EVENTS – ARCHIVE
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH – SHIBARI AT SERRAT(U)S
serrat(u)s bodywork is opening its doors to the Shibari community. Anyone who feels like tying up with others, exchanging ideas, or simply watching and gaining some initial experience is warmly invited! The Japanese art of bondage is a fascinating physical practice that offers a wide range of physical, mental, and emotional experiences. Shibari shares many similarities with dance, yoga, and meditation, and possesses a performative and touching aesthetic…
HOW TO BECOME A BETTER LOVER***: II – CONTEXTS
The exact same thing can be fun and exciting one moment, and annoying and irritating the next. That’s why following great sex tips won’t help if the lights are too bright, the background noise is too loud, or if your partner is still stressed from work. That’s why it’s worth paying more attention to creating a cozy atmosphere—one in which your bodies feel safe and comfortable.
HOW TO BECOME A BETTER LOVER***: I – DETAILS
The devil is in the details. We can book as many tantra courses as we want, read as many sex tips as we want, and work out our bodies as much as we want, but in the end, lovemaking can still fall flat if we miss out on the tiny, simple pleasures. Focusing on grand spectacles—like perfect bondage skills or guaranteed squirting—can sometimes actually distract from intimacy and serve as a way to hide behind.
WINTA JAM ZURICH – SHIBARI AT SERRAT(U)S – with a Newbie Intro
Rope Bondage is for everyone! However, this has not necessarily been the case with our usual Bondage Jam, because often things are quite conventional and heteronormative - and that does not fit for everyone.Therefore, there is now the WINTA BONDAGE JAM!WINTA stands for "Woman, Inter, Nonbinary, Trans, Agender" and this special Jam is primarily about creating a space where people who identify as WINTA can simply be among themselves. So basically it's very simple: people who don't see themselves as WINTA , please stay away from the event.
TANTRA – WITH A PINCH OF SALT – RETREAT IN SPAIN
What we call “tantric massage” in the modern West deserves to be dusted off and decluttered so it can shine with fresh brilliance. Because we want those luxuriously long, deep, sensually oily, warm caresses and the orgasmic sensations throughout the entire body—without the simplistic talk of male and female “energies.” We want to bathe in radically tender joy, to be touched with full presence in a held space…
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH – SHIBARI AT SERRAT(U)S
serrat(u)s bodywork is opening its doors to the Shibari community. Anyone who feels like tying up with others, exchanging ideas, or simply watching and gaining some initial experience is warmly invited! The Japanese art of bondage is a fascinating physical practice that offers a wide range of physical, mental, and emotional experiences. Shibari shares many similarities with dance, yoga, and meditation, and possesses a performative and touching aesthetic…
SAARA REI: MOVEMENT, SOUND & ROPE
If we think of Japanese-inspired rope bondage as a way to interact and move with another person—a way of dancing with them—then we can also consider how sound can influence the way we tie and are tied. How does music affect a session? How does it influence our movements and emotional state? And how do the sounds we make affect the reactions of the person we are tying with? Our movements and emotional state can be deeply influenced by sound. I am sure many have experienced music that makes them feel, dance, and act in certain ways depending on the rhythm, tempo, lyrics, tone, and pitch. As well, sound and music can…
SAARA REI: ROPE BOTTOMING – DEVELOPING A PRACTICE
Being in bondage can be an incredibly intense experience. The range of sensations and emotions that can be felt is limitless and often constantly shifting throughout the experience of being tied. Processing, managing, and allowing these sensations and emotions requires a continuous, real-time assessment of what we are feeling, and whether or not we can accept the situation we are in. We need to be able to relinquish control while simultaneously maintaining absolute awareness so that we can react appropriately and responsibly. Achieving this level of balance is no easy task, and it is precisely what we hope to develop through practice during this…
SAARA REI: HUMILIATION & SHAME PLAY
The Latin root of “humiliation” is “humus,” which translates as “earth” or “dirt.” Humiliation is the public failure of one’s claims to status. In private, such feelings amount not to humiliation but to painful self-realizations, such as embarrassment. Humiliation is not necessarily shameful. For instance, one could argue that Jesus was crucified and this humiliated him, but that he did not feel shame (or so I was told; I was not there). Shame, on the other hand, is a sort of subset of humiliation; it is a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the awareness…