By RedSabbath One of the most typical ties in Japan, where traditional houses are full of beams and vertical posts for the nature itself of the architecture, takes place to a vertical post, and it’s called Hashira Shibari (being tied to the vertical post). I had the luck to experiment this in Studio6 during our lessons with Akira Naka and now that I have a portable Hashira in house, it has become one of my favorite settings. But why this has so much fascination? First of all, there is a main, fundamental difference...

By RedSabbath Quite often models ask me how do I deal with pain. First of all, let me remind that good semenawa favors the experimentation of suffering, not pain. I’m not a masochist. Never been. Outside a session in which I feel submitted, I hardly can manage painful stimuli. So what are the tools, the techniques, I personally use to deal with the painful sensations, with progressive suffering, and to turn them into something I can space for? 1. Breathing I breathe slow and deep, when possible, slow and extended, when my breathing capacity is limited from the tie. Breathing has an immediate...