ISTA Seattle 2025 Fierce LifeChanging Tantra Retreat with KamalaDevi
August 13–20, 2025 | Near Seattle, WA
🌿💫 Sexuality. Spirituality. Sovereignty. Welcome to the Edge. 💫🌿
There are retreats… and then there’s ISTA — a sacred storm of sensation, self-inquiry, and soul-deep liberation. This August, the International School of Temple Arts returns to the Pacific Northwest with its signature Level 1 Spiritual, Sexual, Shamanic Experience (SSSEX) — a bold, immersive, eight-day initiation designed to awaken your power, purge your past, and rewire your relationship to pleasure, purpose, and presence.
Forget workshops. This is a portal.
One part ritual, one part revolution, this life-altering journey is set in the untamed beauty of a secluded forest retreat near Seattle, Washington. You won’t just “attend.” You’ll crack open. You’ll sweat. You’ll sob. You’ll remember who you were before the programming — and reclaim who you came here to be. 🔥
🌙 Why ISTA Retreat Isn’t Like Anything You’ve Ever Done
ISTA doesn’t do surface-level. Its Level 1 training is a sacred container for transmutation at every layer — body, mind, heart, and soul.
Here’s what to expect from your ISTA initiatory journey:
💔 Breakthrough Healing – Unwind trauma. Shed societal shame. Rewrite your erotic code. With expert facilitators guiding you through energetic release, you’ll let go of limiting beliefs and unconscious blocks you didn’t even know you were still carrying.
🌺 Tantric Embodiment – Access your full-spectrum being. Sensual, primal, emotional, intellectual, mystical — all of you is welcome here. Through breathwork, ecstatic movement, and guided rituals, you’ll drop into the wild intelligence of your own body.
🔮 Sacred Sexuality Practices – Learn how to hold your erotic energy with reverence. Explore conscious touch, sovereign consent, and how your pleasure is a key to power — not something to apologize for.
🔥 Ritual & Shamanic Work – From fire ceremonies to energetic attunements, from archetypal shadow work to initiatory rites, you’ll dive deep into ancient technologies for soul alignment.
💬 Authentic Relating – In this brave space of radical honesty and compassionate witnessing, you’ll forge raw, real, heart-led connections that defy small talk and ignite truth.
🌎 Diverse & Inclusive Community – All genders, sexual orientations, relationship styles, and spiritual lineages are welcome. You’ll be held by a community that celebrates your uniqueness and supports your becoming.
This is more than a retreat. It’s a remembering — a reclamation of your primal intelligence, your erotic sovereignty, and your sacred self-worth.
🕯️ Meet the ISTA Facilitators: Holy Fireholders for a Sacred Rebirth
When you enter the ISTA temple, you’re not walking in alone. You’re met by a trinity of transformational presence — guides who’ve walked the fire themselves and now hold space for others to rise through the flames. These are not talking heads. These are living transmissions. ⚡🌹
✨ KamalaDevi McClure – The Muse of Erotic Awakening
They’ve been called a mystic, a mentor, a muse — and they are all three, and more. KamalaDevi McClure (they/them) leads this retreat with over 20 years of experience in sacred sexuality, temple arts, and relational alchemy. Featured on Showtime’s Polyamory: Married & Dating, author of Sex Shamans, and provocateur of embodied spirituality, KamalaDevi isn’t here to teach performance — they’re here to spark remembrance. 🔥
Their presence invites radical honesty and radical play. Whether through erotic ritual or soul-deep stillness, KamalaDevi holds an uncompromising field of truth, love, and expansion. Their teachings are textured, queer-friendly, trauma-aware, and rooted in the belief that pleasure is power — and it belongs to all of us.
📚 Want a taste? Check out their free e-books and full body of work at KamalaDevi.com
🌊 Liz Morris – The Embodied Oracle
With the grace of a panther and the wisdom of a forest elder, Liz Morris blends tantra, dance, and shamanic energy work into a signature medicine of movement and emotional release. A guide of wild liberation, she coaxes you out of numbness and into the primal pulse of life.
Liz works at the threshold where ecstasy meets grief, where embodiment becomes prayer. Her Shamanic Journey Dance sessions are legendary for cracking open the heart and shaking loose the masks we didn’t know we were still wearing.
Expect to sweat. Expect to feel. Expect to remember what your body already knows.
📩 Contact Liz: RadicallyEmbracingYou@gmail.com
🌌 Atilla Çidam – The Sacred Disruptor
Tantric mentor. Somatic wizard. PhD in psychology. Atilla Çidam is the kind of facilitator who defies labels. He brings an exquisite fusion of intellect and instinct to his work — merging sacred kink, conscious movement, and deep trauma rewiring into a rare container of masculine presence and multidimensional care.
Atilla’s sessions are visceral, intimate, and often electric. He’ll guide you through shame, shadow, and self-doubt into the potent truth of your embodied purpose. With offerings like The Emergence, Soma Kambo, and Landing Temples, he creates spaces where transformation isn’t a theory — it’s an inevitability.
📩 Contact Atilla: atilla.cidam@gmail.com
Each facilitator offers a different facet of the jewel — and together, they create a magnetic, multidimensional temple where deep work happens, and profound joy is possible.
🌿 The ISTA Experience Unfolded: What 8 Days in Temple Space Really Feels Like
It begins in silence. You arrive in a forested sanctuary outside Seattle, where the air feels thick with potential and the trees stand like old witnesses. There’s a buzz beneath the quiet — a knowing that something big is about to stir.
You leave your phone. Your titles. Your history. And step into something else entirely.
This is not a vacation. It’s a remembering.
Every day opens and closes in ritual. The schedule is carefully curated, yet fluid — a sacred architecture with enough spaciousness for soulwork to surprise you.
You’ll rise with movement: breathwork, shaking, dance.
You’ll feel your body ignite — not just with arousal, but with life.
You’ll be guided through shadow work and emotional clearing, through witnessing and being witnessed in your rawest truth.
You’ll scream. Laugh. Cry. Rage. Surrender.
You’ll unlearn. Relearn. And remember who you are underneath the layers.
Each session takes you deeper:
🌀 You’ll dive into consent practices that feel less like rules and more like keys to unlocking your erotic intelligence.
🔥 You’ll enter ritual space, where sacred touch is treated with reverence and curiosity — not performance, not obligation.
💬 You’ll sit in sharing circles where honesty is currency, where tears and laughter move together like old friends.
🌙 You’ll explore sexual shamanism — the ancient fusion of energy, intention, and embodiment that dissolves binaries and opens new dimensions.
Every night, integration. Gentle landing. Fire circles. Quiet reflection. Sometimes laughter. Sometimes thunder.
And somewhere in the middle — often when you least expect it — something clicks.
The armor drops. The veil lifts. You see someone clearly — maybe for the first time. Maybe it’s you.
This is the gift of temple space: nothing is forced, but everything is allowed.
You’ll meet strangers who feel like soul family.
You’ll fall in love — maybe with someone else, maybe with yourself.
And when the closing circle comes, you won’t want to leave. But you’ll know that something has changed.
Because what happens here doesn’t stay here.
It travels with you. Into your home. Your relationships. Your future.
ISTA doesn’t just shift your sexuality. It upgrades your operating system.
🏕️ Practical Magic: ISTA Pricing, Lodging & How to Prepare
The mysticism may be infinite, but your packing list is not. Here’s what you need to know to step into ISTA’s Level 1 experience in August 2025 fully prepared, fully resourced, and fully ready to rise.
📍 The ISTA Location: Secluded Nature Sanctuary, Washington State
This retreat unfolds in a private, forested haven just outside Seattle — handpicked for its tranquil vibe, natural beauty, and capacity to hold deep energetic work. You’ll sleep under stars, wake to birdsong, and move between indoor temple spaces and open-air ritual grounds.
There are walking trails, spaces for solitude, and lovingly prepared organic vegetarian meals served daily to nourish you as you do the work.
💰 ISTA Pricing & Lodging Options
Your investment covers eight days of immersive instruction, all workshops and rituals, three meals a day, plus access to all private land and communal amenities.
💫 Private Room (Single Occupancy) – $2,700
💫 Couples Shared Room – $2,700
💫 Regular Shared Lodging (Indoor Dormitory) – $2,350
💫 Self-Camping / RV Spot – $2,150
💫 Youth Rate (Ages 18–25, limited) – $1,750
💫 First-Time Assistant Rate – $1,500
This ISTA retreat tends to sell out quickly, and for good reason. The intimacy of the group, the depth of the work, and the high-caliber facilitation make this a rare opportunity to drop in with complete trust.
⏳ Registration is open now — and with limited spots, you’ll want to secure your place soon.
📩 For questions, contact: karunaretreats@mindspring.com
🎒 How to Prepare for ISTA
📿 Pack with Purpose – Bring clothing you can move, dance, and sweat in. Include ceremonial wear that makes you feel powerful, sensual, or spiritually attuned. Think layers. Think intention.
📘 Leave the Noise – This is a tech-free retreat. Prepare to unplug. Let your nervous system settle into nature’s rhythm.
🧘♀️ Arrive Willing – Willing to listen. To feel. To soften. To show up. You don’t need to know how to do any of it. Just be willing.
❤️ Come As You Are – There is no ideal gender, orientation, relationship style, body type, or belief system. This is a space of radical inclusion — and you’re already enough.
🌟 Why ISTA is a Spiritual Rite of Passage
You won’t come back from ISTA as the same person who arrived.
Not because you’ve become someone new — but because you’ve finally, fully, remembered who you are.
This is not a luxury escape.
It’s not a feel-good weekend.
It’s not a curated photo op for your spiritual brand.
This is a rite of passage — a raw, real, soul-churning, joy-awakening journey through the sacred terrain of your own being. 💥
At ISTA, you are not told what to believe.
You are invited into direct experience — of your power, your pain, your pleasure, your presence.
The tools are ancient. The language is universal. The work is personal. And the result is profound.
You’ll leave more embodied. More awake. More honest.
You’ll walk into your life not as a persona — but as a presence.
In your relationships, in your creative work, in your sexuality, in your spiritual practice — you’ll stop outsourcing your truth.
Because once you’ve stood naked — metaphorically or literally — in front of yourself and others and been met with reverence, you never forget what’s real again.
If you’re ready to stop waiting.
If you’re ready to live fully, love fiercely, and burn clean through old paradigms…
Then your place is here. In temple space. With KamalaDevi, Liz, Atilla, and a circle of beings just as brave as you.
🗓 August 13–20, 2025 | Near Seattle, WA
🎟 Register now at Karuna-Retreats.com
📖 Learn more about the facilitator at KamalaDevi.com
The call is clear.
Step forward.
Strip back.
And rise.
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