“Taking Olga Kostrova’s workshop on BDSM – Psychology of Domination & Submission, Power Play workshop in San Diego a few weeks ago was an amazing experience. Her leadership acumen invokes a level of trust and safety that allowed us, the participants, the opportunity to go deeper into our psyche around what was leading us into the world of Dominance and Submission. This wasn’t about sex, although there is always that component in any relationship where men and women get together, Olga’s techniques, awareness of human interaction and vulnerability in her own transparency allowed us to take a closer look at our motivation and intention with this powerful subject. It was interesting, engaging, intriguing and alluring, all at the same time. I personally look forward to the advanced class.”

* Jay attending Olga’s BDSM & Shadow Work workshop in San Diego became the beginning of this POWERful partnership and a seed for “ReGAIN your POWER” retreat.

“Thank you for inviting me to DeMYTHification workshop! I had a wonderful time. And the experience was more than I could ever expect or imagine. It was simply amazing! Beyond any words. You were right! It helped me! Thank you for showing me what I could not see myself. And I’d love to join again. I can’t wait for the next event!”

“Shadow Work Theatre Workshop was fun. It was unexpected. It was moving. It was out of my comfort zone. Adding acting to the scope of shadow work brought life and a voice to areas that needed to be heard. It was a great continuation of the work I did in Olga’s DeMYTHification workshop. I’m chosing to make decisions with love instead of fear. Thank you Olga!”

“Against her parents’ wishes as a teenager Olga Kostrova voraciously pursued her passion for drama born from a profound curiosity for how and why humans can be so hurtful and even violent to one another. Her infatuation and inspiration stretched beyond creative playfulness (and sincere and genuine self-expression) to transformational healing and how we might transcend our primal wounding and inherited ancestral suffering to emerge whole, functional and radiant as highly accomplished human beings. When I perused her promotional ad for her Shadow Work Theater Workshop, I was struck by how well it captured the flavor of my own passion for personal healing, growth and acting – artistic self-expression. Starting with her enthusiasm for the method of Constantin Stanislavsky followed by a list of all my favorite cinema heroes

“Sometimes, when it seems life tests have went over the manageable limits, the Creator sends life lines. Olga Kostrova has been an amazing life line for me. We met through a meditation group. It seemed almost immediately she began working with me. Giving me words of wisdom and encouragement. Olga invited me to her group workshop DeMYTHification. I had no idea what to expect.
The energy in the group was superb. Olga’s pointing and direction lead me to uncover the lies I tell myself. She also gave me a tool to expose the thinking that does not best serve me. She worked with the group in such a way that we learned from each other and felt loved and supported.
The second workshop Shadow Work Theatre Workshop involved acting. I was pleasantly surprised how effective this was. Olga brings love, compassion, fire, joy and a fierce drive to help others, to the workshops. Such an awesome being I was sent as a life line.”

“Thank you so much. I learned a lot about myself and the lies I use to justify my thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Your work with Al revealed some hard truths about my rigidity and my need to be right. Moving forward, I feel equipped with the questions needed to face myself honestly. Also, whatever you did to me when you brushed your fingertips down the side of my face was incredible, it was like some wall shattered and an overabundance of love came rushing in. Thank you. I’d love to learn more from you. Please let me know when you do another class.”.

“I had the cathartic pleasure of participating in Olga Kostrova’s compelling Shadow Work Theatre Workshop last weekend in La Jolla. Olga is a generous and empathic facilitator with a keen ability to draw authentic expression from all participants. Utilizing theatrical tools in service of psycho-therapeutic exploration and healing in a safe and encouraging field of play, we really got to experience the relief of owning vs suppressing our truth in as full a way as we were authentically feeling it. I felt cleansed and validated by the experience and happily recommend her to anyone seeking to claim and celebrate their own embodiment

“I have witnessed Jay’s masterful expertise in facilitating quite a number of groups at Warrior Trainings, inside the walls of the Salinas Valley Prison and with women and men inside the Santa Cruz Jail. His leadership skills and interactive processes allow for some profound transformation of the participants.”

“Over the last 2 years, Jay Saber has been graciously coming to my sociology courses at Hartnell College, Correctional Training Facility (CTF prison) and UC Santa Cruz to share his outstanding work with Freedom Prison Project and take the students through sample exercises. Time and again, the students tell me, both in the prison and at the universities and colleges, that he was their favorite guest speaker, that he had the biggest impact and he has motivated them to want to look deeper into prison rehabilitation and emotional literacy. Jay has the confidence, knowledge, passion and experience to facilitate workshops to a variety of different audiences. His work with inmates begins in the prisons and ripples out into society, creating a safer, more beautiful world for everyone. Because of his dedication to prison rehabilitation, the lives of 100’s of men are improved and they have a real chance of leaving prison intact. I am in constant admiration of his dedication and deep knowledge of what it takes to be a healthy, productive, emotionally, spiritually and mentally stable human being. “

“I have had the opportunity to be on staff with Jay Saber on the HER transformational weekends and New Warrior Training Adventures where I have witnessed the participants touch a deep part of themselves through Jay’s empathy, leadership and dedication to transformation.