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Presenters
Our Facilitators
The ISTA Festival offers various highly experienced international facilitators and artists from the best this field has to offer.
We are currently creating the team of this year's edition. While we finalize the new team, feel free to explore last year's facilitators and artists to get a feel for the festival's spirit.
We will continue to grow and update this list as we continue to build the festival's content.
 Michal Maayan DonA "Sacred Activist" and a facilitator of sexual shamanism sacred spaces. MA in Gender studies. Holds training for group facilitators of conscious sexuality and women's circles, nurtures and leads a tribe of women who bring the wisdom of the circles in Israel. Initiated and guided by the ancient knowledge of the land of Canaan, by Hebrew ancestors and my living teachers. Behind me are many years as a group and ceremonies facilitator and producer at festivals. |  Raffaello ManacordaRaffaello 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). |
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 Dawn CherieDawn 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. |  Clara Gomez SantosClara is an Intimacy & Empowerment guide, speaker, women’s mentor and international facilitator of transformative processes. Clara 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. |
 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. |  Ananda Amit AngeloFacilitator and coach specializing in embodied Eros, intimacy, and authentic communication. A certified Sex & Happiness coach. Ananda empowers others to embrace inner authority, freedom of expression, and ecstatic pleasure by helping them release guilt and shame around sexuality. |
 Federica ClementeI’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. |  Amber Ra ShefaA 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. |
 Nimai SunraA peace walker, a server of the great mother. A part of a global community of peace seekers through the act of love. Nimai is facilitating and leading different inner journeys around the world. Navigating and bridging between the worlds of modern and ancient Shamanism and the worlds of communication and tantric journeys. Nimai has spend the past years living between India, South & Central America, Israel and Portugal. studying with many teachers and masters and shamans around the world. |  Maria GarzonCreates sacred spaces of intimacy, authenticity, and transformation. As a holistic coach and bodyworker, she invites people to soften into their bodies, reclaim pleasure as medicine, and welcome every part of themselves home. In the last years, she has deepened her path through studies in the art of sacred sexuality, tantra, and embodiment, blending them with her background in coaching, acting, and sexual pedagogy. Maris isn't an ISTA facilitator, but a guest facilitator at the festival. |
 Lourdes Starshower PollockAn advanced Certified Tantra Educator, Relationship Coach, Shamanic Breathwork Practitioner, Clinical Hypnotherapist and EMDR Therapist. The Founder / Director of the Ecstatic Tantra Holistic Trauma-Informed Practitioner Certification Program, catalyzing the success of Tantra practitioners around the globe. She created The Starshower Method Hypnotic Timeline Regression Technique and certifies healers. She's the author of an online video program titled "Tantra Practices for Divine Ecstasy." |  Dolores AntićA weaver of sacred spaces, devoted to the sensual and soul-rooted Temple Arts. With a deep passion for igniting change in the Balkans, she has been holding Women’s Circles, Temple Nights, and immersive Tantra Festivals - offering a soft revolution through embodied awakening. She is a founder of Tantra Spirit Festival in Croatia, Alchemy of Love Festival in the UK, and Ada Divine Awakening in Montenegro. With roots in Bhakti Yoga, her path is infused with devotion and prayer. |
 Jack Van WykJack is a student of life, a people enthusiast who believes in the brilliance of collective wisdom: That we can grow and learn better together, with each other, and from each other. His students describe him as open-hearted with a grounded presence and a joyful energy. He taps into his nature guided intuition to help people connect their physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies in support of their healing journeys towards self-love and a more fulfilling life. |  Sylvi CaresSylvi is a dancer, teacher, choreographer, body and movement researcher. For more than 20 years she inspired body awareness and movement in others by teaching people of all ages. Love, respect and acceptance have always been the base of her work. She offers 1:1 Bodywork and Coaching as well as group experiences like Conscious Date Nights Temples and other spaces that focus on a deep and conscious connection to self, others and the world. |
Our Artists
 ORKAOrka is a musician, singer songwriter and teacher whose passion lies in spiritual development, ritual artistry and ceremonies. In her journey for the past 14 years, Orka has explored the ceremonial, spiritual and healing aspects of the concept of Singing Circles. After many years of performing internationally, topping the charts and taking an active role as a woman leader in her community, she has launched her solo project on which she worked as the world changed. |  ALANDAAlanda live performances are an ecstatic blend of tribal, electro, world beats and uplifting anthems, creating a powerful, wild, juicy experience that connects and energizes. A deep, electrifying journey, infused with love, humor, joy, and pure ecstasy, bringing people together in a shared celebration of rhythm and spirit. Imagine an ecstatic dance set, meets a powerful live show , meets your favorite disney movie! That’s what this experience feels like. |
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 DJ SpirititoSpiritito is a storyteller. Awaking us through music,combines ancient wisdom & new consciousness. Invites us to surrender to the waves of life, dancing love & magic all the way back home. Creator & producer of ecstatic dance & conscious awakening movement spaces. Living the ecstatic dance global community. His eclectic vibes: Tribal Downtempo, Global Bass, Shamanic Trap, Tribal House, Afro House, Afro Latin, Latin House, Funk, Disco, and more! |  DJ Tori BabaDJ, healer and free spirit, plays in festivals world wide tribal sets that swing between the electronic and the acoustic, fire and water, between the soul of live music and the ecstasy of trance. He walks the path of healing, through music, breath, bodywork and energy. |
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