Spiritual Sexual Shamanic Podcast

Do you struggle with navigating multiple relationships while staying committed, to yourself and to your partner? Do you want to explore surrendering to the essence of love while staying authentically true to yourself? In this episode of The Spiritual Sexual Shamanic Podcast, Ria Yoshida (who usually asks the questions!) answers on leaning into partnership as a growth opportunity and spiritual practice. Ria is an author and relationship coach, supporting people around the globe with their sex lives and intimate relationships.Listen in to hear Ria on:• polyamorous open relating and marriage• clearing distortions through sacred relating• meeting extraordinary growth and spirituality in the mundane • marriage and sovereignty• 'infinite chances' as a practice of forgivenessIf you liked this episode, please leave a rating and review! To find out more about ISTA trainings or to work with our faculty, see www.ista.life, or find us on social, FB: ista.life and IG:@ista_tribe

In this fascinating episode, Javi Martinez shares about her journey as a shapeshifter, not falling into any of the conventions. Javi is a bridge between the worlds, and embodies a direct transmission of what it means to transcend massive barriers, courageously exploring gender with full guidance from Spirit. Javi is a LGBTQI Educator and Trainer, a Mental Health Counsellor, a Sex and Sensuality Educator for the Trans-Feminine and their lovers, and a bridge that connects all within the spectrum of Gender through understanding and compassion.Listen in to hear Javi on:• living in the mystery of gender transcendence• transitioning and the deep medicine of self-love• living with a male brain while developing a feminine brain • going through female adolescence in your 40's!• living in full devotion to Spirit• WET - World Empowerment Trust, ISTA's program for diversity and inclusionIf you liked this episode, please leave a rating and review! To find out more about ISTA trainings or to work with our faculty, see www.ista.life, or find us on social, FB: ista.life and IG:@ista_tribe

Most of us have been brought up in a culture that is traumatized around sex... Ellie Wilde is deeply interested in redefining sexuality so that being in the experience and enjoying is more important than performing. In this episode, Ellie shares about her exploration of how relaxed states of arousal can foster profound restorative Eros, and bring about more connection with oneself and with the partner.Listen in to hear Ellie on: redefining the linear and goal driven narrative around sexuality that we most grow up withthe beauty and pleasure of more down regulated states of beingthe massive realm of subtle exploration, much more internal and passive, when we learn to deeply relax the bodyletting go of the agenda for arousal, and exploring the organic flow that is present  how to cultivate yin sexuality, so that we can be energised and deeply relaxed at the same time You can reach Ellie at www.yinsexuality.comYinsexuality or Ellie Wilde on fbYinsexuality on InstagramIf you liked this episode, please leave a rating and review! To find out more about ISTA trainings or to work with our faculty, see www.ista.life, or find us on social, FB: ista.life and IG:@ista_tribe

Do you sometimes feel yourself accelerating in ways that aren't the most supportive to your authentic being? Do you long for respecting the pace of your heart, of your body, of all your emotions and hidden places where your true power and beauty reside? Avishag aims deep, and shares here with us her research on slowing down in order to feel more. Listen in to hear Avishag on:- daring the intimacy of the deep waters- moving slower and doing less, in order to feel more- discovering that feeling more doesn't need more stimulation- taking the time to visit some of the hidden parts in ourselves- changing patterns in sexuality, taking a different turn at the usual junctionsIf you liked this episode, please leave a rating and review! To find out more about ISTA trainings or to work with our faculty, see www.ista.life, or find us on social, FB: ista.life and IG:@ista_tribe

Buddhi Dana, a spiritual leader and Tantric practitioner, shares insights on harnessing sexual energy for manifestation. Topics include controlling hormones during orgasm, breathing exercises for anxiety, and directing energy for spiritual experiences. Explore freedom, personal preferences, and deep understanding in relationships.

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 masculine energyHow to develop the inner masculine so that there is inner balanceHow your inner man can show up for you in your daily lifeDeveloping non-judgement & compassion towards the masculineInner masculine initiation & the inner marriageCommitting the inner gaze to looking at the undeveloped parts, and to loving themGrowing and maturing the inner masculineIf you liked this episode, please leave a rating and review! To find out more about ISTA trainings or to work with our faculty, see www.ista.life, or find us on social, FB: ista.life and IG:@ista_tribe

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 of our SpiritWhat is a Temple Art?Egyptian cosmology and working with the intelligence of the different Gods and Goddesses in daily lifeLife as a Temple Art, choosing to live in the sacredness of Life itselfThe Lotus flower medicine, beauty rising from the muckThe journey into the Underworld and the gateways to keep lightening the heartVibrational and sound workIf you liked this episode, please leave a rating and review! To find out more about ISTA trainings or to work with our faculty, see www.ista.life, or find us on social, FB: ista.life and IG:@ista_tribe

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-ordinaryInnocently ignoring cultural and spiritual norms, when society tells you to stay smallNavigating and being ok with being the crazy one Embodying and vibrating who you truly areWhy we need more pirates!If you liked this episode, please leave a rating and review! To find out more about ISTA trainings or to work with our faculty, see www.ista.life, or find us on social, FB: ista.life and IG:@ista_tribe

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 of ritual and what happens when theatre meets this sacred art.Dawn shares...How to know when the mundane has transformed into ritual spaceThe role of presence and intentionKeys for holding a container in a group ritualThe importance of releasing expectation in ritualThe role of gratitude in ritualWhen art meets ritual: Ritual TheatreRitual as an antidote to materialistic busynessDeath and ritualIntentional prayer vs worryA must-listen for any priestees, practitioners, facilitators or artists who work with groups.If you liked this episode, please leave a rating and review! To find out more about ISTA trainings or to work with our faculty, see www.ista.life, or find us on social, FB: ista.life and IG:@ista_tribe

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 society throws in the towel so easily in relationship and we risk becoming branch jumpers, searching for the next high.Hear Araminta's personal relationship and break up stories as she shares...How to navigate when 'things get hard'Knowing if you should break up or hunker downUnderstanding golden shadows in relationshipWhy expectations and projections make relationships a minefield and how to go beyond themHow to know if you're addicted to the high of falling in loveRelationship as an opportunity to explore God and Goddess within yourselfHow to navigate the intensity of break up emotionsGrief as a precious messengerRecognising where you seek outside ourselves for sustenance (it will never be fulfilled there!)If you liked this episode, please leave a rating and review! To find out more about ISTA trainings or to work with our faculty, see www.ista.life, or find us on social, FB: ista.life and IG:@ista_tribe