The program will be updated to this page as it gets confirmed. The whole program is ready by the end of May.
WORKSHOPS
Each participant may choose two workshops. The selection process will be communicated to all participants separately via email.
Natasha: Kinky Massage
Grounding, gentle, rough, teasing, scratchy, stingy… the touch can be so many things. In this workshop we will explore different ways of consensual touch: from feather-like and whisper massage to pressure points and big body movement.
There will be space to express your wishes and boundaries, get inspired with some bodywork ideas and get creative.
Open to all curious participants, with and without experience in massage.
Natasha: Flower Bondage
Flower bondage is bondage without ropes — instead using flowers. Imagine people holding stems and branches between their fingers, hands, bodies. Nothing should fall. You may find yourself in a creative space, discovering new ways to interact with the body. Or experience yourself as a sculpture, an art object, fully focused on a simple task.
The play can be fun, challenging, meditative, artistic. This is a playground to experiment with flowers in a sensual, kinky way.
Facilitator:
Natasha (they/she) is pleasure activist, massage therapist, workshop facilitator and art director based in Berlin.
You can see their work here.
Julius Elo: Playing with the Dead
This workshop explores crossing the boundary between the living and the lifeless. We approach dying, the state of the dead body, and playing with the dead through fantasy, role-play, and embodied exercises. The workshop invites participants to explore power, responsibility and bodily boundaries within a clearly framed, consent-based context. Dying is understood as a process in which agency changes, and the dead body as a state in which the body can be an object, sacred, humiliated, used, or something entirely different – according to the participants own fantasies.
Do you fantasize about absolute power, a body without response, demands, or gaze? Or do you fantasize about the desire to be completely passive, about fully surrendering and simply being a corpse? In this workshop, you can choose either of these roles and create a scene in which your fantasy is realized.
Julius Elo: Hot Wax Ritual
Hot wax on the skin can be extremely pleasurable, and it might feel like a little bodily orgasm.
Temperature play is an erotic form of consensual sensation play. In hot wax play we use the elements of heat to heighten the senses and stimulate the body’s neuroreceptors. Hot wax play is an activity where one is dripping candle wax onto your partner, having your partner drip it onto you, or dripping it on yourself, or it might happen in the form of a group.
Workshop includes introduction for wax play, safety, practical tryouts, different techniques, stimulation of the skin, wax play and aftercare.
Facilitator:
Julius Elo (they/them) is a performance artist who creates performance concepts and participatory performances where the audience is set at the core of the piece in different ways.
They are one of the founders of Reality Research Center, Wonderlust festival and Helsinki Shibari Collective. They have worked with BDSM for over 15 years in Helsinki and Berlin.