EVENTS – ARCHIVE
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH – SHIBARI AT SERRAT(U)S – with a Beginner's Introduction
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…
SHIBARI BASICS: PARTIAL SUSPENSION – FIRST STEPS UP
In Japanese-style bondage, there is a technique called suspension bondage, in which the bound person is hoisted up and suspended using ropes attached to a hook on the ceiling or a beam. While this technique is physically demanding and looks spectacular, it also offers a unique sensory experience, which we will explore in this course through partial suspensions. We will teach the basic technical knowledge and, through various exercises and bondage patterns, explore the restrictive, playful, and aesthetic potential of this form…
SHIBARI BASICS – INTRODUCTORY 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 – SHIBARI AT SIHL13 – with a Newbie Intro
Bondage games all too often take 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: questioning, refreshing, making visible, playing, unsettling, celebrating, experimenting, fluidifying, encouraging, expanding, inventing, showing solidarity, mixing, standing by oneself, appropriating, becoming, transforming... At the QUEER BONDAGE JAMS, we therefore want to give creativity more space in general by…
(AN)OTHER INTIMACY – SENSORY EXPLORATIONS
Intimacy that breaks free from set patterns and conventions is fantastic, creative, and unpredictable—that’s what makes it so appealing, but also quite complex and challenging. In the (AN)OTHER INTIMACY workshops, we want to embark on this adventure! The SENSORY EXPLORATIONS course is dedicated to the sensuality of our bodies—seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, tasting. We’ll move through the weekend in these five modes, guided by the concept of the beginner’s mind, which refers to an inner attitude of openness, curiosity, and the soothing absence of preconceptions or judgments. Together, we rediscover our senses, as if we were experiencing the fabulous...
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH – SHIBARI AT SERRAT(U)S – with a Beginner's Introduction
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…
JANNA SCHNEEWITTA REHBEIN: TEMPLE OF SORROW – LOSSES OF THE YEAR
A series by TEMPLE OF SORROW is drawing to a close, just as the year itself is. TEMPLE OF SORROW’s *LOSSES OF THE YEAR* invites us to reconnect with the past and mourn what might not have come to pass, what has been lost and broken. Perhaps wishes have gone unfulfilled, relationships have become strained, or have…