ISTA Festival
12-16 November 2025
Cyprus
5 Days of Magic by the Sea
Join us for an exclusive festival in a beautiful beachfront hotel, where mystery, aliveness, and deep connection await.
Immerse yourself in transformative workshops, sacred ceremonies, and vibrant celebrations, all woven into an all-inclusive experience.
A journey of wonder, community, and celebration - wrapped in the embrace of the sea.
Open to anyone (over the age of 21), experienced and beginners alike. You do not need to be an ISTA graduate to participate in the festival.
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Come To Be Yourself Fully
The ISTA Festival is a journey inside. A journey home. Towards self-love, the expansion of the heart, expression of your unique voice, and a real connection between emotion, body, and consciousness.
Our days together may be more than an exciting and empowering festival. It is an opportunity to discover and experience how a culture living in freedom, love, respect, and celebration of life force feels like.
Bring your curiosity, fears, desires, authentic and vulnerable heart, courage, doubts and questions, hopes, and dreams. All your parts are welcome here.
About The Festival
We are excited to invite you to the 9th international ISTA Festival, first time happening in Cyprus!
Come to celebrate and explore, learn and grow, laugh and cry, and...
Of course - come to love. Come to remember who you are.
❃ 5 days in a beautiful beachfront hotel, with a private nudist-friendly beach.
❃ Workshops, ceremonies & rituals, temple nights, lectures, music, and unique experiences in the fields of intimacy, shamanism, and spirituality.
❃ Top-class, experienced, and international presenters from all over the world.
❃ Relevant to anyone and everyone that is craving depth and transformation in these chaotic times.
About The Venue
A Secret Seaside Escape
Our beautiful beachfront hotel offers stunning ocean views, all inclusive meals, a variety of double or shared rooms and camping options.
There's good WIFI, that we hope you won't use a lot (:
The exact location remains a mystery - revealed only to ticket holders, before the festival.
Getting there: Fly into Paphos (PFO) or Larnaca (LCA). We will provide shuttle services, more information on that will be available closer to the event.
What Is ISTA?
"ISTA" stands for the International School of Temple Arts.
ISTA Holds week-long trainings around the world, and generates a global network of communities.
The festival is open to anyone (over the age of 21), beginners and experienced alike. You do not need to be an ISTA graduate to participate in the Festival.
If you are interested in joining an ISTA training - Level 1 will take place right after the festival, in Cyprus. Read more here.
Workshop Spaces
❃ At the festival, we will have 4 workshop spaces that will operate simultaneously with high-quality content, full of depth, juice, and all of the good stuff.
❃ The "Yoniverse" is the festival's central gathering space, where the whole tribe will meet once a day for the festival's main assembly.
❃ The "Point of You" is our emotional support space, which will have experienced and available staff 24/7 for your support in processing your experiences at the festival and grounding when needed. The "Point of You" will also be open during its active hours for you to simply be in silence, meditate, journal, or pray by yourself.
The festivals spaces are:
The Program
We are working on creating an fascinating, vibrant program,
we will publish it closer to the event!
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.
Presenters
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 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 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’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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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'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.
The festival production reserves the right to change the program, its content, and times before and during the festival for any reason.
General Info
As an International Festival, with presenters and participants coming from all over the world - the festival and all of its content and workshops will be in English.
The hotel offers a range of cozy, air-conditioned rooms - perfect for couples, or small groups. You can choose between double rooms or shared rooms, depending on your preference. For those who love nature, a designated camping area right by the sea is also available.
Please explore the different accommodation types and choose the one that suits you best!
Getting there: Fly into Paphos (PFO) or Larnaca (LCA). We will provide shuttle services that will take you directly to the venue. Details about shuttle options will be included in the payment link you’ll receive with your confirmation email.
Do not bring and/or consume alcohol or drugs during the event. There will not be a sale of alcohol at the site. No mind-altering substances may be brought and/or used at the festival.
Please be aware that the use of mind-altering substances may result in the immediate cancellation of your participation at our discretion.
You are invited to meet yourself, fly high and dive deep - from a place of real presence, and discover where journeying with your own life force can lead you.
Seeking interactions based on consent and a mutual "Hell Yes." At the ISTA Festival, we create a culture of mutual respect that celebrates our passions, boundaries, and rhythms.
During the festival, in any meeting of an intimate nature, you are asked to communicate your desires and boundaries verbally and clearly. Move together only in the directions to which all who participate in the interaction have found their enthusiastic consent.
Respond with gratitude when another person says "no", they are taking care of themselves and you. No further explanation is needed. "No" or "no, thank you" can be a complete sentence.
Silence, the word "maybe", or any other answer that is not a 'hell yes' should be treated as a "no".
Nudity is welcome but totally optional :)
You’re free to be without clothes during workshops, at the beach, and in designated areas. In all other spaces, please wear clothing.
It’s always your choice – do whatever feels right for you in the allowed areas. There’s room for everyone to be comfortable in their own way!
The use of cell phones and cameras throughout the compound - is prohibited! It is allowed only in your own personal space and outside the festival. Please let everyone express themselves freely.
There will be professional photographers on behalf of the festival. If you do not want to appear in photos or videos, go to our information center. Ask there to be added to the list of "non-photographed" - it will be taken care of.
Pets and animals are not allowed at the Festival. Find the animal within yourself :)
The hotel will serve 3 varied meals a day (with vegetarian / vegan options). There will also be a yummy Coffee Shop.
Lighting fire and Gas Grills is not allowed at the festival and the surrounding grounds.
Have any other questions?istafest.cyprus@gmail.com
