I was scheduled to teach 3 classes at the Fringe: the first one, my Ecstatic Breath class kicked off at 1pm on Friday to a fairly small audience of about a dozen people but considering most folks didn’t arrive until later that evening I guess it wasn’t too small a crowd. I love that class and I am always blown away by the kind of folks that show up for it. Many times they already have some knowledge of breath and the amazing effects you can achieve with it.
This time around it was wonderful to see “Angel” whom I had met previously at “Thunder in the Mountains” in July as well as a really wonderful couple known as Salty and Lightheart who had admitted to using breath in the past in Tantric work. When it came time to demonstrate the some light percussion play leading up to a “Big Draw” breath exercise I asked Lightheart and her partner if she could assist me and she was wonderful. Granted with the abbreviated 90 min class schedule I didn’t have time for an intense demo but I still think it helped to get the gist of it across.
After my class I went to the first of 2 classes offered by Master K. He is arguably one of the most respected yet reclusive rope Masters in the US. My buddy Michael Sol the educational programming director must have really stepped in it to get “K” to teach 2 classes at this event because I hear he has NEVER done a conference before! It was a fascinating history of Japanese bondage and its evolution from hojo jutsu to kinbaku. I am not usually a big fan of the history of things, preferring to just “be in the moment and the doing of a thing” rather than philosophizing and talking about it or tracing its roots and etymology but “Master K” used a power point slide show that had a fabulous array of block prints, drawings and photographs (although he admitted to not liking the technology thing and prefers to express himself through rope).
After K’s class I managed to latch onto a dinner trip to the “In & Out Burger” place with Adrienne, Jay, Michael Sol & Sophia for some great conversational bonding over an awesome burger! Then back to the hotel for a shower and a change of clothes. Hmm sexy and fetishy but still relatively comfortable. Ahh yes.. then down to the dungeon for some fun.
I watched Michael Sol and Sophia do some tag team suspensions for awhile and then Lightheart and her partner came to me bearing gifts. Two lovely thin paddles that were made by Salty and the offering of trying them out! 😉 (wink) She was absolutely a delight to play with! Such beautuful and sweet energy!
After wards Charly B asked if he could suspend me and I was delighted to say yes because I have not had near enough rope time lately! He rigged me into a fairly comfy suspenion and I got a really nice bit of “float time”.
After that Sphia asked if i would be up for throwing some tails at her and hell I would never say no to throwing my whip at a pretty girl so we ended up pretty much closing the dungeon with her dancing at the end on my 4 foot Wheeler. <big happy grin>
Saturday details coming soon.. I need some sleep I have a session in the am….
