AUSTRALIA
15-20 March 2024
Transform your relations through embodiment and authenticity
OFFERINGS / Below is a sample of what we will have the opportunity to explore together..
Support, structure and surrender (Contact Improv based)
Click for description
How to do we gauge safety? How can we offer and receive support? How does this help us move more easily? What does it take to let go from a somatic place? Lets explore these relational facets through play, contact and communication so we can build more trusting foundations towards deeper connections.
Moving dialogues, exploring expression, play and presence. (CI based)
Click for description
How do we broaden our dance, deepen our connections and stay rooted within ourself? Learn some fresh flavours and spiral into newness in this creative exploration of collective conversation.
Erotics of the Feet
Click for description
In this workshop we will use our feet to walk us through an exploration of conscious connection, consent and different forms of erotic touch. The earliest record of eroticism associated with feet come from stories of the Hindu god Shiva, ancient Greek erotic poems and the famous 48 entries dedicated to feet in a Qing Dynasty sex manual. With over 200 000 nerve endings in each foot, they are incredibly sensitive to different kinds of stimuli and exploring this is a persistently popular fetish. If you want to deepen your appreciation of feet, come and explore the eroticism of the feet.
Developing Vocabularies for Pleasure
Click for description
Developing our sexual voice and our erotic articulation skills is fundamental if we are to live fulfilling erotic lives. Yet, the social models we have for this are sorely lacking and consent discussions while super important only take us so far. This workshop is in part about finding the space between BDSM negotiation, Tantric conventions and sex education literacy to collaboratively develop our vocabularies for pleasure.
Introduction to Conscious Kink
Click for description
We will open the dungeon doors to the vast world of conscious kink play. This will be aimed at beginners but will have something for people of all experience levels.
We will cover the fundamentals, including safety and consent, as they are paramount in the world of Conscious Kink. This will include, how to set up a nest and create a safe container in which the players will have the freedom to explore themselves and each other’s fantasies, desires, edges and curiosities in a healthy way.
We will look at BDSM and the deliciousness of power play, including the sacredness of submission and divinity in dominance, each in honour and servitude of the other.
There will be a demonstration of a sensory play scene, including guidance on safe impact play, after which participants will have the opportunity to create their own scenes. Some sensory toys and tools will be provided for this, however participants are also encouraged to bring their own if possible. Be creative! This could be a feather, a scarf, a hairbrush, a fork… Please also bring a sarong / mat / cushions if you can to make your nest.
The workshop will close with aftercare – what is is, why it’s important and how to do it + Q&A
Forming Bonds: Connections Through Rope
Click for description
Discover a new way to deeply connect through this intimate exchange of power and trust; learn to quieten the mind through true surrender.
Bonnie & Shane will take you through the fundamentals of Shibari/Kinbaku, beginning with the history and evolution of this ancient Japanese art, and it’s influence on modern day Shibari; through to setting up a safe container in which one can take another on a profoundly connective and sensual journey with a few simple knots.
We will discuss the different reasons people tie and the multitude of applications of the dynamic medium of rope. You will learn about different types of rope, safety measures, and ways to enhance your rope experience.
You will have the opportunity to discover both sides of rope, as a Bakushi or rigger (one who ties), and an Ukete or model/bunny (one who receives).
You will experience a flavour of Shibari that has been blended seamlessly with the fundamentals of Tantra, where consent and safety are paramount, to bring connection and intimacy to new heights.
In this workshop you will learn how to navigate subspace; that beautiful dream-like state which, paradoxically, can be hyper-aware. When a Rigger is able to craft an experience, creating a space in which their partner feels safe and held enough to journey through and plumb the depths of their own being. The body/brain releases its own delicious cocktail of chemicals, senses are heightened and the ceaseless chatter of monkey mind momentarily ceases; the ropes sculpt their own form of satori.
Liquid Love Ritual: An Immersive Sensual Experience of Communion
The Liquid Love Ritual is a collective journey of the senses. It is an exploration of sensuality in its purest form and can invoke a strong feeling of love for oneself, one’s community and for life itself.
Allow yourself to be moved without intentions or sexual orientation. Be present with erotic sensations and thoughts but rather than act on them, relax into the energetic flow of the bodies around you. This is a place where you can love and be loved in an impersonal and unbound manner and above all a place to super charge your soul.
Learn more including guidelines:
http://touchandplay.org/liquid-love/