This session will be a process of stripping back the socialised self and dropping into a state of pure being.

This workshop will not be about complicated knots or mastery. You will learn a few of the technical basics of Japanese bondage, and discover rope as a conscious touch and a loving encounter. Bondage need not be beautiful and perfect for it to feel alive and to give pleasure. For it to go deep, it is not necessary that the rope turn you on.

Words can be powerful in wooing lovers, in love letters and during erotic and sexual encounters. Literature and poetry have for centuries and continue to play a role in relationships, to excite, entice, tease and penetrate minds and bodies. Have you ever become aroused by an email or a phrase uttered by someone? What kinds of words or literature turn you on? What would you love a lover to whisper into your ear or breathe into your mouth?

There is no celebration of the arts of love without dance, because dance is the royal road of eroticism and seduction. The workshop is a journey of body awakening and desire through dance.

Deepen your understanding of consent with Ira Zev. Learn how to feel in your body whether it is a yes or a no, and how to read the body of the other. Learn the different possibilities and dynamics of consent. And how to give feedback when things don’t work, as you may wish.

Are you curious about open relationships? Have you lost heart in them? What has gone wrong for you and what have you learned? Join us in a deeply personal exploration of where each of us are today in our open relationship journeys.

By removing our sense of sight, we enable our other senses to become more alive, such as smell, touch and intuition. When we allow the mystery of '“not knowing”, a different kind of permission arises as we gently lean into this body and the energy fields near us.