EVENTS – ARCHIVE
QUEER BONDAGE JAM ZURICH – with a 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…
THE PARLOUR - AN OPEN MASSAGE EXCHANGE SPACE FOR PROS & PRACTITIONERS
THE PARLOUR is an experimental format—inspired by free bodywork and play spaces such as the Bondage Jams—dedicated to the diversity of massage styles and the joy of practicing and experiencing them. THE PARLOUR is not specifically intended for “ beginners ,” and there are no classes held there. Rather, we would like to welcome experienced and professional bodyworkers to come together and create a space where getting to know one another and exchanging ideas, giving and receiving, touching and being touched, experiencing and experimenting—all of this can take place outside the contexts of work, training, continuing education, and workshops, and…
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH – SHIBARI AT SERRAT(U)S
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…
JANNA SCHNEEWITTA REHBEIN: TEMPLE OF SORROW – MANDALA OF TRUTH
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 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 what we are not…
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…
DAVID BLOOM: FREEDOM & FORM - EMBODIED REFLECTIONS ON HIERARCHY & POWER DYNAMICS
Freedom is hard. It demands an active engagement with one’s own desires & boundaries, and taking responsibility for the space one wants to co-create. First, in a political sense - democracy can only survive when citizens engage with it, and anarchist alternatives (in the positive sense of a society based on the understanding that human beings are inherently good) are even more work. Second, as an artist: the freedom to do absolutely anything can be challenging, overwhelming, and/or boring. BDSM and sex-positive Spaces can provide opportunities, to deal with the complexities...
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…
SHIBARI BASICS – PARTIAL SUSPENSION – PART II
In Japanese-style bondage, there is a technique called “suspension bondage,” in which the bound person is hoisted and suspended using ropes attached to a hook on the ceiling or a beam. While this technique is technically demanding and looks spectacular, it also offers a unique sensual experience, which we will explore in this course through partial suspensions. We’ll teach the basic technical knowledge and, through various exercises and tying patterns, explore the restrictive, playful, and aesthetic potential of this form…
SHIBARI BASICS – CHEST HARNESS & SUSPENSION LINES – PREPARATION & PRACTICE FOR PARTIAL SUSPENSION II
This workshop is designed for participants who have at least the basic knowledge gained from the INTRO DAY or have already taken a FLOORWORK course, but who have not yet mastered the use of an upper-body harness suitable for (partial) suspension (e.g., Takate Kote) or suspension lines. Both will be covered in a…
WINTA BONDAGE JAM ZURICH – SHIBARI AT SIHL13 – with a 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.
"BODYWORK & BODYTHERAPY" - THE PARLOUR - AN OPEN MASSAGE EXCHANGE SPACE FOR PROS & PRACTITIONERS
THE PARLOUR is an experimental format—inspired by free bodywork and play spaces such as the Bondage Jams—dedicated to the diversity of massage styles and the joy of practicing and experiencing them. THE PARLOUR is not specifically intended for “ beginners ,” and there are no classes held there. Rather, we would like to welcome experienced and professional bodyworkers to come together and create a space where getting to know one another and exchanging ideas, giving and receiving, touching and being touched, experiencing and experimenting—all of this can take place outside the contexts of work, training, continuing education, and workshops, and…
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH – SHIBARI AT SERRAT(U)S
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…
FILIPPA FRICK: HAPTOLOGY - EXPLORATIONS OF TOUCH, INTENTION & INNER ATTITUDE
Do you feel me, sense me...? – The tactile and haptic sensibility of our bodies keeps us in a tangible connection—throughout our lives and without interruption—with our surroundings—and with ourselves. Touch is essential, vital, and fundamental to who we are and what we are, and to how we engage with the world and the other beings in 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.
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…
SHIBARI BASICS – FLOORWORK I
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’ll also explore body awareness and posture, as well as interaction and communication between partners. In doing so, we’ll 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…
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.
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…
DANIELA REINA TÉLLEZ: SEERS & ORACLES - IMAGINATION, DECOLONIALITY & PLEASURE
committed to treating imagination as justice,
devoted to following the sweet, tender rhythm of decolonial queer life-making,
ever committed to healing and liberation,
ever marked by grief at the distance created between us
and all of life.
QUEER BONDAGE JAM ZURICH – FIGURATIONS OF THE SACRED – 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…
“ENERGY FIELDS FOREVER” – THE PARLOUR – AN OPEN SPACE FOR MASSAGE EXCHANGES BETWEEN PROFESSIONALS AND PRACTITIONERS
THE PARLOUR is an experimental format—inspired by free bodywork and play spaces such as the Bondage Jams—dedicated to the diversity of massage styles and the joy of practicing and experiencing them. THE PARLOUR is not specifically intended for “ beginners ,” and there are no classes held there. Rather, we would like to welcome experienced and professional bodyworkers to come together and create a space where getting to know one another and exchanging ideas, giving and receiving, touching and being touched, experiencing and experimenting—all of this can take place outside the contexts of work, training, continuing education, and workshops, and…
TANTRA IN MOTION
This workshop brings movement to classical tantric massage. We’ll demonstrate and practice how different movement elements can be used to build sensual tension. Challenging stretches and powerful embraces, dynamic position changes, and the skillful use of gravity transform the massage into a horizontal dance. Clear, present guidance from the giver and the recipient’s willingness to be guided with pleasure and devotion are essential elements…
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH – SHIBARI AT SERRAT(U)S
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…
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…
SHIBARI BASICS – PARTIAL SUSPENSION – PART II
In Japanese-style bondage, there is a technique called “suspension bondage,” in which the bound person is hoisted and suspended using ropes attached to a hook on the ceiling or a beam. While this technique is technically demanding and looks spectacular, it also offers a unique sensual experience, which we will explore in this course through partial suspensions. We’ll teach the basic technical knowledge and, through various exercises and tying patterns, explore the restrictive, playful, and aesthetic potential of this form…
SHIBARI BASICS – CHEST HARNESS & SUSPENSION LINES – PREPARATION & PRACTICE FOR PARTIAL SUSPENSION II
This workshop is designed for participants who have at least the basic knowledge gained from the INTRO DAY or have already taken a FLOORWORK course, but who have not yet mastered the use of an upper-body harness suitable for (partial) suspension (e.g., Takate Kote) or suspension lines. Both will be covered in a…
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…
(AN)OTHER INTIMACY - SPACE FOR CONSCIOUS & PLAYFUL ENCOUNTERS
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 (AN)OTHER INTIMACY, we want to take this risk! What’s there to experience? How do I come up with ideas? How do I figure out what my deepest 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 and alternative “sex-positive” space could look like, and how we can create it together…
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…