Spiritual Sexual Shamanic Podcast International School of Temple Arts
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- Religion & Spirituality
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Welcome to the Spiritual Sexual Shamanic Podcast. Exploring sacred sexuality, activating Life Force, and empowered transformation, these intimate conversations take you 'under the sheets' with Faculty from ISTA, the International School of Temple Arts.
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Free to Thrive! Gender, Fluidity & Our Inner Selves: Asis Aviv
Asis Aviv is one of a kind, and the newest faculty member of the International School of Temple Arts. A self-described “rich witch, radical faerie, love priestexx, and shy-ning diva,” they are here for falling back in love with being humxn. In this conversation with Simon Marvell, Asis–a name which means “JUICE!” in Hebrew–shares their reflections on a vast array of topics, all anchored in the idea that we are so much more than our identity, whether influenced by parents, society or anyt...
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Creating Safer Spaces for Relationship & Healing: Shelby Leigh
It has become common to talk about creating safer spaces for healing work. And this is a good thing. Everyone in the field of conscious sensuality, embodiment, and healing work should be looking to improve their practice and rise to higher standards of care, support, awareness, and sensitivity.At the same time, it has also become common to resist this advancement in favour of the idea that self-development spaces should reflect the level of safety in the outside world. And sometimes, for some...
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Candid Conversations & Criticism about the Sacred Sexuality Space: Dave Booda
Over the last couple of years, Dave Boda has been really critical of ISTA. He’s composed blog-posts and spoken openly about how some of the people involved need to improve, and how some of the ways ISTA approaches its work need to fall away. In this episode, he talks with ISTA facilitator, the podcast founder, and his old friend, Ria Yoshida, about how important it is to not only have these frank conversations about improving the sacred sexuality space, but to do it in an engaged and lov...
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Dependency & Sovereignty in Transformational Spaces: Elica Lorde-Syzygy
There’s a lot of hot debate about the ethics of transformational spaces right now, driven by questions of how power should be held in these spaces. Who should be responsible if something goes wrong? Just what are the limits of what gets taught?Maybe it would be easier not to create spaces for transformational work, for looking at shadows and how power moves. Maybe making such spaces, if they are still to exist, should be made so anodyne as to neutralize whatever challenges people might feel a...
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Community, Cults & Cancel Culture: Jen Howk
In this episode, Ria talks with Dr. Jen Howk about the collision of science and mysticism in the field of evolutionary psychology. With her feet planted firmly in both worlds, Dr. Jen delves into the how and why of our psychological quirks, revealing some of the mysteries of our development as a species.In particular, she tackles the intriguing phenomenon of cancel culture. In doing so, she explores the historical roots of our collective drive to create ‘in’-groups and ‘out’-groups, explainin...
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Unravelling Life Through Existential Kink: Carolyn Elliot
Do you ever feel like you’re being held back in life by events and circumstances that are out of your control? Maybe you find yourself in uncomfortable, even terrible, circumstances thinking to yourself: how did I even get here? And, how do I get out? These are questions that arrived powerfully in the life of Carolyn Elliot, transformational guide and author of the book, Existential Kink. We won’t give too much away, but as she explains in this episode, she was really in a bind. And then, alm...
Customer Reviews
Loving receptive vision
This, Yes THIS!!,will set you free
Wish the episodes were longer!!
DIVINE Essence of the Temple Arts. I’ve been a student of ISTA for years and I love seeing the inner experience of the faculty! I get deeper and deeper insights into their teachings. So grateful!!
Deep! 🎯
These pioneers jump off the deep end from the jump! There’s nothing fluffy about the topics being covered. It’s super edgy and profound wisdom helps the listener get a felt-sense on navigating the spiritual, sexual and shamanic realms. Such a juicy podcast! 🔥