EVENTS - ARCHIVE
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH - SHIBARI AT SERRAT(U)S
serrat(u)s bodywork opens its doors to the Shibari public. Anyone who would like to tie up together with others, exchange ideas or simply watch and gain some initial experience is cordially invited! The Japanese art of bondage is a fascinating physical practice that offers a wide range of physical, mental and emotional experiences. Shibari has a lot in common with dance, yoga and meditation, and has a performative and touching aesthetic...
WINTA BONDAGE JAM ZURICH - SHIBARI IM SIHL13 - with Newbie Intro
sihl13 opens its doors to the Shibari public... ... FOR THE WINTA COMMUNITY! A NICE TEXT COMING SOON BUT FOR NOW THE IMPORTANT NOTE: WINTA is an abbreviation for "Female, Inter, Nonbinary, Trans, Agender" and it's primarily about a space where people who identify as such can simply be among themselves. ... FOR THE WINTA COMMUNITY!A NICE TEXT COMING SOON BUT FOR NOW THE IMPORTANT NOTE: WINTA is an abbreviation for "Female, Inter, Nonbinary, Trans, Agender" and this is primarily about a space where people who identify as such can simply be among themselves. The Japanese art of bondage is a fascinating and...
TANTRA IN MOTION
This workshop brings movement into the classic tantric massage. We show and practise how the sensual arc of tension can be developed through different elements of movement. Challenging stretches and powerful embraces, dynamic changes of position and the skillful use of gravity turn the massage into a horizontal dance. Clear, present guidance of the giving part as well as pleasure and devotion of the receiving part are essential elements...
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH - SHIBARI IM SERRAT(U)S - with Newbie Intro
serrat(u)s bodywork opens its doors to the Shibari public. Anyone who would like to tie up together with others, exchange ideas or simply watch and gain some initial experience is cordially invited! The Japanese art of bondage is a fascinating physical practice that offers a wide range of physical, mental and emotional experiences. Shibari has a lot in common with dance, yoga and meditation, and has a performative and touching aesthetic...
ANNA NATT: playSPACE - BEYOND GENDER
Ladies, gentlemen and those that lie betwixt, we entice you to join us in our viscid lair where we will interact at a snail's pace, spiral around each in interconnected whorls of humano-gastropodan revelry. Enter the realm of Cornu Aspersum, let us shoot you with our love darts...then plunge into the depths of the flesh gelatinous and gorge yourself on boundless sensory journeys, engage in olfactory discourse, gustatory alliance and tactile bacchanalia.
ANNA NATT: PLAYING WITH GENDER
In this workshop, we will explore concepts surrounding gender, drawing inspiration from philosophy, pop culture, performance research, kink play and our own lived experiences as gendered human beings. Intricate choreographies of "femininity" or "masculinity" often show up in our interactions and relationships with others. These movements, behaviors and gestures that we often don't remember being taught or explicitly choosing, can seem so firmly embedded in...
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH - SHIBARI IM SERRAT(U)S - with Newbie Intro
serrat(u)s bodywork opens its doors to the Shibari public. Anyone who would like to tie up together with others, exchange ideas or simply watch and gain some initial experience is cordially invited! The Japanese art of bondage is a fascinating physical practice that offers a wide range of physical, mental and emotional experiences. Shibari has a lot in common with dance, yoga and meditation, and has a performative and touching aesthetic...
ON FLOGGING & OTHER IMPACT PLAY
The workshop offers an introduction to flogging and other forms of impact play, in which we focus not only on techniques and questions of safety but also on the physical and emotional processes of givers and receivers, as well as the relationship between pain and pleasure. We sharpen our awareness of the dynamic relationships that flogging and impact play create between body and mind and between the participants. Body awareness and spatial perception, movement and rhythm, impulse and resonance, breathing and presence - we look at the game from many different angles and thus create the possibility of shaping a flogging session as a dance or meditative ritual that goes beyond mere hitting.
A WAX MEDITATION
Calm and vibration, silence and sound, coolness and heat... We discover playing with candle wax as a meditative experience, both in giving and receiving. First we tune our bodies and minds, sensitize our perception, become open and receptive. Finally, we create a ritual together in which we take plenty of time for this intensive experience - with lots of peace and lots of wax!
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH - SHIBARI AT SERRAT(U)S
serrat(u)s bodywork opens its doors to the Shibari public. Anyone who would like to tie up together with others, exchange ideas or simply watch and gain some initial experience is cordially invited! The Japanese art of bondage is a fascinating physical practice that offers a wide range of physical, mental and emotional experiences. Shibari has a lot in common with dance, yoga and meditation, and has a performative and touching aesthetic...
TAMANDUA & BRIKI: SHIBARI LIVE DRAWING PERFORMANCE
Since its opening, sihl13 has regularly hosted live drawing & nude drawing sessions. Anyone who enjoys it can take part - all styles and levels are welcome. Everyone brings their own working materials, but some can also be borrowed if necessary. At this live drawing, Tamandua from Berlin and Briki from Stockholm will present their joint bondage art. It's not just about the decorative and ornamental nature of the ropes on the body. Rather, the decisive factor is the process of positioning and shaping it into a sculpture, sometimes almost...
TAMANDUA & BRIKI - SHIBARI MASTERCLASS: BODY IN ROPES / SUSPENSION & PLAY
With the Shibari Masterclasses we present excellent contemporary shibari artists from Europe and beyond to the advanced shibari community in Zurich. For this issue of the series we are very glad to again invite Tamandua from Berlin, his approach being "a mix between more 'classical' erotic japanese semenawa (tormenting rope) and the wildly deconstructed styles of some European riggers" together with his rope partner Briki from Stockholm.
QUEER BONDAGE JAM ZÜRICH - SHIBARI IM SIHL13 - with Newbie Intro
sihl13 opens its doors to the Shibari public... ...FOR THE QUEERE COMMUNITY! A BEAUTIFUL TEXT COMING SOON BUT FOR NOW THE IMPORTANT NOTE: QUEER stands for the pleasure of queering - understood as a verb - it's about being queer as well as queer performance & bondage, because bondage games often take on heteronormative forms, which is fine, but we want to try out how you can experience something completely different in an inventive way. ...FOR THE QUEER COMMUNITY! A BEAUTIFUL TEXT COMING SOON BUT FOR NOW THE IMPORTANT NOTE: QUEER stands for the pleasure of queering - understood as a verb - it's about being queer as well as queer performing & bondage, because bondage games often take on heteronormative forms, which is also fine, but we want to try out how you can also experience something completely different in an inventive way. The Japanese art of bondage is a fascinating and...
SHIBARI BASICS - FLOORWORK
This workshop focuses on the basics of Japanese-style rope bondage. In addition to basic and improvisation techniques, classic patterns and the various safety aspects, we will also look at body awareness and posture, as well as interaction and communication between the partners. In doing so, we discover how the bound and the bound can shape their encounter in a variety of ways, in trusting play with power and submission, in empathic communication and mutual devotion, in deep connection and intensity. Shibari, or Kinbaku, as Japanese rope bondage is also known...
SHIBARI BASICS - INTRO DAY
Rope bondage for newbies. On this day we create an easy and playful introduction for beginners and offer a refresher for people who have already attended a beginner's course and want to refresh their knowledge. The focus is on the basics of bondage with Japanese-style ropes.
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH - SHIBARI AT SERRAT(U)S
serrat(u)s bodywork opens its doors to the Shibari public. Anyone who would like to tie up together with others, exchange ideas or simply watch and gain some initial experience is cordially invited! The Japanese art of bondage is a fascinating physical practice that offers a wide range of physical, mental and emotional experiences. Shibari has a lot in common with dance, yoga and meditation, and has a performative and touching aesthetic...
(AN)OTHER ORGY
"A festival with unrestrained debauchery", says the Duden dictionary, "nocturnal Bacchus celebration; sacred act; mystical service; cultic secret meeting at night", says the etymology, "debauchery, revelry, licentiousness; (elevated) excess, excessiveness", says the synonym dictionary, "communal acts in which customs are deliberately violated", says the Wikipedia entry. An orgy! So legendary and yet so simply beautiful, or even quite crude. In any case, our cultural unconscious is full of nebulous ideas about what an orgy can be. Not for nothing is it on the bucket list for many. Wait no longer! Our three-day...
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH - SHIBARI AT SIHL13
sihl13 opens its doors to the Shibari public. Anyone who would like to tie up together with others, exchange ideas or simply watch and gain their first experience is cordially invited! The Japanese art of bondage is a fascinating physical practice that offers a wide range of physical, mental and emotional experiences. Shibari has a lot in common with dance, yoga and meditation, and has a performative and touching aesthetic...
HOW TO BECOME A BETTER LOVER*** - AN ANTI SELF-HELP GUIDE
What makes a good lover for you (and here we mean all genders, just in case you are wondering)? The answers to this question are probably as varied as there are lovers! "As long as they kiss with intention, it's all good", "If I feel relaxed with them", "A nice apartment", "Size is honestly not unimportant", "Good knife play skills" or "Sensitive, curious, adventurous" are just some of the answers we've picked up in private surveys. To be honest, we don't know exactly what makes a good lover! But: We have good...
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH - SHIBARI IM SERRAT(U)S - with Newbie Intro
serrat(u)s bodywork opens its doors to the Shibari public. Anyone who would like to tie up together with others, exchange ideas or simply watch and gain some initial experience is cordially invited! The Japanese art of bondage is a fascinating physical practice that offers a wide range of physical, mental and emotional experiences. Shibari has a lot in common with dance, yoga and meditation, and has a performative and touching aesthetic...
MIRROR, SPECULUM & SPECULOOS
You have to dare to do that. To expose yourself in the company of other women*, to make yourself more vulnerable and stronger at the same time, to show each other your own wombs with a speculum and mirror. For some of our (grand)mothers, however, this was a common and political practice. Oops, why political? In the second wave of feminism (~1960s-80s), an amazing movement of radical appropriations of living health practices emerged. Women* met in protected spaces of collective...
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH - SHIBARI AT SIHL13
sihl13 opens its doors to the Shibari public. Anyone who would like to tie up together with others, exchange ideas or simply watch and gain their first experience is cordially invited! The Japanese art of bondage is a fascinating physical practice that offers a wide range of physical, mental and emotional experiences. Shibari has a lot in common with dance, yoga and meditation, and has a performative and touching aesthetic...
SHIBARI BASICS - FLOORWORK
This workshop focuses on the basics of Japanese-style rope bondage. In addition to basic and improvisation techniques, classic patterns and the various safety aspects, we will also look at body awareness and posture, as well as interaction and communication between the partners. In doing so, we discover how the bound and the bound can shape their encounter in a variety of ways, in trusting play with power and submission, in empathic communication and mutual devotion, in deep connection and intensity. Shibari, or Kinbaku, as Japanese rope bondage is also known...
SHIBARI BASICS - INTRO DAY
Rope bondage for newbies. On this day we create an easy and playful introduction for beginners and offer a refresher for people who have already attended a beginner's course and want to refresh their knowledge. The focus is on the basics of bondage with Japanese-style ropes.
WINTA BONDAGE JAM ZURICH - SHIBARI IM SERRAT(U)S - with Newbie Intro
serrat(u)s bodywork opens its doors to the Shibari public... ... FOR THE WINTA-COMMUNITY! A NICE TEXT COMING SOON BUT FOR NOW THE IMPORTANT NOTE: WINTA is an abbreviation for "Female, Inter, Nonbinary, Trans, Agender" and it's primarily about a space where people who identify as such can simply be among themselves. ... FOR THE WINTA COMMUNITY!A NICE TEXT COMING SOON BUT FOR NOW THE IMPORTANT NOTE: WINTA is an abbreviation for "Female, Inter, Nonbinary, Trans, Agender" and this is primarily about a space where people who identify as such can simply be among themselves. The Japanese art of bondage is a fascinating and...
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH - SHIBARI AT SIHL13
sihl13 opens its doors to the Shibari public. Anyone who would like to tie up together with others, exchange ideas or simply watch and gain their first experience is cordially invited! The Japanese art of bondage is a fascinating physical practice that offers a wide range of physical, mental and emotional experiences. Shibari has a lot in common with dance, yoga and meditation, and has a performative and touching aesthetic...