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)

Yoni Mapping
Dec
28

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)


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Embodied Love - Tantric Fire Ceremony
Jan
2

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!

Register here

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India Goddess Pilgrimage
Jan
10
to Jan 22

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.


FIND OUT MORE AND APPLY HERE

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Sound Healing
Dec
27

Sound Healing

In this class we will give our voice back to our Self and return it home to the body through conscious touch and experiential anatomy. To close, Alli will offer vocal sound healing to support the integration of our vocal exploration.

This is a free class offered to the Body Temple Community - you don’t need to do anything to register. Keep an eye out in your inbox for the email with the link to join!

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Black madonna vigil series
Dec
22

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.

REGISTER HERE

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Devotional Awareness through Persian Dance, Music, and Poetry workshop. with GEETI MAHAJAN + adriana
Dec
20

Devotional Awareness through Persian Dance, Music, and Poetry workshop. with GEETI MAHAJAN + 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

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BTD BIPOC
Dec
15

BTD BIPOC

In this 1 hour Body Temple dance class we will gather in honor of our roots which stretch as far back as the hands of time.

We are descendants of the lineages of the Earth that have stayed strong in the face of extinctions, both natural and those waged against our original essence and nature.

We come together to replenish the mycelial soul networks embedded in our body temples and fostered in this sacred underground community of body temple dancers, where the spoils of disaster and war and ignorance of separation could never reach because we are the earth and she is us, and our roots are as resilient as she is

* This is a free class for our BIPOC community - please sign up here for the link

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Luteal love Workshop with Adriana and Marley chamoi
Dec
11

Luteal love Workshop with Adriana and Marley chamoi

Luteal Love: Exploring Our Tapped-In CUNT Phase

In a world that often shames or disregards our lower-vibration states, this workshop offers a welcoming space to explore and honor the natural cycles of the body. The Luteal phase holds immense power and insight, especially when shared among women and people with vulvas. This workshop is designed to connect us, offering a nurturing community where we can explore the strength and wisdom available in these potent phases of life.

Because we are often separated from one another in relationships with men, our families, and our single unit systems, we can get shut down and not have the support needed to gather the wisdom and the strength from this potent and sensitive time where we spend about half of our lives and as bleeding bodies.

This workshop invites those who currently experience menstruation, as well as those in perimenopause and menopause, to join a circle of shared experiences.

Together, we’ll explore the unique wisdom that each cycle offers, providing support, solidarity, and space for reflection.

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 for $40

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Black madonna vigil series
Dec
8

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!

REGISTER HERE

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Yoni Mapping
Nov
30

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)


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Yin & Grief Workshop with willow brook
Nov
29

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

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the risk of intimacy - unleashed nyc
Nov
22
to Nov 24

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.

Join the waitlist here

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TONGUE
Nov
21

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!

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Black madonna vigil series
Nov
17

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.

REGISTER HERE

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BTD with Adriana
Nov
15

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

View Event →
BTD with Adriana
Nov
8

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

View Event →
Black madonna vigil series
Nov
3

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!

REGISTER HERE

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Embodied Love - Tantric Fire Ceremony
Oct
31

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!

Register here

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BTD with ally Beacom
Oct
19

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.

Book your space here

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Yoga of devotion: meditation and mantra for mystics - with harshada
Oct
18

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

View Event →
Embodied Love - Tantric Fire Ceremony
Oct
3

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!

Register here

View Event →
BTD with ally Beacom
Sep
28

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.

Book your space here

View Event →
BTD with AdrianA
Sep
27

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

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body temple dance + writing with Nora Logan
Sep
21

body temple dance + writing with Nora Logan

  • Maha Rose 200 Columbia street Brooklyn, NY 11231 (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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.

BOOK HERE

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BTD with Nora
Sep
20

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

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raw devotion with Adriana rizzolo & friends (in-person)
Sep
17

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.

BOOK HERE - $43

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BTD with Adriana
Sep
13

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

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BTD with Adriana
Aug
30

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

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BTD with Olivia Rosley - IN PERSON
Aug
29
to Aug 30

BTD with Olivia Rosley - IN PERSON

  • The Sanctuary in Princeville, Hawaii (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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

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BTD with Adriana
Aug
23

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

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body temple dance + writing with Nora Logan
Aug
22

body temple dance + writing with Nora Logan

  • Maha Rose 200 Columbia street Brooklyn, NY 11231 (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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.

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Yoni Mapping
Aug
22

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)


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BTD with Adriana
Aug
16

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

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