The Spiritual Sexual Shamanic Experience
** ESTE EVENTO SERA IMPARTIDO
CON TRADUCCION AL ESPAÑOL**
As humans, our deepest desire is for connection, but when our connection to ourselves is not optimal we can get stuck in repetitive relationship patterns or accepting and tolerating relationships that don’t serve us. Continually living with these kinds of patterns can cause us to feel lost, afraid or out of control.
The 7-day ISTA (Sexual Shamanic Spiritual Experience) Level 1 has been offered to thousands of people across five continents from more than fifteen years. In a safe environment with other people looking to take back control of their lives, graduates from these week-long experiences uncover and heal deep core wounds and reactive patterns. They leave feeling empowered, healed and courageous to take control of their lives and relationships.
The level 1 SSSEx residential experience gives you a space to clear your physical, emotional and mental bodies of shame, guilt and fear. We use guided visualizations, emotional release, energy tracking, conscious touch and ceremony to open a doorway into a deeper understanding of the Self as whole and complete.
What Can You Expect?
- A supportive participant/facilitator ratio
- Total confidentiality
- Experienced facilitators
- A safe container honoring your healthy boundaries
- Luxurious location & high-end lakeside resort venue
- Gourmet, healthy and locally sourced cuisine – we cater to all food needs and sensitivities
- Access to be part of a supportive global community
- All spiritual pathways, sexual orientation and gender identities are welcome
Are You Ready to…
- Clear emotional blocks
- Heal religious and social dogma around sexuality
- Heal and identify boundaries
- Heal relationship heartaches
- Heal fear, jealousy and competition
- Own your full ability to manifest and create
And to…
- Not spend another day disconnected from your personal power
- No longer remain stuck in past dramas and traumas
- Stop limiting your capacity for pleasure
- Stop feeling shut down and disconnected
- Get rid of unclear personal boundaries
- Escape a lack of consent and poor communication skills
Is This Training For You?
Thousands of people on 5 continents have gone through this training worldwide, the individuals cover a wide age range from 18 to 80, varied backgrounds and professions, all sexual orientations, relationship styles and gender identities, from every world religion, nationality and ethnicity. As this training is a week-long journey through life’s core experiences and wounds as a collective human experience, bringing an open mind and heart will allow one to receive the gifts of wisdom, healing and growth. No previous experience of sacred sexuality, tantra or shamanism is required to participate and everyone is welcome.
Some people take this training for their own personal evolution and healing. Others are interested in exploring how the training adds to their business or professional life. Many are interested, entering or already belong to the profession of Sacred Sexual Practitioner or Sexuality Educator. Optional nudity and safe intimate touch are a part of this training, however, you are always at choice and the facilitators will help you navigate what is authentic for you.
This course is open to all who are called. Experience is not required.
The ISTA level 1 SSSEx training is an individual process that happens in a group environment. A level of ability to be self responsible is needed to navigate the spiritual sexual shamanic space. ISTA is a mystery school and approaches trauma from the shamanic perspective of connecting with the body and soul. We recommend that if there is known deep seated trauma, individuals seek one on one sessions and get the OK from their therapist before entering the group process.
What Will We Be Doing at This Event?
Each training is unique and does not follow a strict curriculum—the facilitators are trained to listen to the field, the group, and feel into what would best serve your highest-good. Below is a partial list of topics that will be covered…
- Intentions, Invocation & The Art of Ritual. Holding Sacred Space
- Authenticating the Moment – Showing up – Power & Presence
- Identifying needs; Safety and Emotional support & Practice
- Boundaries & Personal Empowerment
- Giver/Receiver Practice
- Moving from Transference & Projection to Authenticity & Sovereignty
- Self-consciousness, Maturing Awareness, Monitoring the Ego
- Making & Keeping Agreements
- Personal/Collective Sexual Wounds, shadow & Abuse
- Monitoring & Owning Feelings – Power & Practice
- Healthy & Unhealthy Masculine & Feminine Dynamics
- Transmissions on Fear, Jealousy and Competition
- Embodying the Divine Masculine and Feminine in the Full Range of Archetypes
- Integration of Your Inner Masculine & Feminine energies – Sacred Relationship/Marriage
- Owning our Humanity, one’s desires and the ability to manifest
- Contra-sexual Awareness & Gender Play (Inner Masculine/Feminine Coupling)
- Clearing Emotional Blocks – The Wounded Healer
- Breath Work
- Anchoring, Grounding and Sustaining Healing Change
- Healing Religious and Social Dogma and Sexuality
- Control and Fear, Suspicion around Pleasure
- Releasing Judgment /Finding the Path to Love
- Empathic Listening and Touch
- Session Demonstrations: Sacred Tantric Temple Practices
- Healing Sacred Sexuality Rituals and Embodiment Practices
This is only a partial list of what you may experience.
This is only a partial list of what you may experience.
LAURIE HANDLERS
LEAD FACULTY
Laurie Handlers (LaurieHandlers.com) is a sex and happiness coach. She is an educator, movie producer, radio show host, and author. She holds a Masters in Education and a Bachelor’s in Psychology and Sociology. Her career includes over thirty years as a corporate change consultant, individual empowerment coach and international seminar leader. She’s a dynamic speaker, facilitator and has taught transformational workshops for women, men, couples, singles, parents and teens since 1978. She specializes in communication techniques and secrets that are the basis of healing the body, releasing past emotional trauma, stopping the aging process, and reducing stress. Pod casts from her show Sex and Happiness can be found at WebTalkRadio.net. Laurie stars in a hilarious indie documentary “Tantric Tourists” and a docudrama “Beyond Dinner”. Her book Sex & Happiness: The Tantric Laws of Intimacy and her CD “Shamanic Release & Latihan” are samples of her many offerings. Her next book about life only getting better after 60 will be available soon. Her current passion is Radical Life Extension.
Juan Alzate Mejia
FACULTY United States
Since 2008, Juan has been working with shamanism to effect healing change in his life and the life of others. This work has taken Juan all around the world, working and training with shamans from China, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Brazil and throughout the USA. Juan has trained and is experienced in; psychic intuitive development, Reiki, Akashic Records, Yoga, Kungfu, Tantra, Transformational Psychology, Holotropic, and Shamanic Breathwork to name a few. Juan completed the core of his shamanic training with Alberto Villoldo at The Four Winds Society in 2012. Since 2017 Juan has been diving deep in the Tantric Arts becoming a faculty apprentice with ISTA-International School of Temple Arts, completing all courses offered, with 500+ hrs. of studies. Juan is dedicated to bringing shamanic and tantric healing to all humanity, especially those who are ready to go on and take responsibility for their own healing journey. More about Juan at www.LuminousHealer.com
FEDERICA CLEMENTE
FACILITATOR
ITALY
I’m a creative soul, a free spirit, a mother and a passionate human being. I’m an alchemist, born to transform, heal and shape a new paradigm of reality that is anchored in consciousness and truth. I’m here to raise group consciousness for the heart of the planet.
I have devoted my life to Self-awakening.
I’m a human being who created myself by transforming my pain into power, and adversity into strength.
I’m a spiritual alchemist who understands the value of facing shadows and transmuting them into light.
I journeyed down to the core of the devil and dark matter to illuminate the unseen realms, and to support the awakening of the soul to manifest love and healing.
I incarnate the spirit of a warrior, an ancient priestess, a joyful child, and a wild feminine fire goddess.
My wisdom comes from scratch, from true experience, and from my resilient nature.
I’m a free spirit committed to honoring the gift of life, and to supporting people to awaken and vibrate in happiness.
I am a Yoga Alliance certified instructor, certified biodynamic craniosacral therapist, shamanic healer,
massage therapist, and certified Gestalt counselor. I have been practicing and studying Mysore Ashtanga, Iyengar and other forms of yoga since 2002. I began practicing vipassana meditation in 2004, and use it as a very important tool to help others gain mindfulness.
The beauty in my approach is rooted in the variety and knowledge that I have gained through my self-development journey. I have studied conscious movement, 5 rhythms dance, dance therapy and bioenergetics. With all my experience, I have developed my own approach to body-mind-heart medicine, and body soul movement. And, recently, I began to study and incorporate sacred sexuality and tantra into some of my work, especially with women. I have been working with women on self-development and successful transition through different life phases since 2009.
I carry in my heart the vision of a humanity awaken and liberated from suffering.
I stand and trust the inner infinite source of self-healing in each of us and in the core of our planet.
I hold space for the unfolding of your own truth and the manifestation of your unique power and soul purpose.
We create together a safe, secret space where we can rise – despite all false sense of separation – to honor the gift of being alive.
LETICIA ARAVENA
ORGANIZER United States and Latin America
Leticia is a modern day Dakini & Temple Priestess, Somatic Erotic Embodiment Guide & Healer, Tantra Shamanic Body Worker, Performing Artist, WET mentor for Spanish/English speaking mentees, and ISTA Organizer seeding the landing of the Temple trainings in the USA and Latin America.
She stands for love, freedom, intoxicating self-love & pleasure, which takes embodiment – for the soul and body to integrate congruently, shaking off limiting beliefs that don’t serve us anymore…for reclamation of one’s power.
Leticia is dedicated to helping humanity embody complete soul-alignment, self trust, sovereignty, and sexual liberation.
In her personal offerings and mentoring, she is a guide in several areas in alchemizing: sexual trauma, shame & fear into orgasmic pleasure – disempowerment & shadows into untamed creativity, power, confidence – patterns of disconnection into profound pleasures & intimacy w/ self & others.
Leticia is here to support humanity on how to integrate all the sides of the self: the dark & the light, the feminine & the masculine, the mother & the whore and any other of the many polarities that exist to create one’s specific flavor of fully embodied human.
She is currently enrolled in Laurie Handler’s Sex and Happiness Coaching & Apprentice Program.
This retreat includes:
- 7 day / 6 night accommodations
- 3 vegetarian organic meals per day & snacks
- Full day transformational process and teachings
Note: Airfare and airport transfers are not included.
Tuition:
Regular 2500 USD
Nationals (Argentinian Locals Only) 1400 USD
Repeater (Limited Spots) 1900 USD
Assistants (Prioritizing Spanish-English Bi-lingual Assistants) 1600 USD
National Assistant (Prioritizing Spanish-English Bi-lingual ISTA) 1000 USD
- Assistant Application here Apply to Assist
** ISTA partial scholarships are available. (Limited Spots) Application required.
Leah Fund Scholarships Applicants, please follow the process outlined here https://ista.life/projects/leah-fund
World Empowerment Trust (WET) Fund Scholarship Applicants, please follow the process outlined here https://ista.life/projects/world-empowerment-trust
REGISTER HERE!
To begin your registration follow the two step process below.
Step 1. Please pay a deposit of 500 USD via
- ZELLE: leti418@yahoo.com or 773 319 4894
- WISE Account holder: Leticia Strange Huntington Bank Routing number: 084009519 Account number: 9600006593161036 Account type: Checking Wise’s address: 30 W. 26th Street, Sixth Floor New York NY 10010 United States
Step 2. Please complete the Registration Form
Terms
A commitment to ISTA is a commitment to yourself.
It is assumed that if you feel drawn to this training, it is not an accident. Your deposit and payments denote this commitment. Therefore, your deposit is non-refundable or transferable (with the sole exception of the training being canceled/deferred).
If for any reason you are unable to attend the training, you will receive a partial refund under the following conditions:
- If you cancel before December 29, 2023 (one month before the retreat begins): you will get a full refund of your tuition payments to date, minus the non-refundable deposit and minus any bank transfer fees if applicable.
- If you cancel between December 29, 2023 and before January 22, 2024 (up to one full week before the training begins): you will get a refund of 50% of your tuition payments to date, minus the non-refundable deposit and minus any bank transfer fees if applicable.
- If you cancel after January 22, 2024: No refunds.
- We will not be able to offer any refund should you decide to leave at any time after the first day of the training.
If ISTA has to cancel the event for any reason, a full refund will be given. We cannot, however, be held financially liable for expenses engaged by participants outside their tuition, such as travel to and from the venue, accommodations before and after the training, etc.
We recommend that transport and accommodation reservations for the periods before and after the event are made closer to the event, or flexible tickets and refundable accommodation reservations.
Thank you for understanding and honoring these agreements
© Leticia Aravena – Embodied Alchemy