Max’s Bondage Workshop Series

Mark Yu is a Kinbaku / Nawa Shibari artist/educator, Bamboo artist, and Feng Shui design consultant.

His bondage and art draw from his lifetime study of Oriental medicine and twenty years of clinical experience treating muscle pain and bio-mechanical dysfunction.

Mark has taught bondage, healing arts and energetic play techniques publicly and privately for several years, to include standing-room only workshops at Shibaricon and a number of Max-produced workshops in Seattle, starting in 2005.

All of these workshops are open to the public, 18+ with id.  No RSVP is required.  As thesea are Foundation events, cspc discounts do not apply.

The YU Method: A Rope Bottom’s Survival Guide

Saturday March 3rd, noon - 2:00 pm, at the CSPC, Main Space, $25

This class provides a variety of tools rope bottoms can use to keep problems like dizziness, nausea, over-sweating, pain, numbness, and panic attacks from escalating. These problems can be caused by the top or bottom’s inattention, bad judgment, or poor technique.

This class will be oriented towards rope bottoms with the intention of framing commonly encountered problems in a way that gives the bottom a variety of proactive and reactive ways to keep problems from escalating into more serious issues during a scene.

READ MORE: Max's Workshops with Mark Yu

with Jonn Ireland

When: March 7, 2012
Where: The Annex
Time: 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Cost: $20, This is a FSPC workshop, CSPC discounts do not apply

• CLASS DESCRIPTION: Learn to use two whips, one in each hand. This is
a “Hands on Double Handed Workshop” presented by Jonn Ireland, Whip Master
www.sensualwhipping.com of Seattle.

• Several pairs of matched Snake Whips will be available to borrow or buy during the
Workshop. If Participants have their own pair of matched Whips, they would be well
advised to bring them to this Class. Participants will learn and practice various techniques
including “9 and 3”, Cross Cracking Forehand and Backhand, Florentine and others.

• Students will also learn advanced areas to strike the body, positions to use in a Scene when
there is no rack or a cross available, techniques for limited space (like a bedroom), and
about the use of Whips with Bondage. Whip Techniques can vary from light brushing of the
skin with the whip tips, to using the whip tip for cracks off and then on the skin, each one
producing different effects on the bottom and being used in different places as the Scene
progresses.

Jonn Ireland

March 10th and April 14 at the CSPC

In 2007 Max and Russell were discussing what it takes to produce a good scene. The notes from that discussion grew into the widely acclaimed "Topping to the Next Level" series, presented in 2008 and 2010. Two years later, they're offering version 3.0.  The series consists of three workshops. While the topics interrelate, each workshop can stand alone  don't hesitate to attend one or two, even if you can't make all three. The fee is $40/workshop.

Saturday March 10th 1:00 - 4:00 pm Hot Negotiation

Saturday April 14th 1:00 - 4:00 pm How to Push 

See www.bondagelessons.com for more information

Topics we'll be covering

• Scene structure and dynamics
• Getting what you want - matching techniques to objectives
• Physiology and psychology
• Techniques for negotiation: eliciting engagement, gathering information, and obtaining consent
• Identifying when negotiation should NOT lead to a scene
• Getting people outside their comfort zone
• Helping your bottom receive stimulus and process sensations
• Renegotiating during a scene and recognizing "hard limits" vs. "soft limits"
• Tips, tools and techniques for each part of a scene, from negotiation through aftercare

Workshop Format
Because there's so much information to cover, the workshops will be primarily demo and lecture. There's no need to bring a practice partner, although we think this material is just as valuable to bottoms as it is to tops. Bottoms - don't you want to know what your top is up to?
Handouts will be provided to jog your memory and to supply additional references.

READ MORE: Topping to the Next Level

Jennifer of Libido Events presents four workshops March 17 & 18.

Deep Throating, Gagging & Throat Fucking -- give it and taking it

March 17, 2012, $25 per class, Saturday 12 - 2 in the Main Space, This is a FSPC Workshop so CSPC discounts do not apply

This is not a class on cock sucking, rather a masters class on "swallowing the sword" like a pro.  Learn how to shove your cock down your partners throat for your immediate pleasure and how to maximize or minimize their suffering or joy from this dominant act.

Gagging, tears, jaw stress, teeth in the way, breathing techniques, positions to play in and products to use to compliment our deep throating efforts will be showcased both in demo's and as aides for you to purchase independently.

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Rough Sex

March 17, 2012, $25 per class, Saturday 2:30 - 4:30 in the CSPC Main Space, This is a FSPC Workshop so CSPC discounts do not apply

Rough Sex can be more than your verbal dominance in the bedroom controlling your partner and can include the brute force of your actions making them comply with your demands.

This class delves both into the psychology of making rough sex hot for all involved and also the activities that for many make rougher sex so exciting and degradation and humiliation so titillating as well.

Fisting Asses & Cunts, Slapping & Punching Bodies, Biting & Kicking em', Power Imbalance, Fighting My Way, The Rules and lest we forget, Personal Responsibility.

We will discuss a myriad of ideas and situations for you to glean inspiration from for future play times as well as a system to build into your negotiations to ensure that each person continues to get their wanton needs and desires met on the kinkiest of levels.

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READ MORE: Jennifer's March workshops

When:  Tuesdays from  7:00 - 08:30 PM

• Every Tuesday, 7:00-8:30pm, in the Raw Space.
• Open to the public, 18+
• $10. per person (This is an FSPC-sponsored event. CSPC discounts do not apply.)

Many people hear the word "yoga" and are immediately put-off by a supposed expectation of inhuman flexibility and Olympian-like fitness. It doesn't have to be that way!

Read more: Deviant Yoga

Raising kids without sexual/reproductive shame

Co-produced by The Foundation for Sex Positive Culture & Tantric Birth

FREE and OPEN TO EVERYONE

We meet every 4th Sunday of the month (Omit Christmas)

Where:  Babeland Seattle/ 707 E Pike St Seattle, WA 98122

Imagine a world without sexual shame. Imagine a world accepting of all types of families. Imagine a world where children talk to their parents about the changes in their bodies and their sexual desires instead of looking to media for their sex education. If you are interested in making this world a reality, you won't want to miss: Our Parenting Series. Tantra teaches that life is a projection of our own inner state. How could we possibly facilitate something for others if we ourselves do not possess it? We also believe in the power of peer support.

Sex Positive Parenting Series

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