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About ISTA
International School of Temple Arts
ISTA is committed to raising sexuality and consciouness education across the globe to grow community, provide conferences and initiatory events to all people, trainings to practitioners and teachers, and to provide tools and collaborations to support the emergence of Temples around the world. ISTA is in service to this life/Love. We are not an organization. We are an expression of a living organism of Love.
ISTA is a transmission of the life force, clothed in love and expressing creatively in the world. ISTA is part of a global transformational movement where human consciousness is being opened 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.
Is this for me?
If you are ready to transform your life, this 7-day experiential event is for you. Thousands of people on 5 continents have attended ISTA training in the last 10 years and have improved their lives by discovering behaviour patterns and transforming them into more conscious ways of being.
The International School of Temple Arts (ISTA) is committed to sex education to raise awareness around the world. The most misunderstood, ignored and denied area of spiritual exploration is the territory around sex and emotions. The ISTA training are seminars that change lives promoting the profound healing of our central wounds and our connection with the source of sexuality and the primordial nature.
ISTA trainings are transformational containers, offering the potential for deep inner shifts and alignment to the power of Love. Often times there's a real felt sense of being ready and excited for this powerful work. Tremendous healing can take place, and also for some people the intensity of the work may be counterproductive to where they are at in their healing journey. If you have more questions or have doubts whether this training is for you, please see our Frequently Asked Questions page here or contact us through info@istaguatemala.com.
IF YOU HAVE ANY MORE QUESTIONS, please see our Frequently Asked Questions page here or get in touch with us at info@istaguatemala.com
How We Give Back to Lake Atitlan
One Spirit, ISTA Guatemala's organizer, was founded in 2018, and since then we've supported different local initiatives to give back to the communities of where we host our retreats and journeys in diverse ways. Over the years, we supported nutritional aid foundation Konojel in San Marcos la laguna, Francisco Puac's Mayan cosmology educational project for the children of San Pedro la laguna, families affected by racial hate crimes against indigenous wisdom keepers, and people affected by natural disasters.
Since 2021, we started our own Tule reed planting mission to help cleanse the waters of lake Atitlan. The gorgeous Atitlan lake has been a place of power and reverence for ages. One of the native plants of the lake's ecosystem is the Tule reed (Schoenoplectus c.). It possesses water-purifying qualities which decrease contamination, since its roots filter water naturally. Besides giving oxygen back to the Lake, Tule provides ecosystems to numerous aquatic species and migratory birds. Its controlled cultivation helps diminish erosion on the beaches. One of its most important features is natural filtration that removes phosphorus, nitrogen, and other nutrients left behind from soaps and chemical fertilizer that feed cyanobacteria.
Tul planting days take place together with the local council of Tule planters (Ruk'u'x Chupup - Heart of Tule). They know where to harvest the seeds without damaging the plants, as well as where to plant the reeds where they are most likely to thrive and sustain themselves.
A percentage of every ISTA Guatemala training is given to the Tule planting fund - find out more in this video:
All donations received (after bank fees) go entirely to:
- Paying the crew a decent wage.
- Boat transport to take the plants to the planting sites.
- Natural fiber ropes to tie plants to the rocks that keep them in place.
- Food and coffee for the planters.
- Supporting the crew in getting new and better wetsuits.
