Candid Conversations & Criticism about the Sacred Sexuality Space: Dave Booda

Over the last couple of years, Dave Boda has been really critical of ISTA. He’s composed blog-posts and spoken openly about how some of the people involved need to improve, and how some of the ways ISTA approaches its work need to fall away. 

In this episode, he talks with ISTA facilitator, the podcast founder, and his old friend, Ria Yoshida, about how important it is to not only have these frank conversations about improving the sacred sexuality space, but to do it in an engaged and loving way. 

Although Dave has not attended an ISTA experience himself, he has  facilitated hundreds of events in the spiritual self-development space and draws, here, on his experience there. He has also been through an extended mediation process with ISTA in his role with the group, Safer Sex Positive and Spiritual Communities. 

For him, it is crucial for communities to acknowledge when it is time to shift with the times, and grow along with those who form them. 

Dave and Ria cover many points of wisdom that have arrived for both of them in their journeys of self-exploration, like: 

• How important it is to take breaks from going to workshops or festivals and integrate what you’ve learned into ordinary life. 
  
  
• How we need to take accountability for what happens in our lives, and for when we’ve made mistakes. 
  
  
• How important it is to really listen to feedback. 
  
  
• How we often stay working on projects that no longer serve us because it’s what we get rewarded for. 
  
  
• How it is really difficult to genuinely do the work of taking responsibility. 

We hope you enjoy this frank, and very real, conversation.


To learn more about Dave, visit his website: https://boodaism.com/

To learn more about Safer Sex Positive and Spiritual Communities, visit their website: https://3sc.community/

To learn more about ISTA, visit our website: https://ista.life/

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