In this episode, ISTA facilitator Usha Rose speaks with systemic therapist and transformational guide Lars Borgmann about how to engage in conflict with others in a better way. 

As Lars explains, conflict can occur in any area of our lives, but our experiences of it are often so unpleasant that we aim to avoid it at any cost. Without being dealt with, it can fester underneath the surface of our relationships, causing even more problems. 

What we should do is stop seeing conflict as an indication that someone has done something wrong. Instead, we should take a systemic approach and see that everyone has their own internal conflicts, and their own complex desires, that are influencing the tense interaction.

If we see conflict as an opportunity for us to grow in our relationships with others, then we can begin collaborating with those we’re clashing with and create new solutions to the problems we’re facing. 

Lars speaks about how we can make this happen. He also addresses: 

·      Bringing love to conflict

·      Letting go of our need to control the truth

·      How conflicts are actually made-up of many smaller conflicts

·      The influence of past experience on present interactions

·      How 99% of our issues with others have already occurred within ourselves

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It's not just the stuff of science fiction. As ISTA Lead faculty member Michal Maayan Don explains, bending time is possible when we drop deeply into what we love to do. That may be easier said than done. But if we aim to be more authentic, and practice healthy boundaries, we might be surprised by how quickly that sense of timelessness can come about. 

In this spontaneous and bubbly conversation, Michal and Simon Marvell also explore themes of vibrations, connection, and uncaging eros. They delve into the importance of touch in fostering aliveness and the collective intelligence that emerges in group settings. 

Overall, the emphasis is on our need to reconnect with the spirit in matter and the significance of love and land in our lives. 

TAKEAWAYS

• Vibrations signify a higher level of aliveness in our bodies.
• Touch is essential for genuine connection and communication.
• Sexual energy can be uncaged and expressed in unconventional forms.
• Timelessness can be experienced in deep connections with others.
• Love and connection to the land enhance our experiences.
• Collective intelligence emerges when groups vibrate together.
• Spirit is present in matter and can be felt through our bodies.
• Reconnecting with our instincts is crucial for healthy boundaries.
• Vulnerability in groups fosters deeper connections and love.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Introduction to Vibrations and Aliveness
03:10 The Power of Touch and Connection
06:31 Uncaging Eros: Redefining Sexuality
12:44 The Intelligence of the Body and Instincts
19:57 The Role of Boundaries and Emotional Energy
25:30 Experiencing Timelessness in Connection
31:31 Love and Connection with the Land
39:30 Acknowledging Indigenous Connections to Land
43:01 The Spirit in Matter and Animal Instincts
51:44 The Vibrational Intelligence of Groups

It has become common to talk about creating safer spaces for healing work. And this is a good thing. Everyone in the field of conscious sensuality, embodiment, and healing work should be looking to improve their practice and rise to higher standards of care, support, awareness, and sensitivity.

At the same time, it has also become common to resist this advancement in favour of the idea that self-development spaces should reflect the level of safety in the outside world. And sometimes, for some people, the world can feel really dangerous. People who take this view might say that this is how we learn resilience, or how we can turn difficulty into growth. 

But for our guest in this episode, somatic psychotherapist Shelby Leigh, if we are interested in the resolution of the trauma that affects so many of our lives, the spaces we enter for healing simply must be environments grounded in values of connection, responsibility, and trust. 

For Leigh, trauma is anything that overwhelms us, and it can stay with us if we never have a chance to naturally complete our body’s survival response to that overwhelming thing. The feeling of overwhelm can stay with us, separating us from our sense of belonging in the world, and inhibiting our capacity for healthy relationships. 

In her conversation with ISTA facilitator, Usha Rose, Leigh speaks about just how important it is to learn skills of self-regulation, stillness, and boundaries in a safe environment. It is then that we are in a great position to step into the revolutionary practice of taking those skills into the dynamic, playful, and perhaps riskier outside world. 

Some of the topics covered in this episode are: 

• Relating with others as the medicine we need.
  
  
• Understanding your ‘attachment style.’
  
  
• Growing up with narcissistic parents. 
  
  
• When complex trauma gets misdiagnosed as ADHD or anxiety. 
  
  
• Protocols for people working in healing spaces.
  
  
• Not pushing past your ‘no.’ 
  
  
• Stepping slowly into healing spaces. 
  
  
• Nervous system regulation as meditation. 

You can learn more about Shelby at her website: https://www.shelby-leigh.com/

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Over the last couple of years, Dave Boda has been really critical of ISTA. He’s composed blog-posts and spoken openly about how some of the people involved need to improve, and how some of the ways ISTA approaches its work need to fall away. 

In this episode, he talks with ISTA facilitator, the podcast founder, and his old friend, Ria Yoshida, about how important it is to not only have these frank conversations about improving the sacred sexuality space, but to do it in an engaged and loving way. 

Although Dave has not attended an ISTA experience himself, he has  facilitated hundreds of events in the spiritual self-development space and draws, here, on his experience there. He has also been through an extended mediation process with ISTA in his role with the group, Safer Sex Positive and Spiritual Communities. 

For him, it is crucial for communities to acknowledge when it is time to shift with the times, and grow along with those who form them. 

Dave and Ria cover many points of wisdom that have arrived for both of them in their journeys of self-exploration, like: 

• How important it is to take breaks from going to workshops or festivals and integrate what you’ve learned into ordinary life. 
  
  
• How we need to take accountability for what happens in our lives, and for when we’ve made mistakes. 
  
  
• How important it is to really listen to feedback. 
  
  
• How we often stay working on projects that no longer serve us because it’s what we get rewarded for. 
  
  
• How it is really difficult to genuinely do the work of taking responsibility. 

We hope you enjoy this frank, and very real, conversation.


To learn more about Dave, visit his website: https://boodaism.com/

To learn more about Safer Sex Positive and Spiritual Communities, visit their website: https://3sc.community/

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There’s a lot of hot debate about the ethics of transformational spaces right now, driven by questions of how power should be held in these spaces. Who should be responsible if something goes wrong? Just what are the limits of what gets taught?

Maybe it would be easier not to create spaces for transformational work, for looking at shadows and how power moves. Maybe making such spaces, if they are still to exist, should be made so anodyne as to neutralize whatever challenges people might feel around these issues (including sexuality).

Our guest, Elica Lorde-Syzygy, a transpersonal counsellor and Internal Family Systems therapist, is on today’s show to discuss these questions. In this conversation Elica explains how we can be so accustomed to pointing the finger at others that we miss many opportunities to pass over the threshold of responsibility to a more sovereign and resilient selfhood. 

The reasons we do this are understandable. We don’t want to be exiled from the groups that support our thriving. We’re part of a larger culture that perhaps wants us to remain attached to archetypal figures of the mother and the father. But if we stay like that, we remain dependent! 


We might find ourselves getting to a place, in ourselves and in the groups we are part of, where these kinds of subconsciously dependent relations are just simply not working any more, and are causing more harm than good. It’s at this point, Elica explains, that we can get to work…

To learn more about Elica, visit her website: 

https://www.b-inghuman.com/our-story-1

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In this episode, Ria talks with Dr. Jen Howk about the collision of science and mysticism in the field of evolutionary psychology. With her feet planted firmly in both worlds, Dr. Jen delves into the how and why of our psychological quirks, revealing some of the mysteries of our development as a species.

In particular, she tackles the intriguing phenomenon of cancel culture. In doing so, she explores the historical roots of our collective drive to create ‘in’-groups and ‘out’-groups, explaining that it was a crucial strategy in ancient communities for protecting against threats.

Conformity, she argues, often stems from a deep-seated fear of being relegated to one of these 'out'-groups—a survival instinct that persists, even when it may no longer be necessary.

It turns out that there are many unhelpful characteristics of contemporary culture which derive from our instinct to survive and reproduce. According to Dr. Jen, we can feel a sense of freedom, and find compassion for ourselves and others, when we understand that it might be these instincts pushing us towards behaving in one way or another. 

We can feel similar feelings when we acknowledge our ability to choose alternatives. 

In this conversation, Ria and Jen also cover: 

• Coercion as a defining mark of cults
• The ‘Big Five’ personality characteristics
• How our behaviour can often be explained by what evolutionary goals we are trying to achieve
• The problems with ‘blank slate’ thinking
• The importance of connecting with nature

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Do you ever feel like you’re being held back in life by events and circumstances that are out of your control? Maybe you find yourself in uncomfortable, even terrible, circumstances thinking to yourself: how did I even get here? And, how do I get out?

These are questions that arrived powerfully in the life of Carolyn Elliot, transformational guide and author of the book, Existential Kink. We won’t give too much away, but as she explains in this episode, she was really in a bind. And then, almost by accident, she had the realisation that ‘having is evidence of wanting.’

Elliot had to come to terms with the idea that some part of her had wanted to be in the difficult, unpleasant situation she was in. Maybe not on the surface, but deeper down. 

Her journey was then about being able to unravel what she has come to call her ‘existential kink,’ which she defines as a desire for something that others might think too edgy, or outright bad. It’s ‘existential’ because the kink is about life, not just sexy stuff. 

For her, the key is to bring consciousness to what we enjoy in even the ‘bad’ parts of our lives. This can help release their hold over us. 

Stay tuned all the way to the end of this lively and fascinating conversation to be guided through the existential kink practice that Elliot details in her runaway classic book of the same name! 

To learn more about Carolyn, please visit her website and join her email list: 

https://carolynlovewell.com/ 

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In this, his third episode with the Spiritual, Sexual, Shamanic Podcast, ISTA Lead Facilitator and member of ISTA’s governing council, Raffaello Manacorda, speaks about shamanic leadership. 

What is shamanic leadership? Raffa explains that it’s an essential component of taking responsibility within groups of people. Instead of competing for powerful positions within organizations and then ruling through domination and manipulation, he says, what we can do is understand the role of the leader as similar to that of the shaman. 

A shamanic leader has the capacity to sense and respond to the subtle energy moving within a group, and to make decisions based on a felt sense of what needs to occur. This, Raffa says, is only possible when those called into leadership are able to bring the power in their own bodies along for the ride. 

Shamanic leadership is also based on a fundamentally different leadership culture than many of us are used to. Raffa paints the picture of a ‘cloud’ roving over a group of people, a cloud which will stop above the head of the person who is being called into leadership and strike them with shamanic lightning. An investment of great power indeed, and often only for a temporary period of time...

If you're a practitioner, facilitator, or entrepreneur who's leading a group of people (or sees a future in it), this is especially for you. 

Join us for this deep and enlightening conversation, where Simon and Raffa explore the benefits and inevitable dangers of this kind of leadership.


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ISTA Facilitator Nimai Sun Ra grew up without a father. As a result, he has felt, perhaps more urgently than most, the need to become his own father figure. To provide himself stability, guidance, and the strength that a biological father might often provide. 

In recent years, he has been on a journey of extending that experience of fatherhood from himself to his own two young sons. As he tells us in this conversation with Usha, the journey of fatherhood has been the best, most important, thing he has ever done. Every initiation he has been through in his life, he says, has been a preparation for the initiation of fatherhood. 

And it has been an initiation, with wonderful new realisations mixed in with unavoidable difficulties. In this episode Nimai talks about how his relationship with his beloved, the mother of his children, shifted dramatically, how he could not get through it without the support of other, older brothers, and how he had to deal with failure. 


And he reflects deeply on the spiritual journey of fatherhood, on how important a role it is to be able to play in the world, whether it is with your own children, other’s, or in a more symbolic way. 


Nimai also covers: 

• Navigating fatherhood and open relating
• The value of focussing on fatherhood without distraction
• How becoming a father can shifts romantic relationships
• The importance of community when kids come along
• The role of your inner parent
• Distortions in the role of the father
• How the father is often the one called on to set boundaries

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Growing up in rural Austria, ISTA facilitator Ashisha Arpana’s favorite toy was her imagination. She gleefully played with it, eventually turning what happened in her mind's eye into a career in film and media. 

The imagination, she tells us in this deep and exploratory episode, is one of the most important keys for us in letting go of the old, disempowering stories we tell ourselves and getting back into currency with life as it moves through us. 

Ashisha explains that we can spark our imagination—our vision of an amazing, vibrant present—through mythology. This is not just a collection of stories from ancient cultures, but living, breathing codes for tapping into the source of our inner worlds. It is where the pulse of life comes from. 

And there are some simple things we can do to allow this source of our inner life to pour through us into the world, allowing us to shape-shift and, ultimately, choose how our future will go.

Simon and Ashisha also discuss:

• how we often out-source our imagination to Hollywood
• how myths are always evolving. They’re not for copywriting!
• coming back to the child-like sense of wonder in each of us
• our bodies as instruments of the soul
• what a soul is and how to communicate with it
• collective dreaming and shaping culture from there
• the imagination of the heart in the Sufi tradition
• how to reclaim your own story, step-by-step, without judgement

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In this episode, Usha talks with ISTA Facilitator Aya Kamānakai about reclaiming sexuality as a pathway to personal empowerment and spiritual connection.

Growing up in the Christian church, Aya was taught to shut down her sexuality. As she moved into adulthood, she found herself unable to access pleasure in her body and had resigned herself to a life without it. This was until, in desperation, she sought out a sexual healer who guided her into releasing her full, orgasmic potential. 

Almost immediately, she was able to allow this release of repressed energy to literally pour out into other areas of her life: her relationships, her business, and her visions for cultural evolution. Sex magic, as she explains in this episode, is possible when we use pleasure as a doorway to whatever wants to be expressed. We can use the power that comes with this deep freedom of expression to bring what we dream into reality. 

Some of the topics Aya and Usha discuss are: 

• The profound significance of Aya’s first time squirting
• The connection between sexual energy and purpose
• How self-pleasure works best when we don’t feel like it
• Finding our easiest access points to pleasure
• How you can transform any aspect of your sexuality, even physiological ones
• How to access your sexual energy by yourself

And, as a delicious extra, at the end of the episode, Aya leads a beautiful meditation into connecting with life-force (44:00-49:00). 

About Aya:

Allured by the wild and the beauty within us, Aya Kamānakai is a passionate advocate for embracing pleasure and reclaiming our sexual energy. With a deep reverence for ancient wisdom and a belief in the intelligence stored inside our bodies, Aya calls upon all beings, but especially women, to reconnect with their innate power and unlock their highest potential. 

Picture this: you’re in a long, long-term relationship with another person. You both have dynamic, ‘larger-than-life’ personalities. You have four kids together, and busy schedules full of big projects. It seems almost impossible to fit in time for each other. Life is interesting, but you’re realizing how easy it is to put off moments of deeper connection. Then, one day, almost out of nowhere, you decide together that you’re going to make love every day.

Every. Single. Day.

This is no imaginary story! In this episode of the Spiritual, Sexual, Shamanic Podcast, ISTA organizer and certified coach, Matilda Gregersdotter, talks with Ria about how her and her husband have had s*x everyday since 2008. That’s 15 years, if you do the math. As she explains, it has been a beautiful journey, with many benefits she is keen to share with others.

These are just some of the topics that Matilda and Ria cover:

• how regular love-making is nourishing and refreshing
• how to effortlessly include love-making in a busy schedule
• the idea of ‘meeting each other’
• resolving conflict that would make s*x impossible
• expanding what love-making means
• how the body and mind become more receptive to touch, not less
• how it’s impossible to get bored when you treat each time as the first time
• how to practice the art of coming back to love
• the brilliant Game of “Yes”
• what happens when we find ways to release unnecessary resistance

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Aténougha is an Nganga (teacher) and bridge to the Bwiti Missoko tradition of Central Africa, where he helps people find transformation through this ancient spiritual science.

In this conversation, Caitlyn Cook asks him, in a world that seems more and more chaotic, warring and disconnected, how do we relate to it as spiritual people? How does a spiritually mature person act or perceive this without being overwhelmed, disheartened or paralysed?

Recorded in Libreville, Gabon, Aténougha explores the link between inner and outer conflict—and how everything begins from within...

Rather than being overwhelmed, a spiritual person learns to understand their “position”, embracing both light and dark and choosing grounded ways to create change.

The conversation includes..

• Spiritual views on war & crisis: Why war is not only political but energetic—and how to relate to it without fear or paralysis.

• The importance of position: How recognising — and possibly shifting — your internal stance can change your outer experience.

• From overwhelm to action: Why change starts small (in your home, relationships, and community) and grows from there.

• Recognizing symptoms early: War doesn't just happen 'out there', it starts inside of you. Notice signs of conflict or misalignment and the role of daily practice in becoming more attuned...

• Balancing and accepting light and dark: How to meet life’s polarities with wisdom, understanding that everything is part of the whole.

Learn more about Aténougha and the Bwiti Missoko tradition, www.bwitiinitiations.com

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If you've ever been to a spiritual retreat, you might know that they can be totally blissful places. Dancing, good food, vibrant people, deep teaching. Paradise! 

Yes, they can involve difficult emotions, and sometimes the teachings can be complex, but that's often part of the experience.

So, what happens when it all comes to an end and you have to head back home and, somehow, put all you learned and experienced into action for real? 

Well, in this episode of the Spiritual, Sexual, Shamanic podcast, ISTA Lead Facilitator Crystal Dawn Morris tells us about her own experiences with blissed out states of being and how she integrates them into her ongoing life. 

She shares about some important tools she teaches in ISTA trainings for processing tough emotional experiences and maintaining our sensitivity, and goes deep on a unique experience she has designed especially for bringing spiritual training into every day reality, "Living Level One."

She also talks about: 

• Her first ever altered state of consciousness
• The concept and practice of "sonic driving"
• Our Emotional Guidance System
• The practice of Aspecting and how to do it
• How the emotional body works

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In this episode of the Spiritual, Sexual, Shamanic Podcast, ISTA facilitator Aaron Kleinerman delves into the topic of men's work and the importance of creating safe spaces for men to explore their vulnerability and receptivity.

Through many years of holding these kinds of spaces, Aaron has found that there is great benefit in men embracing both their masculine and feminine energies. It can lead to a deeper sense of inner union and empowerment. He acknowledges that societal conditioning often discourages men from fully embodying their feminine side, and that this can hinder their personal growth and evolution. The overall aim is for men to be able to break free from these constraints and unlock their full potential.

In response to criticism of men's work, Argues argues that it is not about reinforcing the patriarchy or promoting conservative gender roles. Instead, he sees it as an opportunity for men to relax into their masculinity, to let go of their fears and insecurities, and to share experiences with other men who may have had similar life experiences. From this more relaxed place, men can show up for themselves, the people in their lives, and their communities in a more healthy way.

Overall, Aaron’s message is one of empowerment and growth. By embracing both their masculine and feminine energies, and by creating safe spaces for exploration and growth, men can achieve a deeper sense of inner union and become better equipped to navigate the challenges of life.


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In this episode, Usha talks with s*x engineer, Elisa Caro. An Apprentice Facilitator with ISTA, Elisa dives into one of her favorite topics: the many different kinds of orgasm that people in femme bodies can experience. 

Elisa covers some of these juicy and, some may consider, controversial areas of discovery: 

• how femme bodies are wired for pleasure
• the importance of breast play
• the difference between implosive and explosive orgasm
• how you can turn waves of pleasure into states of orgasm
• how to access orgasm if you find it difficult
• prioritizing comfort and pleasure
• allowing time for arousal to development

So much of ISTA's teaching is about coming back to feeling subtle energy as it moves through the body. As Elisa explains, this process of coming back to feeling is a beautiful and profound journey, especially for people in femme bodies. 

The kinds of orgasm Elisa talks about are: 

• nipple ones (yum)
• anal ones (lube and slowness, please)
• vaginal opening ones (lots of nerve endings)
• g-spot ones (requires preparation)
• cervical ones (super deep)
• clitoral ones (glorious)
• full body ones (the ultimate)

Get ready to learn a whole bunch about what your beautiful body can do!

Dos conceptos que suelen encontrarse separados, pero ¿Cuál es la relacion entre ellos?

En esta conversación con Luis, KamalaDevi McClure nos habla sobre:

• El uso del Eros como medicina sagrada, su experiencia como figura poliamorosa, coach y madre, y el potencial del chamanismo para sanar heridas sexuales.
• El matrimonio Interior, y cómo el cosmos está contenido dentro de cada uno de nosotros.
• El aprendizaje y estudio del chamanismo.
• Las experiencias "negativas" en los viajes chamánicos.
• Contenidos de los niveles 1 y 2 de ISTA.
  
  

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Initiation is an unavoidable part of life. We’re constantly being initiated into new experiences, whether we like it or not. Sometimes we thrive in these experiences, but sometimes they can be traumatic. Sometimes we get stuck in a loop in the process. 

What a dedicated space for initiation can provide is a way to go through important rites of passage deliberately, powerfully, and with the attentive support of a community…

Laura Deva, who is a ISTA + Highden Temple facilitator and psychotherapist, illuminates this on our show. In conversation with Simon, she explores the differences and similarities between therapeutic spaces and spaces of initiation. 

Some of the topics Laura touches on are: 

• Getting stuck on ‘loop’ when life is giving you an initiation
• The importance of resolution and integration
• The power of group processes
• The element of surprise
• Letting our bodies guide us
• Reaching out for help

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When ISTA Apprentice Dane Tomas got started in spirituality, his focus was on ascension. "It was 'go up to the higher realms'; it was Buddhism, it was psychedelics, it was meditation, and it was all so wonderful," he says. 

But he started to realize that, although the people he was hanging out with there "in Rainbow Dolphin Land," were mentally and, maybe, ethereally powerful, "they were all fucking broke and couldn't pay their rent." 

What he found, through experimenting with his own life, is that the missing piece was integration. The people who knew a lot about money and how to get it were blocked in their sexuality, and the people who were super juicy in their sexuality struggled to make any money. 

So, Dane started working with people on embodiment, creativity, shadow work, and being unapologetically themselves, creating modalities like The Spiral to make this teaching around manifestation stick. Now, he helps people understand what magic actually is: getting your intention and your reality into alignment. 

In this episode, hosted by Ria Yoshida, Dane talks about: 

• Beginning as a broke Aussie rapper
• Hating the coaching industry
• How to use spiritual techniques
• The nervous system's tolerance for change
• Navigating open relating
• Why we get rejected
• How paying your taxes is sexy

If you like this episode, please leave a rating and review! To find out more about ISTA trainings or to work with our faculty, see www.ista.life, or find us on social, FB: ista.life and IG:@ista_tribe

What does my soul really want, and how do I dream it? Then, how do I make it a reality? In this episode, ISTA faculty member and CEO of the conscious dating app, Lua, Makatu Roni, guides us through some answers to these questions. For him, they hold the key to what is missing in the world right now. He tells his story of manifesting his soul-calling in Lua and, before that, the ecstatic dance community in Israel. It is so important, he says, to become aware of where we, ourselves, shine. Maybe it’s in a surprising way, or in an unexpected role. Then, we must be patient. Opportunities will arise. And when they do, go for it! See it all the way through... Tune in for this and more. 

You can download the Lua app here: https://www.lua.earth/

In this episode, Simon talks with ISTA faculty Stephanie Phillips, who happens to be his biological mother! They dive into issues of inter-generational healing and what it can really look like to address family relationships head-on. Simon explores with Stephanie her signature teaching: “being in the body brings us home.” By coming back to the body, Stephanie says, we give ourselves the chance to be alive to our life-force, our orgasmic energy. Maybe it’s this realisation of the energy running through our bodies that is the key to feeling safety in ourselves, feeling a full range of emotions, getting in touch with our natural innocence, and awakening to exciting future possibilities. 

Learn more about the ISTA Family Fusion event: www.istafamilyfusion.com

"When you know, you know," an old sage once said. And the power of sexual shamanism is one of those things. You can't forget it once you've experienced it. In this episode, ISTA Level 1 and 2 facilitator, Michal Mayan Don, marvels at the rapidly emerging culture of people who now carry this knowledge. As she explains, what we are doing when we train in sexual shamanism is preparing our bodies to be able to hold more energy. To be able to move intense feelings, sensations, and experiences through our bodies with ease.  When we do that, we can use that energy for magic!

The midwest region of the USA is not famous for its radical attitudes towards sexuality. You might usually associate that area of the world with conservative values, fields of wheat, unpredictable weather (hello cyclone season!), sports, and very nice folks. In today’s episode we hear from ISTA facilitator Briana Cribeyer who grew up in the Midwest reveals a different story, one of a land that has been a place for spiritual, embodied emergence for, literally, thousands of years.

In this episode we also get into the the art of group transformation, priestess mothers, what to do with the subtle signs of nature, how to approach life with a generous outlook, the magic of new relationship energy, a beautiful poetry reading, and lot of laughter.

Learn more about Briana at her website: brianacribeyer.com

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Kamela Love is an integrative mediator, transformational relationship coach, and former lawyer who blends diverse teachings—from mystical Sufism to neuroscience and Tantra—to explore personal and organizational growth. 

She is the founder of Transform Into Love and co-founder of Queer Tantric Arts. With over 15 years of experience identifying as queer and poly, Kamela is passionate about awakening humanity to societal justice and divine love.

In recent years, she has worked with ISTA faculty and organizers as a mediator, helping to improve their conflict resolution skills and capacity to take accountability. 

In this conversation with Usha Rose, Kamela speaks in depth about the importance of taking accountability. She emphasizes that good leadership is actually founded on the ability to acknowledge where harm has been caused, entering into a process of repair, and seeing if there is a way for all to consensually move forward. 

It’s a rich exploration, relevant to leaders everywhere, indeed to anyone participating in a relationship where power dynamics are at play. It might be between a manager and employee, teacher and student, coach and client, or facilitator and group. It could even be within personal relationships like parent and child, or between romantic partners.

Topics Covered Include:

• Responsibility vs. Accountability and Why It Matters: The distinction between fulfilling duties and taking ownership of the outcomes of those actions, especially when things go sideways.
  
  
  
• The Importance of Accountability in Leadership: Why some leaders might shy away from accountability and how those who embrace it see it as a path for deeper growth and collective empowerment, fostering trust and integrity within their leadership and communities.
  
  
  
• Practical Tips for Leaders: Key practices for preventing harm, addressing it effectively when it happens, and steps to minimize the need for future accountability processes—such as trauma-informed approaches, proactive feedback systems, and cultivating emotional intelligence.
  
  
  
• Understanding Power Dynamics: A look into the responsibilities and vulnerabilities inherent in both “up power” and “down power” roles, highlighting how understanding and navigating these dynamics is crucial for fostering healthier relationships and communities.

Learn more about Kamela Love here: https://www.transformintolove.com/

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A life full of creativity, sensuality, beauty, and connection… How to cultivate it?

In this episode, we talk with ISTA Lead Faculty member Raffaello Manacorda about what it means to bring the culture of conscious sexuality into your life, and how to share it with those around you. And it's not just about sex. We can do this through delicious meals, slow walks through the forest, cuddles on the couch, and moving our bodies in ways that feel good. We can also do it by listening to music that carries the energy of the reality we are calling in, and maybe learning how to play it.

Raffaello led the creation of the first ISTA Songbook, a compilation of songs written and performed by musicians from the ISTA community. We discuss how the songbook came to be, listen to some he has developed a close connection to, and dive deep into their unique gifts.

You can visit the songbook yourself here. 

​​Coming from his experience as a soldier in the Israeli military, and from studying Kung Fu in a Chinese temple, ISTA Facilitator, Or Koren, speaks about how you can integrate ALL parts of yourself into your life on this planet. The body is central. "If we choose to walk this path of embodiment and integration in the attempt to heal our trauma," he says, "we have to do so slowly, step by step. And we have to be in the heart." Join us as Or takes us through the practicalities of how can do this. 

The word "Tantra" gets used a lot these days, sometimes in ways that challenge what the word really refers to. ISTA Facilitator, Bynoi D'Souza, has tracked Tantra from the root, growing up in India, reading and speaking Sanskrit, travelling the world, and teaching what could be called the path's ever-erupting LIFE. In this episode, Bynoi explores some heights and depths of Tantric study, including the teaching of cultivating kundalini energy, the life-force energy that runs through every body. Tune in!

Find more of Bynoi: 

https://lovemovementevolution.com/

@bynoidesouza

We can all, perhaps, relate to feeling older. We might feel it more acutely at one time, or another. But, often, as we notch up the years — or decades — there can be a feeling that we’re supposed to slip into the background. To stop participating in life. To turn our volume down and be less visible.

As ISTA Facilitator, Penny Goldmuntz, explains, this absolutely does not have to be the case. "What I want people to understand," she says, "is that all of life has these spirals of things that we're dealing with. They're the same issues, but they're different. We're always going through the seasons of change. We go through this process in all of the ages we pass through. What keeps me feeling vibrant is allowing myself to feel the rebirth." Listen-in for an enlivening episode for people at every stage of life! 

When you hear the word "shamanic," what do you think of? Maybe you think of plant medicines, psychedelic drugs, or transcendental experiences. Maybe you think of energy, and the world of the immaterial and spiritual. In this episode, ISTA Facilitator, Juan Es Alzate Mejia, talks about what shamanism means to him and how he discovered that he had access to subtle layers of reality that shaman are known to have access to. Most importantly, he explains how to stay connected to these magical abilities once you know how to access them. 

Do you struggle with navigating multiple relationships while staying committed, to yourself and to your partner? Do you want to explore surrendering to the essence of love while staying authentically true to yourself? 
In this episode of The Spiritual Sexual Shamanic Podcast, Ria Yoshida (who usually asks the questions!) answers on leaning into partnership as a growth opportunity and spiritual practice. Ria is an author and relationship coach, supporting people around the globe with their sex lives and intimate relationships.

Listen in to hear Ria on:
• polyamorous open relating and marriage
• clearing distortions through sacred relating
• meeting extraordinary growth and spirituality in the mundane 
• marriage and sovereignty
• 'infinite chances' as a practice of forgiveness

If you liked this episode, please leave a rating and review! To find out more about ISTA trainings or to work with our faculty, see www.ista.life, or find us on social, FB: ista.life and IG:@ista_tribe

In this fascinating episode, Javi Martinez shares about her journey as a shapeshifter, not falling into any of the conventions. Javi is a bridge between the worlds, and embodies a direct transmission of what it means to transcend massive barriers, courageously exploring gender with full guidance from Spirit. Javi is a LGBTQI Educator and Trainer, a Mental Health Counsellor, a Sex and Sensuality Educator for the Trans-Feminine and their lovers, and a bridge that connects all within the spectrum of Gender through understanding and compassion.

Listen in to hear Javi on:
• living in the mystery of gender transcendence
• transitioning and the deep medicine of self-love
• living with a male brain while developing a feminine brain 
• going through female adolescence in your 40's!
• living in full devotion to Spirit
• WET - World Empowerment Trust, ISTA's program for diversity and inclusion

If you liked this episode, please leave a rating and review! 
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Most of us have been brought up in a culture that is traumatized around sex... Ellie Wilde is deeply interested in redefining sexuality so that being in the experience and enjoying is more important than performing. In this episode, Ellie shares about her exploration of how relaxed states of arousal can foster profound restorative Eros, and bring about more connection with oneself and with the partner.

Listen in to hear Ellie on:

•  redefining the linear and goal driven narrative around sexuality that we most grow up with
• the beauty and pleasure of more down regulated states of being
• the massive realm of subtle exploration, much more internal and passive, when we learn to deeply relax the body
• letting go of the agenda for arousal, and exploring the organic flow that is present  
• how to cultivate yin sexuality, so that we can be energised and deeply relaxed at the same time 

You can reach Ellie at www.yinsexuality.com
Yinsexuality or Ellie Wilde on fb
Yinsexuality on Instagram

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Do you sometimes feel yourself accelerating in ways that aren't the most supportive to your authentic being? Do you long for respecting the pace of your heart, of your body, of all your emotions and hidden places where your true power and beauty reside? Avishag aims deep, and shares here with us her research on slowing down in order to feel more. 

Listen in to hear Avishag on:
- daring the intimacy of the deep waters
- moving slower and doing less, in order to feel more
- discovering that feeling more doesn't need more stimulation
- taking the time to visit some of the hidden parts in ourselves
- changing patterns in sexuality, taking a different turn at the usual junctions

If you liked this episode, please leave a rating and review! To find out more about ISTA trainings or to work with our faculty, see www.ista.life, or find us on social, FB: ista.life and IG:@ista_tribe

Are you interested in increasing your focus, energy and motivation by tapping into the immense possibilities of your sexual energy? Do you want to live in a way that you can embody your full potential and manifest your deepest desires? Buddhi Dana is welcoming you to come closer and explore... Buddhi is a man of the heart who is walking the Tantric path for the last 20 years. A spiritual leader, skillful Temple priest, ISTA facilitator, yoga teacher, DJ, and a vessel for divine energy. 

Listen for Buddhi's inspired wisdom on…

• How to climb to orgasmic heights without losing your energy
• How dopamine, oxytocin & serotonin are working together during orgasm
• How to work with these hormones so that they work for you
• Growing up as men and manifesting our deep desires in the world
• The difference between orgasm and ejaculation
• Breathing exercises to move from sympathetic to parasympathetic nervous system
• Generating DMT in your body with breathing!
• Harnessing the potential available from your libido

If you liked this episode, please leave a rating and review! To find out more about ISTA trainings or to work with our faculty, see www.ista.life, or find us on social, FB: ista.life and IG:@ista_tribe

In this first episode of the 6th season, Simon Marvell talks to blockchain pioneer and ISTA ally Jamie Zigelbaum about how the evolution of digital governance models can help us create smarter organizations and communities. 

Jamie's insights come from his career as a researcher, artist, and from contributions to billion-dollar Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) projects. Most of his work has been carried out under an online pseudonym, so the name might be unfamiliar!

His message is that while the sophisticated blockchain technology that has been developed in recent years might not have many real-world applications yet, it promises to provide solutions, in the future, to some of the most complex problems we face.  

And these problems and solutions are not only technical ones. Jamie says that how we communicate with each other, how we trust one another, how we arrange ourselves into groups, and how well we work together in those groups can be enhanced as a result of these innovations. 

Tune in for this thoughtful and clarifying conversation, especially if you’ve previously been turned off by the subject of digital technology! 

To get in touch with Jamie, please email us and we will link you up: media@ista.life

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Regardless of your sex, you embody masculine and feminine energy. The question is, how are these energies showing up? Are they in harmony or dominating each other? Are they in service to your life, or sabotaging it? Clara Gomez Santos, ISTA facilitator, shares with Ria how females can bring forward ‘The Man Within’. 
Listen in to dive into…

• Cultivating and embodying the mature aspects of your masculine energy
• How to develop the inner masculine so that there is inner balance
• How your inner man can show up for you in your daily life
• Developing non-judgement & compassion towards the masculine
• Inner masculine initiation & the inner marriage
• Committing the inner gaze to looking at the undeveloped parts, and to loving them
• Growing and maturing the inner masculine

If you liked this episode, please leave a rating and review! To find out more about ISTA trainings or to work with our faculty, see www.ista.life, or find us on social, FB: ista.life and IG:@ista_tribe

Jasmeen Hana, ISTA Faculty and shamanic guide between worlds, our guest in this delightful episode, takes us on a journey of sex & spirit, soul & animal, dark & light, to remember our primal and innocent nature, through the ancient and recorded wisdom of the Egyptian Temple Arts.

In this episode, dive with Jasmeen into…

• Finding our place in the Tree of Life, getting to know the anatomy of our Spirit
• What is a Temple Art?
• Egyptian cosmology and working with the intelligence of the different Gods and Goddesses in daily life
• Life as a Temple Art, choosing to live in the sacredness of Life itself
• The Lotus flower medicine, beauty rising from the muck
• The journey into the Underworld and the gateways to keep lightening the heart
• Vibrational and sound work

If you liked this episode, please leave a rating and review! To find out more about ISTA trainings or to work with our faculty, see www.ista.life, or find us on social, FB: ista.life and IG:@ista_tribe

Have you ever felt like you’ve been pressed into a mould, and asked yourself if you can live a bigger life than this? 
Patrik Oltermann, a radical Christian pastor, ISTA facilitator, Bhakti Yogi and queer pirate, shares wisdom from a lifetime of not fitting in, happy and humorously following the path of Freedom. 

Hear Patrik on...

• Navigating the tension between the ordinary and the extra-ordinary
• Innocently ignoring cultural and spiritual norms, when society tells you to stay small
• Navigating and being ok with being the crazy one 
• Embodying and vibrating who you truly are
• Why we need more pirates!

If you liked this episode, please leave a rating and review! To find out more about ISTA trainings or to work with our faculty, see www.ista.life, or find us on social, FB: ista.life and IG:@ista_tribe

Rituals can be small or elaborate, but when done with intentionality, they all hold creative and spiritual power. But what makes something a ritual vs a habit? How does one 'do' ritual? What are the keys for deep and transformative group rituals?

Dawn Cherie Ezrahi, Lead ISTA Facilitator and initiatress of SSSTar (Spiritual Sexual Shamanic Ritual Theatre) speaks with us about the anatomy of ritual and what happens when theatre meets this sacred art.

Dawn shares...

• How to know when the mundane has transformed into ritual space
• The role of presence and intention
• Keys for holding a container in a group ritual
• The importance of releasing expectation in ritual
• The role of gratitude in ritual
• When art meets ritual: Ritual Theatre
• Ritual as an antidote to materialistic busyness
• Death and ritual
• Intentional prayer vs worry

A must-listen for any priestees, practitioners, facilitators or artists who work with groups.

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Falling in love can bring up intense emotions and ecstatic experiences. With tsunamis of neurochemicals and exhilarating heart-opening, we can meet our own soul, taste unconditional love, and experience wholeness in deep ways. It's big stuff for our spiritual evolution.

But what happens when the 'love potion' runs out? Lead Facilitator Aramina Barbour shares with us how modern society throws in the towel so easily in relationship and we risk becoming branch jumpers, searching for the next high.

Hear Araminta's personal relationship and break up stories as she shares...

• How to navigate when 'things get hard'
• Knowing if you should break up or hunker down
• Understanding golden shadows in relationship
• Why expectations and projections make relationships a minefield and how to go beyond them
• How to know if you're addicted to the high of falling in love
• Relationship as an opportunity to explore God and Goddess within yourself
• How to navigate the intensity of break up emotions
• Grief as a precious messenger
• Recognising where you seek outside ourselves for sustenance (it will never be fulfilled there!)

If you liked this episode, please leave a rating and review! To find out more about ISTA trainings or to work with our faculty, see www.ista.life, or find us on social, FB: ista.life and IG:@ista_tribe

Tune in to hear Bruce Lyon (ISTA Pioneer/Wisdom Circle and Highden Founder) share truth bombs about...

• Living beyond instinctual herd life and finding your authentic core
• How to burst into flame and radiate who you really are regardless of what others think
• Liberating your sexual energy and your emotional energy to find your power
• How to go beyond being an 'individual' and wake up to your part as a cell in the Great organism of Life
• Confronting the death-wish that's in the shadow, personally and collectively
• Going beyond survival to live something far wilder and more adventurous
• When love has grows stronger than the desire to be liked
• Receiving projection as a way to water blast remnants of the ego
• Testing the 'friendly universe' and taking risks towards authenticity.

If you liked this episode, please leave a rating and review! To find out more about ISTA trainings or to work with our faculty, see www.ista.life, or find us on social, FB: ista.life and IG:@ista_tribe

Trauma processing and trauma awareness has risen a lot in the healing fields. While trauma has been primarily boxed in a psychological model, shamanic perspectives can offer a wider lense.

Janine Ma-Ree, ISTA Lead Facilitator, speaks with us about how an earth-based shamanic understanding of the body and trauma can support deep personal and collective healing, empowerment and community.  

Janine shares on...

• What 'shamanic' means in the context of trauma
• How the elements are essential to understand in the healing journey
• What 'trauma' means
• Why the same experience may be traumatic for one person, but not for another
• Shamanic perspectives of the FREEZE response and how to honour and support frozen parts of ourselves, friends, lovers or clients
• How to avoid looping in processing the emotional body (which can retraumatize you!)

If you liked this episode, please leave a rating and review! To find out more about ISTA trainings or to work with our faculty, see www.ista.life, or find us on social, FB: ista.life and IG:@ista_tribe

"A daring life means following what's real for you. Sometimes it's crazy, sometimes it's boring, but it's real." In this episode, Komala Lyra, Lead ISTA Facilitator, shares wisdom gems from a daring life spent listening to her truth. Sharing deeply about how to surrender, listening and authenticity, Komala offers a potent transmission of how to be totally present, totally alive, and totally out of control.

Hear Komala share about...

• How to trust what feels real to you ('right' and 'wrong' are irrelevant)
• Breath as the baseline on a spiritual journey
• Surrendering to the inner aliveness or boredom within without resistance
• When you listen within, the world can't control you
• Why 'protection' and 'consent' can do more harm than good
• Why trauma will become obsolete for humanity

If you liked this episode, please leave a rating and review! To find out more about ISTA trainings or to work with our faculty, see www.ista.life, or find us on social, FB: ista.life and IG:@ista_tribe

In this episode, Elaine Yonge, ISTA Lead Facilitator, explains sexual styles and discusses the four erotic themes: 1. Longing and anticipation, 2. Violating prohibitions, 3. Searching for power, and 4. Overcoming ambivalence. Referring to the brilliant book The Erotic Mind by psychologist Jack Morin,  Elaine says understanding our erotic themes supports mind-expanding, heart-opening and soul-renewing sexual life. It's big!

In this episode:

• Learn how erotic themes and sexual styles affect sexual pleasure, power and growth 
• Begin to identify your erotic themes and sexual styles
• Understand relationship dynamics in the context of matched or clashing themes and styles
• How intention changes EVERYTHING when it comes to sex
• How to recognise the signs of trauma in sexual energy and support healing
• Tips for practitioners, facilitators, and coaches working in the field of sexuality
• Releasing shame around emotion and sex
• The interrelationship between emotional honesty and understanding one's sexual energy. 

If you liked this episode, please leave a rating and review! To find out more about ISTA trainings or to work with our faculty, see www.ista.life, or find us on social, FB: ista.life and IG:@ista_tribe

Raffaello Manacorda, Lead ISTA Facilitator, shares how sex and the shadow (repressed parts of ourselves) are parts of life but are both hidden. To live and express ourselves fully, we need to dive into these parts with full transparency and radical honesty. Because of the cultural and societal nature of this repression, unravelling the hiddenness needs to be done in groups, not alone or with another therapist only...

In this episode, hear Raffaello discuss:

• Rape fantasies which exist at the intersection of sex and the shadow
• How bringing shadows into the light dissolves shame and restores joy and power
• The role of partners and close friends in identifying our shadows (and their limits for effective support)
• Why it's essential to do shadow work in the contexts of dedicated groups
• How leaving your shadow hidden makes you susceptible to influence and being controlled
• Why the shadow is NOT a solely psychoanalytical beast — it has a physical, visceral nature
• The powerful role of sexual energy and relationships in shadow work

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It’s a situation straight out of the movies, or a teen magazine: jealousy causing a rift between two lovers. It could be as simple as your partner mentioning getting close to one of their co-workers, or as complex as negotiating the ups and downs of an open relationship. No matter how big or small the circumstance, or how experienced the people involved, jealousy can come on strong!


In this episode, researcher and self-described relationship counsellor “for people who color outside the lines,” Joli Hamilton, talks with Usha Rose about how jealousy can be an incredible force for growth, pleasure, and increased connection in your romantic relationships. 


They focus on how to create non-monogamous partnerships without shrinking away from the difficult feelings they can bring up. These are feelings Hamilton knows well. She had been in only monogamous relationships until having a sudden awakening into the possibility of relating with more than one person at once. 


And in her research, Hamilton has found that the people who have the most successful experience with non-monogamy know how to notice the sensations of jealousy and then name it. This, she says, is one of the first things we can do to embrace non-monogamy in a supportive way. 


They also discuss: 

• Five steps for processing jealous feelings
  
  
• How jealousy relates to shame and fear
  
  
• The archetypal nature of jealousy
  
  
• Paying attention to the way jealousy arises in the body
  
  
• Creating relationship agreements to care for each other through jealousy
  
  
• The unique pleasure of jealousy

We hope you enjoy the episode!

To learn more about Jolie, follow her on social media: @drjoliehamilton

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If we are in a relationship and don't have strong self-love or we haven't done our healing work, we look to others to fulfil the lack within and to validate our worth.  Often, what we understand as love has more to do with fear and insecurity than with actual love (it can be mired with neediness, expectations and attachments).

So, what is love, really? How can we truly love without limit in relationship? In this episode, hear ISTA Lead Frank Mondeose share his decades of wisdom on this.

In this episode, discover...

• Expanded and empowered ways of understanding love in relationships
• What to do when your partner's desires clash with your own
• Understanding why we get hooked in relationships and how to reclaim power, strength and love
• How to avoid the toxicity and suffering of relationships that simply won't dieLove and pain go hand in hand and how to dance with both
• Selflessness and letting go of neediness to invest in the act of love
• Plugging into the Universal energy of love (which is infinite and comes from many places) rather than solely requiring it from our one beloved
• Emotional hygiene and healing core wounds vs looking outward for the mother/father figure to caretake
• What to do when we experience insecurity, fear, competition, or jealousy in relationships
• When boundaries do and don't truly serve your growth

If you liked this episode, please leave a rating and review! To find out more about ISTA trainings or to work with our faculty, see www.ista.life, or find us on social, FB: ista.life and IG:@ista_tribe 

Laurie Handlers, ISTA Lead, shares how great sex is really not just a transaction between people, but a portal to discovering who we really are. In terms of healing, empowerment, joy, vitality, self-actualisation, and awakening, "sex has everything to do with it!"

Listen to hear Laurie share more on...

• How the first and second chakra relates to our lives: money, sex, power, origins, trauma, security, groundedness...
• Bioenergetic emotional release and using sexual energy clear baggage
• Recognising our own sexual power
• How to use pleasure as medicine for psychological, physical and spiritual healing
• Tapping into the "compound effect" to grow transformation exponentially
• As within, so without: your sexual healing and happiness is OUR liberation
• Secrets of longevity

If you liked this episode, please leave a rating and review! To find out more about ISTA trainings or to work with our faculty, see www.ista.life, or find us on social, FB: ista.life and IG:@ista_tribe 

Shachar Caspi, ISTA Lead Facilitator and Organiser, has been in non-monogamous relationships for a decade. As a husband, lover and father to young children, he's the 'go to person' for support if you're curious about exploring open-relating (or better said, 'choice-relating'). If you're totally new to this path or you've been exploring it for some time, listen to Shachar's reflections and practical tools for more easeful, potent and heart-opening relationships.

Tune in to for more on...

• The #1 essential agreement for open-relating: being allowed to make mistakes
• Shadow stalking on the path of opening relating: digesting the pandoras box of all your demons
• How to balance safety and freedom in open relating
• The role of consciously monogamous periods of 'focussing' and stabilising a relationship
• How to be authentic and share experiences without causing more contraction in your partner
• Understanding the nature of mind/body/soul attraction and desire during the life of a relationship
• Understanding your emotional body so you and your partner can avoid unnecessary triggers

If you liked this episode, please leave a rating and review! To find out more about ISTA trainings or to work with our faculty, see www.ista.life, or find us on social, FB: ista.life and IG:@ista_tribe 

We have ISTA Lead Facilitator Triambika Ma Vive on the show, sharing how sound can powerfully support release, healing and activation. Sound is medicine and sound is an avenue to claiming space. Hear Tri share her wisdom on... 

• Specific steps for using toning to create space in the body and open contracted parts
• The power of vibration, specific sounds, and elongated vowels in healing and when to use them
• How to expand with power when we meet darker parts of ourselves rather than shrink or diminish ourselves
• Tuning within to finding the Divine
• A WHOLE spiritual life: integrating the sacred light AND dark together

If you liked this episode, please leave a rating and review! To find out more about ISTA trainings or to work with our faculty, see www.ista.life, or find us on social, FB: ista.life and IG:@ista_tribe