wild eros South of France self healing womb training and writing retreat:
embodiment pilgrimage of Magdalene, Black Madonna and your own womb wisdom
April 24th-April 28th 2025
in-person retreat - MARSEILLE, FRANCE
$1200
THERE ARE 4 SPOTS LEFT— hold yours with a $300 deposit and flexible 4-month payment plans. Please reach out if you need additional financial options like a longer payment plan.
In this sacred time of writing and womb healing, you will learn self healing techniques to awaken your wild voice with writing, heal shame through facilitated connection of movement and mantra meditation and tend to your nervous system. This is a pilgrimage, not a retreat and that means it is for your soul as much as it is for your person.
Together we will go deep into the sacred heart and steady spine. Awaken divine love and bask in the union within, and the possibility in relationship.
Learn how to honor your own essence of love and aliveness with the goddesses from the tantric tradition, earth rituals and somatic healing.
Join us in Marseille, where we invite you to embark on a soul-stirring journey of self-discovery, body healing, and the celebration of divine love.
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Join us in Marseille, where we invite you to embark on a soul-stirring journey of self-discovery, body healing, and the celebration of divine love. *
the womb and voice are interconnected, as we connect to our truth more fully, our body needs and wants different kinds of support. New ways of connecting, relating, Touching and listening.
Come deepen your relationship to the sacredness of your body and creative energy with us in the south of France!
This is a pilgrimage of Love. A life changing time to spend in a small group of devoted seekers and women who are here to embody truth and love.
Please book a call with Adriana to apply.
“The most mystical, miraculous, powerful, freeing, grounding, forgiving, sensual, deep, GOOOOOD GODDESS week of my LIFE!!! To be in person with driana and the BTD community is unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. It’s like coming home and blasting off all at the same time. Retreats are my favorite way to receive and it was such an honour to support Adriana and the team as they held such a wild and magical space for all of us.” Jackie Paulson
This is for you if you desire to...
✧ transform & grow both for your soul and the safety of the child within
✧ receive deep healing in your body energetically and physically through writing, womb healing and rebirthing with the sacred waters
✧ welcome the realms of shadow & pleasure in a trauma informed way
✧ experience a deep dive in somatic healing for yourself and/or your clients
✧ explore your connection to your self-love, body, authority, and leadership
✧ expand your nervous system’s capacity to be with what you deserve and open to the wisdom of the mystery
Learn how to be your own womb healer and hold that space for others (if that’s appropriate for you), as well as writing your ass off, then you should definitely come!!
Spaces are very limited, and we’re not just saying that!
This work is about igniting our gifts in service to our communities and in service to the wider web of humanity and the planet.
It’s a combination of sessions that will be guided, but very interactive as well as tons of free time where you can work on your own, rest and tend to the creative gifts that give you an opportunity to awaken the sanity and the love that that’s within you.
This retreat is also part of our 25 hour Womb Healer Teacher Training - there will be some online sessions after the retreat, date tbc.
To apply, please book a 30-minute call with Adriana
This is not just a retreat—it’s a time to take a true vow with sacred witnesses in this important moment of your soul’s journey.
The Rose Lineage is a mystical aspect of Mary Magdalene’s connection to the South of France, symbolizing the path of the Divine Feminine and the transmission of spiritual teachings across generations. Rooted in ancient wisdom, this lineage is believed to carry a sacred energy that can still be accessed and felt in the region’s revered sites, where the presence of Mary Magdalene’s teachings continues to inspire seekers on their spiritual journey.
With Mary Magdalene and the Black Madonna in our hearts (and visits to their sacred sites!), we will:
⟡ Heal, gather, and transform the layers of our stuckness
⟡ Awaken the delicious, Shakti-fied sensual, sexual, and creative expressions longing to emerge
⟡ You don’t need to be fully embodied to do this work—you need heart and desire.
⟡ You don’t need to be enlightened—you need to crave more command over your energy and relationships.
⟡ You don’t need to be a writer (but if you are, welcome!)—we’ll help you realize that you already are.
The Cave of Saint Mary Magdalene – Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, South of France
Join us as we journey to a place of deep spiritual significance—the sacred cave where Mary Magdalene is believed to have spent her final years in solitude and contemplation.
For centuries, this mystical site has drawn pilgrims seeking wisdom, awakening, and serenity. The cave radiates an ancient energy, inviting reflection and connection.
Nearby, the town of Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume is home to the magnificent 13th-century Basilica of Mary Magdalene. Within its crypt, her relics are said to rest, making it one of the most revered pilgrimage sites in the Christian world.
The cave is nestled within a mountain that stretches 12 kilometers and dates back over 251 million years to the Mesozoic Era. The journey to this sacred site is a breathtaking experience, offering a walk through unspoiled nature.
Inside the cave, a basilica and chapel provide a space for quiet contemplation and devotion, where visitors can also witness a revered relic of Mary Magdalene. For those who venture further, a path leads to the mountain’s summit, revealing a stunning panoramic view of the entire massif.
This is about love and liberation. Soul and body.
FAQs
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UMA Holsitic Club, 22 Rue de Suez, 13007 Marseille, France
3 pm, Thursday, April 24th - 6 pm Monday, April 28th
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Lodging is not included.
Here are a few hotels that are withing walking distance of UMA
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Meals are not included
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Travel is not included.
We will have some transport available during the retreat, but you will need to arrange airport transfers/ car rentals.
Please let us know if you need any help organising either of these options - or want to carshare with someone else.
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The full cost of the retreat is $1200.
Payment plans are available $300 × 4 payments. (early rate)
You can pay with CC through the payment links below
We also take payments through Zelle and Venmo. Please email us at support@bodytemple.churchption
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Payments are non refundable up to 8 weeks before the event
Payment plans must be paid even if the participant decides to not attend.
In extreme cases like close deaths and intense illness we are willing to work with you but we have to have a strict policy to keep our work in integrity and flow.
Thank you for understanding and considering before you purchase.
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All retreat sessions and activities
Body Temple Womb Healer Teacher Training (25 hours)
“What a gift it is to look into the yes of 16 women after 5 days together and say ‘I Love you’, and mean it.
The Body Temple community has given me a place of belonging, mothering and love that welcomes all of my mess as well as sees me in my light.
When we say goodbye each time, I truly know it’s not the last time…the most reparative experience for my little self.”
Do you have any idea how much creative energy is in your womb, waiting to be expressed—through your channeling, your writing, your voice?
The connection to your womb is what allows you to just be in the flow, to create, to express.
Together, we will learn to worship the body through movement, nature rituals, exploring the medicine of the rose & the sword, the sacred heart & steady spine and receive an initiation into the rose lineage & the body temple healing arts.
We will offer Body Temple Dance, yoga, writing, space to rest, self-massage and simple partner exercises, nature rituals, and voice work through devotional singing & chanting.
We will also have transformative group healing sessions, which are a powerful way to release the built up tension & restriction in our system, and return to our natural state of flow and ease in love.
This retreat is for visionaries, healers, therapists, coaches, energy and womb workers, activists, and anyone anchoring in the frequency of unconditional love in their lives.
This immersion is for people who...
✧ have some background of healing, therapy, or inner work (not for brand new people on the path but you do not have to be a facilitator of healing either)
✧ desire to come into a greater capacity around receiving (relationship, connection, love, purpose)
✧ have the capacity & energy levels available to do this deep work and have an open mind to cultivate more choice
✧ are aware that this will be deep but have the appropriate support for what you may need
✧ want to learn physiology, and biology, AND be in a total soup of ecstatic bliss with the goddess
✧ want to nerd out on why we are the way we are in a relationship, through the nervous system
✧ want to do healing work to create change on a more global & community level
✧ are ready to choose to get a lot out of their investment
✧ love god and the earth
✧ have a vulva
Marseille is the 2nd biggest city in France! It is a 3-hour train journey from Paris. It is a very multicultural city, a real melting pot.
When France still had a colonial empire Marseille was the main port where all the resources arrived. It was a vibrant and wealthy city. When the former colonies became independent in the 60’s, Marseille was completely abandoned.
A lot of immigrants from the former colonies settled down there. One-third of the population is Muslim, mostly from North Africa, there’s also a big population of Italian, Armenian, Corsican…
It’s the French capital of hip-hop!
For decades it had a terrible reputation for being quite rough and full gangsters, but these past few years it has become the place to be!
Its incredibly rich culture is finally being acknowledged, a lot of artists moved here, it is very creative and so vibrant! There are a lot of art galleries, interesting museums, and art schools, vintage shops, little cafes and great restaurants!
Adriana Rizzolo
Adriana Rizzolo is the founder of Body Temple Church and the creator of Body Temple Dance, a trance space that welcomes grief and rage to be transmuted into aliveness through ritual and expressive arts, including prayer-formance and intuitive movement. She is a trauma-informed, Tantra-aligned spiritual mentor, mystic, somatic healer, adult sex educator, and guide to the unseen realms—with 13 years of sobriety.
Adriana’s offerings have evolved through years of deep study and hands-on exploration with groups, focusing on the transformative power of ritual theater, energy healing, embodied astrology, therapeutic yoga, voice and movement training, trauma release, and somatic education. Her work also integrates intimacy and relational healing, adult sex education, movement research, and devotional practice within the traditions of Tantra and Bhakti Yoga. She has lived and served out loud, embodying the work she teaches. Some of her teachers include, but are not limited to, Deborah Sundahl, Alessandra Belloni, Mirabai Starr, and Heidi Rose Robbins.
Adriana helps people heal trauma and patterns of helplessness, reclaim their power, and feel at home in their bodies—so they can live in alignment with their soul’s truth. Through years of coaching, teaching, and facilitation, she has guided thousands of people worldwide in awakening to their aliveness. She is currently working on her Body Temple book, which explores how consciously relating to grief, rage, love, death, and sex can serve collective liberation.
