EVENTS - ARCHIVE
"TANTRA IN MOTION" - THE PARLOUR - AN OPEN MASSAGE EXCHANGE SPACE FOR PROS & PRACTITIONERS
THE PARLOUR is an experimental format - inspired by free bodywork & play spaces such as the Bondage Jams - dedicated to the diversity of massage forms and the joy of practicing and experiencing them. THE PARLOUR is not intended for beginners and there are no classes. Rather, we would like to welcome more experienced and professional bodyworkers to create a place where they can get to know each other and exchange ideas, give and receive, touch and be touched, experience and experiment away from work or training, further education and workshop contexts and...
WINTA BONDAGE JAM ZURICH - SHIBARI IM SERRAT(U)S - with Newbie Intro
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.
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...
FELIX RUCKERT: SHIBARI MASTERCLASS - CREATIVE SUSPENSION & THE POWER OF SPACE
With the SHIBARI MASTERCLASSES, we present outstanding contemporary shibari artists from Europe and beyond to the advanced shibari community in Zurich. We are delighted that Felix Ruckert from Berlin will be coming to Zurich to kick off 2023. He is characterized by his wild and anarchistic personal style, which is strongly inspired by Japanese techniques and aesthetics, but still represents a strictly innovative European approach.
FELIX RUCKERT & YAEL STORMBORN: RESTRICTION & ENTANGLEMENT - ROPE BONDAGE AS ARTISTIC EXPLORATION & SOCIAL PRACTICE
The popularity of bondage with ropes is on the rise in Europe. For many people, bondage seems to be a pleasurable exploration of their own and other people's bodies. Bondage allows access to creative work, expression, play and intense human encounters. Bondage also inspires many people to explore artistic practices such as performance or photography for the first time. As a dancer and choreographer, Felix Ruckert from Berlin represents the artistically committed side of European bondage...
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 - PART I
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...
JANNA SCHNEEWITTA REHBEIN: TEMPLE OF SORROW - EVERYTHING I THOUGHT I WAS GETTING AND DIDN'T GET
The TEMPLES OF SORROW are a series of events for grieving together. All grief is welcome, whether it's heartache, loss of people, pets or beloved plants, upheavals in life, moving house, illness or something else entirely. You can join in at any time. The TEMPLES gently set impulses and some focal points to match the season - on the loss of what we love, on what we wish we were and not ...
(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...
QUEER BONDAGE JAM ZÜRICH - JAM DES FLEURS - 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...
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.
ORAL MAPPING & DIRTY TALK + + + playSPACE
In the first part of this workshop, we will focus - hands on in partner work! - with haptic explorations of our speaking tool, the mouth. This can be called oral mapping, as it involves feeling, exploring and massaging the entire mouth region, inside and out, without forgetting a single centimeter. The second part leads us to the diverse expressiveness of our mouth. In various playful exercises, we experiment with noises and sounds, with words, sentences and narratives...
A WAX PLAY CEREMONY
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 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 - FLOORWORK - PART II
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 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...
FILIPPA FRICK: HAPTOLOGY - EXPLORATIONS OF TOUCH, INTENTION & INNER ATTITUDE
Feel me, feel me...? - The tactile and haptic sensuality of our bodies puts us in a lifelong and uninterrupted tactile connection with what surrounds us - and with ourselves. Touch is essential, vital and fundamental to who we are and what we are, how we encounter the world and other beings in it. But 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, to fulfill a formality, to make a difference.
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...
WINTA BONDAGE JAM ZURICH - SHIBARI IM SIHL13 - with Newbie Intro
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.
SHIBARI BASICS - FLOORWORK - PART I
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 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...
AYOTO ATARAXIA: SEXUAL LIBERATION AND OTHER COMPULSIONS
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 a hedonistic, sex-positive movement in Berlin who organize an orgy to celebrate the birthday of their friend Andrei. We don't get to see the orgy in this movie. In conversation with director Ataraxia, we want to talk about new constraints of sexual liberation, about his coexistence with the protagonists, the trust he has gained, the distanced view of his film, as well as about the representability of an orgy and its relevance.
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...
JANNA SCHNEEWITTA REHBEIN: TEMPLE OF SORROW - EVERYTHING YOU LOVE YOU WILL LOSE
Lets start the year with creating a space for communal grieving. It will be the first part of a Series of Spaces for communal grieving in 2023. Grief is a door opener to vitality and beauty and courage. Every grief has its own intelligence and medicine. Our tears allow us to flow and open new doors to ourselves. This first gathering of the new year is dedicated to...