the risk of intimacy
for couples, singles, and soul-led guides—healers, artists, therapists, astrologers—seeking real connection through body, spirit, and sacred play.
DATES: Sept 19-21 ‘25
live in-person retreat in new york city
EARLY BIRD $750 + PAYMENT PLANS $150 A MONTH I Full rate $1100 after August 21st
PLEASE NOTE: ACCOMODATION, FOOD AND TRAVEL IS NOT INCLUDED.
This retreat is for those who know that healing doesn’t happen alone.
It’s for the brave-hearted seekers, artists, and lovers ready to be seen, felt, and held inside a spiritual space that honors the body, the wild, and the sacred.
Through deep spiritual practice in ritual with cacao, Italian shamanism, Sufism, and Tantric meditation, we co-create a living temple. Together, our shared stories and self-expression become a force of healing for our nervous systems—dismantling the pain of separation from our humanness, one another, our earth, and our bodies.
GET $350 off if you book before August 21st
✺ Couples ready to meet each other in deeper truth
✺ Artists struggling to be seen
✺ Therapists and healers craving somatic soulwork
✺ Teachers longing for sacred community
✺ Wild souls walking away from patriarchal spirituality
Following your dreams is scary AF—especially without the tools or community to create with.
But you don’t have to do it alone.
We got you.
This is your invitation into a brave, embodied space where healing meets creative power—where grief, rage, joy, and mystery become fuel for devotion.
This isn’t about performance. It’s about presence.
Over the weekend, we explore tools and practices that return us to our creative power, sacred truth, and embodied service.
Body Temple Dance
Ritual theatre & sacred performance
Somatic witnessing & authentic movement
Nervous system tools for regulation and ignition
Practices for grief, rage, shadow, and sensuality
Devotional sound & tantric meditation
You’ll be guided through play, embodied astrology, exploring healing your body through the 5-element awareness practice, and awakening your courage, strength, and hope in changing the ways we relate and giving your unique soul gifts.
We move, share, rest, and remember.
"Working with Adriana and the Body Temple Dance community is a homecoming. It's decolonization from the inside out, held by the most gorgeous humans I've ever encountered. Where else can you move through the full spectrum of emotion - eros to elation, rage to sorrow, joy to the depths of grief - and feel completely seen and sacred in all of it? This work is psychedelic without the plant medicine. It rewrites you at the cellular level, not through bypassing or spiritual perfectionism, but through the radical act of being witnessed in your wholeness. Adriana creates containers where your messiest, wildest, most untamed parts aren't just welcome - they're medicine. Community like this changes EVERYTHING.” - Sara Yamitch
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"Your work has allowed me to connect with a spirituality I didn't think I'd ever have but always longed for within myself... I'm feeling so grateful today. Thank you for all that you do and the healing you give to the collective."
Kelly Jo
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"It is so rare to be invited to connect fully to your body, your shadow, your creativity, AND your joy all at once... It felt like a sacred privilege to spend that weekend with them all."
Leo G
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"I danced, cried, yelled, laughed—it was magical. I keep singing the mantra every day... it was like hearing it, my heart recognized it... I can’t wait for the next one!"
Moni
This weekend is for you if you…
Know you cannot hold the immensity of grief, rage, or aliveness alone anymore
Are curious what to do with the energy that stops you from being authentic
Feel both terrified and obsessed with being seen—and want to explore that edge in service to your soul’s calling
Long to relate to your wounding with more confidence, and share your shadow as a healing act
Want to be witnessed and witness others—expanding your capacity for empathy, compassion, and true love
Are already walking away from toxic, patriarchal spirituality and into a more feminine, embodied, relational path
Crave space to hear yourself more clearly in relationship with others and the Earth
Are a teacher, healer, podcaster, creative, or guide ready to deepen your connection to body and community
Identify as a dancer or non-dancer, artist or art-shy visionary—and want to honor your creative identity
Feel called to explore intimacy with strangers and sacred theatre as a path to freedom
This is an experiential space. You’ll be asked to participate. You don’t need to be “ready”—you just need willingness and some capacity to work somatically with what arises. We’ll help with the rest.
Early rate $750
Payment Plans available - 5 x $150
SAVE $350 if you book before August 21st
PLEASE NOTE: ACCOMODATION, FOOD AND TRAVEL IS NOT INCLUDED.
But while our return to nature and Mother Earth is essential, so is our return to humanity.
So is building a capacity to not just get “overwhelmed” when there are heightened sensory experiences.
Learning what to do with overwhelm and numbness, is an essential skill for relating.
This is what we teach in Body Temple more than anything.
Yes, your parasympathetic practices are essential.
But so are the ones that light and fuel the fire in you to create.
Sometimes people don’t understand why we host our events in NYC…
What You’ll Leave With
✔️ Tools for regulating and igniting the nervous system
✔️ A brave new relationship with your voice, body, and creative fire
✔️ A spiritual and artistic community who really sees you
✔️ The confidence to bring your whole self to your work
“THE HUMAN HEART IS A THEATRE OF LONGING” - JOHN O’DONAHUE
For artists, creatives, and individuals already on a path of devotion seeking to learn about movement, sound, somatic meditation, and being seen.
AN EXPLORATION INTO SOMATICS, TANTRIC MEDITATION, Body Temple Dance, exploring the role of ritual AND SACRED THEATRE FOR EMBODIED LOVE & LIBERATION
These practices offer a path to connecting with our truth and accessing greater confidence. For those who are teaching, sharing their voice through music, art (in any medium,) that know how healing and terrifying it is to create and put yourself out there.
By addressing attachment wounds and the edges we have around being seen, we can cultivate a deeper sense of self and navigate the risks involved in intimacy.
It's important to acknowledge that our nervous system may still be impacted by these disturbances.
For anyone who loves and is also terrified of being seen. Who wants to practice being vulnerable with confidence!
“Thank you so much for this amazing weekend, and your encouragement to come!! It was one of those things that I knew my soul needed but I didn’t know how much until I came. I felt so safe in your container, all the somatic work we did truly released everything I needed to.
I danced, cried, yelled, laughed, it was magical I keep singing the mantra everyday, it was like hearing it my heart recognized it and a deeper connection to the Mother emerged. You brought together an amazing group of people and lead in such a unique and powerful way. Thank you for letting me part of it. I can’t wait for the next one!!!”
— Moni Aryuvedic practitioner and yoga teacher
Being our authentic selves relentlessly and letting everything else flow from there is where it’s at…but how do we do that exactly?
I know you know how we do it, and it ain’t alone!
This retreat is for people who are ready to step into a whole new relationship with the healers that they are through the body.
Through play, grieving and going to our direct relationship with the Great mystery Herself. Not as in to “get” anything, but become more here, more alive, more able to act in service to love.
Throughout the weekend we will be practicing ways to unlock creative energy by exploring different improvisational exercises including Body Temple Dance, ritual theatre and intimacy and inner yoga practices.
We will learn and practice the languages of the body and perform group rituals.
We will explore the role of the nervous system in the choices we make (or don’t,) together we will build a sacred container for shifts to happen easily and naturally.
This weekend retreat will be a rite of passage out of the patriarchal ways of praying and living in devotion to love and into the feminine path of right relationship and aliveness.
⚔️ We are definitely creating a space for imperfection and creativity, purely for the sake of it. This gives us an opportunity to explore and practice outside the confines of capitalism and see what new edge wants to be met. By doing so, we can discover new possibilities and expand our capacity to embrace our humanity, as well as the horrific and deeply beautiful love that is on this path - a journey of grief and aliveness.
⚔️ You will walk away with tools and a community that is upholding both ancient and new ways of worship and owning what we want, in service to uplifting humanity and creating with care and a heart-centered clarity.
⚔️ The topics we will cover will be rage, grief, sexuality, belonging, aliveness, and how we only need our body and community to heal and transform adversity into the medicine we carry to create and give birth to new worlds.
⚔️ Learn the languages of the body, writing and the three phases of body temple dance
⚔️ Guided by Adriana Rizzolo, and the community of teachers/healers (list of facilitators and collaborators will be announced before retreat)
⚔️ BTD with more physical ritual on themes of sacred sexuality, grief and underworld
⚔️ Movement and performance as a way of building capacity and connecting to our ancestral resiliency
⚔️ Creating right relationship through rage and remembering our creativity as service
This is your invitation to step into the fire of your own becoming.
Join a powerful circle of artists, seekers, and embodied souls for a weekend of radical expression, deep connection, and soul liberation.
Whether you're dancing with grief, rising with rage, or yearning to feel fully alive in your body—this retreat was made for you.
September 19th-21st 2025 + optional performance/ protest on the 23rd
Where: New York City
Space is limited to preserve intimacy, spots are filling quickly.
PLEASE NOTE: ACCOMODATION, FOOD AND TRAVEL IS NOT INCLUDED.
Early rate $750 (Full rate after August 21st - $1100)
Payment Plans available - 5 x $150
We lovingly ask that you book with intention, as we aren’t able to offer refunds. A great deal of energy, love, and resources go into preparing these gatherings, and with limited spaces available, each spot truly matters. If you're unable to attend, you're welcome to gift or sell your place to someone else.
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September 19 to 21, 2025
Church Street School for Music and Art
41 White Street, New York, NY 10013
The school is VERY accessible to many subway lines: The Canal Street Stop is the Closest stop to the school. All of the lines below go to that stop.
N,R,Q,W(yellow line)/4,6 (green line)/1,2 (red line)/A,C,E (blueline)/J,Z (brown line)
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The price covers all retreat sessions, workshops, body‑temple dance, ritual, and guided experiences. Accommodation, meals, and travel are not included.
For places to stay:
The neighborhood around the school is called Tribeca
Other neighborhoods in Manhattan that are walkable (some walks longer than others) from Tribeca: Soho, Chinatown, Little Italy, Battery Park City and Fidi
Across the bridge(s) into Brooklyn you can go in a number of direction - but Williamsburg is easily accessible as is Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO
Here are some hotels and Air bnb's:
Sohotel
Hotel Indigo
Allen hotel
NolitanIf you want to room with someone, email us once oyu’ve signed up and we’ll connect you.
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Because of the intimate and energy‑intensive nature of this gathering, we don’t offer refunds once booked.
You’re welcome to gift or resell your spot to someone else.
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The experience is immersive and participatory, with a focus on themes like grief, rage, aliveness, sexuality, and belonging through ritual performance and somatic practice.
No previous experience is necessary, just an open heart and a willingness to take part!!
YOUR GUIDES
ADRIANA rIZZOLO
Adriana Rizzolo is the founder of Body Temple Church, Power of Love School, and the creator of Body Temple Dance. She is a spiritual mentor, somatic healer, writer, adult sex educator, and guide for the great unknown.
Adriana’s offerings have developed through many years of experience with therapeutic yoga training, voice and movement training, trauma release training and somatic education, intimacy and relational healing, devotional practice and study in Tantra & Bhakti Yoga, lived experience “doing the work,” 11 years of sobriety and healing from personal & familial trauma.
Adriana helps people heal trauma and patterns of helplessness, awaken their power, and feel at home in their bodies to start living life in alignment with their soul’s truth. Through her many years of coaching, teaching, and facilitation, she has helped thousands of people around the world awaken to their aliveness.
HARSHADA
Harshada David Wagner is a master meditation instructor, author, artist, dad, and wisdom teacher with more than 25 years of teaching experience. Classically trained in the wisdom traditions of Yoga, Bhakti, Vedanta, and Tantra, his teachings come from his decades of working with people helping them learn to live more fulfilling, soul-centered, purpose driven lives. The Sanskrit name Harshada was given to him by Gurumayi Chidvilasananda in 1996, meaning "the bringer of joy, laughter, and delight".
Harshada is a teacher of "applied yoga philosophy" he offers teachings and practices from the yoga tradition, but only ones that help people to get free, transform their vision of life, and serve their world in a better way.
He's known as a down-to-earth, lighthearted teacher who is able to help people get to the "deep stuff" fast. He offers a balance of grounded, approachable style of teaching with the most profound ancient wisdom and classical mystic practices. He is a dynamic speaker and storyteller and is considered one of the best meditation teachers of his generation.
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KIM KRANS
Kim Krans is a visionary artist, author, and creator of The New York Times bestseller THE WILD UNKNOWN TAROT.
Though revered for her drawings and publications, Krans is also a multi-media artist, filmmaker, and musician.
A prolific creative influenced by a range of mystical traditions, Kim’s published works include several oracle decks and children’s books, The Wild Unknown Journal, the graphic memoir Blossoms and Bones, and the board game Renunciation.
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GREG CASALE
Greg Casale has studied and practiced with indigenous shamans, astrologers, oracles, and yogic practitioners for over 20 years and seeks to weave those spiritual arts into modern life through workshops, retreats, personal ritual, and astrological insight.
He’s lead goddess-centered yoga retreats all over Europe and workshops in the traditional healing practices of his ancestral homeland of Southern Italy.
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Angel Hura
On the journey to co-create a bohio for our community. In Taino language, bohio means communal home, a place where laughter intertwines with shared ancestral dreams, and every smile paints a chapter in our rematriation story. Together, we nurture relationships that bloom like flowers in the sun, weaving a tapestry of warmth, belonging and ancestral liberation for all diaspora siblings