EVENTS – ARCHIVE
CANCELED – BONDAGE JAM ZURICH – SHIBARI AT SIHL13
sihl13 is opening its doors to the Shibari community. Anyone who’d like to tie others up, exchange ideas, or simply watch and gain 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 has much in common with dance, yoga, and meditation; it has a performative and deeply moving aesthetic…
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH – SHIBARI AT SERRAT(U)S – with a Newbie Intro
serrat(u)s bodywork is opening its doors to the Shibari community. Anyone who’d like to tie others up, exchange ideas, or simply watch and gain some initial experience is warmly invited! The Japanese art of rope 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 deeply moving aesthetic…
ON FLOGGING & OTHER IMPACT PLAY
This workshop offers an introduction to flogging and other forms of impact play, focusing not only on techniques and safety considerations but also on the physical and emotional processes experienced by both the giver and the receiver, as well as the relationship between pain and pleasure. We sharpen our awareness of the dynamic connections that flogging and impact play create between body and mind and among the participants. Body awareness and spatial perception, movement and rhythm, impulse and resonance, breathing and presence—we explore the play from a variety of perspectives …
A WAX PLAY CEREMONY
Calm and vibration, silence and sound, coolness and heat… We discover the art of working with candle wax as a meditative experience—both in giving and in receiving. We begin by attuning our bodies and minds, sharpening our senses, and opening ourselves to the experience. Finally, we create a ritual together, taking plenty of time for this intense…
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH – SHIBARI AT SIHL13
sihl13 is opening its doors to the Shibari community. Anyone who’d like to tie others up, exchange ideas, or simply watch and gain 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 has much in common with dance, yoga, and meditation; it has a performative and deeply moving aesthetic…
SHIBARI BASICS: FLOORWORK—SURRENDER & CONNECTION
This workshop—which, when combined with the Intro Day, is suitable for beginners—focuses on slowness, breathing, and body awareness as the foundation for mindful and trusting contact between the people involved in the bondage practice. Through some bodywork, we’ll develop our understanding of anatomy and lay the groundwork for reading other bodies and understanding ropes as a medium for nonverbal communication. This will allow us to gently oscillate between our comfort zone and our boundaries.
SHIBARI BASICS – INTRO DAY
Rope Bondage for Beginners. On this day, we’ll provide an easy and playful introduction for beginners, as well as a refresher for those who have already taken a beginner’s course and want to brush up on their skills. The focus will be on the basics of Japanese-style rope bondage.
QUEERING BONDAGE JAM ZURICH – INTO THE DARK – with Newbie Intro
Bondage play all too often takes on heteronormative forms—which is fine, but we want to explore how we can get creative and experience something completely different for a change. “Queering”—as a verb—represents the joy of a whole spectrum of activities: questioning, refreshing, making visible, playing, unsettling, celebrating, experimenting, fluidifying, encouraging, expanding, inventing, showing solidarity, blending, being true to oneself, appropriating, becoming, transforming... At the QUEER BONDAGE JAMS, we therefore want to give creativity more space in general by…
TAMANDUA & BRIKI – BEYOND SUSPENSION BASICS – Part II of the “PROGRESSIVE SHIBARI SERIES”
For the second installment of our progressive shibari series, we’ll go beyond the very basics of suspension. Now that we’ve covered the basics, we’re ready to incorporate more tools and insights into our tying journey. In this workshop, we’ll take our first steps into some of the more complex factors that determine a tie’s shape and effect, especially in the context of suspension. What do we need to master, beyond securely attaching, pulling up, and…
TAMANDUA & BRIKI – STEMLESS TAKATE KOTE – Part II of the “PROGRESSIVE SHIBARI SERIES”
Takate kote, sometimes called gote shibari, box-tie, or most often referred to by the abbreviation TK, is a popular category of upper-body harness iconic to classical styles of kinbaku. In this workshop, Tamandua will teach his approach to tying takate kote for suspension, using his commonly employed stemless variation. The workshop will include detailed technical explanations of the different parts of the tie, how they function—especially under load—and how to manage …
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH – SHIBARI AT SIHL13 – with a Newbie Intro
sihl13 is opening its doors to the Shibari community. Anyone who’d like to tie others up, exchange ideas, or simply watch and gain 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 has much in common with dance, yoga, and meditation; it has a performative and deeply moving aesthetic…