Why suffering?
I was asked at our last Kinbaku Salon after the performance was over. It’s funny how you get the deepest questions at the moment when […]
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On becoming adult
No bottoming topics today… I’m feeling very reflective, melancholic, and raw, maybe because of my birthday, maybe because I just spent four days at the […]
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On rope bottoming and asking questions
In the foreword to my book, Joseph Kramer wrote “we all are rope bottoms”. I fully understood his meaning only later. We all are learning […]
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Somatics vs. Dogmatics :)
In our workshop in VoxBody I was asked how somatics influences my rope bottoming / teaching approach. Whilst there was no space for lengthy discussion […]
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Shrinking Spaces
For me, and for Merriam-Webster, “Bondage” means slavery, it means restraining someone, taking away their freedom, their power. This is a criminal act unless it’s […]
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My Rope Studies, Part Five
Coming back to that “passive” idea of bottoming, my rope journey just started when I shifted the focus from my partner to myself. And started […]
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My Rope Studies, Part Four
Another discovery I made in my rope journey was learning about my limits. And when I say that, this is not really about “what I […]
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My Rope Studies, Part Three
So I went on my rope journey, and I made some discoveries. And the first thing I discovered was my resistance. I have this general […]
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My Rope Studies, Part Two
In 2015 I started with professional Sexological Bodywork training. SexBod for people to learn about themselves and their sexuality and how to support them with […]
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