We are so exited of co-creating and introducing Andy Buru, rope artist from Sweden. Andy was a teacher at the Tantric Joy Festival Amsterdam summer 2022 and summer 2023. Since than Andy already gave two workshop weekends in Amsterdam. In October 2022 Andy introduced various Bonding Rituals and in the weekend in April 2023 it was on the Point of Surrender for Beginners. In november 2023 it was on Power. And the special weekend on Suspension in April 2024

This coming weekend will be On Desire. We will have some time for a fast recap also we have some video’s for you to watch.

The weekends will be divided in intensive Saturday 9:30-19:30 and a bit calmer Sunday 12:30-19:30. This way you won’t have to miss out on your cosy Sunday morning ritual.

At Saturday we will have time for lunch and on Sunday there will be only tea breaks. You can buy or bring your one lunch & snacks.

Andy is a student of theater and tea, a medical massage therapist, a former organizational coach, a conscious kinkster, and a teacher of European and Japanese rope bondage. Living in Stockholm, Sweden and working around northern Europe.

During his fifteen years of BDSM, he has been a slave, an owner, a hedonist, a purist, a magician, and a slut. His work aims to create magical rooms where people can rest, heal and grow. Andy loves that the world is allowed to be complicated because that makes every meeting unique. His time in Japan engraved into him the presence, passion and embrace for the glimpse of zen that exists in every movement of life. In the stillness between moments, life happens. Pause, witness.

On Desire - What is Desire: The most deviant nightly desires are often precisely the same things we rebel against during the day. Yes and no is closer to each other than feeling nothing. This is why we need contained rituals and conscious and consensual play parties. I believe that desire is like a seed buried deep in the subconscious; while it grows, it shapes our creativity and eros. If desire remains repressed, it will manifest itself in the most unexpected places. That’s why most people feel safer in a sadomasochistic dungeon than in a nightclub or even at the office.

Playing with desire borrows a lot of modalities from theatre, like mask possession, character creation, and ritualized scenes. And it teaches how one person’s desires can co-exist and even enhance the desires of another or a group of others in a sort of wordless negotiation. Play parties are often the arena of these fantasies, birthing endless, dream-like explorations into experiences that would be unimaginable in everyday life. The following morning, everything is slow; it’s like the world is readjusting itself back to normal again while the tribe is celebrating and integrating their wounds and victories, knowing that the results will revibrate far into the outside world.

Exploring desire is a layered process. When one layer peels away, another one appears. And there is an opportunity to deconstruct almost anything, like sexual orientation, gender, fetishes and kinks. It’s an empowering process of rediscovering oneself. However, desires are rarely a solo activity; if they were, they are likely to have been explored already. So exploring desire is a group process through interactions and witnessing. Seeing each other’s desires validates them, giving them life, and that makes us all both braver and safer because the shadows are out in the open.

The next weekend workshop of Andy we expect to be April 2025.

See Andy's website also for free online courses