EVENTS - ARCHIVE
QUEER BONDAGE JAM ZÜRICH - Pervertibles: Recycling as Kink - with Newbie Intro
All too often, bondage games take on heteronormative forms - which is fine, but we want to try out inventive ways of experiencing something completely different. Queering - as a verb - stands for the desire for a whole spectrum of: questioning, refreshing, making visible, playing, irritating, celebrating, trying out, liquefying, encouraging, expanding, inventing, solidarizing, mixing, standing by oneself, appropriating, becoming, transforming... At the QUEER BONDAGE JAMS, we therefore want to give more space to creativity in general by...
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...
OUT OF THE BOX - SENSORY TREAT
In Sensory Treat - the second part of the Out Of The Box workshop series - we devote ourselves entirely to the sensuality of our bodies - seeing, hearing, smelling, touching and tasting. These five modes will guide us through the course, suggesting a movement of rapprochement in this order - because we can already see each other at a great distance, but we can only taste each other in unprecedented immediacy. In all of this, we are inspired by the concept of shoshin, the beginner's mind - a term from Zen Buddhism that refers to an inner attitude of openness, curiosity and the beneficial absence of preconceptions or judgments. In this attitude of not knowing and not knowing, we rediscover our sensorium together, as if we were experiencing the amazing sensory abilities of our bodies for the first time.
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...
DAVID BLOOM: playSPACE - SEX MAGIC FOR BEGINNERS (and those willing to cultivate the beginner's mind)
Bring your witch hats, your magic cloaks and of course your, ahem, Magic Wand, because we're going to dive into the world of sex magic and playing with parallel universes! Magic can be defined as the moment when actions on the physical plane affect other planes of being. And what physical actions have greater potential for transformation than kink? We will use the energy of this very group on this very day to create a ritual and manifest intentions ...
DAVID BLOOM: CHOREOGRAPHY OF DESIRE - EXPLORING THE SPACE BETWEEN
Desire never emerges in a vacuum, but rather intersubjectively, in the space between people, filled with history and complexity. In this workshop, we will bring our attention to the difference between having a particular taste, fantasy, or fetish - and projecting that onto another person, or people - and allowing desires and relations to emerge through observing, listening, and receiving. The space between us, so present and compulsory in this age affected by a global pandemic, is reimagined as a space of possibility and magic.
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...
SHIBARI BASICS - PARTIAL SUSPENSION
Japanese-style bondage involves suspension bondage, in which the bound person is pulled up and suspended from a hook on the ceiling or a beam using ropes. What requires a lot of skill and looks spectacular also offers a special sensual experience, which we approach in this course with partial suspensions. We will teach the basic technical knowledge and discover the restrictive, playful and aesthetic potential of this form in various exercises and suspension patterns...
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 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...
(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...
WINTA BONDAGE JAM ZURICH - SHIBARI IM SIHL13 - with Newbie Intro
Rope bondage is for everyone!
However, this hasn't necessarily been the case with our usual bondage jam so far, because things are often quite conventional and heteronormative there - and that definitely doesn't suit everyone.
That's why there is now the WINTA BONDAGE JAM!
WINTA stands for "Female, Inter, Nonbinary, Trans, Agender" and this special jam is primarily about creating a space in which people who identify as WINTA can simply be among themselves. So basically it's quite simple: people who don't see themselves as WINTA should please stay away from the event.
FELIX RUCKERT aka the princess: MY BEAUTIFUL SEX LIFE
This event is a workshop, it is performance art and a play space, all in one. The event is part of Felix' research on the creation of "Magical Spaces": you are invited to come and to co-create a touching and exciting group experience, which also will be spectacularily beautiful to observe, if you prefer to stay on the sidelines - which is absolutely possible! The princess offers you an opportunity to meet yourself and others on a profoundly human level, letting go of shame...
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 tied and the tied 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...
NICOLAS YOROÏ & SAARA REI: SHIBARI MASTERCLASS - ORGANIC KINBAKU
With the SHIBARI MASTERCLASSES we present excellent contemporary shibari artists from Europe and beyond to the advanced shibari community in Zurich. For the fourth issue of this new series by mids of May, we are very glad to invite Nicolas Yoroï from Brussels - one of the most experienced and recognized riggers in Europe, who will present his unique practice of Organic Kinbaku - together with the Berlin based rope model and workshop facilitator Saara Rei.
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 IM SIHL13 - with Newbie Intro
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...
KINKY LOMI - AN EDGY FUSION
Surrendering into loving hands. Into their warm, soothing touch. Broad flowing strokes over and under your whole body. Like being embraced by the ocean's swirling waves and its silent depths. Feeling grounded. Deeply touched. And then: Smack! The cheeky sensation of a hand spanking a muscle. Its vibrations radiating in your bones. The tingling afterwards. Feeling vitalized. The mind gets carried away by this mingling of sensations. When two worlds meet... Lomi-inspired sensual massage and the world of kinky BDSM at first seem to be full of contrasts. Kink involves consensually inducing pain and...
ROPUNAWA's KINBAKU MONDAYS - ADVANCING ROPE BONDAGE AT SIHL13
RopuNawa goes Zurich! - The bondage artist from Basel has not only become one of the best-known riggers on the Swiss scene in recent years, but is now a welcome guest with his performances and workshops at various bondage festivals and locations in Europe and beyond. From the beginning of May, he will be coming to Zurich every two weeks to give an intensive 5-evening workshop to local bondage enthusiasts who have already learned the basics and want to get serious about taking it to an advanced level...
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...
QUEER BONDAGE JAM ZURICH - KEEP IT! - TIES WITH STONES - with Newbie Intro
All too often, bondage games take on heteronormative forms - which is fine, but we want to try out inventive ways of experiencing something completely different. Queering - as a verb - stands for the desire for a whole spectrum of: questioning, refreshing, making visible, playing, irritating, celebrating, trying out, liquefying, encouraging, expanding, inventing, solidarizing, mixing, standing by oneself, appropriating, becoming, transforming... At the QUEER BONDAGE JAMS, we therefore want to give more space to creativity in general by...
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...
(AN)OTHER INTIMACY - SPACE FOR CONSCIOUS & PLAYFUL ENCOUNTERS
Intimacy away from fixed patterns and conventions is fantastic, creative and unpredictable - that's what makes it so appealing, but also quite complex and challenging. In (AN)OTHER INTIMACY we want to embark on this venture! What is there to experience? How do I come up with ideas? How do I find out what my deep needs and longings are? And how do I put them into practice? What do I definitely not want - and how do I communicate between "Yes!" and "No"? The workshop aims to give participants an idea of what a playful & alternative 'sex-positive' space could be, how we can create it together and how we can...
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...
SHIBARI BASICS - PARTIAL SUSPENSION
Japanese-style bondage involves suspension bondage, in which the bound person is pulled up and suspended from a hook on the ceiling or a beam using ropes. What requires a lot of skill and looks spectacular also offers a special sensual experience, which we approach in this course with partial suspensions. We will teach the basic technical knowledge and discover the restrictive, playful and aesthetic potential of this form in various exercises and suspension patterns...
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 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...
OUT OF THE BOX - SLOW INTENSITY
In Slow Intensity - the first part of the Out Of The Box workshop series - slowness becomes the guiding concept of our explorations. It leads to fundamental changes in our perception on all levels, both physical and mental. We can then not only scrutinize what we experience in a more differentiated way and grasp it in all its facets and qualities. Rather, slowness itself becomes an instrument of intensification - delay can be so wonderfully pleasurable!