Living Level 1

Living Level One
This is where the real journey begins.
Level One may have opened a doorway… but Living Level One is where those teachings begin to breathe through your everyday life.
This training is for those who have already experienced ISTA Level One and feel the call to embody the work—not only during extraordinary moments, but in the beauty, messiness and magic of ordinary life.
It is an invitation to soften the need to chase peak experiences and instead discover the extraordinary hidden within the present moment.
This is a space for those who are willing to meet themselves with honesty, curiosity and compassion. To stay present when life brings pleasure, discomfort, longing, joy or challenge. To become more available to life rather than trying to control it.
As we learn to welcome every part of our experience, we discover that freedom isn’t something we achieve, it’s something we remember.
What you’ll deepen during Living Level One
• Cultivate a deeper capacity to be fully present with yourself and with life.
• Learn to welcome every experience as a doorway to greater awareness, rather than something to resist or fix.
• Explore love beyond relationship stories and begin nurturing the most important relationship of all—the one with your Inner Beloved.
• Discover a more embodied relationship with pleasure that is rooted in presence rather than outcome.
• Deepen your understanding of shadow work, projections and the ways personal and collective trauma shape how we see ourselves and others.
• Continue exploring shamanic awareness and learning to navigate expanded states of consciousness with grounding, clarity and trust.
• Experience what creates conscious, safe and sacred community, where each person becomes both teacher and mirror.
• Connect more deeply with your unique gifts and discover how they naturally flow into service when you are aligned with your authentic self.
A field of experienced hearts
One of the greatest gifts of Living Level One is sharing the journey with people who have already walked through the doorway of Level One.
There is a different quality in a room where everyone speaks a common language of awareness. The field becomes softer, deeper and more courageous. We are able to witness one another with greater honesty, celebrate each other’s unfolding, and lovingly reflect the places where we still hold ourselves back.
Together we remember that awakening isn’t about becoming someone new.
It’s about becoming more deeply ourselves.
As we continue to embody these teachings, we become living expressions of love, freedom and conscious relationship—not because we have mastered life, but because we are willing to meet it, moment by moment, with openness.
Transformation doesn’t happen by striving to become someone else.
It happens when we remember who we are… and give ourselves permission to live from that place.
The invitation is simple.
Come home to yourself.
And from there… let your life become the teaching.
Pricing and accommodation details:
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