– PLAY –
This playful, immersive workshop welcomes you to discover, tantalize, and titillate each other’s bodies and senses through a variety of playful techniques, toys, and tools.
Saturday April 26, 11:30 – 16:00
Antwerp, SPNKD Loft
€ 200 / per couple
I have no philosophy.
I have senses…
—Fernando Pessoa
This workshop is about a lot more than learning how to apply tools and techniques. It’s an invitation to conjure the sensualist within and find new ways to seduce, touch, and connect with your partner to take your (for)play and intimacy to new heights.
To be a sensualist means to be mindful, and to be mindful is all about being body-full; to be fully in our bodies, and to experience the richness of every moment, in connection with ourselves and others. Sensualism asks you to leave abstract and intellectual pursuits behind—at least for the time being—and immerse yourself in your senses.
In our fast paced world full of distraction, the most valuable thing we can give each other is our undivided attention and complete presence. In these hours together we will focus fully on our partners, learning to tune in, listen to, read and respond to them, mostly without using words. Together you will explore a variety of sensations, including the fine line and interplay between pleasure and pain.
From prenegotiation and intention setting, through to building tension and anticipation, you will gain an understanding of how to create a thrilling sensory session from start to finish.
Heated massage oils, wax, ice, blindfolds, feathers, clips, pinwheels, are some of the many items on the menu. In addition, we’ll play with concepts such as sensory deprivation vs. overload and ways to create anticipation and build arousal and tension.
We will share simple and efficient ways to use rope to tie your partner and move them into sexy positions for all kinds of play. Being restrained can amplify the impact of sensation play and put your partner in a deeper mind state.
We will demonstrate and go through the various concepts and techniques followed by guided exercises, so you’re prepared to safely continue your explorations at home. In the second half of the workshop, the whole sensory buffet will be available and we invite you to indulge in open play. We’ll be available to guide and offer help and suggestions throughout.
This is a beginner friendly workshop, no skills or experience required.
This workshop is perfect for couples, duos and (play) partners who want to dip their toes into kink, or for those who wish to add a new dimension of sensuality and sensory play to their dynamic. Beyond that, we aim to create and hold an inclusive, safer space where all sexes, genders, orientations, ages, and bodies are welcome.
Bring one or two, 7-8 meter jute or hemp ropes if you have them. Ropes can be borrowed or bought at SPNKD if you don’t. All other toys and tools will be provided.
Dress to undress. Partial nudity and exposure is welcome, but not expected or required, though can be practical in exercises that involve oils, wax, ice, etc, yet we ask that underwear remain on. Please bring a personal towel.
A sensualist and multidisciplinary creatrix, Ena is a conscious kink educator, author, bodyworker and rope (s)witch, and a regular teacher at Daruma and Kor in Berlin. She discovered the kink and BDSM scenes in 2017, and Shibari in 2020, through which she reconnected with her sexuality, causing her to change her career from the commercial to the sensual arts.
With a professional background in art direction and communication design, Ena is a creative storyteller regardless of her medium, weaving narrative into her work with kink and sexuality to create content—writing, experiences, workshops and sessions—that are as immersive as they are educational. Motivated by the transformational potential of authentic self expression and the unlimited power found in connecting to our innate sexual energy, she is known for her deeply intimate and intuitive approach, emphasizing connection, observation and communication in ropes.
Website: www.enadahl.com
Instagram: @enanna_ascends / @ena.dahl
Telegram: t.me/enadahl
A passionate practitioner and (near-obsessive) learner since he discovered Shibari in 2016, Roxu has traveled near and far in pursuit of new knowledge and inspiration. Eventually disheartened by the lack of offers in and around his home city of Murcia, southern Spain, he went onto co-founding his own rope studio, Espacio Takibi, where he organizes jams, workshops, and study groups.
Roxu blends influences from Aibunawa and Semenawa into a personal style that is as seductive as it is precise. Highly attuned and full of curiosity in his approach, the way he ties is a dance between technical control and erotic intensity, designed to provoke deep emotional and physical responses.
Instagram: @roxu.k / @espaciotakibi
Telegram: t.me/roxuropes
Ena and Roxu met at The European Rigger & Model Exchange (Eurix) in Berlin in the spring of 2024 where they instantly connected over a shared passion for long, drawn out teasing in (and out of) ropes. As inseparable as someone can be whilst living 2500 km apart, the pair has since been traveling across Europe to tie, give workshops and perform together. Joining us at SPNKD in April they’ll be flying in straight from attending Eurix again, this time as headlining presenters.