the risk of intimacy

for couples, singles, and soul-led guides - healers, artists, therapists, astrologers - seeking real connection through body, spirit, and sacred play.

live in-person retreat in new york city - sign up to the waitlist for 2026

PLEASE NOTE: ACCOMODATION, FOOD AND TRAVEL IS NOT INCLUDED.

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

  • "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

  • "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

  • "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.

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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

“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

YOUR GUIDES

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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.

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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. 

  • A woman with short hair and earrings holding a hexagonal card in front of her face, covering one eye. The card features a black hand symbol with an eye in the palm and spider web design around it.

    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