Love is your Birthright and your Nature
Welcome!
ISTA Denmark is part of a global transformational movement,
participating in the opening of human consciousness to its source as Love and harmoniously integrating with other sentient kingdoms and dimensions.
In particular, ISTA works with Spirituality and Sexuality as two expressions of the life force.
Our vision is a world where humans have a peaceful, delightful, shameless, fearless and loving relationship with their own bodies, sexuality, emotions, hearts, minds and spirit.
About International School of Temple Arts
ISTA is a Mystery School of Spiritual Sexual Shamanic practice. It was founded in 2007 as a non-profit educational organization and is co-operated by a consortium of leaders in Sacred Temple Arts disciplines such as Tantra, Taoism, Sexological Body Workers and Sex Educators.
It is a consortium of Facilitators representing every continent, to became a vehicle that connects experts from around the World and now operates in 6 continents, and in over 30 countries.
You are invited to join this powerful journey with us in Austria!
Spiritual... Sexual... Shamanic... each of these three areas alone carry enormous charge for shadow and misuse of power as well as potential for liberation, freedom, love and joy.
This is a week-long experience that provides essential teachings and experiences around sexuality, emotions and relationships with the masculine and the feminine. It restores to us the kind of education we should all have received to be truly alive and integrated in our bodies.
If you are ready to transform your life, this experiential week long training will help you reclaim your power, joy and authentic truth, meet the calling of your soul and rise as a leader.
Thousands of people on 5 continents have attended the ISTA Level 1 training over the past 15 years and have been radically changed for the better by uncovering reactive patterns and transforming them into conscious ways of being.
Are you ready to transform your life?
This 8 days event is for you!
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.
The deep transformation comes through reconnecting with your personal power and by clearing the physical and emotional body of shame, guilt and fear related to our authenticity and sexuality.
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.
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.
FACILITATORS- Level 1 November 2024
DAWN CHERIE EZRAHI
Lead Facilitator
Dawn Cherie Ezrahi A lead facilitator 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.
Simon Marvel
Faculty
Simon is from Melbourne, Australia and lives in Lisbon, Portugal. He has been in the ISTA field since 2014 and, as well as being an Apprentice Faculty member, mentors Leah Fund recipients, produces the ISTA podcast, and works in ISTA's communications group.
Simon trained in Tantric bodywork with Tantric Synergy in Australia, in Traditional Thai Massage with the Hadadi School in Lisbon, and is soon to complete a PhD in the study of transatlantic culture. From an arts and humanities background, he is particularly passionate about creativity, poetry, movement, voice, touch, and collaboration as doorways to empowerment.
His mentors in ISTA are Araminta Barbour, Dawn Cherie, and Ohad Pele. While he has been studying and practicing Tantra and conscious relating for more than 10 years, his lineage is a Western one, which comes through his mother, Stephanie Phillips, who is also an ISTA facilitator. Through that bloodline, he has been initiated into deep connections with dance, art, and the land of Australia, where his family emigrated to in the late nineteenth-century. As a settler on indigenous Australian country, Simon acknowledges and bears that sometimes uncomfortable connection to a land which is not his to claim, yet on which he grew as a person.
Philosophically, he has been most directly influenced by his mentors Justin Clemens, Judith Goldman, and Steve McCaffery, who follow a line of life-praxis that comes most significantly through the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, the philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and G.W. Hegel, and the political economist Karl Marx. Simon is constantly inspired by many, many different poets.
Currently working out of Lisbon, Portugal, he is available for private bodywork and coaching sessions.
ELISA CARO
Faculty
My family taught me about self-exploration, yoga and deep spiritual practices from the age of eight. After my Engineering degrees, I lost track of my sacred spiritual connection. I started to feel like a ghost of myself—not fully me, not enthusiastic about life. I also was carrying so much shame and guilt (common in our Western society!).
I didn’t want to live life feeling this way and eventually came to devote myself to Tantra.
Tantra showed me how to come as I am, with my light, my shadows, with my being. I learnt how to live with honesty, transparency and sacredness. And how to heal myself from a reproductive illness (no surgery required!). With vibrance and true aliveness, Tantra has helped me live my truth.
I feel alive. I feel the depth and beauty of life.
I love how Tantra is about merging with the self and with life. Tantra is about going deep into the experience of life on Earth, embracing it fully. Tantric meditations are like the meeting ground between soul and flesh
I have been living and breathing it, with all my being. I healed myself through Tantra meditations and techniques and I have a wide, embodied knowledge of different lineages and teachings.
The first step of your transformational journey begins with this application form.
Step 1. Please complete the registration form. Please answer all questions so we can best cater to you and your needs.
Step 2. Pay a deposit of 500 EUR to secure your place (Bank fees are the responsibility of the participant). Bank transfer details will be shared once your application is receieved.
Registration process
Price includes…
All tuition, 8 days workshop of transformational process and teachings
All training experiences and supplies
Accommodation in shared rooms (please get in touch for singe room availability, early arrival or late check out)
3 reach, delicious, healthy meals per day. Vegetarian and vegan options are available. Please let us know if you have special dietary needs
Unlimited coffee, tea, water, fruits and snack trough out the day
Having stood since 1900's, our venue is a cozy, intimate sanctuary surrounded by the tranquility of a park-like garden and embraced by nature’s peaceful beauty, şt offers a safe, nurturing environment—ideal for diving into personal growth and community bonding.
The warm, homely atmosphere invites you to settle in, relax, and open yourself to new possibilities. Here, surrounded by stillness and beauty, you’ll find the perfect conditions for deep contemplation, inner transformation, and heart-centered connection with others throughout the week.
Let this peaceful, inviting space be the foundation for your transformation this April.
Your Venue
Pricing
Early Bird (5 spots) €1800 ***SOLD OUT***
Regular €1950
Nationals €1700
Repeater (5 spots) €1600
ASSISTANT
First time €1100
Experienced €1000
*For assistant spot please get in touch with us.
Airport & Transportation
You can take a train from Copenhagen Central Station that will take you to the nearest town train station, which is 6 minutes away from our venue.
From Copenhagen airport train takes 2.5 hours and car takes 1.5 hours.
AFTER REGISTRATION
After registering by filling out your Registration Form, you will first receive a confirmation of your registration. At the latest 3 weeks before the start of the training, you will receive all the practical details via email.
TERMS
The event fee includes all tuition, accommodation and 3 healthy meals per day.
Accommodation is offered in shared rooms. For information about booking single rooms (limited in number and with additional fee, please contact the organizer).
A deposit of 500 EUR should be paid in order to reserve your seat. Remaining balance should be paid before March 14, 2025.
CANCELLATION POLICY
A commitment to the spiritual sexual shamanic training is a deep commitment to yourself. It is assumed that, if you feel drawn to this training, it is no accident.
Please pay the deposit of €500,- to secure your spot.
If for some reason you become unable to attend, a €200 admin fee will be withheld and are non-refundable in any case, up until 30 days before the event.
Once the 30 days before the training have passed, the total deposit of €500 is non-refundable.
In the case that the training is cancelled by the organizer, any amount you paid will be refunded excluding the bank charges and travel related expenses.
Please notice to add all transfer fees to the total balance.
Full cost of the training should be transferred before March 14, 2025
FORCE MAJEURE
The following conditions will be accepted as force majeure and will entitle participants to a full refund:
Death or documented severe disease of first or second degree relatives.
Documented severe disease of the participant.
Below conditions will NOT be accepted as Force Majeure:
Cancellation of flights or other means of transport.
Anything other than specified force majeure conditions above.
Refunds and Cancelation Policy
You are welcome as you are!
Love, freedom and power
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