Playing with Power

A Guided Exploration of Your Authentic Dominance & Submission

#powerplay #beginnerfriendly #pleasurepositive #saferspace #queer

Power dynamics fascinate you — but the rigid stereotypes seem scripted, pressured and  don’t quite align with your values, your sensitivity, or your lived experience?

In Playing with Power, we invite you into a safeR, consent-centered space where Dominance and Submission are explored as inner qualities rather than fixed roles or performances. This workshop is not about “learning” power play and fulfilling expectations but about feeling, embodying, and playing with different expressions - on your terms.

Our approach is playful, gentle, and sensual. There is no pressure to perform, impress, or push yourself beyond your limits. Instead, there is spaciousness, curiosity, reflection, and choice. You’ll be guided into an experimental field where you can explore your authentic expressions of Dominance and Submission, noticing how they show up in your body, your imagination, and your interactions with others.

What to Expect – Workshop Flow

The workshop unfolds gradually, allowing time for embodiment, reflection, and integration. We begin by arriving together and establishing a shared container rooted in consent, mindfulness, and mutual respect.

Embodied Exploration of Dominant & Submissive Energy

Through verbally guided prompts and somatic inquiry, you’ll be invited to sense into Dominant & Submissive energy:

• Where do you feel it in your body?

• What qualities emerge (e.g. steadiness, intensity, clarity, playfulness, softness, openness, devotion, resistance)?

• How does this energy want to be seen or perceived?

• What posture, breath, or movement supports it?

• What emotions, needs, or desires surface?

After those embodied exercises there is room for deepening your experience through solo-reflection & exchange in pairs and in the big group.

Interactive Power Play Exploration

This section begins with a short demonstration by us, illustrating different ways power can be played with - subtly, creatively, and consensually. Then there is time for you to play! Everything is rooted in what you’ve discovered about yourself earlier in the workshop. Roles are then consciously released, followed by an optional switch for those who wish to explore both sides.

Aftercare & Integration

We close with spacious, collective aftercare. This time is intentionally open and responsive to individual needs:

• Shared snacks

• One-on-one or group conversations

• Quiet self-reflection

• Cuddling (with consent)

• Being alone

• Check-ins and questions for us as facilitators

A final closing round gently marks the end of the shared journey.

What You’ll Take Home

• A deeper, embodied understanding of your personal expressions of Dominance and Submission

• Tools to explore power play in ways that align with your values

• Increased clarity around boundaries, desires, and needs

• Practical consent and negotiation skills

• Greater confidence in expressing power without performance pressure

• Reflection practices you can use in future encounters

• Inspiration for rituals that support conscious powerplay

  
  

This Workshop Is for You If…

• You’re curious about power dynamics and want to explore them mindfully

• You’re new to D/S or wish to unlearn stereotypes

• You want to connect with Dominance and Submission as inner qualities, not fixed identities

• Consent, awareness, and emotional safety matter deeply to you

• You enjoy playful, embodied learning experiences

• You’re interested in power play beyond scripts, gender norms, or mainstream pornified narratives

No prior experience is required - just curiosity, self-responsibility, and a willingness to listen to yourself.

Details and Registration

📅 Date: 22. März, 16:00-20:30 Uhr

🕠 Time: 16:00-20:30 Uhr (doors open 15:45)

📍 Location: Prana Yoga Studio Wien, Mariahilfer Str. 82, 1070 Wien, Österreich

💸Ticketprice:  Soli-Ticket 50,-, Standardticket 60,-, Support Ticket 70,- and more ;) - you decide how much you can give.

✒️ Registration only via Form: https://forms.gle/N5WgB71kuHR1Yers6 

🦜 Language: English

To bring:

• Favorite snack for shared aftercare

• Two objects that represent polarity for you (e.g., stone and feather, something light and something dark, something soft and something hard, etc.)

• Comfortable, cozy clothing that you feel good in

• Water bottle

• Pen and notepad/notebook

• Curiosity and a desire for self-exploration and for playful encounters with other curious people

Workshopfacilitators

Lea (she/her)

Lea is a sex and relationship counselor, workshop facilitator, sex educator, and grief supporter, with an academic background in cultural and social anthropology. She creates safeR spaces in South Tyrol and Vienna where people can connect more deeply with themselves and their bodies, with a focus on consent, mindfulness, and the destigmatization of sexuality and death. For the past four years, Lea has been facilitating workshops in conscious bondage and power play, centering consent, playfulness, connection, and awareness. Lea invites people to explore pleasure, boundaries, needs, and emotions with curiosity and care, and to celebrate vulnerability as a strength.

Jamie (none/they)

Jamie is a kinky, sex-positive, queer pleasure activist, artist, and designer.

Their work explores gender, queerness, and the performativity of masculinity — breaking down norms with creativity and education.

They’re currently writing a book on kink exploration and offer consulting on BDSM related topics, helping people talk honestly about boundaries and desires.