• A supportive participant/facilitator ratio. 
• Total confidentiality.
• Experienced facilitators.
• A safe container honoring your healthy boundaries. 
• Luxurious location & high-end lakeside resort venue.
• Gourmet, healthy and locally sourced cuisine - we cater to all food needs and sensitivities.
• Access to be part of a supportive global community. 
• All spiritual pathways, sexual orientation and gender identities are welcome.
  

• Clear emotional blocks. 
• Heal religious and social dogma around sexuality. 
• Heal and identify boundaries. 
• Heal relationship heartaches. 
• Heal fear, jealousy and competition. 
• Own your full ability to manifest and create.
  

• Not spend another day disconnected from your personal power. 
• No longer remain stuck in past dramas and traumas.
• Stop limiting your capacity for pleasure. 
• Stop feeling shut down and disconnected. 
• Get rid of unclear personal boundaries. 
• Escape a lack of consent and poor communication skills.
  

Thousands of people on 5 continents have gone through this training worldwide, the individuals cover a wide age range from 18 to 80, varied backgrounds and professions, all sexual orientations, relationship styles and gender identities, from every world religion, nationality and ethnicity. As this training is a week long journey through life’s core experiences and wounds as a collective human experience, bringing an open mind and heart will allow one to receive the gifts wisdom, healing and growth. No previous experience of sacred sexuality, tantra or shamanism is required to participate and everyone is welcome.

Some people take this training for their own personal evolution and healing. Others are interested in exploring how the training adds to their business or professional life. Many are interested, entering or already belong to the profession of Sacred Sexual Practitioner or Sexuality Educator. Optional nudity and safe intimate touch are a part of this training, however, you are always at choice and the facilitators will help you navigate what is authentic for you.

This course is open to all who are called. Experience is not required.

The ISTA level 1 SSSEx training is an individual process that happens in a group environment. A level of ability to be self responsible is needed to navigate the spiritual sexual shamanic space. ISTA is a mystery school and approaches trauma from the shamanic perspective of connecting with the body and soul. We recommend that if there is known deep seated trauma, individuals seek one on one sessions and get the OK from their therapist before entering the group process.

Frank Mondeose

(Lead Facilitator)

A contemporary voice on Love, Eros & Relating, Frank Mondeose embodies both play and pray, which is reflected on his YouTube web series “The Spiritual Playboy”. Lead faculty with ISTA, co-founder of ReMENber Brotherhood Journey, Shamanic Minister with Venus Rising Association for Transformation and creator of the lifestyle brand Monde Osé, Frank has touched the hearts, and minds of many, whether it be through tantalizing their imaginations at his multi-sensorial events, to inspirational interactions that have navigated people to accessing their personal power.

Frank holds an unapologetic, no-nonsense container. It is a space to step out of one’s comfort zone, and meet their edges in a compassionately ruthless manner. His containers are solidly held, in a protected and safe environment where all emotions and expressions are welcome and celebrated.

Frank is currently teaching Sexual Shamanism in over 10 countries including Canada, United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, Iceland, England, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Israel and Turkey.

Learn more about him at frankmondeose.com

Araminta Barbour

(Co-Facilitator)

Araminta is an international speaker, group facilitator, and 1-1 guide specializing in empowerment, relationships and sexuality, transformational healing, soul initiation, and the esoteric mysteries. Lead Faculty with ISTA (the International School of Temple Arts) with whom she has collaborated since 2011, Araminta is the founder of The Sanctuary Guatemala, creator of The Resilience Journey, and co-creator of the Women Who See In The Dark project.

Weaving together an academic background in History, Ecology, and Theravada Buddhism (BA Hons & MA), over a decade spent in the international development NGO world (reproductive health focus) with 25+ years traveling, studying, and practicing a wide range of alternative healing modalities, and philosophical/ esoteric traditions, Araminta's work can be encapsulated in the phrase "spiritual sexual shamanism" - an attempt to address the fullness of our human gifts and capacities. In 2005, Araminta's heart settled in Guatemala's Lake Atitlan - her home base for continued event facilitation around the world.

Araminta's life path has been shaped from the learnings brought from death, grief, travel, and the deep questioning of collective beliefs. She supports clients to transform painful experiences into power, heal from parental and relationship wounding, step-free from sexual or emotional abuse, and navigate the psychological hurdles to self-acceptance, self-belief, and self-love. Her deeper focus is awakening to expansive levels of Self untangled from collective consciousness.

Araminta utilizes skills from Meditation, Non-dual Spirituality, Shamanism, Sacred Sexuality, Tantra, Breathwork, Yoga, Bodywork, Shadow Integration, Emotional Release, and Initiatory rituals. Her teachings aim to bring together the tools and maps that reactivate our full human capacities. Araminta’s core passion is the process of radical self-acceptance – the inner marriage of love with power. She is here to support humanity’s evolution as liberated, heart-centered creators.

Find out more about Araminta here

Clara Gomez Santos

(Co-Facilitator)

Clara is an Intimacy & Empowerment guide, speaker, women’s mentor and international facilitator of transformative processes. Her lifelong passion for exploring the mysteries of consciousness and soul-body integration led her to undertake extensive training with world authorities in the fields of Tantra, Shamanism, Shadow Work, Dakini Codes and Esoteric Psychology. In 2014 she began her journey with ISTA deepening her relationship with the Temple Arts.

She has supported thousands on their path of integration and self empowerment through retreats, ceremonies, online programs, private sessions, interactive lectures and trainings spanning Asia, Middle East, Latin America, USA and Europe.

Clara is a natural facilitator of ceremonial spaces where Eros and Spirit are alchemized for prayer, healing and transformation. She brings a strong component of authenticity and permission anchored in intentionality and self-responsibility. As a Dakini she guides seekers who long to reconnect with their bodies, raw life force and creative essence through conscious activation of erotic and emotional energy. She’s devoted to supporting the emergence of mystery schools, temple culture and soul technology on the planet. She is faculty at ISTA - International School of Temple Arts - and council member at Shamballa School for soul initiation and Highden Mystery School in New Zealand. 

Follow her journey on Instagram at @clara_gomez_santos