Presenters | ISTA Festival Cyprus

Presenters

Our Facilitators

The ISTA Festival brings together highly experienced international facilitators and artists from the best this field has to offer.

Get to know our visionary team guiding this journey, to get a feel for the festival's spirit and the richness of the experience awaiting you:

Michal Maayan Don A "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 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.	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.
Robbie Griffin As a mentor and facilitator, Robbie empowers people to connect from the depths of their hearts and communicate transparently, authentically, and vulnerably. Allowing for radical self-acceptance, opening the doors to deep love, connections, and intimacy both within and with others. Robbie dedicates his life to opening deeper to love, shedding old conditioning, and allowing his soul to shine.	Ananda Amit Angelo Facilitator 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.
Nimai Sunra A 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.	Clara Gomez Santos Clara is an international facilitator of embodied spirituality and transpersonal mentor with 12 years of experience supporting people on the path to wholeness, empowered intimacy and soul-centred living. Her facilitation style blends somatic awareness, depth psychology and the temple arts while bringing a strong component of permission, authenticity and self-responsibility to the group field. She is the creator of numerous courses on Inner Marriage, Shadow Work & Masculine-Feminine integration.
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.	Lourdes Starshower Pollock An 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."
Lola Antić A 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.	Maria Garzon Creates 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.
Jac Van Wyk Jack 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 Cares Sylvi 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.
Yogi Levy An ISTA Apprentice and transpersonal practitioner (Grof Legacy & OSHO Humaniversity). Holds raw, grounded spaces for somatic release, boundary work, and integration-stripping away spiritual fluff to bring peak experiences back to Earth.	Jhoselyn Escobar Devoted to expanding the path of sacred sexuality and tantric arts into far-reaching communities, including Ecuador. Since 2021, teaching, facilitating, and organizing holistic, transformational tantric spaces. Founder of Clitoria World - a womb for the Divine, where pleasure and love lead the way. Dakini in service to Eros - the most powerful medicine of all.
Ruhan Quddus I support people in returning to the body as sacred ground - a place where life force moves more freely, where the body's own intelligence around intimacy begins to open, and where what has long been exiled begins to remember itself. My work is energetic, relational and embodied. I work with the nervous system, emotional expression, and the imprint of early sexual violation - especially in men - and how it continues to shape intimacy, safety, and trust in the body into adulthood.

Our Artists

ORKA Orka 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.	ALANDA Alanda 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.
DJ Abi Fox Abi kicked off her DJ career with a bang, playing four sets at the iconic Pikes Ibiza, followed by countless private villa parties, seductive temple sets and her talked-about ecstatic dances in one of the UK’s best-known ED spaces. Her music is wild, sensual and always held by the groove. A raver at heart, she brings that energy into every set she plays, taking you on a journey through deep, juicy rhythms, dirty techno beats to playful, joyful euphoria.	DJ Spiritito Spiritito 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 Baba DJ, 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.	Ori Lavi Ori Lavi is a musician, therapist, and group facilitator who leads Comusication™ adventures around the world to inspire authentic expression and human connection. He is also a solo artist and the co-founder, drummer, and producer of the group OROT.
DJ Navi Navi brings a wild and playful blend of juicy grooves, heavy bass and pure fun. His sets are made to get booties shaking, spirits flying and dancers diving deep into the music - expect a warm, immersive emotional journey, and a dance floor that never takes itself too seriously.	Mica Temple Arts Painting Exhibition Inspired by ISTA soul journeys, love temples, and Mystery School imagery. Mica Elat Hateva brings her paintings, letting emerge the visions and symbols from the spiritual, sensual, shamanic experiences within ISTA. May these pieces serve the field, vibrating the frequency of sacred Love Temples, holding the erotic loving presence like gates & portals.
Joy Mittens Joy Mittens is an artist from the UK. Somewhere between the sacred and the animal, between fluorescent paint and festival mud, is where her soul seeks to express itself. From acrylic paintings to large scale wooden sculptures - what will she create next?