On feeling and performing a feeling
I want to talk about feelings today. We all want to feel. We want to have an emotional experience and share it with our partners. […]
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Tying a Gote
Have you ever just slowed down and watched two people tying Gote? If you really look, you can see the whole relationship on display. Rope […]
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Semenawa starts with an offering
If you have been to any of our workshops, you probably heard me saying that. It is somehow very important to me, to invite this moment of awareness […]
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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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Movement in ropes
This topic came up during a discussion with a student. The original question sounded: “Why does she bend her back when there is no rope? […]
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Growing as a rope bottom
I often hear rope bottoms say, “I started as a rope bottom, but then I wanted to grow, so I started to tie.” While there’s […]
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About Gote
A couple of weeks ago we had (very inspiring, and thought-stimulating <3) private students over and there was a whole day nerding about Gote. There […]
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On practice and patience
Here is the question I got from a friend who is also a rope bottom, and I think it is relatable to many of us: […]
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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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“my model is bored”
During one of the last Semenawa Labs in KOR Berlin a lovely couple caught my attention: they are practicing some floorwork, and yet keeping the […]
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