ISTA - Bulgaria - Bansko, - SPA edition

ISTA Spiritual Sexual Shamanic Experience SSSEx Level 1
Bansko, Bulgaria - SPA edition

Experience the allure of Pirin Mountain's rugged, stunning landscape, reminiscent of the Alps yet even more untamed and steeped in legend. Nestled at the mountain's base lies the historic town of Bansko, and we are proud to offer a warm and welcoming retreat that mirrors the town's charm.

Welcome to a place where Bulgarian traditions and the spirit of our country come to life! Our wellness hotel, conveniently situated just 5 minutes from the cable car and an equal distance from the town center and its historic quarter, invites you to explore the rich cultural heritage of the region.

Our luxurious accommodations feature both shared and single occupancy bedrooms, each exquisitely furnished and boasting magnificent vistas of the expansive mountain terrain. To enhance your stay, we provide underground parking, a well-appointed conference hall, a restaurant serving international cuisine, a whiskey bar, a café-terrace, a wellness center, and a sports facility equipped with TechnoGym appliances.

The entire event unfolds within the serene ambiance of a spa hotel. During our breaks, we'll have the luxury of indulging in amenities like a heated indoor pool, saunas, and an outdoor jacuzzi. These lavish facilities will not only serve as places for relaxation but also as spaces where we'll seamlessly integrate our workshop activities and come together in the water for immersive group processes.

SPIRITUAL... SEXUAL... SHAMANIC...

each of these three areas alone carries enormous potential for liberation, freedom, love, and joy, as well as a charge for shadow and misuse of power.
If you are ready to transform your life, this experiential 8-day training is for you!
Thousands of people on 5 continents in over 40 countries have attended ISTA training over the past 15 years.
Many have been radically changed by uncovering reactive patterns and transforming them into conscious and more loving ways of being.

For training information, registration, and questions, please contact us at Ista.Albert@gmail.com

: : ∞ : : 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 power, exploring sexuality is a fast path to encountering our 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 is 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.

Unique to ISTA
Three skilled Temple Arts Faculty, all international teachers in their own right, will share, inspire, guide, and support you to bring light to the shadows where our power awaits reclamation. You will receive information, guidance, and lots of experiential practice around self-love, boundaries and consent, emotional release, voice dialogue, neurological reprogramming, Orgasmic Yoga, learning to work with shamanic energy, owning one’s desires and the ability to manifest, accessing and speaking from your contra-sexual self (i.e gender opposite), conscious communication, Transformational Shamanic Breathwork, ancient temple arts rituals of healing/initiation and a powerful sexual clearing and activation processes.

Supportive Group Process
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, feel a sense of greater aliveness and presence, be more aware of your patterns and have some skills as to how to change them, have more awareness of your emotions and how to hold them, lighter and perhaps more relaxed. You will be more in touch with the effortless flow of life, no matter what it looks like.

: ∞ : ISTA LEVEL 1 IS A CONTAINER THAT WILL ALLOW, INVITE AND OFFER YOU. : ∞ :

• Whatever your life situation is, to stop, feel and take a look at yourself in a whole new way. This is an opportunity to wake up to your life.
• It will invite you to take risks, meet and explore your edges in a safe container.
• Provide you with essential life skills we all should have received as teenagers.
• Provide a space for you to see, show and live from the you that lies beneath the mask. You will see more clearly where you are operating from ego, belief patterns of others and society.
• It will show you where your inner masculine and inner feminine are immature, unhealthy or where they are at war and it will guide you to bring them back towards union, love and integration. This is huge!
• It will invite you to reconnect to, master and to learn to love your emotional body and heart power, as well as your physical self.
• It will show you your glorious energy being and share skills as to how to dance with this energy body alongside your physical body.
• It will encourage you and show you how to seek wisdom from your body and heart, instead of your mind.
• Provide powerful opportunities for healing core wounds.
• Remember how to love yourself, to feel the healing power of pleasure and it will offer you ways to expand your sexuality and orgasmic potential.
• To allow you to see and deeply understand that sexuality and spirituality are one.
• Offer you opportunities for deep healing around lost love, sexuality, grief, self love and mother and father wounds.
• To shine a light on places where culture, religion and society has kept us from expressing who we really are.
• Take part in powerful rituals that can bring deep healing and power reclamation.
• It will ask you to consider what your life might look like, if it was not controlled by society's expectations, ego, family, fear, shame and guilt?
• It will plead with you to know what it truly is to be a sovereign being.

: : ∞ : : WHO TAKES THIS INTENSIVE? : : ∞ : :

This training is for EVERYONE. It’s open to ALL who are called.
The ISTA experience has reached people in all of their diversity.

Thousands of people have gone through this training now worldwide. The individuals cover a wide age range from 18 to 80, varied backgrounds, all sexual orientations, those who are gender fluid or trans, and 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 it and if you are open to receiving wisdom and gifts.

Some people take this training for their own personal evolution, to gain a deeper self-connection and to enrich their relationships and empower their lives. Others are interested in exploring how it will add to their own professional life, whatever that may be, and some are interested in the professions of Sacred Sexual Practitioner or Sexuality Educator.
People from various sexual/relational paths including celibacy, monogamy, and polyamory are also drawn to ISTA. As are people of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
Couples, individuals and relationship groups of any formation are welcome.
The practices offered in this training are designed to touch us deeply at the core of our lives as an embodied being.
No prior knowledge of or experience in shamanism or sacred sexuality is necessary.
The greater the mix of prior experiences the richer the training!

If it is your truth, it is possible to complete the entire training/experience without touching another person

We ask you this question:

: : ∞ : : ARE YOU READY TO JUMP ? : : ∞ : :

We are so often at the precipice of something we have wanted to do, embody or achieve....and we remain at the proverbial cafe, sipping tea, peering over the edge looking at the unknown water below, searching with our mind for the answers. Of course, the mind has no real answers. And so we are afraid. We may let our feet leave the ground, but more often than not we return to our comfort zone...because we are too afraid to feel the pain...really feel it all the way...and enter the gateway of new possibilities. What if you could jump when your being, your heart, your spirit knew it was time to change? In this training you will come to a point where you can choose, completely and resolutely, without reservation, to fling yourself off the rock.....and transform your life.
What's your edge? Are you ready to jump? What's getting in your way? To find out….come and do this training. It will take you to your edge, expand you and change your life forever.

: : ∞ : : WHAT WILL I HAVE TO DO ? : : ∞ : :

Nudity and intimate touch are optional parts of this training.The cornerstone of this work is about consent, developing healthy boundaries and communication. You are always at choice and the facilitators will help you navigate what is authentic for you.

The ISTA facilitators are looking forward to meeting you in Love, Power, and Freedom.

: : ∞ : : DATES : : ∞ : :

16 - 23 September 2024

START TIME: 1 pm, Monday, Sep 16th 2024

• The training begins at 3 pm. Please arrive by 1 pm to settle in.

END TIME: 2 pm, Monday, Sep 23rd 2024

• The training will be completed at the latest 2 pm, so we have enough time to integrate, lend, say goodbyes, and take photos.

• Please plan your departure after 3 pm to avoid missing important parts and saying goodbyes.
  

: : ∞ : : INVESTMENT : : ∞ : :

The fee includes all tuition; delicious healthy veggie food and shared accommodation for 8 days / 7 nights.

(the tuition doesn't include a single room fee or your travel expenses).

Please be aware of the following important notes regarding transfer fees: All associated fees, including but not limited to Credit Card fees, Bank fees, PayPal fees, currency conversion fees, or any other transfer-related charges, are the responsibility of the participant.

Super Early Birds - € 1700 (5 Spots available, OR until Feb 15.)

Early Birds - € 1800 (5 Spots available, OR until Mar. 15.)

Regular places - € 1950

Repeaters - € 1400 (Limited spots available Spots available)

Nationals - € 1400

ASSISTANTS By Application only/ limited availability. €1100 Please contact me at Ista.Albert@gmail.com for an application form.

There are a limited number of Scholarships available for youth, young single mothers, and participants from developing countries please Check these links:

https://ista.life/funds/leah-fund

https://ista.life/funds/world-empowerment-trust

contact me at Ista.Albert@gmail.com for any further information.

: : ∞ : : R E G I S T R A T I O N : : ∞ : :

DEPOSIT - A deposit of €500 is required to secure registration. **

Reserve your Spot NOW by getting the Deposit Ticket:

(After booking your spot please fill in the Participant Information Form - you will be automatically redirected there after your ticket payment).

You will receive a full welcome letter with all information about the training once your spot is fully booked, not later than 1 month before the training.

: : ∞ : : VENUE : : ∞ : :

Wellness Hotel Bulgaria - https://www.wellness-hotelbulgaria.com

A limited number of single rooms is available for an extra fee of 380€/week.

: : ∞ : : HOW TO GET THERE : : ∞ : :

Please see https://www.wellness-hotelbulgaria.com/en/about for detailed directions to the venue.

: : ∞ : : MORE ABOUT YOUR FACILITATORS : : ∞ : :

Lead Facilitator
Michal Maayan Don

https://ista.life/profile/michal-maayan-don

CoFacilitator

Makatu Roni

https://ista.life/profile/makatu-roni

CoFacilitator

Aya Kamanakai Iwasaki

https://ista.life/profile/aya-kamanakai-iwasaki

For training information, registration, and questions, please contact Albert at Ista.Albert@gmail.com

: : ∞ : : REFOUND POLICY : : ∞ : :

Please be aware of the following important notes regarding transfer fees: All associated fees, including but not limited to Credit Card fees, Bank fees, PayPal fees, currency conversion fees, or any other transfer-related charges, are the responsibility of the participant.

Committing to the International School of Temple Arts signifies a profound commitment to yourself. It is assumed that your attraction to our training and journeys is purposeful. If you find yourself needing more time to prepare for these unique experiences, please notify us promptly.

• Cancellations within 14 days from the date of your deposit payment:

We will provide a full refund (minus bank or payment processing fees, currency conversion fees, and any payments made in your name). Refunds will be processed within 15 working days of receiving your complete bank transfer information.

• Cancellations after 14 days from the date of payment and within 30 days from the training's starting date:

A €150 administrative fee will be deducted, and you will receive a refund for the remainder of your deposit (minus bank or payment processing fees, currency conversion fees, and any payments made in your name). Refunds will be processed within 15 working days of receiving your complete bank transfer information.

• Cancellations between 30 days and 7 days from the training's starting date:

Your deposit becomes nonrefundable. However, you will receive a refund for the rest of your payment (minus bank or payment processing fees, currency conversion fees, and any payments made in your name) within 15 working days upon providing your complete bank transfer information.

• Cancellations within 7 days from the training's starting date:

Your payment becomes nonrefundable.

In exceptional circumstances, if you wish to request a refund, we kindly ask you to provide comprehensive information about your situation to assist us in supporting you. In such cases, we may consider waiving the €150 administrative fee and refunding the balance (minus bank or payment processing fees, currency conversion fees, and any payments made in your name). Refunds will be processed within 15 working days of receiving your complete bank transfer information.

: : ∞ : : N O T E : : ∞ : :

Navigating the spiritual and sexual shamanic space within a group setting is a highly individualized process, requiring a significant level of self-responsibility. ISTA, as a mystery school, approaches trauma from a shamanic standpoint, emphasizing the connection with one's body and soul. We strongly advise individuals with known deep-seated trauma to consider one-on-one sessions and obtain approval from their therapist before participating in the group process.