We are so exited of co-creating and introducing Andy Buru, rope artist from Sweden. In his last workshop weekend in October 2022 Andy introduced various Bonding Rituals. This second weekend in April will have some time for a fast recap also we have some video’s for you to watch.

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.

Bonding Rituals - SURRENDER for BEGINNERS - Andy on Surrender: ‘To surrender is to let go and fall, trusting that one will be caught, by life, by love, by wonder, by another. Surrendering brings great pleasure when one learns to let go of controlling the body, the emotions, and the ego and devote oneself to something greater. It’s applicable in lovemaking as well as in life in general. But unfortunately, there is an overvaluation of power in today’s society, and everyone is fighting for it, while surrender is undervalued. 

Moreover, surrender touches upon masochism, physically enjoying endorphins rushing through the body and emotionally letting go of shameful limiting beliefs. The basic idea I learnt from Zen Buddhism is that bliss emerges when we stop fighting and accept life as it is, and then there is no suffering. Before psychology considered masochism a disease, religion thought it to be the cure. And I think there is something to that when it’s conscious and consensual. In my experience, anyone can enjoy it, or at least find it meaningful when it’s slow enough and well-balanced between safety and bravery.

Surrender belongs to the feminine aspect of the neo-tantric polarity. Still, I believe it’s essential for everyone of any (and no) gender to incorporate it into themselves as self-development and passion for lovemaking. While teaching surrender, I also indirectly teach how to hold space for anothers’ process of letting go. Participants describe it as intimate, vulnerable and trusting. And it makes them more resilient to the hardships of life.

The weekend workshop will be 60% ROPE BONDAGE - 20% BDSM - 10% RITUAL - 10% PLAY PARTY.

GET YOUR TICKET HERE

(The ticket includes the 14 hours workshop and a Playground & Ecstatic Dance set in Odessa Muiderpoort on Saturday evening)

See Andy's website also for free online courses