EVENTS - ARCHIVE
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: FIRST STEPS UP
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.
QUEERING BONDAGE JAM ZÜRICH - SHIBARI IM SIHL13 - 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...
(AN)OTHER INTIMACY - SENSORY EXPLORATIONS
Intimacy outside of fixed 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 venture! The SENSORY EXPLORATIONS course is dedicated to the sensuality of our bodies - seeing, hearing, smelling, touching and tasting. We will 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 beneficial absence of preconceptions or judgments. Together we will rediscover our sensorium, as if we were experiencing the fabulous world of...
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...
JANNA SCHNEEWITTA REHBEIN: TEMPLE OF SORROW - LOSSES OF THE YEAR
A series of TEMPLE OF SORROW is coming to an end, just like the year itself. The TEMPLE OF SORROW LOSSES OF THE YEAR invites you to reconnect with the past and mourn what may not have happened, what may have been lost and broken. Perhaps wishes have remained unfulfilled, relationships have become difficult or...
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 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 - SLOWNESS & INTENSITY
Intimacy outside of fixed 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 ON SLOWNESS & INTENSITY course makes slowness the guiding concept of our explorations. It not only enables us to take a more differentiated look at what we experience and to grasp it in many more facets and qualities. Rather, slowness itself becomes an instrument of intensification - go sloooooow, baby! With the help of meditation elements and breathing work, we slow down and playfully search for and examine encounters and experiences in this workshop.
CANCELED - 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...
SHIBARI BASICS FLOORWORK: CREATIVITY & PLAY
This workshop - which, combined with the Intro Day, is suitable for beginners - focuses on the many creative and playful possibilities of rope bondage. Ropes on the body and their tied forms are in themselves a special experience and aesthetically interesting. We want to go a little further by exploring the creative and emotional potential of power dynamics and sharpening our presence in the creation of playful scenes.
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.
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.
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.
CANCELED - 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...
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...
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 ...
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 intense experience.
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...
SHIBARI BASICS FLOORWORK: SURRENDER & CONNECTION
This workshop - which combined with the Intro Day is suitable for beginners - focuses on slowness, breathing and body awareness as the basis for attentive and trusting contact between the tying parties. With a little bodywork, we develop our anatomical understanding and lay the foundations for reading other bodies and understanding ropes as a medium for non-verbal communication. In this way we can dare to oscillate gently between comfort zone and borderline experience.
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.
QUEERING BONDAGE JAM ZÜRICH - INTO THE DARK - 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...
TAMANDUA & BRIKI - BEYOND SUSPENSION BASICS - Part II of the "PROGRESSIVE SHIBARI SERIES"
For the second instalment of our progressive shibari series, we go beyond the very basics of suspension. With the basics already covered, we are ready for more tools and insights to bring to our tying journey. In this workshop, we will take our first steps into some of the more complex factors that determine a ties shape and impact, especially in the context of suspension. What do we need to master, beyond securely attaching, pulling up, and...
TAMANDUA & BRIKI - STEMLESS TAKATE KOTE - Part II of the "PROGRESSIVE SHIBARI SERIES"
Takate kote, sometimes called gote shibari, box-tie, or most often as the abbreviation TK, is a popular category of upper body harness iconic to classical styles of kinbaku. In this workshop, Tamandua will teach his approach to tie takate kote for suspension, using his commonly used pattern of a stemless variety. Contents will include detailed technical explanations of the ties different parts. How they function, especially under load, and how to manage ...
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH - SHIBARI IM SIHL13 - with Newbie Intro
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...