So after dragging my ass off to bed really damn late Friday night or early Saturday morning depending on how you look at it (I do know no matter how you clock it is was MUCH later for me since I was still on East coast time) I managed to get into a shower and then grab a few hours sleep before getting up in time to make it to the first class slot on Sat. It was a really tough decision for me. My friend Mark Yu who has a vast wealth of knowledge concerning chinese medicine and acupuncture and pressure points and tons of other things I so want to learn more about was doing a basic class on energy work, and at the same time my new friend Sophia was doing a class on Anatomy as it relates to BDSM and I was quite curious to see what I could pick up from her since I had been adding a short anatomy component to my Caning and Percusion play class (which I was doing in the next class slot following lunch. So I went to Sophia’s class and really enjoyed her presenting style tremendously. She answered quite a few questions and gave a lot of really useful information to the folks that were there. After her class we went to lunch together and ended up in a great little noodle shop chatting and geting to know each other a bit better.
We raced back after lunch and I had two classes in a row to do: My Ecstatic Caning class followed by the hands on “Binding the Jewels” male genital bondage class, which is always a crowd pleaser. 🙂 Both were really well attended and I was really delighted by the feedback I got on all of my classes!
I finished off the day by attending the second of Master K’s two classes on shibari in which he did several demos, a chest tie or two and a seated ebi (the position for those that don’t know the japeanese term for “prawn” involves the model to be seated cross legged with hands tied behind the back and then chest tied bent far forward so that th forhead of this very flexible model could touch the floor). I could definitely see why he has the reputation he does for exquisitly beautiful and meticulous rope work.
After the day’s classes were finished Sophia and I joined Adrienne and Jay for dinner in the hotel and had a really delicious sushi & sashimi platter. (Mmm I adore good sushi!) 🙂 After dinner she and I freshened up and got ready for another evening of dungeon festivities. This time she asked if she could suspend me (woohoo more yummy rope time for Suze, <grin> this is a very good thing)! She is also quite good with rope and she rigged me up in a way that still allowed me a fair bit of dynamic movement and I had a hell of a lot of fun swinging around and “flying through the air” while we played a bit off each othere’s energy!
Afterwards I relaxed for a bit and walked around watching some really sexy rope scenes that Mick & Dee and Charly and his friend Romi were doing. I am a rope slut through and through and love watching others rig almost as much as I love tying folks myself and being tied. Rope is such an amazing medium and there are endless ways to employ it on flesh. 🙂 I truly enjoyed spending so much time with all of my ropey folks, Mick & Dee Luvbight, Sophia Sky, Michael Sol and Charly B, and I look forward to seeing them all again at Shibaricon!!
Later that evening Michael Sol asked me if I wanted to help him rig a scene that involved typing a lovely woman to a christian cross that was suspended horizontally off the ground. I had never attempted a scene like that befpre and so I was intrigued by the logistics and design aspects as well as the mental, spiritual and visual aspects of the scene. It was a really interesting adventure in itself and there are times I really do wish that we were permitted to take photos in the dungeon because I would have liked to photo of that scene to remember it by.
Once again I was one of the last people out of the dungeon and in fact when I left that had already started breaking it down. I was totally wiped though and the jet lag was really taking a toll on me so by the time I got back up to my room I hit a quick shower and crashed.
The next moning was the day of the big street fair and I will stop back soon to tell you more about it!!
