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ISTA Costa Rica – Level 1 Spiritual Sexual Shamanic Experience
January 30, 2017 @ 2:00 pm - February 5, 2017 @ 3:00 pm

ISTA level 1 returns to Costa Rica for the second time in 2017.
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If you are ready to transform your life, this experiential 7-day event is for you
The People
Thousands of people on 5 continents have attended the ISTA training over the past 8 years and have been radically changed for the better by uncovering reactive patterns and transforming them into conscious ways of being.
The Retreat
This retreat focuses on clearing the physical and emotional body of shame, guilt and fear related to sexuality and authenticity. This is done through multiple pathways of healing: guided visualization, emotional release, shamanic initiations, energy tracking and conscious touch are just a few of the practices used 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.
The Event
This event unfolds within a powerful group process based on unconditional love, intimacy and acceptance of what is arising. By the end of this event, you will feel more open, relaxed and present and be more in touch with effortless flow of life, no matter what it looks like.
The Experience
No prior knowledge of shamanism or sacred sexuality is necessary to attend this retreat. This event is about expanding beyond your comfort zone, while honoring your healthy boundaries. Nudity and 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. Individuals and couples of any sexual preference are welcome to attend.
More about the training
The SSSEX training uses..
- Ritual
- Breathwork
- Group Process
- Active Meditation
- Emotional Release
- Hands-On-Healing
- Guided Visualizations
- Subtle Energy Processes
- Conscious Communication
To..
- Realize that you are love & freedom embodied
- Integrate your inner masculine & feminine
- Increase multidimensional awareness
- Let go of past dramas and traumas
- Expand your capacity for pleasure
- Celebrate sex positive community
- Transform the shadow into an ally
- Honor your healthy boundaries
This is only a partial list of what you may experience.
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Meet the facilitators
Laurie Handlers
Lead Facilitator
Araminta Barbour
Co Facilitator
Frank Mondeose
Co Facilitator
No prior knowledge of shamanism or sacred sexuality is necessary to attend this retreat. This event is about expanding beyond your comfort zone, while honoring your healthy boundaries.
Nudity and 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. Individuals and couples of any sexual preference are welcome to attend
This course is open to all who are called. Experience is not required.
THE VENUE
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The Beauty of Villa Lapas Rainforest Eco-Resort
We will be staying at the beautiful Villa Lapas Rainforest Eco-Resort in Puntarenas, Costa Rica
Testimonials
a journey
This journey has been an amazing experience that really shifted the way I feel about myself. Learning to integrate the male and female part within myself and see everybody else as both parts gives me a new way to approach others. After the training I really feel the way to honour and stand up for myself, while remaining on touch with physical and emotional body and the sweetness within it. what a journey, what a change, I don’t even want to go back to the way before Thanks for providing this beautiful journey with its deep insights and enormous skills.
no stories
There are no stories I can tell to describe this journey. Imagine you are an ocean with deep waters full of terrifying creatures. You close your eyes and jump in all the way to the bottom. As you come up through the ocean you encounter all these scary things and realize that they aren’t what you thought they were. You hold your breath and trust you will make it through. When you emerge from the depths you realize a beautiful, powerful creature awaits you. And that creature is you.
gratitude
I am very grateful for all the different processes I went through this week, each one was profoundly transformative, the team provided me the loving safe space to let go of some very old and deep wounds.
empowerment
ISTA training is of an essential nature. It takes the journey of a human experience into the perspective of healthy empowered being, it offers tools that allow you to heal your body and emotions and therefore enables participants to claim their birth right to truly live life.
an opportunity
ISTA offered me an opportunity and a space to shake up free up and escape into a reality of truth and honesty. It’s a journey I took with abundance of teachers that showed me the way into myself, the real me, my real body, my true pleasure. It made me find ways to beat the fears and illusions awake and realise they are there, it it poured for me a pavement to walk steady on, towards the encounter with myself. ISTA took me with many other and put us in a container, shook that container up again and again, and let us find what was shed, and what was left in each and every one of us. I am now stepping, aware, present and brave towards the most important change that will ever happen to me.
a call in the heart
If you feel a call in your heart to attend this training then go for it… yes, your mind will come up with all kinds of struggles and fears.. but still trust your heart and go for it. It is not just another seminar that fills you with information, but it will touch you deeply within your very soul and then the healing takes place.. a healing from the source, such a sacred place… take the chance and do it for yourself .. for your life!
Details
This retreat includes:
- 7 day / 6 night accommodations
- 3 meals per day
- Full day transformational process and teachings
Airfare and airport transfers are not included.
For training information contact:
Laurie Handlers, Araminta Barbour or Frank Mondeose
For logistical information, contact local organizer:
Details
- Start:
- January 30, 2017 @ 2:00 pm
- End:
- February 5, 2017 @ 3:00 pm
- Event Category:
- ISTA
- Website:
- http://istacostarica.com
Organizer
- Philippe Lewis
- Email:
- fuzzmeister@gmail.com
- Website:
- www.istacostarica.com
Venue
- Villa Lapas Rainforest Eco-Resort
- Villa Lapas, Costa Rica + Google Map
- Website:
- http://www.villalapas.com/