
Co-creating the Ipsalu International Heart-Space Retreat Center. Expanding Bliss and Love Together.
Let’s get excited!
After decades of sharing this practice around the world while holding the vision of a physical location for an Ipsalu school and retreat center, the time is finally now. We are ready to make this happen. The vision is clear, the team is coming together and there’s never been a more important time than now to expand the love and consciousness within humanity.
We see and feel it every day: Domination, greed and violence spreading through our world. The root of it all is a lack of awareness. Through opening our consciousness and healing our deep subconscious wounding, we let go of our defenses and Open our Hearts once again to Love. Ipsalu’s main practice is to Live in Witness Consciousness. Aware ones cannot do harm.
As Ipsalu practitioners, we are so blessed to have a practice that opens our consciousness while simultaneously helping us face and heal our shadow wounding with compassion, awareness and love.
Once we have the retreat up and running: Ipsalu will strengthen, direct and expand our service in the world. I am excited for all the ways we can support the growth of our teachers and our practitioners once we have a solid home base. Some examples are: expanding our curriculum to include Esoteric Anatomy& Hatha Yoga studies, offering Teacher Camps, Residency programs and Primal Therapy intensives. And so many other ways to support the healing and transformation process and develop strong, mature teachers.
We formed a committee that will lead the manifestation of our Ipsalu school and retreat center.
Ipsalu Level 3 Cobra graduate David Thornton, will be taking the lead on the project committee.
Phase One - Find the property: I am living in Panama and now looking around for possible land or an existing building that could work for us. I bought a car in order to search and to make this possible!
Once we have a few locations of interest, we will go as a team to look at the properties and determine if one of them would be a fit for our Ipsalu retreat.
Some benefits of building our center in Panama include; stable government, great economy, kind people, low cost of living, low or no taxes and insurance etc. There are several microclimates with choice of mountain or sea. However, from my experience living here, I feel it would best serve our project to focus on the Arco Seco (Dry Arc) region of Panama. This area is located on the Pacific coast ranging from 90-minutes to 3-hours drive from Tocumen International airport in Panama City.
If you feel resonance with this vision: please let us know how you’d like to contribute. We need your special talents.
You can also donate any amount right here or through the donation button on our Ipsalu website with notation that the funds be directed to the retreat project fund. We gratefully accept your generosity.
It will take an inspired Global Community to get this off the ground. Together we can make this a reality. Humanity needs us!
Our Organization
Ipsalu is an active expression of a heart-based paradigm. As individuals and a collective, we strive to live the values we share with our practitioners around the world. This can be challenging within the old constructs of how a business should be run, and what measures success. But we move forward in truth, trusting we will have all that we need to reach those who are called to this path. In order to shift the paradigm of humanity, we must shift it within ourselves.
This “Organization” is evolving into an “Organism” where each cell, in its unique way, supports the whole, and the whole supports each cell. In this synergy the whole is much more capable than the sum of its parts, more able to make a difference in the world.
We look for consensus. Each voice is important and given full expression. If a proposal is blocked by a dissenting vote, the conversation continues to refine the proposal until all are satisfied and agreement is reached.
Ipsalu Tantra International is a non-profit corporation (501c3) registered in California and conforming to legal requirements. It has elected officers and an annual meeting, and it answers to the Secretary of State. It is defined as an educational organization.

Vision Statement
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We have teachers around the world presenting regularly scheduled Coursesvat all levels. They are facilitators of transformation and community leaders. We celebrate them.
Teachers are well prepared, empowered, and confident, ensuring a consistently high standard of course delivery. Teachers feel supported by, and fully involved in the organization.
Teachers feel there is balance between compensation and the energy they expend.
Teachers embody the work. They maintain the integrity of Ipsalu principles and practices.
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ITI draws from ancient, esoteric wisdom and teaches practices that accelerate spiritual growth into a form suitable for practical, everyday use.
We present a liberating point of view, summarized in the Ipsalu Paradigm.
Our Courses provide the tools people need to transform their lives, transcend their programming and empower personal breakthroughs. The practices teach people how to change base energy to a higher vibration for Kundalini awakening, how to move from reaction to response, from outer direction to inner Wisdom, ultimately to remember their connection to the Divine.
We ensure high ethical and legal standards. Of students beginning the Core Courses (Level 1-4) a high percentage stay with the practice to complete the series and gain the amazing benefits.
There is a rich and varied offering of Courses anchored by the Core Courses, with courses adapted to meet the needs of diverse groups – various cultures, sexual preferences, physical challenges, etc.
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Vibrant communities, interconnected spiritual families, span four continents; kindred spirits from diverse populations sharing a common experience and point of view.
ITI, through caring communication, provides support for people to form effectively functioning communities.
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ITI maintains a retreat center for transformational process, where all live in the spirit of Namaste, attracting people from around the world.
In addition to hosting Ipsalu events, it is used by other organizations for events with compatible visions.
Large enough to constitute a small village, there is short-term housing for those coming to learn and experience and long-term housing for community and staff.
The community is “off the grid” with green energy, organic farming and pure water supply. Heated pools and spa services are available together with alternative healing modalities.
A world-class multi-lingual library and training center is available for people who want to engage in a deeper study of tantric literature and practices.
The organization also oversees an urban community, both centers serving as templates for similar communities across the country and around the world.
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ITI has a strong presence in the world. It is well known to the general public as a mature organization, highly regarded for its integrity, and respected as a spiritual tantric path of transformation.
There is widespread esteem for, and appreciation of Ipsalu processes, mission and values as efficient, effective and safe agents of change.
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ITI is a prosperous organization, able to easily fulfill its mission. Our financial position is solid and robust.
Donations, courses and sales of ITI merchandise fund all operating expenses and expansion costs.
ITI Foundation is accumulating assets and bequests with a view to make the organization self-sustaining and fund other worthy endeavors.
ITI funds various scholarship and community programs, creating connections and opportunities.
Special projects are funded by major donors.
ITI has a full staff of employees who are well compensated. Officers and staff are reimbursed for their travel and accommodations for annual meetings.
Creators of various courses are well compensated for use of their intellectual property.
Core Values
A gathering of people, face to face or virtually, with a common intention to connect with spirit, becomes a place to unite a spiritual community. In Cobra Breath practice groups, individuals unite to generate high-frequency energy that uplifts and heals those individuals and others.
When groups practice around the world, the vibration penetrates the global energetic field, much as the merging of the light of several candles, which can illuminate even the darkest of spaces. As practitioners of Ipsalu Tantra and the Cobra Breath, each of us is a light, with the energy to positively enhance the world.

Our Ethics
Safety
We are deeply committed to the safety of course participants.The purpose of our courses is to provide a space where people feel safe and supported so they can remove their armoring and façade and discover a deeper part of themselves. This exploration and healing can only happen in an atmosphere of respect and honoring. Each Course begins with agreements including confidentiality and respecting boundaries.
Teachers are clear that they are not therapists. If someone’s process gets too strong, they know to refer that person to a professional. The courses deal with redirecting sexual/LifeForce energy, with suggestions of what to do in private regarding explicit sexual activity. No such activity is part of the courses.
Course participants are all adults, over age 21. Some of the breathing and relaxation techniques are helpful for younger people, but LifeForce energy should be undisturbed during their growth period.
Teacher Student Relationships
Every Teacher signs an Ethics Agreement limiting their interaction with the students. They agree to not become sexually involved. Rare subsequent connections must wait for a considerable cooling-off period
Teachers are required to be law-abiding, especially in matters relating to sex. Since genital contact for compensation is illegal in most of the United States, Teachers must agree not to perform those services, or to recommend the services of someone else.
To obtain certification, Teachers are required to affirm that they have not been prosecuted for sex-related crimes.