ISTA Level 1 in Belgium

The Spiritual Sexual Shamanic Experience

August 7-14th, 2024

Extended 8-day/7-night Training

The ISTA (Spiritual Sexual Shamanic Experience) Level 1 has been offered to thousands of people across five continents for more than fifteen years. As a group of people taking back control of their lives, graduates from these week-long experiences uncover and transform deep core wounds and reactive patterns. They leave feeling empowered, healed and courageous to take control of their lives and relationships.


The level 1 SSSEx residential experience gives you a space to clear your physical, emotional and mental bodies of shame, guilt and fear. We use guided visualizations, emotional release, energy tracking, conscious touch and ceremony to open a doorway into a deeper a knowing of the Self as whole and complete.


This training offers a special welcome to LGBTQIA+ and allies.

ISTA trainings welcome and celebrate all expressions of humanity. Apart from tools and support for emotional embodiment and empowered living, the level 1 program offers a deep exploration into the healthy expression of the complete gender spectrum. Within this transformational space, we invite and celebrate beings of all sexual orientations, gender identities, cultural backgrounds, and spiritual paths. We work to offer as inclusive a container as possible, for ISTA's body of work to be received powerfully by participants of all walks of life.

What Can You Expect?

  • A supportive participant/facilitator ratio. 
  • Total confidentiality.
  • Experienced facilitators.
  • A safe container honoring your healthy boundaries. 
  • Private natural location & comfortable farmhouse 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 orientations and gender identities are invited and celebrated.

Are You Ready to...

  • 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.

AND to...

  • 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.

Is This Training For You?

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.


If you have questions or curiosities around whether this training will serve you at this time, please read our Frequently Asked Questions here.

What Will We Be Doing at This Event?

Each training is unique and does not follow a strict curriculum—the facilitators are trained to listen to the field, the group, and feel into what would best serve your highest-good. Below is a partial list of topics that will be covered... 


  • Intentions, Invocation & The Art of Ritual. Holding Sacred Space.
  • Authenticating the Moment – Showing up – Power & Presence
  • Identifying needs; Safety and Emotional support & Practice
  • Boundaries & Personal Empowerment
  • Giver/Receiver Practice
  • Moving from Transference & Projection to Authenticity & Sovereignty
  • Self-consciousness, Maturing Awareness, Monitoring the Ego
  • Making & Keeping Agreements
  • Personal/Collective Sexual Wounds, shadow & Abuse
  • Monitoring & Owning Feelings – Power & Practice
  • Healthy & Unhealthy Masculine & Feminine Dynamics
  • Transmissions on Fear, Jealousy and Competition
  • Embodying the Divine Masculine and Feminine in the Full Range of Archetypes
  • Integration of Your Inner Masculine & Feminine energies – Sacred Relationship/Marriage
  • Owning our Humanity, one’s desires and the ability to manifest
  • Contra-sexual Awareness & Gender Play (Inner Masculine/Feminine Coupling)
  • Clearing Emotional Blocks – The Wounded Healer
  • Breath Work
  • Anchoring, Grounding and Sustaining Healing Change
  • Healing Religious and Social Dogma and Sexuality
  • Control and Fear, Suspicion around Pleasure
  • Releasing Judgment /Finding the Path to Love
  • Empathic Listening and Touch
  • Session Demonstrations: Sacred Tantric Temple Practices
  • Healing Sacred Sexuality Rituals and Embodiment Practices

About The Facilitators

KamalaDevi McClure (they/them)

Lead Facilitator


KamalaDevi McClure is a mystic, muse, and mentor. As a pansexual, genderqueer art activist, KD has authored seven books. They’ve starred on Showtime’s reality TV series, Polyamory: Married & Dating, and been featured on Dr. Drew, Tyra Banks, and the award-winning documentary, Sex Magic.


After almost 20 years of teaching tantra, sacred sexuality, and temple arts around the world, KD currently lives by the ocean with their husband and son in San Diego where they are on a virtual book tour for 2 new books: Sex Shamans and 52 Fridays.


Website: KamalaDevi.com

Blake Zealear (he/him)

Co-Facilitator


Blake is an evolutionary guide working at the intersection of men’s work, feminism, sacred sexuality, and new paradigm relating. His multi-disciplinary approach provides the perspective, empowerment, permission and playfulness that enable a liberated reclaiming of his students’ lives. Blake has studied embodiment, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Radical Honesty, Landmark technology, Tantric and Yogic practice, breathwork, shamanic sexuality, esoterics, polarity, non-traditional relationship design, shadow-work, and Spiral Dynamics, and he incorporates all of these into his teaching. He is devoted to the emergence of a new culture of love in our lifetimes, the transmutation of suffering into power, and the ascension of humanity through healing our relationships to ourselves and the Earth.


Read More about Blake Here

Asis Aviv (they/them)

Apprentice Facilitator


Asis Aviv is a rich witch, radical faerie, love priestexx, and a diva in service of the universe. A researcher of Spiritual Awakening and Gender Fluidity. Born and raised in Israel - Palestine. A gender-transcended Arab Jew.


Facilitating self-expansion journeys, specializing in Non Violent communication and Voice Dialogue. Developer of the Shamanic Voice Dialogue method - a ceremonial way to access and heal the Sacred Wound, while using deep listening, gentleness, and radical acceptance of all of our inner selves.


Creator of the YASSS QUEEN! movement. Empowering humans to evoke the hidden magic we inherited from our spectacular queer lineage. Here to celebrate one another as Queens among Queens!

In service of the TRANS*MISSION - a ritual exploring the Mystery of gender, and its unique medicine for the human consciousness.


Co-Founder of OMG! (Orgasmic Manifesting Goddexx). OMG! establishes a radical connection between the individual and the Goddexx. Embodying divinity in everyday life. Flowing in love with the juicy great mystery and playing around manifesting through pleasure, while laughing together at this huge joke we call life.


Humxn being humxn.

About The Venue

Ardennes, Belgium

Our beautiful family-run venue in the Ardennes region offers one of the most remote natural experiences available in Belgium. Surrounded by old-growth forests (including 500-year old oak trees on the property) as well as freshwater springs, the place is a gorgeous haven of peace at just two hours from Brussels.


The extensive 10-hectare property is a living permaculture ecosystem with fireplace, labyrinth, big lawn, organic produce gardens, orchards, pastures, forest garden, and a big shaded patio in the center of the farmhouse. All food is carefully prepared and almost entirely locally sourced, with lots of it coming from the venue's own permaculture gardens. The center operates in a sustainable, ecologically and socially engaged way.


The venue provides 3 vegan, organic, inspired, buffet-style meals as well as a tea corner with warm drinks and spring water at your disposal throughout the day. A lot of the food used is grown in the venue's own permaculture garden, or sourced from local, organic suppliers.


Address details and travel information will be provided after registration.

Do you feel like something in your life needs to shift?


Does it feel like you’re not accessing your full power?


Does your current relationship feel like it needs a reboot?


Do you keep attracting the same type of people into your life?



Unable to keep the relationships that you really want?

What People are Saying

What is ISTA Level 1?

DISCLAIMER - This is based on my experience, and everyone's experience is unique, because it's a deep process! [Feel free to share]

 

I have decided to write this taster for those people who do not know the International School of Temple Arts, for those who feel tuned out when they listen to videos and descriptions about ISTA Level 1, because it's in a language not accessible to them.

 

I first came across ISTA totally by chance; I was traveling with my beloved in Guatemala and a poster caught my attention. Probably because it had the word sex in it, and because it looked attractive and exotic. David and I signed up as a present to our love, not knowing what the week would be about. We are both grateful we took the plunge, as ISTA L1 is a well-oiled machine!

 

So why are people so mysterious about ISTA Level 1? Why can't they just give me the curriculum so I can decide if it's for me? The answer is simple; a lot of the transformational work that is done during that week needs to be in context. Out of context, it sounds nuts. I have done 2 Level 1s; once as a participant, and another time as an assistant, and I can guarantee that my learning and journey was unique each time. However, I understand that your mind wants something more palpable, so here goes.

 

In one sentence - ISTA Level 1 is the education every human being should get when growing up.

 

Boundaries - Do you ever feel like you should have said no, but ended up saying yes? This relates to #metoo, but it also relates to those times when you accept too much responsibility at work, when you give a friend a shoulder although you really don't have the emotional strength at that moment, and other situations in which you are not clear about your boundaries and end up feeling depleted. ISTA Level 1 explores this expertly from different angles, so even if you think you are brilliant with your boundaries (and the boundaries of others), you'll become better.

 

Tools - Even if you are content and emotionally switched on, there is space to become happier, more connected to your feelings, desires, fears, dreams. Exploring anger was one of the more difficult challenges for me, precisely because I am pretty joyful. In a nutshell, the tools involve using your voice and body movements to let energy move through you. I'm sure at a moment of stress, you've stretched out your arms, or have gone for a walk. This is the next level and has much more impact.

 

The thing is not the thing - Whenever you feel angry that someone arrived late, frustrated about a decision made at work… you are becoming a victim of that thing or story. You might not be able to change how late that person is, but you can change how it affects you. ISTA L1 teaches you how to move into your power and break this cycle of victimhood. It takes practice post-training, but you are given tools.

 

Honesty - We are brought up to be polite, and this can get in the way of honesty. Since our first ISTA L1, my beloved and I have had some seriously deep and painful conversations, which have brought us to beautiful places. Sometimes you feel unsure about being upset about something someone did, but here's the trick, you can tell them that! You can be honest about how it makes you feel, instead of blaming them for it. The key is to be clear that it is not a competition, it is not an attack. Put yourself in that vulnerable place of "I love you, and I'm not sure why this triggers me, but when you xxx I felt xxx", keeps the channels of communication open, and you will be surprised how things shift in most of your relationships. You also have to accept that some people are still stuck in fight or flight mode, so you might not have such a successful honest conversation.

 

You are not your story - I'll take a simple example. Everyone feels that at some point their parents didn't make the best decision (even if like me, you think that overall your parents are incredible and did a brilliant job raising you). Guess what, you are a whole human being, you have yourself. You are your own mother, your father, you design your story from now on. Everyone has traumas (to different levels and degrees), and it can feel like you are messed up for good, but you are not. More and more research is going into neuroplasticity, so we have the ability to rewire through a change in habits, and like William Ernest Henley says in his poem Invictus, you are the master of your own fate, you are the captain of your soul.

 

Why is it so expensive? You will have a full-time one-week experience with 3 expert facilitators who will support you 24/7 during the week, and a number of assistants (number depends on size of group), accommodation, full board… so surely this costs money. ISTA might sound alien to you, but it is made up of human beings who pay bills.

 

There are numerous more gifts (and each of them more powerful) you will receive with this training, but I don't know how to explain them in all their awesomeness without you actually being there. So, take the plunge, and you will love me and yourself for it!

IF YOU HAVE ANY MORE QUESTIONS, please see our Frequently Asked Questions page here or get in touch with us at info@istabelgium.com

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