Safety Part 3. Habits and strategies.
Safety is one of the aspects that we learn early in life and then over time we develop “strategies”: how do we establish safety in […]
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Safety Part 2. Our bodies remember.
Continue with my thoughts on safety. Safety in ropes, safety in life, safety strategies. Where does our safety behavior come from? Every situation has an […]
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Safety in Ropes. Part One
I got to talk more about safety because it’s a foundation for being experimental, playful and spontaneous in ropes. It’s really about being comfortable to […]
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How big is your “cup”?
When people come to me to talk about about their “issues” in rope bottoming, it is often about emotions: feeling deeply, allowing and containing “difficult” […]
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Waist rope
“…And as I don’t want to make the decision yet, I tie a waist rope…” We just got back from teaching the “Bodies under Pressure” […]
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Stereotypes about Semenawa
I have heard a lot of stereotypes and opinions about seme-nawa. Many of those have stopped me for years to engage with this rope style. […]
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Being brave by being soft
“Be brave by being soft” Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen Soft doesn’t mean “weak”. We are conditioned to harden ourselves when entering a situation associated with discomfort… […]
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If you are just at the beginning of your Rope Bottom journey…
If you are new to rope bondage and want to explore in a mindful way and possibly avoid bad experiences, how do you go about […]
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Self-validated sexuality
I am feeling particularly reflective today. So you get a little piece of my kitchen psychology 🙂 about our need for validation from others. Why […]
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Why do I like to be tied?
This is something I wrote a few years ago for a project that never came to life. I would like to publish it here because […]
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