EVENTS - ARCHIVE
QUEER BONDAGE JAM ZÜRICH - 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...
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...
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH - SHIBARI AT SERRAT(U)S
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...
JANNA SCHNEEWITTA REHBEIN: TEMPLE OF SORROW - MANDALA OF TRUTH
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, upheaval 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 ...
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...
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 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 II
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 - CHEST HARNESS & SUSPENSION LINES - PREPARATION & REPETITION FOR PARTIAL SUSPENSION II
This workshop is designed to prepare people who have at least the basic knowledge from the INTRO DAY or have already attended a FLOORWORK course, but who have not yet mastered an upper body harness suitable for (partial) suspensions (e.g. Takate Kote) or suspension lines. Both are taught in a...
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.
"BODYWORK & BODYTHERAPY" - 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...
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH - SHIBARI AT SERRAT(U)S
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...
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...
SHIBARI BASICS - FLOORWORK 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 tied and the tied 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...
DANIELA REINA TÉLLEZ: SEERS & ORACLES - IMAGINATION, DECOLONIALITY & PLEASURE
committed to attending to imagination as justice,
devoted to following the sweet tender rhythm of decolonial queer-lifemaking,
ever-committed to healing & liberation,
ever-marked by grief at the distance made between us
and all of life.
QUEER BONDAGE JAM ZURICH - FIGURATIONS OF THE SACRED - 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...
"ENERGY FIELDS FOREVER" - 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...
TANTRA IN MOTION
This workshop brings movement into the classic tantric massage. We show and practise how the sensual arc of tension can be developed through different elements of movement. Challenging stretches and powerful embraces, dynamic changes of position and the skillful use of gravity turn the massage into a horizontal dance. Clear, present guidance of the giving part as well as pleasure and devotion of the receiving part are essential elements...
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH - SHIBARI AT SERRAT(U)S
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...
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 II
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 - CHEST HARNESS & SUSPENSION LINES - PREPARATION & REPETITION FOR PARTIAL SUSPENSION II
This workshop is designed to prepare people who have at least the basic knowledge from the INTRO DAY or have already attended a FLOORWORK course, but who have not yet mastered an upper body harness suitable for (partial) suspensions (e.g. Takate Kote) or suspension lines. Both are taught in a...
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...
(AN)OTHER INTIMACY - SPACE FOR CONSCIOUS & PLAYFUL ENCOUNTERS
Intimacy away from fixed 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 embark on this venture! What is there to experience? How do I come up with ideas? How do I find out what my deep 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 & alternative 'sex-positive' space could be, how we can create it together and how we can...
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...