Spiritual Sexual Shamanic Podcast · International School of Temple Arts

Awakening Shamanic Principles in Leadership: Raffaello Manacorda

·1 hr 18 min·5 clips

Shamanic leadership is not one heroic individual, but a temporary conduit for group consciousness.

1. Spiritual Sexual Shamanic Podcast centers on Raffaello Manacorda and the topic of shamanic leadership. 2. Simon Marvell hosts the show as an ISTA apprentice faculty member, and Raffaello is introduced as a lead facilitator, governing council member, Tantra teacher, and co-creator of ISTA’s practitioner training. 3. The episode asks what leadership means when it is treated as power, energy, and group dynamics rather than status. 4. Raffaello says many people come to ISTA trainings wanting to step into leadership, start something new, or transform their path. 5. He argues that the usual word leadership has become confusing because it is used in many different ways. 6. He places leadership beside sexuality because both are often treated as add-ons to a personality that wants to become bigger. 7. He says a shamanic view points instead to energies and patterns that are larger than individual desire. 8. Raffaello defines power first as life force energy or vitality. 9. He locates that power in the root of the body, especially the anus and genitals, rather than primarily in the mind. 10. He then moves to the third chakra and calls that level willpower, with directionality and commitment. 11. At the third chakra, he says power has two faces, such as leading and following, or hard and soft. 12. He argues that modern culture overvalues leading and undervalues the follower position. 13. He says someone who enjoys following may also have the potential to become a good leader. 14. He rejects the idea that power should be hated, while distinguishing love of power from craving power. 15. He recalls a cultural line about “the power of love” overcoming “the love of power,” but says his own path included a long period of not loving power or money. 16. He says loving power means respecting it, knowing when to come close to it and when to leave space. 17. Raffaello then moves to the sixth chakra and describes power as vision that can harmonize the environment with an inner image of how things could be. 18. He says shamanic leadership is not the achievement of one heroic individual but a temporary channel for a group’s consciousness. 19. The episode has an intimate interview tone, with Simon reflecting personally, asking direct follow-up questions, and naming ISTA examples like shared facilitation. 20. Listeners who work with leadership, Tantra, embodiment, or group facilitation may find it especially relevant, while people wanting a conventional management interview may skip it.

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A grounded conversation about vision, power, and shamanic leadership.

A conversation about Tantra, the sixth chakra, and shamanic leadership gives the piece its shape. Raffaello Manacorda draws on long practical experience, and the host keeps pulling the talk back to integration, power, and vision instead of letting it drift into abstraction.

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