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“And how shall you worship in ecstasy, unless you make your life an altar?”


Kahlil Gibran

 A Celebration by the Sea,
Community and Love


November 11th to 15th 2026

Soul-enriching 5 days - a space of connection, aliveness, and joy, shared with:

  • The global ISTA tribe

  • A powerful team of visionary ISTA facilitators

  • Transformational workshops & rituals

  • Ecstatic music, dance & celebration

  • A beachfront hotel with a charming shoreline

Come to experience how it truly feels to live your life to the fullest. Take home the flavor, energy, and spirit of it - into your everyday life. 

Come to celebrate and explore, soften and grow, laugh, cry, connect deeply, and above all...  
Come back to love, passion and pleasure.

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When Passion & Pleasure Merge

This year, we give ourselves full permission to explore passion and pleasure. 

 

How to move toward it with subtleness - like a cat sensing the tiniest energetic vibrations, moving toward the softness of sensuality. The permission to feel the fire of desire, with deep listening.


What am I sensing? How can I move in synergy, beauty, and radiance within passion -
keeping the tension, the vibration, resting in it, rising with it, like a shining dolphin surfing the waves, jumping toward the sun and diving to play again.


How does it feel when the sea touches your skin? When the sand runs through your fingers, and the sun kisses your face?


Allowing your soul, spirit, and body the permission to indulge,as a doorway into devotion, love, and a vibrant connection with life. Allowing desire to lead us, because pleasure is intelligent, alive, and a direct movement toward union.

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Who is the festival for?

It is for everyone who is craving connection and transformation in these chaotic times.

It is open to anyone, beginners and experienced alike.

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Global ISTA Community Gathering

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Calling in all ISTA grads: this festival is our main annual gathering, and you absolutely do not want to miss it! The true heartbeat of this festival lies in the rare gathering of our global community.

 This is that one special time of year where our international tribe unites to meet, connect, and celebrate.

 

Combined with the incredible beauty, music, and unforgettable experiences of the festival itself, it’s the ultimate setting to reunite with your global brothers and sisters.

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The Team That Creates The Magic

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

We will grow and update this list as we continue to build the festival's content.

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Raffaello Manacorda

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Federica Clemente

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Ananda Amit Angelo

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Lola Antić

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Yogi Levy (He/Them)

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Michal Maayan Don

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Robbie Griffin

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Ashisha

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Jac Van Wyk

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Jhoselyn Escobar

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Dawn Cherie

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Clara Gomez Santos

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Nimai Sunra

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Lourdes Starshower Pollock

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Ruhan Quddus

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Asis Aviv (They/Them)

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Amber Ra Shefa

Maria Garzon

Maria Garzon

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Sylvi Cares

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Come To Be Yourself Fully​​

The ISTA Festival is a ride inside.  A journey towards self-love, the expansion of the heart, expression of your voice, and a real connection between emotion, body, and consciousness. Our days together are more than an exciting festival. It is an opportunity to discover and experience how a culture living in freedom, love, respect, and celebration of life force feels like. It is an opportunity to meet like minded people from all over the world and the ISTA community.

 

It is an opportunity to BELONG.

 

Bring your curiosity, fears, desires, authentic and vulnerable heart, courage, doubts and questions, hopes, and dreams.

 

All your parts are welcome here.

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