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MISOGYNY defines the cultural attitude of hatred, mistrust or prejudice against female and the idea that men are better then woman.

Misogyny functions as an ideology or belief system that has accompanied patriarchal or male-dominated societies for thousands of years and continues to place women in subordinate positions with limited access to power and decision-making.

Though most common in men, misogyny also exists in and is practiced by women against other women or even against themselves. Misogyny can be found within sacred texts of religions, mythologies, as well as Western literature and philosophy.

The first written example of misogyny is in the Odyssey (8th century B.C.) when Penelope, Ulysses’ wife, is told by her own son Telemachus “to shut up“ and go back to her room, to leave men discuss about important matters.  

A particular creative example is “Types of women“ by Semonides of Amorgos (7th century B.C.), where the author compares woman to nature and animals: pig, fox, dog, earth, sea, donkey, ferret,mare, monkey, and bees.  Of the Ten types, nine are delineated as destructive: only the bee-woman makes a good wife. In the second part of the poem, he complains about the evils of women in general.

Even the most appreciated woman of ancient time – “the Beautiful Elena“ – doesn’t escape misogyny; her beauty is seen as the main fault and cause of Troy War. But the best example of women being the origin of all bad is given by Eva, the very first woman, alone responsible for the Original Sin and the fall of all humanity.

In this workshop, we will recall all this extensive existing traditions and enrich them in a creative collective process to define and express as many variety of Misogyny and then use it to play together – women as well as men – the game of female hatred. We might even achieve to detect unaware and undiscovered misogyny inside each one of us and to transform it into an exciting and arousal tool for our blaspheme games…

Sensitive souls better abstain.

We will play with, and move in the water, alone and together. Get wet with Felix.

Shiatsu and Shibari are both disciplines born in Japan.
They have in common, according to my experience, some traits and they can be complementary for others.
When I first met the world of ropes I was already a Shiatsu therapist for some years, concepts like vital energy, meridians, pressure resonated familiar in my mind and I was looking for their expressive dimension.

The world of Shibari had always ideally fascinated me, and I felt that the two things could be complementary, so I tried to make experience of them together, testing the possible correspondence between the two disciplines.

In this workshop we will explore what are the common points between the world of ropes, the restrictions and the pressure and pressure points, we will work with the breath and try to go beyond the surface of our body

No previous experience is necessary, if possible bring your own ropes.

XaNa

Our life is created inside a womb.
The belly is the center of our body and the place where life begins, but it is also where we process the food that we eat to take nourishments and what we need to live.

The belly is also the center of the body that is trained in martial arts, the deep part of ourselves where the biggest and strongest energy that we own lies, waiting to be awakened and used for creation.

Life itself is an act of creation.
In this workshop, through some simple techniques to awake the sexual energy, we will connect to each other through our bellies.
And we will let it flow out, and it will become a movement, a sexual act, a sound, a poem, even a drawing if you bring the paper and the colors.
We will experiment how life is created through the energy in our belly.

The clown is the sacred shaman, the ancient European symbol of freedom and love, he knows how to play power game, how to tell the worst truth with a smile and how to manipulate emotions. Is he crazy or is he aligned with the cosmos?
Mostly in life we hold back so much from our power. How juicy is life going to be if we just not take care too much about judgement, fears and bad emotions? they can became tools to create a beautiful game between shadow and light.

The workshop will guide you in your scariest truth and in your darkest power.
With its about to play, be crazy, show up and manifest your power!

After a small theoretical part about anathomy and taoism we will explore and express the power of the movement in itself; the polarity of different touching: the self love will became the base to explore the pain of being close
without touching or to be touched but without intimacy. We will explore the craziness of the touch in itself. The workshop will guide you in a journey of your body as a powerful tool of releasing pain and pleasure at the same time:
where is the shifting place between pleasure and pain? between craziness and the catharsis?

Communication, trust and enriched sensuality are three pillars of harmonious relationships that can be experienced deeply in this workshop on immobilisation, empathy and eroticism. Many paralysed people say that immobilisation brings more sensitivity in the body parts where people still feel sensations. The participants will experience what happens when body parts are immobilized.
To let go of control, to trust and surrender to the situation can often give a certain kind of inner freedom and arouse the senses. Verbalisation of one’s own needs is encouraged for better communication.

A group experience in which top and bottom are in front of each other and in this situation we will experience all the elements that characterize playing with the ropes but enriched by the fact that each time we will be faced with a different partner with whom to dialogue through the ropes.

An experience of personal and group growth in which it will not only be a matter of tying or being tied up but in which we will necessarily have to put communication at the centre.

So a rope will mean the entry into space of another person, asking and giving permission, a meeting, a game, and a speech one rope at a time.

After all, this is exactly what we should do every time we bind with ropes.

La quarta corda

Using force is not the best solution in bondage. Sometimes having a right “strategy”, a good “Kakehiki”, allow you to overcome a limit to the partner, to do something without him feeling forced. We must have the same strategy when we want to work with “torment” on our partner.

“Seme” does not only mean torture, but also torment. It means discovering his weaknesses, his fears, his emotions and pushing him to live them in a consensual, intimate and controlled context, in order to come out stronger and more purified at the end.

In this workshop we will talk about Kotobazeme (torture with the word), Shuuchinawa (rope of shame), Shikarizeme (torture of reproach). We will not use complex ligatures but we will focus on the communication that we can establish through them.