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.

BRIANA CRIBEYER

FACULTY ORGANIZER United States

Briana was born under the full moon in the Midwest of the United States as the youngest daughter of a high priestess. She grew up eavesdropping on the creation of rituals and ceremonies of the sacred. She talked to plants and animals and listened deeply to their messages. Years later, fleeing the Midwest, she found wisdom in the mountains and forests of Colorado, New Hampshire, Washington– and living abroad in Japan and throughout South America. In that time, she absorbed the ways of the elders, and began to craft her connection back to the mother (earth) and womb medicine through movement, prayer, and shamanic practice.

Beginning her career in social services and education, leading to non-profit management, Briana wove the thread of a desire to serve throughout each step along her path. She sees all of her past career as energy work, supporting individuals and groups to find their own power to heal. With degrees in Sociology, a focus on ‘Race, Culture, Power,’ and Sexual Behavior, as well as a Natural Resources, focusing on sustainability, Briana brings humility of leadership and objectivity to board rooms, corporate offices, private sessions with couples, and family mediating alike.

Briana can most often be felt in her ecstatic joy, grinning ear to ear, channeling her maiden that loves to jump in puddles, and her priestess who gathers the energy and sends it whirling to create alchemy in all around. Her happy place is in facilitation, and workshop creation has been a constant for the past 15 years.

She is the co-founder of Sacred Sexuality Rising, a lead trainer for Intuitive Tantra, speaker and facilitator for The Ohio State University on the topic of sacred sexuality, and Executive Director of the Columbus Coalition for Sexuality.
She believes that deep and radical love, coupled with ownership and self-responsibility will shift the trajectory of humans on the planet.

To work with Briana directly, to book her for teaching or speaking engagements, and for more information, visit brianacribeyer.com

RICH PRIDDIS

FACULTY/ORGANIZER United States

Rich is dedicated to the work of Personal Empowerment through Healthy and Fulfilling Sexuality Guidance, especially with people who come from a strict and limiting religious background (his was Mormon). He does this through Experiential Coaching and Events.

Along with participating in ISTA trainings multiple times (including Level 1, 2 and 3, and Practitioner Training), Quodoushka, Shamanic De-Armoring, Tantra and other training, he became certified as a Cuddle Party Facilitator, as a way to introduce new ways-of-being to the conservative Utah community, where he raised his family (5 grown children and 9 grandchildren). One of his focuses is helping people from religious backgrounds, especially his Mormon heritage, to free themselves from the limiting “Box” of shame, control, guilt, judgment, and scarcity, to embrace their freedom to express and feel and live according to their individual truth. Rich has unique insight and understanding for people making the transition from ultra-conservative cultures, having served as a full-time missionary, “High Priest” and leader in his previous religious life, as well as a Master Mason (Freemasonry).

Starting and continuing to run a successful Record Label for over 30 years, Rich enjoys applying his years of music business experience to organizing ISTA trainings.

Within the word “Facilitator” is the Spanish word “Fácil” (easy). Rich is a facilitator in many ways, offering opportunities that make the path to healing and alignment easier.

LETICIA ARAVENA

ORGANIZER United States and Latin America

Leticia is a modern day Dakini & Temple Priestess, Somatic Erotic Embodiment Guide, 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.

Leticia is currently enrolled in Laurie Handler’s Sex and Happiness Coaching & Apprentice Program.