ISTA Level 1 Spiritual Sexual Shamanic Experience / Winter Jade Icely, Araminta Barbour, Ananda Amit Angelo
August 9, 2025 - August 15, 2025
From August 9th through 15th, ISTA Guatemala level 1 will take place at our luxurious and eco-friendly resort, located on the shores of the lake, surrounded by three breathtaking volcanoes.
This magical location, combined with a dynamic team of facilitators: Winter Jade Icely, Araminta Barbour and Ananda Amit Angelo, it promises to deliver a powerful and life-changing experience for those that are ready to step into their power.
As humans, our deepest desire is for connection, but when our connection to ourselves is not optimal we can get stuck in repetitive relationship patterns or accepting and tolerating relationships that don’t serve us. Continually living with these kinds of patterns can cause us to feel lost, afraid or out of control.
The 7-day ISTA (Sexual Shamanic Spiritual Experience) Level 1 has been offered to thousands of people across five continents from more than fifteen years. In a safe environment with other people looking to take back control of their lives, graduates from these week-long experiences uncover and heal deep core wounds and reactive patterns. They leave feeling empowered, healed and courageous to take control of their lives and relationships.
The level 1 SSSEx residential experience gives you a space to clear your physical, emotional and mental bodies of shame, guilt and fear. We use guided visualizations, emotional release, energy tracking, conscious touch and ceremony to open a doorway into a deeper a knowing of the Self as whole and complete.
Do you feel like something in your life needs to shift?
Does it feel like you’re not accessing your full power?
Does your current relationship feel like it needs a reboot?
Do you keep attracting the same type of people into your life?
Unable to keep the relationships that you really want?
Sign Up Today for a life-changing journey on the shores of majestic Lake Atitlan, led by world-class facilitators in the fields of transformational work, embodied ritual, emotional processing, sacred sexuality and healing from trauma.
Winter Jade Icely
(Lead Facilitator) – Winter is an international teacher, writer and facilitator in the realms of the mystical arts, sexuality and dark embodiment.
Holding a deep connection with magic Winter offers a powerful transmission of the inner worlds and invites you to step outside formed notions of reality into a life of enchantment.
Winter’s work penetrates ideas of gender and sexuality and the spaces she creates centre around non -dual experiences to the deeper realms of soul, the singularity that connects us all. She is a qualified Social Worker and Holistic Counsellor previously working as a Senior Practitioner with those impacted by PTSD, family violence and trauma.
Winter is part of the teaching faculty at The International School of Temple Arts (ISTA) and Highden Temple. She is the founder of Magdalena, a global training for the feminine mysteries. Winter has a deep calling to bring forth the temples of the new earth, to create spaces that penetrate worlds, that merge spirit and matter.
Araminta Barbour
(Co-Facilitator) – Araminta is an international speaker, group facilitator, and 1-1 guide specializing in empowerment, relationships and sexuality, transformational healing, soul initiation, and the esoteric mysteries. Lead Faculty with ISTA (the International School of Temple Arts) with whom she has collaborated since 2011, Araminta is the founder of The Sanctuary Guatemala, creator of The Resilience Journey, and co-creator of the Women Who See In The Dark project.
Weaving together an academic background in History, Ecology, and Theravada Buddhism (BA Hons & MA), over a decade spent in the international development NGO world (reproductive health focus) with 25+ years traveling, studying, and practicing a wide range of alternative healing modalities, and philosophical/ esoteric traditions, Araminta’s work can be encapsulated in the phrase “spiritual sexual shamanism” – an attempt to address the fullness of our human gifts and capacities. In 2005, Araminta’s heart settled in Guatemala’s Lake Atitlan – her home base for continued event facilitation around the world.
Araminta’s life path has been shaped from the learnings brought from death, grief, travel, and the deep questioning of collective beliefs. She supports clients to transform painful experiences into power, heal from parental and relationship wounding, step-free from sexual or emotional abuse, and navigate the psychological hurdles to self-acceptance, self-belief, and self-love. Her deeper focus is awakening to expansive levels of Self untangled from collective consciousness.
Araminta utilizes skills from Meditation, Non-dual Spirituality, Shamanism, Sacred Sexuality, Tantra, Breathwork, Yoga, Bodywork, Shadow Integration, Emotional Release, and Initiatory rituals. Her teachings aim to bring together the tools and maps that reactivate our full human capacities. Araminta’s core passion is the process of radical self-acceptance – the inner marriage of love with power. She is here to support humanity’s evolution as liberated, heart-centered creators.
Ananda Amit Angelo
(Co-Facilitator) – Ananda Amit Angelo is a facilitator and coach specializing in embodied Eros, intimacy, and authentic communication. A certified Sex & Happiness coach and facilitator at ISTA.life, Ananda empowers others to embrace inner authority, freedom of expression, and ecstatic pleasure by helping them release guilt and shame around sexuality.
Ananda’s journey began as a dancer with Israel’s Bat-Sheva Dance Company, where he explored movement language while working as a professional guitarist. He later founded his own dance company, choreographing with his partner. Ananda also co-founded the Tel-Aviv Waldorf School, Beit Chinuch Aviv, and played a key role in establishing both the Israeli Choreographer’s Association and the Israeli Dancer’s Union, which he led for seven years.
Currently, Ananda leads temples, retreats, and workshops worldwide, focusing on movement, freedom, and sacred sexuality. Through personal mentorship and bodywork sessions, he guides individuals in accessing deeper self-awareness and authentic expression.
“My research in dance has focused on body awareness, somatics, and presence. This journey led me into profound practices of spirituality and consciousness. Realizing that each moment in the dance of life is a sacred expression of our life force brought me to Tantra and Sacred Sexuality. My life became a celebration of the unknown. I invite my brothers and sisters to play freely, shining their pleasure and light on this earth. I am here to support the release of guilt and shame, encourage connection and intimacy, and foster full sexual expression in the present moment. Together, we can create a new culture of relating in the religion of love ♥.”