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       People at IKSK

Joris Kern
Workshop Facilitator

Joris Kern is a workshop facilitator and educator in the field of consensual sexuality since 2009 and also a mediator.  Joris loves good kissing and is excited to share and spread this joy.

Lustvoll Neinsagen The Art of Kissing The Evening of Pleasures
 Juliette Dragon
Performer, Singer & Burlesque teacher

Juliette Dragon has been a performer for 30 years. Her background is in dance, comedy, directing, pyrotechnics, feminism, women's art therapy and essentially stripping and burlesque cabaret.

Her performances and stagings question the art of seduction and the representation of the female gender. She has been teaching cabaret disciplines in Paris for 15 years in her School of Filles de Joie, a pioneering structure in France.

She teaches throughout Europe, in the USA, China and Australia. All her workshops are fun and joyful, offering great empowerment for everyone, regardless of gender.

NEO BURLESQUE

Sako/Sarah Koenig

Acupuncturist, Holistic Somatic Practitioner & Workshop facilitator


Sarah Koenig is an acupuncturist, holistic somatic practitioner and massage therapist.

Her workplaces include IKSK (the Berlin institute for sexual culture and body research) at Holzmarkt and OMA OM (ceramics, movement and praxis space) at Rixdorf, Berlin.

As facilitator, Sako creates workshops, performances and events within the spectrum of Movement&Play. Her focus lies on the usage of somatic tools to shape communication and connection.

She is an ex pirate tantric and the founder of Project Playground, a collective dedicated to the art of play.                         

More: www.sakosense.com

Creative Playfight
Felicitas Truchero
LomiLomi practitioner, Holistic fusion & workshop facilitator.
Felicitas has always been interested in holistic and transformative therapies and how to transfer them in a practical way to everyday life. In their workshops they integrate the playfulness of Kink with their background in bodywork, sustainable design and diverse practices of meditation. They enjoy to offer a space for creative and conscious play where they invite an state of presence, freedom, clear communication and empathy.
Felicitas "one on one" sessions cover a wide spectrum.
From the traditional Hawaiian LomiLomi rituals to personalised sensual/sadistic domination sessions with elements of Kink and BDSM.


ROPE MASSAGE IKA ESKA PLAY SPACE Kink & Bodywork IKA ESKA PLAY SPACE Creatures
Felix Ruckert
Dancer & Choreographer

Felix Ruckert is a dancer, choreographer, conceptual artist and curator. He creates events, performs, gives lectures and teaches workshops, often fusing his extensive knowledge from dance with an unique approach to practices of BDSM and conscious sexuality. He is the artistic director of the IKSK, as well as the festivals xplore and EURIX.


Posture & Ease IKA ESKA Play Space Power Exchange My Beautiful Sex Life CONTEMPORARY BONDAGE / all levels The Art Of Submission
 Jessica Aszodi
Artist, Writer & Performer.

Jess’ work crosses between opera, experimental music, improvisation, composition, music theatre, and scholarly research. She holds a Doctorate from the Queensland Conservatorium, and her writing focuses on the materiality and politics of embodiment practices in the creation of new performance. She has written articles for several books and journals and is on the steering committee of the radical politics and culture magazine, “Shred”. Here for the renegade voyage, slippery difficulty is her native water.

She has performed as soloist with ensembles and opera houses as diverse as ICE (NY), the Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras, London Sinfonietta, Wiener Volksoper, Nederlands Reisoper, Ensemble Musikfabrik... and much more.

 

Vocal Bodies

Jana Scherle

Familientherapeutin


Jana ist eine apokryphe Zauberfee mit einem ausgeprägten Hang zum kontroversen Nichtstun.

Ins radikalutopische IKSK-Universum wird sie ihre langjährige Erfahrung als systemische Familientherapeutin, die eigenen Erfahrungen der letzten 25 Jahre mit erfolgreicher Polyamorie und als Chefin einer Patchworkfamilie sowie ihre Begeisterung für gnadenlose Ressourcenorientierung einbringen.


Systemische Aufstellung

Micha Stella

Filmmaker, Workshop Facilitator, Curator & Body worker


Micha is a Berlin-based, French-Italian, queer artist, parent and filmmaker.

In their work, they explore, creative collective processes, gender, sexuality, activism, love and relationships, with an ironic, erotic and feminist point of view. They research different body practices, acting techniques, yoga, dance, nutrition, meditation and hypnosis and facilitate workshops on conscious body-mind, gender fluidity, personal growth, sexual empowerment, consent and conscious kink.
Micha Stella is creative co-director and consultant at IKSK, coordinate the treatment team, take pics and create the graphic design for the IKSK telegram Agenda.


Micha believes that troughs Creative & Collective processes with our conscious body-mind-soul, it is possible to survive patriarchy and to transform violent, traumatic and sex negative upbringing into a joyful path of recovery... By coming together, with all our differences, with Radical Honesty, Radical Listening and Radical Empathy, we can set a path that leads to a world of joy and freedom for all. 


More: www.michastella.de


Creative Mornings Creative Evenings Girls with Cocks Sexual Empowerement The New Salon IKSK playspace QUEER ROMANCE SHIFTING ROLES
Vesna
Sternentänzerin und Emotionsfetischistin Hintergrund
Psychologie, Kulturwissenschaft, Astrologie und anderen Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften, sowie in diversen Körperkünsten, insbesondere Kampfkunst und Tanz.

The Dancing Whip

Rüdiger Wenk aka Phonoschrank

Noise Artist


Sound is always there.


Stillness, if it’s real, is always there.


There’s a difference between listening and hearing.


There’s a difference between attitude and opinion.


http://www.phonoschrank.com/

Susu
Yoga Teacher, Journalist & Videographer

She is trained in Vinyasa, Yin, Fly High and trauma informed Yoga. Coming from a long history of chronic back pain her classes are all about relaxation, stretching, meditating and breathing. Susu loves introspection and silence. She is convinced that the world would be a better place if meditation was more common.

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FlyHigh Yoga

Anna Lysee

Producer, Rope Performer & Teacher, Psychologist (in training)


Anna coordinates the European Rigger and Model Exchange (EURIX), the xplore Berlin festival and is also involved in the organization of IKSK. Parallelly, she studies psychology and aquires different training backgrounds in Integrative Trauma/ Sex / & Play/ Therapy.

In the therapeutic field, she is particularly interested in the development and maintenance of trauma-informed play dynamics. In the scientific field, she focuses her research on neurocognitive, biological and psychological influences on power dynamics and role play.

Rope bondage is Anna's passion and she can look back on many years of diverse experiences both as Rigger and as Model. She loves to teach and perform to show others the possibilities that rope opens up in creative and interpersonal spheres.

Rope Tangle mind FULL
Angela Lamprianidou
Choreographer

Künstlerische Zusammenführung Jaw Release and Life Choreogrpahy
Treatments for grinding and pressing.
Ganzheitliche Kiefergelenksbehandlung


Jaw Release Dance Expression BALLET FOR BLOODY BEGINNERS

 

Thomas

Tantra & Systemic Therapist


In 20 years of working as a tantra and sex coach and in more than 10 years of experience as a systemic constellation facilitator, Thomas has developed an appreciative and loving way of working that includes depth, accuracy and humour.


He does not promise any "spontaneous healing" and conveys the newly gained views step by step. Thus the new images can slowly bring about good changes - solutions become visible.


more: www.gaylovespirit.org

Queer Loving Spirits Men's Massage Exchange
Coach Lea
Sexologist & Alternative Practitioner

Lea ist Sexologin (Sexualtherapeutische Methode Sexocorporel) und Heilpraktikerin. Seit über 15 Jahren leitet sie verschiedene Workshops, wie z.B. "Vaginale Lust", "Selbstfürsorge", "Yoni Mapping" und vermittelt spielerisches BDSM. Als Hochsensible trägt Lea die Aspekte von Sicherheit voran und schafft dadurch einen Raum, in dem Teilnehmer_innen ihre Grenzen geschützt und respektvoll erweitern können. Leas Workshops und Beratungen sind gewürzt mit Humor und spannenden Geschichten aus ihrem großen BDSM-Erfahrungsschatz und bereichern Leben und Sexualität ihrer Workshopteilnehmer_innen.
More: www.coachlea.de

Was ist Conscious Kink? Vaginale Lust Spanking

Sanya Alaya

Body & Mind Therapist


Sanya Alaya is a trauma informed body and mind therapist, specialized in holistic wellbeing and sexuality. She is trained and certified by the Sexological Bodywork Institute, Erotic School of Mysteries and Creative Consciousness Coaching Academy.


She created her unique way of working with clients through her EMPLEASUREMENT™ METHOD, as a way to support healing, sensuality, and connectedness with the body.


More: www.sanyaalaya.com

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 Saara Rei
Workshop Facilitator & Performance Artist

Saara is a workshop facilitator and performance artist with a background in music, dance, education, and public speaking. Having a Ph.D. in mathematics, Saara’s academic experience adds an intellectual flair to complement their performative approach to bodywork. Playfulness and humor make up a big chunk of Saara's personality and approach to life, giving their workshops a very exploitative and light atmosphere, even while approaching some of the heaviest of topics : bodywork, kink and more.

Shame & Humiliation Group Play & Collective Pain & Impact Play Role Play

Stefano Taiuti

Performance Artist, Butoh Dancer & Body Worker


Throughout over 30 yrs Stefano explored the body in motion as an expressive tool, studying with internationally renowned Mime teachers and Butoh masters and thus developing his own methodology.“The spiritual mechanism” is a unique approach to dance and self-discovery that integrates western movement analyses focused on the visible, and Butoh to explore the invisible, the subtle, what is behind the movement and generate it.

As a Massage therapist Stefano fuses his deep knowledge of the body with Lomi Lomi, Trigger points and Swedish massage in a somatic and holistic approach, offering sessions of “Soul wellness massages”.


More: stefanotaiuti.com  


Spiritual Mechanism

Stefanie Rinke
Cultural scientist (PhD), author & workshop faciliator, tantra teacher
 
In her work she is strongly interested in the relation between sexuality and spiritual intellectuality, special focus on the variability of ecstatic experiences. Self awarness and freedom means a lot to her.
She teaches classes on the „Sexual Culture in Berlin“ at Humboldt-University of Berlin. At IKSK she hosts the Philosophical Colloquium.
 
More infos: www.come-as-you-are.de


PHILOSOPHICAL COLLOQUIUM
Tobias Wieland
Philosopher, Research Coordinator & Workshop Facilitator

Tobias Wieland is a philosopher, post-doctoral researcher, and academic coordinator at FU Berlin. His current research focusses on contemporary critical theory, the varieties of feminisms, and (un)doing of gender and sexuality. He works on his second book which is to culminate in a critical theory of erotic expressivity.
Tobias obtained a PhD in philosophy from the Freie Universität Berlin in 2021. In his dissertation „Die Pluralität des Absoluten. Hegels Theorie sozialen Wandels”, he claims that the good, the beauty and the true can only be conceived of in a pluralistic fashion.

In his artistic research he aims at playing with the somatic and performative dimension of intellect and discursivity. Tobias hosts the Philosophical Colloquium at IKSK.

PHILOSOPHICAL COLLOQUIUM

Mareen Scholl

Somatic Coaching, Holistic Bodywork, Sexual Education


As a somatic researcher with a focus on Sexological Bodywork, Pantarei, holistic bodywork, massage and kinky sexwork, Mareen accompanies people in differentiated spaces on different levels of their joyful and meaningful being. Not knowing and uncertainty, knowledgeable intuition, poetry and silence are important companions for her and an integral part of her work. She vehemently resists truths, whereas truthfulness, celebrating simultaneity and diversity is her greatest fetish. She is co-founder of the Institute for Somatic Education, Sexuality and Bodywork ISBBerlin.

More: www.visionary-body.de
        www.ISBBerlin.com

Juliette Caryl Morgan

Somatic sex coach


Juliette Caryl Morgan works professionally as a somatic sex coach. She supports people in the exploration of their sexuality and the expansion of their potential for erotic pleasure.
She is interested in dance, tao yoga, kink and bodywork, as well as tao and tantric visualisation and breathwork techniques for channelling (sexual) energy through the body. Since 2019, Juliette has been assisting the ISBS (Institute for Somatic Education, Bodywork and Sexuality, Berlin) and is a coach for the Sexological Bodywork Training. https://www.juliette-c-morgan.com



Judith Salamander
Sexological Bodywork

Judith is a touch artist, a sexological bodyworker, a somatic coach and mainly a curious human being. Curious about the relationship between pleasure and politics, bodymind and awareness, trauma and the body, stories and our sense of self, embodiment and community building, sex and culture.
She firmly believes that befriending and celebrating your sexuality and your pleasure capacity is an important contribution to the advancement of world peace.

Beata Absalon
Cultural Theorist and Workshop Facilitator

Beata Absalon inquires kinky practices and scenes for their peculiar qualities: In what way are they transformative, silly, creepy, subversive, pretentious, therapeutical, erotic - or not? Her approach of teaching techniques by infusing them with (queer) theory, art, popculture and cultural history is found in her workshops as well as in her academic work, where she writes and talks about other states of being like birth, mourning, hysteria or sleep. As a Fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna Beata is currently working on her PhD about the aesthetics of consent.
Under the label "luhmen d'arc" Beata and Matís d’Arc create playspaces exploring inventive intimacy, bodacious bodywork & experimental encounters.

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IKSK BODY THERAPISTS


SARAH KÖNIG

JENS DUBE

FELICITAS TRUCHERO

INDIRA MARIA TÖREKI

MICHA STELLA

ANGELA LAMPRIANIDOU

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Anna Natt
Dancer, Choreographer & Educator

Anna Natt is a dancer, choreographer and educator. She was trained as a flamenco dancer in Spain before moving to Berlin in 2005.
Her performances and workshops focus on themes such as socialization and gender expression, intimacy and vulnerability, often with a strong collaborative element with musicians and composers of different disciplines.
A connection to trance and dream states is also a central theme in her work.


Sandra X

Rigger, Shiatsu Therapist,

Pro Domme


Sandra is an Italian woman who decided to move to Berlin some years ago to have the possibility to go deeper and research BDSM and its connection with bodywork.
Bondage has been her first love and still is.

She offers professional BDSM sessions in a Domina Studio. She flows between bodywork, live performances, music, and art, drawing and writing.


Natasha NawaTaNeko
Performer, Educator, Somatic Practitioner & Author

Natasha NawaTaNeko is a truth seeker and embodiment enthusiast. In Kinbaku, she is looking for true emotions and authenticity and sees rope bondage as deeply intimate erotic practice that also has a profound transformational potential. Bringing together her experience in Japanese inspired rope bondage and her background in somatics, she developed a structure for rope bottoms to deepen their experience in ropes and make it more internal, conscious and safe. Her recent book “Somatics for Rope Bottoms” consists of 12 somatic inquiries into the life of the body bound by ropes and aimed to remind us about the importance of living in the body as an essential place of change, learning, and transformation.


http://www.ropesomatics.com


Alexander Madl
Researcher & Kinbaku Artist

Alexander has an academic background in natural science and innovation. For over 20 years he has been researching how systems, body and mind react when challenged. What drives him is the curiosity to look behind the façade of the everyday, to bring the hidden to the light, to expand boundaries, to think the impossible, to transform people and systems.

Alexander teaches traditional Japanese Rope Bondage, Kinbaku, in Berlin and across Europe, he performs and is a founder of Berlin Kinbaku Society producing a quarterly print magazine.
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