Spiritual Sexual Shamanic Podcast

Regardless of your sex, you embody masculine and feminine energy. The question is, how are these energies showing up? Are they in harmony or dominating each other? Are they in service to your life, or sabotaging it? Clara Gomez Santos, ISTA facilitator, shares with Ria how females can bring forward ‘The Man Within’.  Listen in to dive into… Cultivating and embodying the mature aspects of your masc...

Jasmeen Hana, ISTA Faculty and shamanic guide between worlds, our guest in this delightful episode, takes us on a journey of sex & spirit, soul & animal, dark & light, to remember our primal and innocent nature, through the ancient and recorded wisdom of the Egyptian Temple Arts. In this episode, dive with Jasmeen into… Finding our place in the Tree of Life, getting to know the anatomy...

Have you ever felt like you’ve been pressed into a mould, and asked yourself if you can live a bigger life than this?  Patrik Oltermann, a radical Christian pastor, ISTA facilitator, Bhakti Yogi and queer pirate, shares wisdom from a lifetime of not fitting in, happy and humorously following the path of Freedom.  Hear Patrik on... Navigating the tension between the ordinary and the extra-ordinary...

Rituals can be small or elaborate, but when done with intentionality, they all hold creative and spiritual power. But what makes something a ritual vs a habit? How does one 'do' ritual? What are the keys for deep and transformative group rituals? Dawn Cherie Ezrahi, Lead ISTA Facilitator and initiatress of SSSTar (Spiritual Sexual Shamanic Ritual Theatre) speaks with us about the anatomy...

Falling in love can bring up intense emotions and ecstatic experiences. With tsunamis of neurochemicals and exhilarating heart-opening, we can meet our own soul, taste unconditional love, and experience wholeness in deep ways. It's big stuff for our spiritual evolution. But what happens when the 'love potion' runs out? Lead Facilitator Aramina Barbour shares with us how modern socie...

Tune in to hear Bruce Lyon (ISTA Pioneer/Wisdom Circle and Highden Founder) share truth bombs about... Living beyond instinctual herd life and finding your authentic core How to burst into flame and radiate who you really are regardless of what others think Liberating your sexual energy and your emotional energy to find your power How to go beyond being an 'individual' and wake up to you...

Trauma processing and trauma awareness has risen a lot in the healing fields. While trauma has been primarily boxed in a psychological model, shamanic perspectives can offer a wider lense. Janine Ma-Ree, ISTA Lead Facilitator, speaks with us about how an earth-based shamanic understanding of the body and trauma can support deep personal and collective healing, empowerment and community.   Janine s...

"A daring life means following what's real for you. Sometimes it's crazy, sometimes it's boring, but it's real." In this episode, Komala Lyra, Lead ISTA Facilitator, shares wisdom gems from a daring life spent listening to her truth. Sharing deeply about how to surrender, listening and authenticity, Komala offers a potent transmission of how to be totally present, tot...

In this episode, Elaine Yonge, ISTA Lead Facilitator, explains sexual styles and discusses the four erotic themes: 1. Longing and anticipation, 2. Violating prohibitions, 3. Searching for power, and 4. Overcoming ambivalence. Referring to the brilliant book The Erotic Mind by psychologist Jack Morin,  Elaine says understanding our erotic themes supports mind-expanding, heart-opening and soul-renew...

Raffaello Manacorda, Lead ISTA Facilitator, shares how sex and the shadow (repressed parts of ourselves) are parts of life but are both hidden. To live and express ourselves fully, we need to dive into these parts with full transparency and radical honesty. Because of the cultural and societal nature of this repression, unravelling the hiddenness needs to be done in groups , not alone or with anot...

If we are in a relationship and don't have strong self-love or we haven't done our healing work, we look to others to fulfil the lack within and to validate our worth.  Often, what we understand as love has more to do with fear and insecurity than with actual love (it can be mired with neediness, expectations and attachments). So, what is love, really? How can we truly love without limit...

Laurie Handlers, ISTA Lead, shares how great sex is really not just a transaction between people, but a portal to discovering who we really are. In terms of healing, empowerment, joy, vitality, self-actualisation, and awakening, "sex has everything to do with it!" Listen to hear Laurie share more on... How the first and second chakra relates to our lives: money, sex, power, origins, trau...

Shachar Caspi, ISTA Lead Facilitator and Organiser, has been in non-monogamous relationships for a decade. As a husband, lover and father to young children, he's the 'go to person' for support if you're curious about exploring open-relating (or better said, 'choice-relating'). If you're totally new to this path or you've been exploring it for some time, list...

We have ISTA Lead Facilitator Triambika Ma Vive on the show, sharing how sound can powerfully support release, healing and activation. Sound is medicine and sound is an avenue to claiming space. Hear Tri share her wisdom on...  Specific steps for using toning to create space in the body and open contracted parts The power of vibration, specific sounds, and elongated vowels in healing and when to u...

How do we open, surrender, and show up fully in life? And what does it mean to be spiritually awake? Despite common misperceptions, it doesn't require a perpetually ecstatic state! In this conversation, our guest, Crystal Dawn Morris, Lead ISTA Facilitator, shares how being fully open, and in a state of loving acceptance with  what is is key. Crystal Dawn has a long career across midwifery, T...

We find ourselves in a time where civilization is shifting. Lead facilitator Ohad Pele shares how this means that everything we do is political even if it seems removed from 'politics'. From the way we relate to each other, how we see gender, how we share power, and most importantly how we care for the heart. Hear Pele talk about... The 'golden cage' of modern slavery where our...

Ria invites Baba Dez, ISTA Pioneer, onto the show to talk about embodied awakening. Dez has a wealth of wisdom and experience and shares how embodied awakening means deeply knowing you are a soul, and you manifested this body to bring awareness to consciousness into every cell. You are an energetic being having a human experience. Dez elaborates on this in terms of 'total integration' wh...

In our debut episode, we have lead facilitator KamalaDevi on the show! In this conversation, KD goes deep on how "when we heal the wound within, we heal the wounds in our external relationships. If you're suffering in any area of your relating, the healing of your inner marriage will produce instantaneous effects in your outer relationships."  Listen in to explore... The fullness of...