THE PARLOUR is an experimental format—inspired by open bodywork and play spaces like the Bondage Jams—dedicated to the diversity of massage styles and the joy of practicing and experiencing them. THE PARLOUR is not really intended for beginners there are no classes offered there. Rather, we would like to welcome experienced and professional bodyworkers to come together and create a space where we can get to know one another and exchange ideas, give and receive, touch and be touched, experience and experiment—all outside the contexts of work, training, continuing education, and workshops, and…

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.

sihl13 is opening its doors to the Shibari community. Anyone who’d like to tie up others, 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 shares much in common with dance, yoga, and meditation; it has a performative and touching aesthetic…

The popularity of rope bondage is growing steadily in Europe. For many people, bondage seems to be a pleasurable exploration of one’s own body and the bodies of others. Bondage opens the door to creative work, expression, play, and intense human encounters. Bondage also inspires many people to engage with artistic practices such as performance or photography for the first time. As a dancer and choreographer, Felix Ruckert from Berlin represents the artistically engaged side of the European…

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…

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…

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.

sihl13 is opening its doors to the Shibari community. Anyone who’d like to tie up others, 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 shares much in common with dance, yoga, and meditation; it has a performative and touching aesthetic…

The TEMPLES OF SORROW is a series of events for collective grieving. All forms of grief are welcome, whether it’s heartbreak, the loss of loved ones, pets, or cherished plants, life changes, moving, illness, or something entirely different. You can join in and be part of it at any time. In harmony with the season, the TEMPLES gently offer inspiration and focus on specific themes—the loss of what we love, what we wished to be and are not…

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…

sihl13 is opening its doors to the Shibari community. Anyone who’d like to tie up others, 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 shares much in common with dance, yoga, and meditation; it has a performative and touching aesthetic…

This workshop offers an introduction to flogging and other forms of impact play, in which we explore not only techniques and safety considerations but also 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 examine the play from diverse perspectives, thereby creating the opportunity to shape a flogging session into a dance-like or meditative ritual that goes beyond mere striking.

In the first part of this workshop, we’ll engage in hands-on partner work to explore our speaking instrument—the mouth—through touch. You could call this “oral mapping,” as it involves thoroughly feeling, exploring, and having the entire mouth area—inside and out—massaged, without overlooking a single centimeter. The second part explores the diverse expressive capabilities of our mouths. Through various playful exercises, we’ll experiment with noises and sounds, with words, sentences, and narratives…

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, heightening our awareness, and opening ourselves up to the experience. Finally, we create a ritual together, taking plenty of time for this intense experience—with plenty of calm and plenty of wax!

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…

This workshop focuses on the fundamentals of Japanese-style rope bondage. In addition to basic and improvisational techniques, classic patterns, and various safety considerations, we will also explore body awareness and posture, as well as interaction and communication between partners. In doing so, we discover how the binder and the bound can shape their encounter in diverse ways—through a trusting interplay of power and submission, empathetic communication and mutual devotion, and deep connection and intensity. Shibari, or Kinbaku, as Japanese rope bondage is also known…

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.

sihl13 is opening its doors to the Shibari community. Anyone who’d like to tie up others, 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 shares much in common with dance, yoga, and meditation; it has a performative and touching aesthetic…

Can you feel me? Can you sense me? – The tactile and haptic sensibility of our bodies keeps us in a tangible connection with our surroundings—and with ourselves—throughout our lives and without interruption. Touch is essential, vital, and fundamental to who we are and what we are, and to how we encounter the world and other beings within it. Yet as central as it is to our identity and our coexistence with other people, in our everyday consciousness it usually appears more as a necessity—to achieve a goal, fulfill a formality, or bring about a result.

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…

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.

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.

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…

In his film *My Film with Andrei, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Document a Sex Party*, photographer, podcaster, author, and filmmaker Ayoto Ataraxia portrays a group of young people from Berlin’s hedonistic, sex-positive scene who organize an orgy to celebrate their friend Andrei’s birthday. We won’t see the orgy in this film. In conversation with director Ataraxia, we’ll discuss the new constraints of sexual liberation, his time living with the protagonists, the trust they built, the detached perspective of his film, as well as the representability of an orgy and its relevance.

sihl13 is opening its doors to the Shibari community. Anyone who’d like to tie up others, 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 shares much in common with dance, yoga, and meditation; it has a performative and touching aesthetic…

Let’s start the year by creating a space for communal grieving. This will be the first in a series of spaces for communal grieving in 2023. Grief opens the door to vitality, beauty, and courage. Every grief has its own wisdom and healing power. Our tears allow us to let go and open new doors within ourselves. This first gathering of the new year is dedicated to…