About ISTA
International School of Temple Arts
ISTA is committed to raising sexuality and consciousness education across the globe and to growing community, by providing conferences and initiatory events to all people, trainings to practitioners and teachers, and by providing tools and collaborations to support the emergence of Temples around the world.
ISTA is a transmission of the life force, clothed in love and expressing creatively in the world. ISTA is part of a global transformational movement where human consciousness is being opened to its source as love and harmoniously integrating with other sentient kingdoms and dimensions. Our vision is a world where humans have a peaceful, delightful, shameless, fearless and loving relationship with their own bodies, sexuality, emotions, hearts, minds and spirit.
Is this for me?
If you are ready to transform your life, this 7-day experiential event is for you. Thousands of people on 5 continents have attended ISTA training in the last 10 years and have improved their lives by discovering behaviour patterns and transforming them into more conscious ways of being.
The International School of Temple Arts (ISTA) is committed to sex education to raise awareness around the world. The most misunderstood, ignored and denied area of spiritual exploration is the territory around sex and emotions. The ISTA training are seminars that change lives promoting the profound healing of our central wounds and our connection with the source of sexuality and the primordial nature.
ISTA trainings are transformational containers, offering the potential for deep inner shifts and alignment to the power of Love. Often times there's a real felt sense of being ready and excited for this powerful work. Tremendous healing can take place, and also for some people the intensity of the work may be counterproductive to where they are at in their healing journey. If you have more questions or have doubts whether this training is for you, please see our Frequently Asked Questions page here or contact us through info@istaguatemala.com.
IF YOU HAVE ANY MORE QUESTIONS, please see our Frequently Asked Questions page here or get in touch with us at info@istaguatemala.com
How We Give Back
Every year, ISTA Guatemala and its local producer - One Spirit SA - give back in significant ways.
We have close connections with a handful of grassroots NGO's, which both the International School of Temple Arts as well as One Spirit support powerfully. We also ran our own reed reforestation initiative for Lake Atitlan between 2021 and 2023; read more about it further down.
Here is a list of NGO's and projects that have received our support through significant donations over the past 5 years:
The Midwife Project Guatemala
offers safe, dignified and culturally appropriate health care to women in Guatemala by empowering indigenous midwives through education.
Water4Life Guatemala works for a healthy and sustainable future in rural Guatemala, starting with the availability of clean drinking water that is easily accessible and maintained for all communities.
Wellkind Reforestation & Sustainability Project empowers communities in the Western Highlands of Guatemala to lead reforestation and conservation efforts by integrating indigenous wisdom with evidence-based strategies.
Perros Libres Dog Rescue in Tzununa provide a space for dogs to heal, live, and receive optimal love and affection while they transition from the streets into loving permanent homes.
Amazon Watch protects the rainforest and our climate in solidarity with indigenous peoples of the Amazon basin and beyond.
In 2021, we started our own Tule reed planting mission to help cleanse the waters of lake Atitlan, entirely financed by ISTA Guatemala.
The gorgeous Atitlan lake has been a place of power and reverence for ages. One of the native plants of the lake's ecosystem is the Tule reed (Schoenoplectus c.). It possesses water-purifying qualities which decrease contamination, since its roots filter water naturally. Besides giving oxygen back to the Lake, Tule provides ecosystems to numerous aquatic species and migratory birds. Its controlled cultivation helps diminish erosion on the beaches. One of its most important features is natural filtration that removes phosphorus, nitrogen, and other nutrients left behind from soaps and chemical fertilizer that feed cyanobacteria. Together with the local council of Tule planters (Ruk'u'x Chupup - Heart of Tule), we managed to re-populate most of the lake's shoreline in the Mayan village of Tzununa, where One Spirit is based, between 2021 and 2023.
