that Love no longer has to carry the weight of everything we refuse to feel.

WE ARE LEARNING HOW TO LOVE IN A NEW WORLD.

There is something bigger happening here than another relationship course.

Women have more voice. More choice. More information. More economic and social options. More permission to leave. More language for what doesn't work.

And increasingly, women are saying:

I don't want a life where I have to abandon the deepest parts of myself to be loved.

That is liberation.

And liberation is also an initiation when it comes to the erotic and the body.

We are still learning how to love each other inside it.

How do you tell the truth without turning truth into a weapon?

How do you have boundaries without building walls?

How do you stay open without becoming available for everything?

How do you receive love without making another person responsible for your wholeness?

How do you let a relationship change you without losing yourself inside it?

How do you choose partnership because it is genuinely alive—not because being alone feels like failure?

And how do you enjoy the liberation of being alone without turning independence into another way of never being touched?

Nobody has completely figured this out.

This is a WIP for all of us.

SHAMELESS exists because we need places to practice.

Places where we can bring the grief, the rage, the desire, the fear, the jealousy, the numbness, the pleasure, the contradictions.

Places where we can learn to inhabit ourselves more deeply while we're actually living and loving.

Whether you're partnered or single.

Dating or celibate. Leaving something. Building something. Choosing solitude. Choosing intimacy.

Choosing nothing for a while.

The work is the same: learning how to remain in relationship with yourself.

Because the rituals of love we inherited often required our silence and our self-control.

SHAMELESS asks:

What would it look like to create new rituals?

To reclaim love as an art. To reclaim the body as an authority. To reclaim desire as information. To reclaim boundaries as devotion. To reclaim grief as part of loving. To reclaim pleasure without making it proof that everything is okay.

This is not about becoming better at relationships.

It's about becoming more available to the truth of your own life.

We KNOW HOW to exorcise these patterns:

Wanting someone who doesn't want you back.

Being furious and then feeling ashamed that you're furious.

Saying yes because no feels dangerous.

Wanting sex and then suddenly wanting everyone to leave you the fuck alone.

Being terrified of needing someone.

Being terrified of not needing anyone.

Feeling your body disappear when someone you're attracted to pulls away.

It’s TIME for something NEW…

A woman wearing a pink plaid strapless dress, holding a bouquet of flowers, and standing outdoors with a clear sky in the background.

SHAMELESS LOVE is a 40-day embodied initiation for women and folks with vulvas ready to stay in relationship with themselves, their sexuality, their desires, and their boundaries without abandoning themselves in order to be loved.

There is nothing wrong with you.

The shame you carry did not begin with you. It was shaped through societal conditioning, inherited silence, violated boundaries, impossible expectations, and the absence of the community care we were always meant to have.

YOU DON'T NEED MORE INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR PATTERNS.

You need a way to stay with yourself while they're happening.

Because knowing why you shut down doesn't necessarily mean you can stay present when someone disappoints you.

Knowing your attachment style doesn't stop you from abandoning your boundaries because you're afraid they'll leave.

Knowing consent intellectually doesn't mean you can feel your yes, no, not yet, or I don't know in the middle of desire.

Knowing you're worthy doesn't mean your body believes it when you're being rejected.

SHAMELESS LOVE is where we practice the part that comes after insight.

The body.

The relationship.

The rupture.

The grief.

The desire.

The fucking moment when you want to leave yourself to keep someone else.

And instead—

you stay.

Together, we will practice becoming emotionally integrated enough to hold our grief and our pleasure. Our rage and our tenderness. Our boundaries and our longing. Our need for one another and our refusal to abandon ourselves for Love.

Not so we can become better, cleaner, or more acceptable.

So we can remember that our worth was never an individual achievement. It lives within the collective womb—in the body, in relationship, and in the care we learn to offer ourselves and one another.

Over 40 days, Adriana and a circle of guest teachers will guide you through consent, cupping, creative expression, somatic healing, relational shadow, sacred sexuality, womb devotion, and ritual practice—so the parts of you you have called too much, too needy, too angry, too sexual, too sensitive, too jealous, too wild, and too fucking alive can finally come home.

“This is the sex education that every person with a vagina deserves. I truly feel as though I have come home to my own body. Learning about the anatomy of the female prostate and its connection to the vagus nerve has empowered me in my relationship with my body unlike anything else in my life. It has demystified so much, healed so much shame, and shown me exactly how much pleasure is available to me from within my own body. Everyone with a vagina deserves to have this information.

Adriana is a wonderful guide whose approach is inclusive, trauma-informed, and guided by reverence for the divinity of our bodies.” C.Y.

“This training changed the way I moved through this cosmic experience... The profound, rooted, loving and open-hearted teaching by Adriana has been something I didn't experience in former trainings. I felt supported, seen and held... Now I feel self confident, sexy (in a full body way), and trust my own wisdom.

Today I offer my own Body Temple Dances, hold space and couldn't be more grateful for the medicine I am allowed to share.” J.B.

“WOW. After learning the G-Spot practice, I feel like a new person. My voice is already different. Like a lot of what has bound me exploded out in that moment.

I can see how that could not have happened just sitting in meditation.” L.F.

YOU CAN SPEND $88 ON ANOTHER NIGHT OUT.

OR YOU CAN SPEND 40 DAYS LEARNING HOW TO STOP LEAVING YOURSELF.

SHAMELESS LOVE — $88

THE THREE PILLARS

CONSENT

Not “how to have better boundaries.”

How to stop leaving your body to preserve connection.

CUPPING

Not masturbation.

A practice of meeting your own pussy without asking her to give you anything.

No orgasm.

No performance.

No “opening.”

No fixing. Just contact. Listening. Wild Permission.

CREATIVE EXPRESSION

Because some things cannot be talked through.

Some things need to be moved, screamed, drawn, written, sung, witnessed, ritualized.

PUSSY IS GOD

Not a slogan. or another on the surface type Neo-Tantra BS have more O’s and appease to your man by acting like an idiot polarity manipulations…

A practice that will change how you relate to the core relationship you ahve with God/Goddess/Death/Birth/Rebirth, for real..

To cup your vulva is to bring your own hands back to the temple. Not to demand pleasure. Not to fix, force, penetrate, open, or make something happen. To listen. To offer warmth. To ask permission. To feel what is here. To remember that your body is not an object waiting to be approved of, consumed, healed, or made useful.

She is an intelligence. She is a threshold. She is allowed to want. She is allowed not to want. She is allowed to change her mind. She is allowed to be numb, furious, grieving, ecstatic, bored, hungry, devotional, feral, and holy.

The temple is not somewhere you go. The temple is the body you stop abandoning.

THE 40-DAY JOURNEY

Four rituals with Adriana and four live integration calls with guest teachers create the communal spine of this 40-day initiation. Each ritual brings us into a new threshold of womb healing, relationship, grief, rage, consent, and Love. Between rituals, the integration sessions give us space to digest what has opened and bring the work into our bodies and actual lives.

RITUAL 1 — WOMB WISDOM

Rebirth Womb Session

We begin by returning to the womb as a place of creation, memory, intuition, and power so we can come into deeper love for our bodies and all parts of ourselves. An opening ritual for meeting what is ready to be released, reclaimed, and reborn through you.

RITUAL 2 — METAMORPHOSIS

First Bleed Rite of Passage

A rite of passage honoring first blood and the stories, shame, power, and inherited beliefs carried through it. We return to the bleeding body as sacred and reclaim the initiation many of us never received so we can stand more firmly rooted in our power.

RITUAL 3 — THRESHOLD

Grief, Love, Mirror & Protection Practice

Grief and Love meet us at the threshold. Through ritual and mirror work, we explore protection, projection, and the places where we lose ourselves in what another person reflects back to us so we can stop abandoning ourselves to please others.

RITUAL 4 — HOME

Relationship Alchemy: Rage Release, Boundary Rupture & Repair

A ritual for meeting the fire that rises in relationship without abandoning yourself or turning the person you love into the enemy. We practice coming home to the body—and discovering what becomes possible when we remain there.

LIVE INTEGRATION CALLS

Between each ritual, our guest teachers will guide live integration sessions to help you move, feel, create, and embody what has been opened.

Together, we will explore:

  • Consent and boundary experiments for daily life

  • Cupping guidance with opt-in variations

  • Creative practices using movement, voice, writing, image, and ritual

  • Relational inquiries for triggers, projection, jealousy, desire, rupture, and repair

  • Integration practices for the nervous system and the body

$88


Call Dates/Times:

  • Saturday, September 19, 9:00–10:00 a.m. Pacific w Adriana

  • Tuesday, September 22, 9:00–10:00 a.m. Pacific w Guest Teacher

  • Saturday, September 26, 9:00–10:00 a.m. Pacific w Adriana

  • Tuesday, September 29, 9:00–10:00 a.m. Pacific w Guest Teacher

  • Saturday, October 3, 9:00–10:00 a.m. Pacific w Adriana

  • Tuesday, October 6, 9:00–10:00 a.m. Pacific w Guest Teacher

  • Saturday, October 17, 9:00–10:00 a.m. Pacific w Adriana

  • Tuesday, October 20, 9:00–10:00 a.m. Pacific w Guest Teacher

  • Wednesday, October 28, 9:00–10:00 a.m. Pacific w Adriana — Day 40 Closing Call

    *dates and times are subject to change <3

40 DAYS • 9 LIVE CALLS • RECORDED PRACTICES

Want 1:1 Support Through the Initiation? 


For those who know they want a more intimate level of support during SHAMELESS LOVE, we are offering a private mentorship pathway for $1,888 for only 5 people. 

 You will receive: 

  •  The complete 40-day SHAMELESS LOVE course and all eight live calls 

  • Four weekly one-hour somatic therapy sessions with Alli Rune 

  • One private Shame + Desire session with Adriana 


 This is for the person who does not simply want to understand their patterns intellectually, but wants devoted support meeting what emerges in the body—shame, fear, grief, pleasure, power, desire, collapse, expansion, and the terrifying tenderness of becoming more fully alive. 

“Over time she led to places I'd never been before, slowly unravelling trauma and stories in my body. Over the course of the container, my symptoms started to slowly unravel through deep releases. I was able to find a new creative release and deep connection to the world around me and to love.

Honestly I don't have enough words to say how transformative this work together has been, but it's opened up a whole new aliveness and confidence previously unknown. I can't wait to bring more people into her path!” M.F.

“After a really dysregulating traumatic experience recently, while I was deep in freeze, I felt my pelvis flap its wings like a butterfly and this warm eros began to ooze through my body and thawed me out of the freeze.

This work is so powerful!!!!” Free Class Attendee

“I released a lot of shame around my breasts...

showing my body love for how she is now.” A.R.

❤︎ Who is This For?

This space is inclusive, queer & trans-friendly*, and intended for anyone who has a vulva and is ready to reclaim their body as sacred.

It’s especially supportive if…

SHAMELESS LOVE IS FOR YOU IF…

♡ You refuse to remain trapped in shame created by societal conditioning, inherited silence, and a lack of community care.

♡ You can name your patterns, but naming them has not stopped you from abandoning yourself when intimacy gets real.

♡ You are ready to meet your grief, rage, jealousy, need, desire, and tenderness without making yourself—or another person—the enemy.

♡ You want a deeper, embodied relationship with consent, boundaries, pleasure, and choice.

♡ You want to experience your pussy, womb, pelvis, and erotic energy as sources of intelligence rather than problems to fix.

THIS MAY NOT BE FOR YOU IF:

♡ You want a passive course you can consume without practicing between calls.

♡ You want someone to tell you whether to stay in or leave a relationship.

♡ You are looking for a promise that embodiment will make intimacy painless, conflict-free, or permanently ‘regulated.’

♡ You need acute mental-health, medical, crisis, or individualized trauma treatment beyond the scope of a group educational and spiritual container.

Call Dates

  • Saturday, September 19, 9:00–10:00 a.m. Pacific w Adriana

  • Tuesday, September 22, 9:00–10:00 a.m. Pacific w Guest Teacher

  • Saturday, September 26, 9:00–10:00 a.m. Pacific w Adriana

  • Tuesday, September 29, 9:00–10:00 a.m. Pacific w Guest Teacher

  • Saturday, October 3, 9:00–10:00 a.m. Pacific w Adriana

  • Tuesday, October 6, 9:00–10:00 a.m. Pacific w Guest Teacher

  • Saturday, October 17, 9:00–10:00 a.m. Pacific w Adriana

  • Tuesday, October 20, 9:00–10:00 a.m. Pacific w Guest Teacher

  • Wednesday, October 28, 9:00–10:00 a.m. Pacific w Adriana — Day 40 Closing Call

    *dates and times are subject to change <3

WHAT WILL ACTUALLY BE DIFFERENT?

You won't simply finish SHAMELESS with 40 days of practices completed.

You'll have spent 40 days practicing how to stay with yourself.

When your body contracts.

When grief moves through.

When rage appears.

When desire wakes up.

When you freeze.

When you don't know.

When someone gets close.

When someone pulls away.

When your old protective patterns take over.

You'll have more language for what's happening, more awareness of what your body is communicating, more capacity to make choices in real time—and more practice experiencing pleasure, connection, agency and self-trust alongside the difficult stuff.

The result isn't that you become “healed.”

The result is that you become more available to your own life.

MENTOR

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RETREATS

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SOMATIC HEALER

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MENTOR • RETREATS • SOMATIC HEALER •

Somatic healer, oracle, artist, adult sex educator, trance dance guide, and founder of Body Temple Church.

Adriana Rizzolo is a trauma-informed, Tantra-aligned spiritual mentor with over 13 years of sobriety and decades of study and lived experience. Her work weaves ritual, somatics, sexuality, grief, and devotion into spaces that allow people to come home to themselves.

Through coaching, teaching, retreats, and trainings, Adriana has supported **thousands of people worldwide** in healing trauma, awakening aliveness, and living in alignment with their soul’s truth.

She is currently writing a Body Temple book on consciously relating to grief, rage, love, death, and sex in service to collective liberation.

Find out more about how Adriana defines pleasure, what role pleasure plays in her life and her pleasure rituals

Read the Onna Pleasure Muse Interview here

Meet Adriana

Meet Your Co Facilitators

  • Jacky Pelcastre

    Latinx-Afro Indigenous

    Curandera y Chamana

    Decolonized Spirituality & Indigenous Wisdom 

    Guiding you in reclaiming your power and wholeness to JOY, LOVE, PLEASURE. PLAY, & REST. In service to the Great Mystery

    Follow Jacky on Instagram

    @ Sacredloveoasis 

  • Alli Caw

    I am a voice liberation doula, a song bird and a silly goose, a voice and womb weaver resurrecting and reconnecting the divine portals within, an inciter of play, radical permission and shameless self-expression, a shadow singer and vocal alchemist reclaiming the full range of human sound and deep feeling as sacred and transformational.

    Follow Alli on Instagram @unbridledvoice

  • 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.

    @savannabeing

  • Alli Rune

    Somatic Therapist, Somatic Educator, & Shadow Theater Facilitator

    I am fascinated by the ways we learn to contort ourselves in order to belong. Born with spina bifida, my life has been shaped by a deep curiosity about adaptation, resilience, healing, and the intelligence of the body. My work weaves somatic therapy, shadow theater, symbolic process, nervous system healing, depth psychology, and mythopoetic exploration.

    I am queer, neurodivergent, sober, and of Swedish and Danish descent—fiercely loving, endlessly curious, and convinced that absurdity is medicine. I am shaped by animals, art, community, grief, laughter, and the ongoing practice of living with my heart broken open and becoming more fully alive in our holy human messiness.

    I offer 1:1 somatic therapy through my practice, Primordial Medicine and am on IG at @primordialmedicine

IF YOU’RE HERE, YOU PROBABLY FOUND ME THROUGH IG ARTOFLOVING, DARK GODDESS DOULA, BODY TEMPLE DANCE, OR SOME WOMAN WHO TOLD YOU, “YOU NEED TO KNOW ADRIANA.”

But you might not know me as Adriana the hair witch.

Before Body Temple, before ritual theater, before somatics and sacred sexuality, I was an anxious super codependent hair stylist.

For years, I worked with women in the intimate space of the salon—listening to their stories, their marriages, their divorces, their sex lives, their heartbreaks, their bodies, their secrets.

Somewhere along the way, I became known as a “hair witch.”

And about ten years ago, The New York Times wrote a full-page feature in the Style section about my work as a hair witch.

Ironically, that article catapulted me out of the salon and into my full-time work as a witch. Without the scissors.

I’m 44 now, and I’ve been an entrepreneur since I was 26. Eighteen years.

The business is only one part of the story. The deeper story is recovery.

I came into this work through my own messy, imperfect, sometimes fucking beautiful process of learning how to stay alive, stay present, and come back to myself.

Recovery taught me something that no business strategy ever could:

We don't heal in isolation.

I have been profoundly shaped by the people who have walked beside me—my recovery communities, teachers, therapists, somatic practitioners, spiritual mentors, artists, mystics, sex educators, movement teachers, and the women who trusted me enough to let me witness their lives.

I have had mentors (check my bio) who taught me how to sit still.

People who taught me how to feel.

People who taught me how to grieve.

People who challenged my bullshit.

People who showed me devotion.

People who taught me that spirituality without embodiment can become another way to leave yourself.

And people in recovery who taught me that sometimes the most radical spiritual practice is simply showing up again tomorrow.

I have spent years learning from others, practicing, fucking things up, repairing, studying, teaching, going back to the beginning, and discovering that there is always another layer.

That is what eventually became Body Temple.

A living body of work at the intersection of somatics, sacred sexuality, ritual, movement, mythology, spirituality, recovery, grief, rage, pleasure, creativity, and love.

And after all these years, there is one thing I know about building something that actually lasts:

The most powerful marketing strategy I know is still word of mouth.

Not convincing.

Not performing.

Not trying to become more desirable to the algorithm.

Being good enough at what you do that someone feels compelled to tell their friend.

A woman comes into Shameless and discovers something about her body she was never taught.

She learns how to listen instead of override herself.

She begins feeling pleasure without turning it into a performance.

She notices where she disappears in love.

She begins to understand her desire.

She gets curious about her shame instead of letting it run her life.

She learns that her anger isn't necessarily a problem to eliminate.

She discovers that grief and pleasure can live in the same body.

She brings the work into her relationship.

Or her art.

Or her motherhood.

Or her money.

Or simply back into the way she inhabits her own skin.

And then she tells another woman:

“You need this.”

That's the kind of growth I believe in.

Not women being endlessly told they're broken and need another program to fix themselves.

Not spirituality packaged as another performance of perfection.

But women becoming deeply resourced in their own bodies, relationships, communities, and inner lives.

Because Shameless isn't about becoming the hottest, most desirable, most healed, most feminine version of yourself.

It's about becoming more available to your own life.

Your pleasure.

Your grief.

Your rage.

Your erotic intelligence.

Your creativity.

Your capacity to receive.

Your capacity to love without abandoning yourself.

Your capacity to be witnessed.

Your capacity to stay.

Your capacity to choose.

Shameless is my signature erotic love course for exactly that.

And after more than a decade of doing this work—and decades of being shaped by the people who have loved me, taught me, challenged me, witnessed me, and walked with me through recovery from the systems of control and domination into the soft, potent sacred responsibility of the feminine—I'm inviting you into the room with us.

Not to become someone else.

But to become increasingly impossible to abandon.

By you.

FAQ

Q: Is this course ok for someone who’s experienced sexual trauma and had a hard time with intimacy?

In general our answer is a big ol’ FUCK YES! And, we strongly recommend that you have worked with your trauma from events that have ruptured boundaries with a (good) trained therapist before taking this work on for yourself.

But if you have, or are currently, it’s a powerful tool to take back your power.

This practice is a self exploration and a process of becoming your own sexual healer but we encourage you to get support as needed. It’s natural to need support during certain phases of our healing journey.

Just make sure it’s helping you understand that what happened wasn’t your fault and that you are not broken, you are beautiful and becoming new.

Q: Do I have to attend live?

The live calls are where the community practice, witnessing, and relational field happen. Come live whenever you can. Calls will be recorded unless a specific ritual or intimacy practice is designated as unrecorded in advance.

Q: Do I have to do the cupping practice?

No. Every body-based practice is invitational. You may pause, modify, witness, keep your clothes on, place your hands elsewhere, or opt out entirely. Consent is not only something we teach; it is how we practice.

Q: Is this therapy?

No. SHAMELESS LOVE is a group educational, somatic, creative, and spiritual offering. It is not psychotherapy, medical care, crisis care, or a substitute for individualized treatment.

Q: Who is it for?

Women and people with vulvas, age 18+.

Q: Do I need a partner?

No. Relationship includes lovers, family, friendship, community, work, God, creativity, and your relationship with yourself. You do not need to be partnered to enter this work.

Q: Will there be nudity or explicit sexual content?

The offering includes direct adult language and teachings about vulvas, pussies, wombs, genitals, pleasure, sexuality, and consent. Cupping is described as an external self-contact practice.

SHAMELESS LOVE

40 DAYS • 8 LIVE CALLS • RECORDED PRACTICES

$88

BEGINS SEPTEMBER 19