events
&
IN-PERSON retreats
This is our calendar of events - if you want to join our BTD classes you can sign up for the Temple of Shakti membership here which is our monthly membership (cancel anytime)
the risk of intimacy - unleashed nyc
unleashed
the risk of intimacy
ritual performance and embodied love practice
with Adriana Rizzolo & Friends
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 divination and Divine Mother worship.
Sure, this will heal our relationship anxieties and ancestral trauma….but we are really here to live our devotion out loud in our own unique ways.
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.
Yin & Grief Workshop with willow brook
Die Before You Die: The Practice of Surrender
In this time together we will explore how grieving and befriending death can bring us more fully into life. Come prepared to sing and surrender into a yin yoga practice with the props available in your home like blankets and pillows.
Willow Brook is an earth-loving educator, spiritual seeker, artist, and friend. Born and raised in Colorado with a background in art education, yoga teaching, and spiritual guidance, Willow is a never-ending student and an enthusiastic lover of life.
As a white person devoted to unlearning toxic whiteness, Willow’s work is rooted in the understanding that spirituality and justice are inseparable. This was a theme during her time as a resident at the Lama Foundation where she applied social justice framework to group process and conflict transformation.
Willow's training in the Universal Sufi lineage of Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan is at the heart of her life. Her practice is based on the framework of deep listening and honoring the inherent spirit of guidance within each being.
To join us on Friday’s please sign up to our Temple of Shakti Membership here for $88 a month (cancel anytime)
Join the Temple of Shakti if you’re ready to -
❤️ Dive into Awakening heart-led healing somatic movement and meditation
❤️ Expand your Energetic and somatic education
❤️ Transform your relationships and life
Yoni Mapping
Are you ready to own your womb health and sexuality and directly experience Goddess through your body?
We Gather to go on a journey as if we were going to visit a temple together.
But the temple is your body.
On this journey, we will move slowly with consent and learn how to listen to the messages through sensations and images that will arise from us.
approaching our bodies with much devotion.
And in the context of community, we will have an opportunity to actually see and receive the transmission, not only of our vulva but also of our g spot.
The conscious touch practice that we do is a form of self-care that every woman in person with a vulva needs for their health and wellness.
We were not given this type of sex education and we were actually told this part of us doesn't even exist when it is a powerhouse of emotional healing and connection.
Come learn about what it means to be rooted in your body and connected to an incredible energy of creativity, and sensuality and discover the truth of your authentic sexuality in a space of non-judgment and healing.
This class is part of our Temple of Shakti Membership sign up here - you will receive access to all our monthly classes (cancel anytime)
Black madonna vigil series
MIRACLE Vigil
Sunday, December 8, 2024
10-11 am PST/ 1-2 pm EST/ 6-7 pm GMT
Ain’t no party like a Black Madonna party! In the heart of the advent season, let’s gather together for a festival of lights. Christena will share an illuminating constellation of ancient, medieval and modern stories about the Black Madonna’s miraculous shenanigans and the absolutely ridiculous humans who have loved Her. Prepare to laugh, skip a heartbeat or two, and be reminded that there is literally nothing that the Black Madonna cannot or will not do for Her people – including you!
Love Luna Workshop
This class is included in our Shameless Goddess: Wild Love and Pleasure course + Womb Healer Teacher Training.
You can sign up for the training using the link above or buy a ticket to just the class HERE = $40
Black madonna vigil series
DANCE Vigil w/ Adriana Rizzolo
Sunday, December 22, 2024
10-11 am PST/ 1-2 pm EST/ 6-7 pm GMT
As Black poet and fellow Black Madonna lover Lucille Clifton wrote, “these hips are free hips/ they don't like to be held back./ these hips have never been enslaved,/ they go where they want to go/ they do what they want to do./ these hips are mighty hips./ these hips are magic hips.”
The Black Madonna LOVES our bodies, AFFIRMS our bodies, and SPEAKS to us through our bodies. Indeed, our hips are mighty and magic. Let’s allow them to move stagnant 2024 energy out of our bodies and usher in vivacious 2025 energy. Our dance vigil will be guided by Adriana Rizzolo, founder of Body Temple Church, and we will close out the vigil with a meditation designed to help us be especially attentive to how the Black Madonna is guiding our first steps of 2025.
India Goddess Pilgrimage
THIS YEAR THE FOCUS WILL BE ON THE DEVI - THE DIVINE FEMININE IN HER MANY FORMS
Our journey to India, in Sanskrit is called a yatra, meaning the spiritual practice of sacred pilgrimage.
Includes: A 2 month pre-retreat training, all retreat activities, all local transportation, food and shared accommodation
Harshada and Adriana have led numerous trips to India. Harshada has been traveling to India since 1997 and has been leading group retreats there since 2005. He has a vast network of connections there and an outstanding local team assisting with the pilgrimage. They have brought hundreds of seekers over the course of nearly 30 years and have honed the retreat into an extraordinary, one-of-a-kind offering.
India is the birthplace of yoga, the land of incredible mystery with thousands of years of sacred heritage. For seekers on the path of sadhana, the path of liberation, it has been a place of pilgrimage for thousands of years. Our India Sacred Pilgrimage Retreat is designed to offer seekers an intensive experience of India and Indian culture along with a profoundly deep spiritual practice immersion.
TONGUE
TONGUE: If your Yoni had a mouth what would she say?
Join us this Thursday for live interviews with some of our Womb Workers, as well as a healing ritual and writing from, and for, the womb.
Subscribe to our free Mother of the Sword Substack to sign up!
Black madonna vigil series
GRATITUDE Vigil
Sunday, November 17, 2024
10-11 am PST/ 1-2 pm EST/ 6-7 pm GMT
The Black Madonna cloaks us in an armor of adoration. The more we offer gratitude to Her, the more we are reminded of Her presence in our lives and the more we experience Her cosmic and protective embrace. As the holiday season gets into full swing and many of us prepare to descend into complex family dynamics and/or heightened loneliness, let’s gather together in racial affinity groups to engage in a creative practice that allows us to share our gratitudes and collectively offer them to Her. Then, let’s marvel at how a cosmic hug from the Black Madonna realigns our identities, reminds us that SHE is our true Mother and what SHE thinks about us is our truest truth, and shields us from the lies that family and loneliness whisper in our ears.
BTD with Adriana
Body Temple Dance is a somatic and spiritual wholistic approach and movement made for you to inhabit your body’s authentic pleasure, love, and aliveness.
This movement language and practice welcomes both the shadow and divinity.
Together we weave trauma-informed foundations based on nervous system education, embodied sex education, and traditional Tantric energy healing for self-healing and integration.
Everything we perceive about ourselves and the world comes from the state of our nervous system, yet none of us were taught how to work with this.
We all want to open to greater pleasure, reclaim our passion and live our soul’s purpose but there is a process of slowing and sustainable growing our valley of capacity for receiving.
BT Dance is a practice of prayer in movement with what is and learning how to be with discomfort without shutting down, running away, or attacking.
It is for those who wish to go deeper into the sacred world of somatics, feminine healing arts, movement, and expression as the ultimate healer of intimacy blocks, trauma, and reclaiming our purpose to love here on Earth.
To join us on Friday’s please sign up to our Temple of Shakti Membership here for $88 a month (cancel anytime)
Join the Temple of Shakti if you’re ready to -
❤️ Dive into Awakening heart-led healing somatic movement and meditation
❤️ Expand your Energetic and somatic education
❤️ Transform your relationships and life
BTD with Adriana
Body Temple Dance is a somatic and spiritual wholistic approach and movement made for you to inhabit your body’s authentic pleasure, love, and aliveness.
This movement language and practice welcomes both the shadow and divinity.
Together we weave trauma-informed foundations based on nervous system education, embodied sex education, and traditional Tantric energy healing for self-healing and integration.
Everything we perceive about ourselves and the world comes from the state of our nervous system, yet none of us were taught how to work with this.
We all want to open to greater pleasure, reclaim our passion and live our soul’s purpose but there is a process of slowing and sustainable growing our valley of capacity for receiving.
BT Dance is a practice of prayer in movement with what is and learning how to be with discomfort without shutting down, running away, or attacking.
It is for those who wish to go deeper into the sacred world of somatics, feminine healing arts, movement, and expression as the ultimate healer of intimacy blocks, trauma, and reclaiming our purpose to love here on Earth.
To join us on Friday’s please sign up to our Temple of Shakti Membership here for $88 a month (cancel anytime)
Join the Temple of Shakti if you’re ready to -
❤️ Dive into Awakening heart-led healing somatic movement and meditation
❤️ Expand your Energetic and somatic education
❤️ Transform your relationships and life
Black madonna vigil series
CANDLE Vigil w/ Pixie Lighthorse
Sunday, November 3, 2024
10-11 am PST/ 1-2 pm EST/ 6-7 pm GMT
No matter the results of this U.S. election cycle, we have our holy work cut out for us. How will we nurture vulnerability and hope in the midst of contagious cynicism? How will we affirm our own sacredness as well as the sacredness of all others? How will we be together – co-creating communities that meet practical needs, centering the people who have been most oppressed, identifying and transforming the inner shadows that keep us in fear and resource scarcity? Thank goddess, the Black Madonna offers distinct and empowering guidance for all of these dilemmas.
Join Christena and Pixie Lighthorse, author of Boundaries and Protection and Goldmining the Shadows, for a lively and practical conversation at the naked feet of the Black Madonna. This vigil will also include a practice for releasing our existential anxieties to the Black Madonna’s loving and capable arms. Bring a candle!
Embodied Love - Tantric Fire Ceremony
A BODY TEMPLE masterclass for Mystics who care about the world and cultivating sustainable love
with Adriana Rizzolo & Harshada Wagner
Embody Real Love: Join Our Free Monthly Tantric Fire Ritual
Ever wondered how to bring the Goddess into your everyday life? To find mantras in the mayhem and divinity in the daily grind?
In our virtual fire ceremony, we delve deep:
🔥 Work with various forms of the divine feminine, including the potent energies of Kali, Durga, and Saraswati, to activate your inner wisdom and establish strong, nurturing boundaries.
🌑 Explore practices that help you taste the divine in everything—from simple pleasures to complex relationship challenges.
💫 Learn to integrate trauma as a path to trust, embracing both grief and joy as parts of a sacred whole.
This isn't just meditation—it's a radical act of love. We're creating waves of consciousness that free us from the confines of capitalism and patriarchy, inviting you to growl yourself free of patriarchal spirituality and into the realm of ritual and worship of the Mother.
Whether you're:
Seeking to create new relational patterns and heal from beliefs of unworthiness.
Looking to integrate your higher self with the delicious darkness of your humanity.
Simply curious about Tantra and how somatic work can unlock subconscious blocks.
This space is for you.
Join us around the virtual fire. Feel the groundedness and love we open to together. Your candle, our guidance—let's transform and heal. Together, we embrace the paradoxes of life, turning every challenge into an opportunity for spiritual and emotional growth.
Claim your free spot in our next ceremony and ignite your path of Love! Embrace this chance to embody love as big as you came to give, in a community that nurtures deep and authentic connections.
This class is free to join and everyone is welcome!
BTD with ally Beacom
Join Ally as we create space to connect to the rhythms within.
The body is our guide, as we let go of the mind & rational to feel into the experiences we hold, to witness the depths & multitudes that live within us & offer them space to be felt through the movement of the body.
Body Temple Dance was created by Adriana Rizzolo and it is informed by Tantra and the mystical traditions from India, many years of Adriana’s studies in body awareness and transformational energy healing, Somatic Experiencing, and TRE, and is loosely inspired by 5 Rhythms, traditional Kundalini Shakti, Kashmir Shivaism and many more healing and movement modalities.
No prior dance experience is necessary.
Journals are welcome, but not required.
Yoga of devotion: meditation and mantra for mystics - with harshada
Body Temple Dance is a somatic and spiritual wholistic approach and movement made for you to inhabit your body’s authentic pleasure, love, and aliveness.
This movement language and practice welcomes both the shadow and divinity.
Together we weave trauma-informed foundations based on nervous system education, embodied sex education, and traditional Tantric energy healing for self-healing and integration.
Everything we perceive about ourselves and the world comes from the state of our nervous system, yet none of us were taught how to work with this.
We all want to open to greater pleasure, reclaim our passion and live our soul’s purpose but there is a process of slowing and sustainable growing our valley of capacity for receiving.
BT Dance is a practice of prayer in movement with what is and learning how to be with discomfort without shutting down, running away, or attacking.
It is for those who wish to go deeper into the sacred world of somatics, feminine healing arts, movement, and expression as the ultimate healer of intimacy blocks, trauma, and reclaiming our purpose to love here on Earth.
To join us on Friday’s please sign up to our Temple of Shakti Membership here for $88 a month (cancel anytime)
Join the Temple of Shakti if you’re ready to -
❤️ Dive into Awakening heart-led healing somatic movement and meditation
❤️ Expand your Energetic and somatic education
❤️ Transform your relationships and life
Embodied Love - Tantric Fire Ceremony
A BODY TEMPLE masterclass for Mystics who care about the world and cultivating sustainable love
with Adriana Rizzolo & Harshada Wagner
Embody Real Love: Join Our Free Monthly Tantric Fire Ritual
Ever wondered how to bring the Goddess into your everyday life? To find mantras in the mayhem and divinity in the daily grind?
In our virtual fire ceremony, we delve deep:
🔥 Work with various forms of the divine feminine, including the potent energies of Kali, Durga, and Saraswati, to activate your inner wisdom and establish strong, nurturing boundaries.
🌑 Explore practices that help you taste the divine in everything—from simple pleasures to complex relationship challenges.
💫 Learn to integrate trauma as a path to trust, embracing both grief and joy as parts of a sacred whole.
This isn't just meditation—it's a radical act of love. We're creating waves of consciousness that free us from the confines of capitalism and patriarchy, inviting you to growl yourself free of patriarchal spirituality and into the realm of ritual and worship of the Mother.
Whether you're:
Seeking to create new relational patterns and heal from beliefs of unworthiness.
Looking to integrate your higher self with the delicious darkness of your humanity.
Simply curious about Tantra and how somatic work can unlock subconscious blocks.
This space is for you.
Join us around the virtual fire. Feel the groundedness and love we open to together. Your candle, our guidance—let's transform and heal. Together, we embrace the paradoxes of life, turning every challenge into an opportunity for spiritual and emotional growth.
Claim your free spot in our next ceremony and ignite your path of Love! Embrace this chance to embody love as big as you came to give, in a community that nurtures deep and authentic connections.
This class is free to join and everyone is welcome!
BTD with ally Beacom
Join Ally as we create space to connect to the rhythms within.
The body is our guide, as we let go of the mind & rational to feel into the experiences we hold, to witness the depths & multitudes that live within us & offer them space to be felt through the movement of the body.
Body Temple Dance was created by Adriana Rizzolo and it is informed by Tantra and the mystical traditions from India, many years of Adriana’s studies in body awareness and transformational energy healing, Somatic Experiencing, and TRE, and is loosely inspired by 5 Rhythms, traditional Kundalini Shakti, Kashmir Shivaism and many more healing and movement modalities.
No prior dance experience is necessary.
Journals are welcome, but not required.
BTD with AdrianA
Body Temple Dance is a somatic and spiritual wholistic approach and movement made for you to inhabit your body’s authentic pleasure, love, and aliveness.
This movement language and practice welcomes both the shadow and divinity.
Together we weave trauma-informed foundations based on nervous system education, embodied sex education, and traditional Tantric energy healing for self-healing and integration.
Everything we perceive about ourselves and the world comes from the state of our nervous system, yet none of us were taught how to work with this.
We all want to open to greater pleasure, reclaim our passion and live our soul’s purpose but there is a process of slowing and sustainable growing our valley of capacity for receiving.
BT Dance is a practice of prayer in movement with what is and learning how to be with discomfort without shutting down, running away, or attacking.
It is for those who wish to go deeper into the sacred world of somatics, feminine healing arts, movement, and expression as the ultimate healer of intimacy blocks, trauma, and reclaiming our purpose to love here on Earth.
To join us on Friday’s please sign up to our Temple of Shakti Membership here for $88 a month (cancel anytime)
Join the Temple of Shakti if you’re ready to -
❤️ Dive into Awakening heart-led healing somatic movement and meditation
❤️ Expand your Energetic and somatic education
❤️ Transform your relationships and life
body temple dance + writing with Nora Logan
Join Nora Logan for a 2-hour writing and Body Temple Dance workshop (a somatic movement modality created by Adriana Rizzolo) to explore the ways your body can help you write your story and embodiment practices can help you get into a writing flow when you’ve felt stuck or like the words won’t come.
This workshop is for anyone interested in deepening their writing practice, whether it’s for personal healing, in their professional life, or just for fun, and who wants to use their body to help them find their voice.
You’ll practice dance, do writing exercises and share with each other as a way to expand your capacity to be witnessed in community.
BTD with Nora
Body Temple Dance is a somatic and spiritual wholistic approach and movement made for you to inhabit your body’s authentic pleasure, love, and aliveness.
This movement language and practice welcomes both the shadow and divinity.
Together we weave trauma-informed foundations based on nervous system education, embodied sex education, and traditional Tantric energy healing for self-healing and integration.
Everything we perceive about ourselves and the world comes from the state of our nervous system, yet none of us were taught how to work with this.
We all want to open to greater pleasure, reclaim our passion and live our soul’s purpose but there is a process of slowing and sustainable growing our valley of capacity for receiving.
BT Dance is a practice of prayer in movement with what is and learning how to be with discomfort without shutting down, running away, or attacking.
It is for those who wish to go deeper into the sacred world of somatics, feminine healing arts, movement, and expression as the ultimate healer of intimacy blocks, trauma, and reclaiming our purpose to love here on Earth.
To join us on Friday’s please sign up to our Temple of Shakti Membership here for $88 a month (cancel anytime)
Join the Temple of Shakti if you’re ready to -
❤️ Dive into Awakening heart-led healing somatic movement and meditation
❤️ Expand your Energetic and somatic education
❤️ Transform your relationships and life
raw devotion with Adriana rizzolo & friends (in-person)
Join Adriana and some honoured friends for an exploration into intimacy, grief, and embodied love through somatic movement.
Tuesday 9/17
6.30-8.30 pm
Somatic research teaches us that the patterning that creates stuckness in our system is rooted deep in the body.
In our lineage, and by healing and working with it we also unlock the wisdom and the hearts’ wild infinite possibility.
Body Temple Rose Dance: Raw Devotion is an exploration in expanding sensation, soul fire and cooling connection through movement, mantra, and making magic with Rose tincture. It is a somatic and spiritual movement language that has emerged from many years of research in energy healing, yoga, mantra and voicework, intimacy and inner child healing, and ecstatic and interpretive dance.
Joining us for this class is Adriana’s dear friend Angel Hura, a two-spirit Afro-Taino somatic guide, dancer, and activist, who will lead us through a ceremonial cacao experience in addition to our movement work.
Most people who come to Body Temple Dance are people who want to live in a more intimate way - who get in touch with their body and its power to heal, meditate in movement, express their truth with more confidence, be open to pleasure, be in community to heal, uplift and inspire a feminine flow, but perhaps feel fear, intimidation or just awkward AF.
We welcome dancers and non-dancers into the space because Body Temple is for everybody.
BTD with Adriana
Body Temple Dance is a somatic and spiritual wholistic approach and movement made for you to inhabit your body’s authentic pleasure, love, and aliveness.
This movement language and practice welcomes both the shadow and divinity.
Together we weave trauma-informed foundations based on nervous system education, embodied sex education, and traditional Tantric energy healing for self-healing and integration.
Everything we perceive about ourselves and the world comes from the state of our nervous system, yet none of us were taught how to work with this.
We all want to open to greater pleasure, reclaim our passion and live our soul’s purpose but there is a process of slowing and sustainable growing our valley of capacity for receiving.
BT Dance is a practice of prayer in movement with what is and learning how to be with discomfort without shutting down, running away, or attacking.
It is for those who wish to go deeper into the sacred world of somatics, feminine healing arts, movement, and expression as the ultimate healer of intimacy blocks, trauma, and reclaiming our purpose to love here on Earth.
To join us on Friday’s please sign up to our Temple of Shakti Membership here for $88 a month (cancel anytime)
Join the Temple of Shakti if you’re ready to -
❤️ Dive into Awakening heart-led healing somatic movement and meditation
❤️ Expand your Energetic and somatic education
❤️ Transform your relationships and life
BTD with Adriana
Body Temple Dance is a somatic and spiritual wholistic approach and movement made for you to inhabit your body’s authentic pleasure, love, and aliveness.
This movement language and practice welcomes both the shadow and divinity.
Together we weave trauma-informed foundations based on nervous system education, embodied sex education, and traditional Tantric energy healing for self-healing and integration.
Everything we perceive about ourselves and the world comes from the state of our nervous system, yet none of us were taught how to work with this.
We all want to open to greater pleasure, reclaim our passion and live our soul’s purpose but there is a process of slowing and sustainable growing our valley of capacity for receiving.
BT Dance is a practice of prayer in movement with what is and learning how to be with discomfort without shutting down, running away, or attacking.
It is for those who wish to go deeper into the sacred world of somatics, feminine healing arts, movement, and expression as the ultimate healer of intimacy blocks, trauma, and reclaiming our purpose to love here on Earth.
To join us on Friday’s please sign up to our Temple of Shakti Membership here for $88 a month (cancel anytime)
Join the Temple of Shakti if you’re ready to -
❤️ Dive into Awakening heart-led healing somatic movement and meditation
❤️ Expand your Energetic and somatic education
❤️ Transform your relationships and life
BTD with Olivia Rosley - IN PERSON
Body Temple Dance is a somatic and spiritual wholistic approach and movement made for you to inhabit your body’s authentic pleasure, love, and aliveness.
This movement language and practice welcomes both the shadow and divinity.
Together we weave trauma-informed foundations based on nervous system education, embodied sex education, and traditional Tantric energy healing for self-healing and integration.
Everything we perceive about ourselves and the world comes from the state of our nervous system, yet none of us were taught how to work with this.
We all want to open to greater pleasure, reclaim our passion and live our soul’s purpose but there is a process of slowing and sustainable growing our valley of capacity for receiving.
BT Dance is a practice of prayer in movement with what is and learning how to be with discomfort without shutting down, running away, or attacking.
It is for those who wish to go deeper into the sacred world of somatics, feminine healing arts, movement, and expression as the ultimate healer of intimacy blocks, trauma, and reclaiming our purpose to love here on Earth.
To join us in our ONLINE Friday classes please sign up to our Temple of Shakti Membership here for $88 a month (cancel anytime)
Join the Temple of Shakti if you’re ready to -
❤️ Dive into Awakening heart-led healing somatic movement and meditation
❤️ Expand your Energetic and somatic education
❤️ Transform your relationships and life
BTD with Adriana
Body Temple Dance is a somatic and spiritual wholistic approach and movement made for you to inhabit your body’s authentic pleasure, love, and aliveness.
This movement language and practice welcomes both the shadow and divinity.
Together we weave trauma-informed foundations based on nervous system education, embodied sex education, and traditional Tantric energy healing for self-healing and integration.
Everything we perceive about ourselves and the world comes from the state of our nervous system, yet none of us were taught how to work with this.
We all want to open to greater pleasure, reclaim our passion and live our soul’s purpose but there is a process of slowing and sustainable growing our valley of capacity for receiving.
BT Dance is a practice of prayer in movement with what is and learning how to be with discomfort without shutting down, running away, or attacking.
It is for those who wish to go deeper into the sacred world of somatics, feminine healing arts, movement, and expression as the ultimate healer of intimacy blocks, trauma, and reclaiming our purpose to love here on Earth.
To join us on Friday’s please sign up to our Dynamic Embodiment Program here for $88 a month (cancel anytime)
Join the Dynamic Embodiment Program if you’re ready to -
❤️ Dive into Awakening heart-led healing somatic movement and meditation
❤️ Expand your Energetic and somatic education
❤️ Transform your relationships and life
body temple dance + writing with Nora Logan
Join Nora Logan for a 2-hour writing and Body Temple Dance workshop (a somatic movement modality created by Adriana Rizzolo) to explore the ways your body can help you write your story and embodiment practices can help you get into a writing flow when you’ve felt stuck or like the words won’t come.
This workshop is for anyone interested in deepening their writing practice, whether it’s for personal healing, in their professional life, or just for fun, and who wants to use their body to help them find their voice.
You’ll practice dance, do writing exercises and share with each other as a way to expand your capacity to be witnessed in community.
Yoni Mapping
Are you ready to own your womb health and sexuality and directly experience Goddess through your body?
We Gather to go on a journey as if we were going to visit a temple together.
But the temple is your body.
On this journey, we will move slowly with consent and learn how to listen to the messages through sensations and images that will arise from us.
approaching our bodies with much devotion.
And in the context of community, we will have an opportunity to actually see and receive the transmission, not only of our vulva but also of our g spot.
The conscious touch practice that we do is a form of self-care that every woman in person with a vulva needs for their health and wellness.
We were not given this type of sex education and we were actually told this part of us doesn't even exist when it is a powerhouse of emotional healing and connection.
Come learn about what it means to be rooted in your body and connected to an incredible energy of creativity, and sensuality and discover the truth of your authentic sexuality in a space of non-judgment and healing.
This class is part of our Dynamic Embodiment Program sign up here - you will receive access to all our monthly classes (cancel anytime)
BTD with Adriana
Body Temple Dance is a somatic and spiritual wholistic approach and movement made for you to inhabit your body’s authentic pleasure, love, and aliveness.
This movement language and practice welcomes both the shadow and divinity.
Together we weave trauma-informed foundations based on nervous system education, embodied sex education, and traditional Tantric energy healing for self-healing and integration.
Everything we perceive about ourselves and the world comes from the state of our nervous system, yet none of us were taught how to work with this.
We all want to open to greater pleasure, reclaim our passion and live our soul’s purpose but there is a process of slowing and sustainable growing our valley of capacity for receiving.
BT Dance is a practice of prayer in movement with what is and learning how to be with discomfort without shutting down, running away, or attacking.
It is for those who wish to go deeper into the sacred world of somatics, feminine healing arts, movement, and expression as the ultimate healer of intimacy blocks, trauma, and reclaiming our purpose to love here on Earth.
To join us on Friday’s please sign up to our Dynamic Embodiment Program here for $88 a month (cancel anytime)
Join the Dynamic Embodiment Program if you’re ready to -
❤️ Dive into Awakening heart-led healing somatic movement and meditation
❤️ Expand your Energetic and somatic education
❤️ Transform your relationships and life
BTD with GIGI
Body Temple Dance is a somatic and spiritual wholistic approach and movement made for you to inhabit your body’s authentic pleasure, love, and aliveness.
This movement language and practice welcomes both the shadow and divinity.
Together we weave trauma-informed foundations based on nervous system education, embodied sex education, and traditional Tantric energy healing for self-healing and integration.
Everything we perceive about ourselves and the world comes from the state of our nervous system, yet none of us were taught how to work with this.
We all want to open to greater pleasure, reclaim our passion and live our soul’s purpose but there is a process of slowing and sustainable growing our valley of capacity for receiving.
BT Dance is a practice of prayer in movement with what is and learning how to be with discomfort without shutting down, running away, or attacking.
It is for those who wish to go deeper into the sacred world of somatics, feminine healing arts, movement, and expression as the ultimate healer of intimacy blocks, trauma, and reclaiming our purpose to love here on Earth.
To join us on Friday’s please sign up to our Dynamic Embodiment Program here for $88 a month (cancel anytime)
Join the Dynamic Embodiment Program if you’re ready to -
❤️ Dive into Awakening heart-led healing somatic movement and meditation
❤️ Expand your Energetic and somatic education
❤️ Transform your relationships and life
Embodied Love - Tantric Fire Ceremony
A BODY TEMPLE masterclass for Mystics who care about the world and cultivating sustainable love
with Adriana Rizzolo & Harshada Wagner
Embody Real Love: Join Our Free Monthly Tantric Fire Ritual
Ever wondered how to bring the Goddess into your everyday life? To find mantras in the mayhem and divinity in the daily grind?
In our virtual fire ceremony, we delve deep:
🔥 Work with various forms of the divine feminine, including the potent energies of Kali, Durga, and Saraswati, to activate your inner wisdom and establish strong, nurturing boundaries.
🌑 Explore practices that help you taste the divine in everything—from simple pleasures to complex relationship challenges.
💫 Learn to integrate trauma as a path to trust, embracing both grief and joy as parts of a sacred whole.
This isn't just meditation—it's a radical act of love. We're creating waves of consciousness that free us from the confines of capitalism and patriarchy, inviting you to growl yourself free of patriarchal spirituality and into the realm of ritual and worship of the Mother.
Whether you're:
Seeking to create new relational patterns and heal from beliefs of unworthiness.
Looking to integrate your higher self with the delicious darkness of your humanity.
Simply curious about Tantra and how somatic work can unlock subconscious blocks.
This space is for you.
Join us around the virtual fire. Feel the groundedness and love we open to together. Your candle, our guidance—let's transform and heal. Together, we embrace the paradoxes of life, turning every challenge into an opportunity for spiritual and emotional growth.
Claim your free spot in our next ceremony and ignite your path of Love! Embrace this chance to embody love as big as you came to give, in a community that nurtures deep and authentic connections.
This class is free to join and everyone is welcome!
Free - BTD BIPOC
Each of us carry A tremendous wisdom and worth within our body.
Shame is what keeps us from experiencing the love and transformation we deserve
White people and [Black, Indigenous] People of Color [(BIPOC)] each have work to do separately and together [with respect to addressing somatic healing and transforming ancestral trauma.]
We all carry ancestral wisdom and words that need to be felt, expressed and moved with.
Body temple DANCE IS A SOMATIC HEALING PRactice that includes guided movement, meditation, and opening to the Divine support that's just waiting for us to arrive.
Dance with it. Dance with us.
A FREE BODY TEMPLE movement and meditation for all BIPOC folks - Please register here
Write and Digest
Write and Digest - An Embodiment Writing Class
Whether you want to write some authentic copy for your offerings or you need some fresh energy around your content - or maybe you're writing a book and just want to get some new energy flowing.
Alot of the Tantric path is about digesting both the positive and negative experiences and honing our skills as alchemists to be able to gather the energy and medicine from the wounds that we've inherited and that we carry.
Everyone is super welcome - whether you consider yourself a writer or not!!
Join us for an hour of deep relaxation and nourishment for your body and soul. You'll receive 2 writing prompts, a yin practice, or meditation/ breathwork + there will be time to share!
This class is part of our membership - Dynamic Embodiment Program - if you want to come please read more and sign up here.
Yoni Mapping
Are you ready to own your womb health and sexuality and directly experience Goddess through your body?
We Gather to go on a journey as if we were going to visit a temple together.
But the temple is your body.
On this journey, we will move slowly with consent and learn how to listen to the messages through sensations and images that will arise from us.
approaching our bodies with much devotion.
And in the context of community, we will have an opportunity to actually see and receive the transmission, not only of our vulva but also of our g spot.
The conscious touch practice that we do is a form of self-care that every woman in person with a vulva needs for their health and wellness.
We were not given this type of sex education and we were actually told this part of us doesn't even exist when it is a powerhouse of emotional healing and connection.
Come learn about what it means to be rooted in your body and connected to an incredible energy of creativity, and sensuality and discover the truth of your authentic sexuality in a space of non-judgment and healing.
This class is part of our Dynamic Embodiment Program sign up here - you will receive access to all our monthly classes (cancel anytime)
The goddess and our cycle
The Goddesses and our Cycle: as women we are a manifestation of the Shakti energy. Her sacred portal lives inside of us as we live inside of hers.
In this class we will dive deep into the 4 archetypes of the Goddess represented in the four phases of our cycle, so we can learn how to honor each one and connect to our feminine power.
Monica Mena is an Ayurvedic practitioner, yoga teacher and holistic body worker. Her work is inspired by a deep reverence to Mother Nature, Bhakti Yoga and her Mexican roots. Her services include yoga classes, Ayurvedic consultations, cycles/hormones/sacred female sexuality, holistic healing massages, Body Temple Dance and meditations. She is based in Brooklyn, NY.
This class is a bonus workshop and is part of our Dynamic Embodiment Program sign up here for $88 - to join the class + receive access to our membership program for the month (you can cancel anytime)
If you only want to join the Goddess and our Cycle class you can sign up here for $44
Come learn about what it means to be rooted in your body and connected to an incredible energy of creativity, and sensuality and discover the truth of your authentic sexuality in a space of non-judgment and healing.
BTD dance with adriana
Body Temple Dance is a somatic and spiritual wholistic approach and movement made for you to inhabit your body’s authentic pleasure, love, and aliveness.
This movement language and practice welcomes both the shadow and divinity.
Together we weave trauma-informed foundations based on nervous system education, embodied sex education, and traditional Tantric energy healing for self-healing and integration.
Everything we perceive about ourselves and the world comes from the state of our nervous system, yet none of us were taught how to work with this.
We all want to open to greater pleasure, reclaim our passion and live our soul’s purpose but there is a process of slowing and sustainable growing our valley of capacity for receiving.
BT Dance is a practice of prayer in movement with what is and learning how to be with discomfort without shutting down, running away, or attacking.
It is for those who wish to go deeper into the sacred world of somatics, feminine healing arts, movement, and expression as the ultimate healer of intimacy blocks, trauma, and reclaiming our purpose to love here on Earth.
This class is part of our membership - Dynamic Embodiment Program - read more and sign up here
Embodied Love - Tantric Fire Ceremony
A BODY TEMPLE masterclass for Mystics who care about the world and cultivating sustainable love
with Adriana Rizzolo & Harshada Wagner
BUILDING REAL LOVE RITUAL
Fire ceremony + working with freeze in your system
⚔️ Calling in the powers of the Dark Goddesses - Kali and Durga - to illuminate our path of love.
⚔️ Together we work with freeze in our systems to tend to the fires of cultivating a new world rooted in truth and embodiment
⚔️ Come get a taste of Body Temple and connect to the sacred living feminine Power aka Shakti, in you.
This class is free to join and everyone is welcome!
Unleashed Teacher Training
July ‘24 - March ‘25
9-month Body Temple Dance Facilitation Training + Mentorship
A somatic and spiritual mentorship to awaken your next layer of purpose, pleasure, and passion
For the healers, coaches, therapists, sacred rebels, the artists who came to create change, the lovers who refuse to play small.
In Body Temple Community we affirm the human experience for the sake of liberation, both personal and collective.
The school Body Temple and this body of work that flows through us is the service I have been initiated into.
I have been training and studying the languages of the body and esoteric knowledge, somatic and spiritual work for 17 years and training others to facilitate for 8 of those years.
I am endlessly blown away by how much more is possible when we come together to heal, transform and take our work out into the communities where we are meant to serve.
When you are a deeply feminine being, meaning you care about the ways we are all interconnected and choose to live from a space of relatedness…
you need strong containers and boundaries to hold all the Shakti and what wants to be birthed through you.
Together, we learn how imperative co-regulation is with nature, in community and with Source Herself.