EVENTS – ARCHIVE
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH – SHIBARI AT SERRAT(U)S – with a Beginner's Introduction
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…
SHIBARI BASICS: PARTIAL SUSPENSION – FIRST STEPS UP
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…
SHIBARI BASICS – INTRODUCTORY 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.
QUEERING BONDAGE JAM ZURICH – SHIBARI AT SIHL13 – with a Newbie Intro
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…
(AN)OTHER INTIMACY – SENSORY EXPLORATIONS
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 the (AN)OTHER INTIMACY workshops, we want to embark on this adventure! The SENSORY EXPLORATIONS course is dedicated to the sensuality of our bodies—seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, tasting. We’ll 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 soothing absence of preconceptions or judgments. Together, we rediscover our senses, as if we were experiencing the fabulous...
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH – SHIBARI AT SERRAT(U)S – with a Beginner's Introduction
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…
JANNA SCHNEEWITTA REHBEIN: TEMPLE OF SORROW – LOSSES OF THE YEAR
A series by TEMPLE OF SORROW is drawing to a close, just as the year itself is. TEMPLE OF SORROW’s *LOSSES OF THE YEAR* invites us to reconnect with the past and mourn what might not have come to pass, what has been lost and broken. Perhaps wishes have gone unfulfilled, relationships have become strained, or have…
TANTRA IN MOTION
This workshop brings movement to classical tantric massage. We demonstrate and practice how sensual tension can be built through various movement elements. 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 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…
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH – SHIBARI AT SIHL13
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…
(AN)OTHER INTIMACY - SLOWNESS & INTENSITY
Intimacy that breaks free from fixed patterns and conventions is fantastic, creative, and unpredictable—which is 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 course ON SLOWNESS & INTENSITY makes slowness the guiding concept of our explorations. It allows us not only to examine what we experience more closely and to grasp it in far more facets and qualities. Rather, slowness itself becomes an instrument of intensification—go sloooooow, baby! With the help of meditation elements and breathwork, we slow down, search, and explore encounters in a playful way during the workshop and…
CANCELLED – BONDAGE JAM ZURICH – SHIBARI AT SIHL13
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…
SHIBARI BASICS FLOORWORK: CREATIVITY & PLAY
This workshop—which, when combined with the Intro Day, is suitable for beginners—focuses more intently on the diverse creative and playful possibilities of rope bondage. Ropes on the body and the shapes they create are, in themselves, a unique experience and aesthetically intriguing. We want to take it a step further by exploring the creative and emotional potential of power dynamics and sharpening our presence in the creation of playful scenes.
SHIBARI BASICS INTRODUCTORY 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.
WINTA JAM ZURICH – SHIBARI AT SERRAT(U)S – 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.
FILIPPA FRICK: HAPTOLOGY - EXPLORATIONS OF TOUCH, INTENTION & INNER ATTITUDE
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.
CANCELLED – BONDAGE JAM ZURICH – SHIBARI AT SIHL13
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…
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH – SHIBARI AT SERRAT(U)S – with a Beginner's Introduction
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…
ON FLOGGING & OTHER IMPACT PLAY
This workshop offers an introduction to flogging and other forms of impact play, focusing not only on techniques and safety considerations but also on 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 explore the play from a variety of perspectives …
A WAX PLAY CEREMONY
Calm and movement, 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…
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH – SHIBARI AT SIHL13
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…
SHIBARI BASICS FLOORWORK: SURRENDER & CONNECTION
This workshop—which, when combined with the Intro Day, is suitable for beginners—focuses on slowness, breathing, and body awareness as the foundation for mindful and trusting connection between the bonders. Through some bodywork, we develop our understanding of anatomy and lay the groundwork for reading other bodies and understanding ropes as a medium for nonverbal communication. This allows us to gently oscillate between our comfort zone and the edge of our experience.
SHIBARI BASICS – INTRODUCTORY 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.
QUEERING BONDAGE JAM ZURICH – INTO THE DARK – with Newbie Intro
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…
TAMANDUA & BRIKI – BEYOND SUSPENSION BASICS – Part II of the “PROGRESSIVE SHIBARI SERIES”
For the second installment of our progressive shibari series, we go beyond the very basics of suspension. Now that we’ve covered the basics, we’re ready to incorporate more tools and insights into our tying journey. In this workshop, we’ll take our first steps into some of the more complex factors that determine a tie’s 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 abbreviated as TK, is a popular type of upper-body harness characteristic of classical kinbaku styles. In this workshop, Tamandua will teach his method for tying takate kote for suspension, using his signature stemless variation. The workshop will include detailed technical explanations of the different parts of the tie, how they function—especially under load—and how to manage …
BONDAGE JAM ZURICH – SHIBARI AT SIHL13 – with a Newbie Intro
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…