Spiritual Sexual Shamanic Podcast

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 coreHow to burst into flame and radiate who you really are regardless of what others thinkLiberating your sexual energy and your emotional energy to find your powerHow to go beyond being an 'individual' and wake up to your part as a cell in the Great organism of LifeConfronting the death-wish that's in the shadow, personally and collectivelyGoing beyond survival to live something far wilder and more adventurousWhen love has grows stronger than the desire to be likedReceiving projection as a way to water blast remnants of the egoTesting the 'friendly universe' and taking risks towards authenticity.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

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 shares on...What 'shamanic' means in the context of traumaHow the elements are essential to understand in the healing journeyWhat 'trauma' meansWhy the same experience may be traumatic for one person, but not for anotherShamanic perspectives of the FREEZE response and how to honour and support frozen parts of ourselves, friends, lovers or clientsHow to avoid looping in processing the emotional body (which can retraumatize you!)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

"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, totally alive, and totally out of control.Hear Komala share about...How to trust what feels real to you ('right' and 'wrong' are irrelevant)Breath as the baseline on a spiritual journeySurrendering to the inner aliveness or boredom within without resistanceWhen you listen within, the world can't control youWhy 'protection' and 'consent' can do more harm than goodWhy trauma will become obsolete for humanityIf 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

Elaine Yonge, an ISTA Lead Facilitator and tantra educator, dives into the profound intersections of sexuality and spirituality. She unveils the four erotic themes—longing, breaking boundaries, power dynamics, and ambivalence. Elaine emphasizes that these themes enhance sexual pleasure and personal growth. They discuss the importance of intention in intimacy, recognizing trauma's influence on sexual energy, and releasing shame surrounding emotions. With practical tips for practitioners, this conversation is a compelling guide to deeper sexual understanding.

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 another therapist only...In this episode, hear Raffaello discuss:Rape fantasies which exist at the intersection of sex and the shadowHow bringing shadows into the light dissolves shame and restores joy and powerThe role of partners and close friends in identifying our shadows (and their limits for effective support)Why it's essential to do shadow work in the contexts of dedicated groupsHow leaving your shadow hidden makes you susceptible to influence and being controlledWhy the shadow is NOT a solely psychoanalytical beast — it has a physical, visceral natureThe powerful role of sexual energy and relationships in shadow 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 

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 in relationship? In this episode, hear ISTA Lead Frank Mondeose share his decades of wisdom on this.In this episode, discover...Expanded and empowered ways of understanding love in relationshipsWhat to do when your partner's desires clash with your ownUnderstanding why we get hooked in relationships and how to reclaim power, strength and loveHow to avoid the toxicity and suffering of relationships that simply won't dieLove and pain go hand in hand and how to dance with bothSelflessness and letting go of neediness to invest in the act of lovePlugging into the Universal energy of love (which is infinite and comes from many places) rather than solely requiring it from our one belovedEmotional hygiene and healing core wounds vs looking outward for the mother/father figure to caretakeWhat to do when we experience insecurity, fear, competition, or jealousy in relationshipsWhen boundaries do and don't truly serve your growthIf 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 

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, trauma, security, groundedness...Bioenergetic emotional release and using sexual energy clear baggageRecognising our own sexual powerHow to use pleasure as medicine for psychological, physical and spiritual healingTapping into the "compound effect" to grow transformation exponentiallyAs within, so without: your sexual healing and happiness is OUR liberationSecrets of longevityIf 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 

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, listen to Shachar's reflections and practical tools for more easeful, potent and heart-opening relationships.Tune in to for more on...The #1 essential agreement for open-relating: being allowed to make mistakesShadow stalking on the path of opening relating: digesting the pandoras box of all your demonsHow to balance safety and freedom in open relatingThe role of consciously monogamous periods of 'focussing' and stabilising a relationshipHow to be authentic and share experiences without causing more contraction in your partnerUnderstanding the nature of mind/body/soul attraction and desire during the life of a relationshipUnderstanding your emotional body so you and your partner can avoid unnecessary triggersIf 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 

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 partsThe power of vibration, specific sounds, and elongated vowels in healing and when to use themHow to expand with power when we meet darker parts of ourselves rather than shrink or diminish ourselvesTuning within to finding the DivineA WHOLE spiritual life: integrating the sacred light AND dark togetherIf 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 

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, Tantra, and shamanic healing. In this episode, she shares on...Journeying with 'What am I, really?' and remembering our true nature.Touching forms of awareness: Shiva (empty pure potential) and Shakti (creative force).What happens when we pause in a world steeped in stimulation.The sacredness of birth and death (and overcoming the growing anxiety and medicalization of each).Celebrating the cycles of life beyond the culture of youth-worship and fear of aging.'The Five Acts of God' as a way of understanding ourselves as "acts of creation".If you liked this episode, please rate and review! To find out more about ISTA trainings or working with our faculty, see www.ista.life, or find us on social, FB: ista.life and IG:@ista_tribe