ISTA LEVEL 1 in Aotearoa 9th- 15th of April 2026
Schedule
Thu, 09 Apr, 2026 at 02:00 pm to Wed, 15 Apr, 2026 at 02:00 pm
UTC+12:00Location
Palmerston North | Palmerston North, MW
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Answer the Call: A Transformational Retreat in the Wild Heart of Aotearoa (New Zealand)This is more than a retreat—it’s a deep remembering. A seven-day journey into the sacred terrain of your body, your boundaries, your sexuality, and your soul. A portal into liberation, love, truth, and spiritual embodiment.
Each day is an initiation, gently guiding you toward the most authentic version of yourself. Through the alchemy of somatic healing and sacred intimacy, you’ll reconnect with the parts of you that long to be seen, felt, and set free.
Why now? Because the world is aching for awakened hearts. And if you’re feeling this call, it’s because your soul is already leaning in. When we unravel the old stories and conditioning that have kept us small, we don’t just transform ourselves—we ripple healing outward, into our relationships, our communities, and the Earth itself.
My own journey with ISTA was a sacred undoing—a rebirth that changed everything:
• I reclaimed my true voice.
• The pain I carried began to dissolve.
• Old patterns lost their grip.
• I no longer live from fear—I live from freedom.
And that freedom is available to you, too.
ISTA offers a path that is embodied, spiritual, and radically honest. This is a deeply held space—a sanctuary for profound healing, soul remembrance, and conscious awakening. It’s both sacred and practical, mystical and grounded.
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 is 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.
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, feel a sense of greater aliveness and presence, be more aware of your patterns and have some skills as to how to change them, have more awareness of your emotions and how to hold them, lighter and perhaps more relaxed. You will be more in touch with the effortless flow of life, no matter what it looks like.
WHO TAKES THIS INTENSIVE?
This training is for EVERYONE. It’s open to ALL who are called.
The ISTA experience has reached people in all of their diversity.
Thousands of people have gone through this training now worldwide. The individuals cover a wide age range from 18 to 80, varied backgrounds, all sexual orientations, those who are gender fluid or trans, and differing professions from students, artists, surgeons, and 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 it and if you are open to receiving wisdom and gifts.
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.
People from various sexual/relational paths including celibacy, monogamy, and polyamory are also drawn to ISTA. As are people of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
Couples, individuals and relationship groups of any formation are welcome.
The practices offered in this training are designed to touch us deeply at the core of our lives as embodied beings.
No prior knowledge of or experience in shamanism or sacred sexuality is necessary.
The greater the 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.
We 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 edge of the cliff, peering over the side, looking at the unknown below, searching with our mind for the answers. 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 and your spirit knew it was time to change? In this training you will come to a point where you can choose, completely, resolutely and 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.
The ISTA facilitators are looking forward to meeting you in Love, Power, and Freedom.
If your heart longs to expand, if your body is ready to open, if your spirit is yearning for truth—come walk with us.
The journey begins here.🖤❤️
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