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05may10:30 am12:30 pm10:30 am - 12:30 pm Breathplay in WaterSheila & Frank

Event Details
Water can trigger very primal fears, such as not being able to breathe and loss of control. This workshop invites you to face those fears and will show ways and
Event Details
Water can trigger very primal fears, such as not being able to breathe and loss of control. This workshop invites you to face those fears and will show ways and possibilities to adapt to the new conditions. You’ll learn to quietly embrace and – very likely! – to love the unfamiliar element. Together we’ll explore the exceptional place where fear disappears, replaced by positive new experiences.
We don’t go to extremes: Playing with water is a unique way of showing and exchanging elementary feelings: Trust. Security. Calmness. Opening up.
Topics will include:
– Resistance and physical control in water
– The calmness of not breathing
– Facing your fears: Breath control with (and in) water
– Restriction in water: Trusting our partner
– BDSM play with water: Different options
– Physiological and unfamiliar aspects: What happens with your body under water?
Safety and getting acquainted with water under the special conditions of BDSM will be an important issue. And we’ll be available to answer your questions associated with water- and breathplay.
Practical Info:
Please bring a spare T-Shirt that could get wet.
Optional: Neopren suit or shirt, a pair of swim goggles, perhaps a nose clip (if you are sensitive to getting water into your nose) or a diving mask.
photo credits © MoBoFoTo
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Time
(Friday) 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Location
Indoor Pool
Speakers for this event
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Sheila & Frank
Sheila & Frank
Frank is a kinky self-defense teacher who has been practicing various martial arts since 1984.
With Playfighting and Rough Body Play he developed his own and unique approach to bring together his passion for martial arts and playful fighting.
Sheila, Franks partner in crime, has a diverse bodywork background – she practices Shiatsu, breath work, dance, martial arts and is a contact communication trainer.
She is an adventurer with body and soul, climbs mountains, flies hang-gliders and is trained in technical & cave diving and whitewater rescue techniques.
The two founders of the Bodyplay Academy are influential pioneers in the field of sexual education, rough play and playful fighting and are constantly developing their concepts.
Both have more than two decades of kink experience under their belt. Since 2005 they have presented their entertaining and educational hands-on workshops all over Europe and in Australia.
URL www.bodyplay.net
05may3:30 pm5:30 pm3:30 pm - 5:30 pm Water WrestlingSheila & Frank

Event Details
Water invites us to play and to experiment with our bodies under significantly altered conditions. When we wrestle in water, we realize that the physical conditions we normally rely on
Event Details
Water invites us to play and to experiment with our bodies under significantly altered conditions. When we wrestle in water, we realize that the physical conditions we normally rely on have dramatically changed. The most important aspects are: breathing, weightlessness, the fact that we don’t have to be afraid of hurting ourselves by falling, and the slowing down of our motions as a result of the water’s resistance.
Many tactics that were promising outside the pool don’t work anymore – at least not in exactly the same way. But on the other hand we gain new possibilities. Water wrestling is a consensual confrontation that allows us to feel our power and our partner’s power, and to experience how physical we are in a unique, intense way.
Safety and getting acquainted with water under the special conditions of playful wrestling will be an important issue.
Practical Info:
Optional: Neopren suit or shirt, a pair of swim goggles, perhaps a nose clip (if you are sensitive to getting water into your nose) or a diving mask.
photo credits © MoBoFoTo
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Time
(Friday) 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Location
Indoor Pool
Speakers for this event
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Sheila & Frank
Sheila & Frank
Frank is a kinky self-defense teacher who has been practicing various martial arts since 1984.
With Playfighting and Rough Body Play he developed his own and unique approach to bring together his passion for martial arts and playful fighting.
Sheila, Franks partner in crime, has a diverse bodywork background – she practices Shiatsu, breath work, dance, martial arts and is a contact communication trainer.
She is an adventurer with body and soul, climbs mountains, flies hang-gliders and is trained in technical & cave diving and whitewater rescue techniques.
The two founders of the Bodyplay Academy are influential pioneers in the field of sexual education, rough play and playful fighting and are constantly developing their concepts.
Both have more than two decades of kink experience under their belt. Since 2005 they have presented their entertaining and educational hands-on workshops all over Europe and in Australia.
URL www.bodyplay.net
05may9:30 pm3:00 am9:30 pm - 3:00 am Steamy PoolEVENING EVENT

Event Details
It’s time to change levels! It’s swimming time baby! We follow the calling of the floating water and celebrate the colorful life while the
Event Details
It’s time to change levels!
It’s swimming time baby!
We follow the calling of the floating water and celebrate the colorful life while the hot stones are steaming the room.
Mel Merio will provide the complementary happy sunny beach vibes for Doro’s surprises.
Time
(Friday) 9:30 pm - 3:00 am
Location
Indoor Pool
Speakers for this event
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Michael Heufler
Michael Heufler
Reiki Teacher and TCM practitioner, event organizer, chairman of the Association for Social Openness and Loving Society.
Spending his teenage years with dealing and healing his past. He worked for years in psychological self therapy and systemic family therapy.
In his twenties he opened himself up, studied and practiced alternative medicine such as Reiki, Kinesiology, Acupressure, The Bars and more.
Three years ago he started the project S.O.U.L. – Symbiosis Of United Love which became an association for the promotion of social openness and loving society.
His heart and energy is focused on the growth of this expanding and love caring network.
By leaving principles like respect, consent, kindness and openness the members create and enjoy a safe place for diversity.
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Reinhard Gaida
Reinhard Gaida
Reinhard Gaida is the founder and senior partner of Schwelle Vienna,
Vienna’s first sex-positive space which he established in 2012.Reinhard is a certified coach, counselor and trainer and is responsible for taking all necessary measures and precautions for maintaining a mindful and nurturing environment for all Schwelle venues.
The Schwelle Conference and Schwelle Festival promote and enforce the concept of mutual acceptance and respectful interaction. All participants are given the opportunity to develop in a safe and inclusive space and to encounter consensual new experiences in all kinds of directions.
“My goal is to create safe places and discourses for a strong open-minded community.
I emphasize on providing support to everyone who wants to live ethical non-monogamous relationships with or without a sex-positive lifestyle. Moreover with our events we strongly continue the public discourse on polyamory and sex positivism”.
Education:
Marketing, sales, management and leadership
Hypnosis Trainer – American Board of Hypnotherapy
Master of Science, Coaching
Life & Social Counselor
NLP coach, master & trainer
Holotropic Breathwork Facilitator (i.A.)URL www.schwelle.at