My approach melts different styles and teachings for more than 10 years. As rigger I started of with Osada Steve, Arisue Go, Kamijoo Saki, Frances d’Ath, Barkas and Kinoko. As model I learned with and am inspired by Kasumi Horai, Iroha Shizuki, Akira Naka and Tamandua.
Haus Sommer is a small dojo located in Uferhallen Kulturwerkstatt in Berlin-Wedding, with 7 suspension-points, bamboo suspension, dance floor, and tea kitchen. Please bring comfortable clothes and ropes if you have.
Hours: 7-11 pm
At Teatris/Alte Kantine or in our ‘Mini- Dojo’. Both locations are at
Uferhallen Kulturwerkstatt in Wedding. Staircase b/c, Uferstraße 8-11, 13357 Berlin
U8 Pankstr/U9 Osloerstr
Please call when you are in the court yard, in case you don’t find it, or the door is locked:
+ 49 174 393 70 49.
PLEASE REGISTER BEFOREHAND, THAN WE SEND YOU THE DETAILS!
GENERAL DESCRIPTION: ENGLISH + GERMAN
Yoga can be done separately from the Shibari part. Hours: 7-8.45 pm. Info here
Hours: 7-11 pm
At Teatris/Alte Kantine or in our ‘Mini- Dojo’. Both locations are at
Uferhallen Kulturwerkstatt in Wedding. Staircase b/c, Uferstraße 8-11, 13357 Berlin
U8 Pankstr/U9 Osloerstr
Please call when you are in the court yard, in case you don’t find it, or the door is locked:
+ 49 174 393 70 49.
PLEASE REGISTER BEFOREHAND, THAN WE SEND YOU THE DETAILS!
GENERAL DESCRIPTION: ENGLISH + GERMAN
Yoga can be done separately from the Shibari part. Hours: 7-8.45 pm. Info here
The photo below is not necessarily what we do in the yoga & shibari workshop, but more a literal inspiration of a friend.
On Saturday 7th das Helmi is performing at the at.tension festival in Brandenburg.
A weekend full of theatre, film, readings and installations for everyone.
Frances and Dasniya are coming along, so surely there will be some Shibari around!
The in- and outdoor venue is a beautiful former airfield in Lärz by Neustrelitz.
Hope to see you there!
Dasniya & Frances
When: Wednesday, September 25th
Hours: 7–11 pm
Where: ‘Teatris’ or in our ‘Mini-Dojo’, depending on the size of the group). Both locations are at Uferhallen Kulturwerkstatt – staircase B/C, Uferstr. 8-11, 13357 Berlin
U8 Pankstr/U9 Osloerstr
PLEASE REGISTER BEFOREHAND, THAN WE SEND YOU THE DETAILS!
General description: English + German
Yoga can be done separately from the shibari part. Hours: 7-8.45 pm.
More information here .
When: Tuesday, August 20th
Hours: 7–11 pm
Where: ‘Teatris’ or in our ‘Mini-Dojo’. Both locations are at Uferhallen Kulturwerkstatt – Staircase B/C, Uferstr. 8-11, 13357 Berlin
U8 Pankstr/U9 Osloerstr
PLEASE REGISTER BEFOREHAND, THAN WE SEND YOU THE DETAILS!
General description: English + German
Yoga can be done separately from the shibari part. Hours: 7-8.45 pm. Info here
Here some photos from our July workshop in Vienna:
When: Wednesday July 31st
Hours: 7–11 pm
Where: Uferhallen Kulturwerkstatt – staircase C, Uferstr. 8-11, 13357 Berlin
U8 Pankstr/U9 Osloerstr
PLEASE REGISTER BEFOREHAND!
General description: English + German
Yoga can be done separately from the shibari part. Hours: 7-8.45 pm. Info here.
When you are in the court yard please ring + 49 174 393 70 49, the door is usually locked.
Not workshop business, but faffing around with photoshop or my favourite three tryptichs from this summer:
The workshop combines yoga and the Japanese rope technique ‘Shibari’. First, we do yoga to develop a sense of our own body anatomy; the simultaneous perception of one’s own breathing and bodymap is therefore important. In doing so, we can better empathise with another body while in the play of rope. In some asanas (yoga postures) ropes are integrated, or we tie ourselves from the start and do yoga while in a foot or breast-harness. The touch of the material helps clarify one’s investigation of the posture, and mixes the sensual and manual skills of bodies and ropes.
In the second part we come to mix different rope techniques and stir things up. For Shibari figure technique, we are guided by the precision and acrobatic art of Osada Steve, while Arisue Go’s philosophy is particularly suitable for beginners and can give impetus to explore one’s own ideas,
We ourselves have developed in recent years, a technique that we call messy tying. Traditional elements are retained here and combined with improvisation principles; the apparent order in the inner chaos is a kind of punk bondage! We also work with a feminist attitude towards Shibari: if porn, then please be sure to view a feminist porn! Everyone ties everyone, and male bodies captivated and tied is also sexy! For neat and clean tying and rope work in these workshops, we will also be covering the basic knots, fundamentals for breast-harness, and suspension and safety principles.
In pair or group situations in which we develop a bodily conversation, we see expressions of queer, grotesque or purely abstract play language. This may create relaxing and sometimes uninterpretable compositions of sensory stimuli, or also symbolically charged moments. We work here as well with methods drawn from dance and contact improvisation, and elements from role-playing games.
Since the level of the participants in yoga, games, and rope-work are always different, we work from the first on the level of personal experience. We also always give individual instructions.
Beginning Friday evening, the 19th July and continuing till Sunday evening, the 21st July, Dasniya will be working with the workshop participants on various rope and Shibari themes. These themes will be orientated to the experience and itnerests of the participants.
DATE & TIME:
COST:
This four-hour evening workshop is for those who would like to try out, and for all those who simply would like an evening of Yoga & Shibari as we do in the regular Berlin classes.
Date, Time, & Cost:
For those who would like individual, couple, or small group private sessions, classes, and training, these will be possible to arrange from July 22nd-27th. The cost starts from €80 for 3 hours, after discussion.
Information: workshops@dasniyasommer.de
Shibari Dojo Vienna
Robert-Hamerling-Gasse 25/17
1150 Wien, Österreich
Google Map
judy37@gmx.net – Shibari Dojo Vienna for more information and registration
or
Dasniya: workshops@dasniyasommer.de
Please write to us if you would like to attend but have difficulty with the full price.
Dasniya Sommer Vienna Yoga and Shibari Workshops, July 2013 (DE) .pdf
The photos are from a private coaching session with the aerial artist Emiliano Ron this July. It was still new to try how the different rope practices work together. He would change from highly acrobatic aerial rope tricks to self– suspension figures, to complete passive hanging qualities. It was super pretty and exciting to watch how he bridges his field of expertise and the Shibari knots, which were newer to him. It seems a very logical combination, and a progression in terms of moving, dancing and flying… . Something that I first tried with Emily Aoibheann from the ‘Paperdolls’ last year. In the end we stuck some bamboo in the mess, which gave some support to sit or stand on in the air, but also made the whole thing a very unpredictable kind of moving sculpture. Funny enough knowing how this feels from my performance ‘x=bô’, it is much ‘safer’ to dance in this mess with closed eyes, and to more rely on the tactile senses and their memories about where the sticks are, and how they behave as one moves through them.
When: Wednesday June 19th, 2013
Hours: 7–11 pm
Where: Uferhallen Kulturwerkstatt – staircase B, Uferstr. 8-11, 13357 Berlin
U8 Pankstr/U9 Osloerstr
PLEASE REGISTER BEFOREHAND!
General description: here
Yoga can be done separately from the shibari part. Hours: 7-8.45 pm. Info here.
When you are in the court yard please ring + 49 174 393 70 49, the door is usually locked.
Here a photo from the performance ‘Sachbericht II’ – das Helmi, at the Staatstheater Hannover in June. Solene, Emir, chaos and the production manager suspended by Florian and Dasniya :-)
Am 1. Juni beglückte das Helmi Puppentheater das Opernpublikum mit einem Ballett– Flashmob auf dem Opernplatz.