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.

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

This Weekend will be held at a location suitable for Rope Suspensions, which will be the next weekend course of Andy in April 2024. 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 Power - Being dominant is vulnerable because one has to expose their desire for power. The more deviant and taboo, the scarier it is, but still, both mainstream media and the sadomasochistic subculture overflow with caricatures of emotionless masters and mistresses hiding behind their cruelty. Instead, I think one should blossom in their raw self-expression. Power is an opportunity to explore new avenues of esoteric intimacy that are profoundly energetic and sensual. Far beyond plain and mundane fucking. Learning to wield and surrender to power consciously and consensually requires a great understanding of one’s boundaries and being safe and brave enough to reject anyone overstepping them. At the same time, one should be humble and have humour; anyone that has to assert their power with violence doesn’t own it.

Power is given to someone that deserves it because of their deviant creativity, rocksteady presence, and ability to create magical spaces. Discovering one’s very personal dominant persona is a journey which will significantly affect what kind of submissives they will attract. Luckily sadomasochism overflows with expressions of power, and there are several rituals to practice and embody. And learning the symbolism of fetish items is a priceless tool for this transformation. Being dominant is a paradoxical balance between holding space and being selfish. Holding space is learning how to create a safe container for oneself and others to play with power while being selfish is expressing desire.

But eventually, one realizes that the real key is to stop ‘the doing’ and simply be dominant and do as one pleases as if it is the most natural thing in the world. As dominance belongs to the masculine aspects of the esoteric erotic polarity, mastering it beyond gender becomes a way to simultaneously make a parody of existing power structures while reclaiming a more healthy relationship to masculinity. Playing with hierarchies in the ‘bedroom’ makes one more resilient to them in everyday life. And, of course, as in any play with polarity, there is also space to plunge into the other end – the submission and surrender – to learn, challenge, and worship. In old-school leather culture, no one would ever be allowed step into the boots of the dominant before wearing the collar of a slave. But I promise I’ll be both more flexible and gentle.

50% BDSM, 20% RITUAL, 20% PLAY PARTY, 10% ROPE BONDAGE

The next weekend workshop of Andy will be April 6 & 7 and we be on Suspension.

See Andy's website also for free online courses