What does the SSSEx Intensive Involve?
This retreat focuses on clearing the physical and emotional body of shame, guilt and fear related to sexuality and authenticity. The deeper transformation comes from reconnecting to your personal power, exploring sexuality is a fast path to encountering our own power challenges and gifts.
This is done through multiple pathways using the best of the ancient temple arts including Tantra, Taoist and Shamanic traditions and adding to this more modern day NLP, bioenergetics, guided visualization, emotional release, Kundalini activation, energy tracking, conscious touch and consent skills. The list above are just a few of the practices we use to dive deep into the inner realms. The inner masculine and inner feminine archetypes are explored because when they are fully integrated a door opens to a deeper knowing of the Self as whole and complete.
A note on Masculine & Feminine
Please don’t perceive that our use of the terms masculine and feminine is an indicator that ISTA operates from place of duality and gender separation. We do not, far from it we realise that we are all masculine and feminine regardless of our physical form. We use this terminology as it is an effective model for understanding the different energies or qualities that each if us is made up of. They do not translate to men and women or male and female.
Unique to ISTA
Three skilled Temple Arts Faculty all international teachers in their own right will share, inspire, guide and support you to bring light to the shadows where our power awaits to be reclaimed. You will receive information, guidance and lots of experiential practice around self love, boundaries and consent, emotional release, voice dialogue, neurological reprogramming, Orgasmic Yoga, learning to work with shamanic energy, owning one’s desires and the ability to manifest, accessing and speaking from your contra-sexual self (i.e gender opposite), conscious communication, Transformational Shamanic Breathwork, ancient temple arts rituals of healing/initiation and a powerful sexual clearing and activation processes.
Supportive Group Process
This event unfolds within a powerful group process based on safety, trust, unconditional love, intimacy and acceptance of what is arising. By the end of this event, you will feel more in touch with your body, more aliveness and presence, more aware of your patterns and have some skills as to how to change them, more awareness of your emotions and how to hold them, lighter and perhaps more relaxed. You will be more in touch with effortless flow of life, no matter what it looks like.
How do
I know it is transformational?
Thousands of people have gone through this training worldwide, the individuals cover a wide age range from 18 to 80, varied backgrounds, all sexual orientations, those who are gender fluid or trans, differing professions from students, artists, surgeons, people from many different religions, races and nationalities. As this weeklong is a journey through life's core experiences and wounds, it is universal. It touches and can affect individuals of any age, background, race etc, if you choose to allow and if you are open to receive the wisdom and gifts.
A Note - Lead Faculty Elaine Young
"My personal journey is the reason I facilitate these trainings, for me they are by far the most effective weeklong personal transformational experience I have encountered. I want to share the possibility of living from a place of authenticity, sovereignty, soul purpose, freedom, love and power with as many people as I can. ‘ All our journeys are different … your life may not in any way resemble mine, that’s reality. We are all a unique product of our souls, family, genetics and environment but many of us are hurting, stuck, disconnected, in denial, lack satisfaction with life, feeling lost, trapped, confused or somehow knowing we are not fully honouring our true deeper being that wants to live fully with authenticity, presence and passion.’
ISTA Level 1 is a container that will allow, invite and offer you...
Who attends the Intensive?
Some people take this training for their own personal evolution, to gain a deeper self-connection and to enrich their relationships and empower their lives. Others are interested in exploring how it will add to their own professional life, whatever that may be, and some are interested in the professions of Sacred Sexual Practitioner or Sexuality Educator.
Attendees include those from the various spiritual paths and the sexual paths of celibacy, monogamy, and polyamory.
Couples, individuals and relationship groups of any formation are welcome, as are individuals of any sexual orientation and gender identity. The greater mix of prior experiences the richer the training! If it is your truth, it is possible to complete the entire training/experience without touching another person.
I ask you this question: Are you ready to jump off the edge?
We are so often at the precipice of something we have wanted to do, embody or achieve....and we remain at the proverbial cafe, sipping tea, peering over the edge looking at the unknown water below, searching with our mind for the answers. Of course, the mind has no real answers. And so we are afraid. We may let our feet leave the ground, but more often than not we return to our comfort zone...because we are too afraid to feel the pain...really feel it all the way...and enter the gateway of new possibilities. What if you could jump when your being, your heart, your spirit knew it was time to change? In this training you will come to a point where you can choose, completely and resolutely, without reservation, to fling yourself off the rock.....and transform your life. What's your edge? Are you ready to jump? What's getting in your way? To find out….come and do this training. It will take you to your edge, expand you and change your life forever.
What do I need to know?
No prior knowledge of shamanism or sacred sexuality is necessary and people with previous experience are welcomed.
What will I have to do?
Nudity and intimate touch are optional parts of this training. The cornerstone of this work is about consent, developing healthy boundaries and communication. You are always at choice and the facilitators will help you navigate what is authentic for you.
"This is an individual process that happens in a group environment and 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."
The ISTA facilitators are looking forward to meeting you in Love, Power, and Freedom.
Dawn Cherie Ezrahi A lead facilitaor in ISTA is also a performer,dancer,singer, a Watsu’er and a teacher of sacred love relationships. Her work is focused on enlivening women and men to live love at their great power, using methods of movement, ritual and theater. In the last years she became passionate about the healing of woman of their shame around their sexuality and moon time, helping them to uncover their inner sacred jewel.
Dawn is an American living part time in America- NYC , having lived primarily in Israel for the past 11 years and teaching internationally. Prior to that she was living in NYC for years where she was a professional actress and performer. She earned her B.A. in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic in Maine; where she continued to work deeply with nature and its wisdom. In NYC she co founded several performing troupes- Body Temple(a unique holistic night club extravaganza), and Mad Woman of the Woods theatre company. Over the years her studying took her through many different paths studying with Gloria maddox theatre as a means of personal development, expression, and professionalism. Dawn studied extensively the Five Rhythms work of Gabrielle Roth,and learned with she and Jonathan Horan for many years 18 years in total. She was in a priestessing apprenticeship in a women’s mystery school with ALisa Starkweather.Also an influential teacher along the path was that of Arkan ; a native Peruvain adopted lakota medicine man.
She was training extensively, and was inspired by the teachings of David Deida. Dawn delved into extended trainings of Marshal Rosenberg and non violent communication, as well as expanding her work of healing in the water of watsu and water dance-water creature that she is.She finished a Pelvic Heart Integration training with Deborah Taj Anapol.She was also teaching in the kohennet training program in America of Hebrew priestessing.
She is the co-founder of KabaLove – The school of Love in Kabala (c) Along with a beloved Ohad she teaches the way of sacred relationships and spiritual growth internationally. It would be a fib to say that her relationship is anything short of an amazing living laboratory of love, freedom, and exponential growth. She also is in love with her snake-a red tail boa kunda(lini) who accompanies her on her healing work.
Dawn has coordinated the trainings/conferences in israel for the past 5 years here bringing this work to the land and people which now is having a resounding impact.
She feels that the work of ISTA and the trainings,has brought to her life some of the most fully integrated humans working tirelessly in their vision to elevate the human spirit and rid the body, and psyche of the shame, guilt,and fear. She is elated and humbled to work with a group of dedicated visionaries, and honored to be on teaching staff. She sees her community growing, shifting and opening around her, as well as herself. There is healing happening on so many levels- learning to heal the split within our own being, and embracing our masculine loving our feminine ,or visa versa . She is so loving sharing this work with people.
She is most often in the states ,and frequently in Israel but is available for personal sessions and teaching wherever the need and spirit invites her.
Currently she has been immersed in creating a collaborative mythological, interactive, ritual theatre piece, including electronic dance music.
FACULTY
ASHISHA has been learning and thriving through images and imagination all her life, which took her to careers in theater, journalism and filmmaking, a wild ride through uncountable versions of personal life and creative reality on this planet.
More than 20 years of storytelling has taught her that the true stories that can advocate change for our lives need to be found inside ourselves and in our direct connection to our creative source. She has traveled the globe to find the universal language, turned towards the imagination of the heart, the language of the inner space.
To support souls to awaken to their eternal core fire has become her primary calling in life. Her gaze is pointed towards the expression of the subtle essence we hold within, to unlock that unique gift and support it to manifest in life with love, power and grace, aligned with the greater whole of this planet.
Arpana Ashish is cultivating and teaching ancient tools for awakening the imagination of the soul into sound, form and life force by using mythology and archetypal images, alchemical methods, meditation and embodiment for creative transformation. Her sessions, trainings and
FACULTY
Sujay is a spiritual teacher and a therapist. He is following the way of Tantra, Sacred Sexuality, and Therapy for over 25 years.
Over the years he specialised in the Tantric philosophy and psychological work in different frameworks.
His journey started in India where he studied Tantra in the traditional Indian way by different Tantra masters and Zen teachers.
Sujay has been qualified as a therapist in the OTT (Osho Therapist Training Program) at the Osho Multiversity Pune.
He has extensive experience working with people and believes healing is possible through the connection of sexuality, love, emotions, and body.
In his Pardes- Hanna, Israel clinic, Sujay receives individuals and couples for consultation and therapy work.
In addition, Sujay facilitates his own Tantra Therapy workshops and leads men’s empowerment groups.
Sujay has developed a unique treatment method that combines traditional Tantra with Western therapeutic and therapy methods (M.A.R.G). The Maarag school offers training courses in this method for facilitators and therapists.
Sujay was one of the founders of "Desert Ashram" (a spiritual center that hosts festivals and workshops in Israel). During the years he lived there he was responsible for the community therapy program (Womp) and played a significant role in the management of the center.
These days Sujay leads a unique community that combines the work on Sacred Sexuality and Tantra with an emphasis on a safe space and enables growth and empowerment.
Sujay combines in his work the following modalities:
Pulsation breathwork
Meditations as a way for a deepest understanding of nonconditional LOVE
Trauma Therapy (SOMATIC EXPERIENCING -SE)
Family Constellation
Bioenergetic work
Gestalt
Male-Female Energy work
Body De-armoring and sexual Deconditioning
Primal work -childhood wounding
Tantra yoga
Emotional release and deep catharsis
Sujay has a DVM (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine) degree. His physiological and Anatomy experience are combined in his work and help to bridge between the physical body and spiritual body as well as a deep understanding of the genital anatomy and behaviour.
He is well known in Israel as a facilitator and therapist who connects the spiritual world to Western aspects of sexual therapy.
He offers enrichment classes to sexual and sex therapists in sexual clinics and hospitals.
Sujay lives in Israel with his wife and kids.
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