Presenters | ISTA Festival Cyprus

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Presenters

The ISTA Festival offers various highly experienced international presenters and artists from the best this field has to offer. We will continue to grow and update this initial list as we continue to build the festival's content.

Raffaello Manacorda Raffaello Manacorda is an international Tantra teacher and practitioner. He has been practicing Tantra for more than 15 years and has undergone intensive training in several styles of Yoga. After completing an MA in Philosophy, Raffaello decided to spend more than twelve years living in alternative communities and experimenting with radically alternative lifestyles. He is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program in Wisdom Studies with Ubiquity University (California).	Dawn Cherie Dawn Cherie is a lead facilitator in ISTA is also a performer, dancer, singer, and a teacher of sacred love relationships. Her work is focused on enlivening women and men to live love at their greatest power, using methods of movement, ritual and theater. Deeply passionate about healing women on their shame around their sexuality and moon and post menopause and helping them to uncover their inner sacred jewel.
Aaron Kleinerman Aaron Kleinerman is a Transformational Sex & Relationship Coach, Tantric Practioner, Facilitator & Speaker. He is the International Best-Selling Author of The Embodied Man. He is the lead male teacher for Embodied Awakening Academy and creator of several online sexuality courses for men: A Conscious Man's Guide to the Bedroom, The Embodied Man, & The Integrated Masculine.	Caitlyn Cook Caitlyn’s journey to freedom is what led her to become an international facilitator and 1:1 practitioner working in mindful-somatic healing, informed by Internal Family Systems. Exploring the fields of mindfulness, Self-Love, sacred sexuality and shamanic healing, she now shares the tools and magic that helped bring her back to Life.
Asis Aviv (They/Them) A rich witch, radical faerie, love priestexx, and a shyning diva in service of the universe. Researcher of Spiritual Awakening and Gender Fluidity. 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! Bringing to earth the TRANS*MISSION - a ritual exploring the Mystery of gender, and its unique medicine for the human consciousness.	Clara Gomez Santos Clara is an Intimacy & Empowerment guide, speaker, women’s mentor and international facilitator of transformative processes. lara is a natural facilitator of ceremonial spaces where Eros and Spirit are alchemised 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.
Federica Clemente I’m a creative soul, a free spirit, a mother and a passionate human being. I’m an alchemist, born to transform, heal and shape a new paradigm of reality that is anchored in consciousness and truth. I’m here to raise group consciousness for the heart of the planet.	Simon Marvell Simon trained in Tantric bodywork with Tantric Synergy in Australia, in Traditional Thai Massage with the Haddadi School in Lisbon, and holds a PhD in literary studies. From an arts and humanities background, he is particularly passionate about creativity, poetry, movement, voice, touch, and collaboration as doorways to empowerment.
Amber Ra Shefa A teacher of embodiment, sacred sexuality, tantric and shamanic mysteries. As a practitioner of awareness and healing for many years, she uses conscious practices and ancient wisdoms as tools of self-empowerment and transformation. Amber offers initiations and ceremonies to bridge the sacred and the mundane and connect seekers to purpose through the activation of life force. An academic scholar and a PhD student of Philosophy Cosmology and Consciousness.	Xavier De Forceville Xavier is a powerful Love Warrior dedicating his life to being a channel through which Love can manifest. He practices everyday with many different tools and modalities to continually deepen into his capacity. Xavier is an ISTA Faculty , Spiritual Sexual Shamanic practitioner, personal mentor, and health, wealth and personal development coach.
Roei Shaham In the last 20 years Roi learned and embodied the art of Shiatsu, Energy work, Yoga, Coaching, Shamanism, Dream journeys, SE and Sexual body work. Roei has B.E.D in education & Sociology. He is passionate about personal and tribal growth the the responsible use psychedelics and, unrelated, grateful for his privilege of bringing men closer to themselves and each other.	Liz Morris Liz's greatest passions: shamanism, dance, movement and embodiment are what brought her to ISTA. Her work and mission is in liberating the soul by embracing the neat and tidy aspects of being human as well as the dirty, sticky parts. She enjoys holding point for transformations of the individual through sexuality, ecstatic dance and emotional release. She currently works giving private sessions in Embodiment Coaching and Tantric Massage. She leads Shamanic Journey Dance & Mystical Dance.