• Luxurious location & high-end lakeside resort venue.
• Gourmet, healthy and locally sourced cuisine - we cater to all food needs and sensitivities.
• A supportive participant/facilitator ratio. 
• Total confidentiality.
• Experienced facilitators.
• A safe container honoring your healthy boundaries.
• Access to be part of a supportive global community. 
• All spiritual pathways, sexual orientation and gender identities are welcome.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

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 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.

If you have questions or curiosities around whether this training will serve you at this time, please read our Frequently Asked Questions here.

Araminta Barbour

(Lead Facilitator)



Araminta is an international speaker, group facilitator, and 1-1 guide specializing in empowerment, relationships and sexuality, transformational healing, soul initiation, and the esoteric mysteries. Lead Faculty with ISTA (the International School of Temple Arts) with whom she has collaborated since 2011, Araminta is the founder of The Sanctuary Guatemala, creator of The Resilience Journey, and co-creator of the Women Who See In The Dark project.

Weaving together an academic background in History, Ecology, and Theravada Buddhism (BA Hons & MA), over a decade spent in the international development NGO world (reproductive health focus) with 25+ years traveling, studying, and practicing a wide range of alternative healing modalities, and philosophical/ esoteric traditions, Araminta's work can be encapsulated in the phrase "spiritual sexual shamanism" - an attempt to address the fullness of our human gifts and capacities. In 2005, Araminta's heart settled in Guatemala's Lake Atitlan - her home base for continued event facilitation around the world.

Araminta's life path has been shaped from the learnings brought from death, grief, travel, and the deep questioning of collective beliefs. She supports clients to transform painful experiences into power, heal from parental and relationship wounding, step-free from sexual or emotional abuse, and navigate the psychological hurdles to self-acceptance, self-belief, and self-love. Her deeper focus is awakening to expansive levels of Self untangled from collective consciousness.

Araminta utilizes skills from Meditation, Non-dual Spirituality, Shamanism, Sacred Sexuality, Tantra, Breathwork, Yoga, Bodywork, Shadow Integration, Emotional Release, and Initiatory rituals. Her teachings aim to bring together the tools and maps that reactivate our full human capacities. Araminta’s core passion is the process of radical self-acceptance – the inner marriage of love with power. She is here to support humanity’s evolution as liberated, heart-centered creators.

Find out more about Araminta here

Blake Zealear

(Co-Facilitator)

Blake is an evolutionary guide working at the intersection of men’s work, feminism, sacred sexuality, and new-paradigm relating. He identifies as two-spirit, queer, pansexual, an erotic shapeshifter, and a multitude of other human expressions - and this faceted perspective illuminates his teaching. His multi-disciplinary approach provides the empowerment, permission, and playfulness that enable a liberated reclaiming of his students’ lives. Blake has studied embodiment, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Radical Honesty, Landmark technology, Tantric and Yogic practice, breathwork, shamanic sexuality, esoterics, polarity, non-traditional relationship design, shadow-work, and Spiral Dynamics, among other modalities. He is devoted to the emergence of a new culture of love in our lifetimes, the transmutation of suffering into power, and the ascension of humanity through healing our relationships to ourselves and the Earth.

Read more about Blake at www.blakezealear.com

Caitlyn Cook

(Co-Facilitator)

Caitlyn was a little girl when she first worried that she wasn’t good enough. She started believing she must earn love by doing the 'right' things. Transforming into perfectionism and performance anxiety, she developed clinical anxiety, depression and disordered eating as a young woman.

Caitlyn’s journey to freedom is what led her to become an international facilitator and 1:1 practitioner working in mindful-somatic healing, informed by Internal Family Systems. Exploring the fields of mindfulness, Self-Love, sacred sexuality and shamanic healing, she now shares the tools and magic that helped bring her back to Life.

Caitlyn currently studies the Bwiti tradition in Gabon, Africa. This is an ancient wisdom tradition that uses African plant medicine and ritual for deep transformation and understanding. She organizes for people to get initiated by consecrated masters in the forest temples of Gabon.

Along with this powerful tradition, Caitlyn's influences include embodiment and somatics, mindfulness, meditation, Tantra, Christian mysticism, sexual alchemy, acting, psychodrama, nature, movement and ritual.

She has been living in Gabon, Africa spending time patting cats, enjoying thick rainstorms and learning about love.

Find out about working 1:1 with Caitlyn and upcoming workshops and retreats. Listen to her podcast here.

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