Our Team
SSSex Level 1
Lead Facilitator
Rafaello Manacorda
Raffaello 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.
It was in these wild years that he first encountered Tantra, the "rebel way to Spirit". This encounter developed into a life-long practice, first on a solo journey, then studying Tantra and Yoga in some of the best worldwide schools. Raffaello serves as lead faculty in ISTA, the International School of Temple Arts, and teaches and lectures worldwide. He is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program in Wisdom Studies with Ubiquity University (California).
Raffaello is the co-creator of the ISTA Practitioner Training (PT), ISTA’s program for coaches and practitioners in the field of conscious sexuality.
Co-Facilitator
Clara Gomez Santos
Clara is an Intimacy & Empowerment guide, speaker, women’s mentor and international facilitator of transformative processes.
Her lifelong passion for exploring the mysteries of consciousness and soul-body integration led her to undertake extensive training with world authorities in the fields of Tantra, Shamanism, Shadow Work, Dakini Codes and Esoteric Psychology. In 2014 she began her journey with ISTA deepening her relationship with the Temple Arts.
She has supported thousands on their path of integration and self empowerment through retreats, ceremonies, online programs, private sessions, interactive lectures and trainings spanning Asia, Middle East, Latin America, USA and Europe.
Clara 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 through conscious activation of erotic and emotional energy.
She’s devoted to supporting the emergence of mystery schools, temple culture and soul technology on the planet. She is faculty at ISTA - International School of Temple Arts - and council member at Shamballa School for soul initiation and Highden Mystery School in New Zealand.
Clara is the creator of “The Man Within” a 30-day online immersion supporting women to understand, cultivate and embody the mature aspects of their masculine energy. The program has quickly gained international praise with over 200 women taking part in its first year.
You may follow her journey on Instagram @clara_gomez_santos
Co-Facilitator
Rich Priddis
Rich is dedicated to the work of Personal Empowerment through Healthy and Fulfilling Sexuality Guidance, especially with people who come from a strict and limiting religious background (his was Mormon). He does this through Experiential Coaching and Events. One
Along with participating in ISTA trainings multiple times (including Level 1, 2 and 3, and Practitioner Training), Quodoushka, Shamanic De-Armoring, Tantra and other training, he became certified as a Cuddle Party Facilitator, as a way to introduce new ways-of-being to the conservative Utah community, where he raised his family (5 grown children and 9 grandchildren). One of his focuses is helping people from religious backgrounds, especially his Mormon heritage, to free themselves from the limiting "Box" of shame, control, guilt, judgment, and scarcity, to embrace their freedom to express and feel and live according to their individual truth. Rich has unique insight and understanding for people making the transition from ultra-conservative cultures, having served as a full-time missionary, "High Priest" and leader in his previous religious life, as well as a Master Mason (Freemasonry).
Starting and continuing to run a successful Record Label for over 30 years, Rich enjoys applying his years of music business experience to organizing ISTA trainings.
Within the word "Facilitator" is the Spanish word "Fácil" (easy). Rich is a facilitator in many ways, offering opportunities that make the path to healing and alignment easier.