Pleasure diary

Ah, dears! I want to share a topic I’m working on right now. I call it: Contact Thai After my trainings in Thai massage and several years of contact improvisation, I feel inspired to combine, mix, fuse these two practices. I have a theory: when we dance CI, we often share responsibility 50/50. When we give or receive a massage using classical techniques, one person often has 100% responsibility, while the other often has 0%. I’d like to experiment and shift this dynamic. As a massage therapist, I am used to touching passive humans on the massage table/mat; and I love when my clients move their bodies during the session – so I can follow their impulses. As a dancer, I am used to interecting with active movers. I also love to rest during the dance and do “nothing”, when another person moves-massages me; as well i enjoy moving another relaxed body. I want to research how we can mix bodywork/massage with dance; find a flow in exchange of leading and following, in active and passive, in giving and receiving – and enjoy all the spaces in between. Yuriy and I had our first Contact Thai laboratory yesterday, and we’re planning to do it again ^^ and explore it with more people Does this sound interesting? Please contact me @Natalia_Kuzmina :) Especially if you practice both CI and Thai massage. Hugs 🤗

Just checkin’ if i still remember how to perform femininity 🌷🫦

Have you seen this powerpoint presentation with my ideas for the design of my room? Yay! 👏 1.5 years later, I can finally show you the video with the results ^^ It’s crazy how much help I received from my friends — thank you sooo much 🩷 I feel so blessed and grateful every morning when I wake up in this room 🫠🫠 (even when it’s a total mess — which is how it looks almost all the time, definitely not like in the video 😄) …all the painting, screwing, hanging, coming with me to IKEA, collecting the bed from another part of the city, calling me when there was a nice closet on the street and helping me bring it upstairs, gifting me furniture and musical instruments, building the secret cave, making the stable beam for hanging things, and endlessly discussing all the room ideas with me 🫶🏻 So now — here we go! Different stations: a pleasure station, arts & crafts, a gift station, a music corner, and many ways to transform the room into a massage space, crafting space, or cuddling space. More shibari with a ring or bamboo, or more aerial yoga and singing… The secret cave transforms into a ball pool during the summer and a soft cuddle space in the winter — because of the radiator inside. Btw, it’s so stable that three people can easily dance on it simultaneously (yes, we tried!). The silk textile divider can split the room into two areas, creating a bit more privacy around the bed — and magically making the room look bigger. Along the way, I dropped the ideas of having a water bed or a bed hanging in the air. OMG, it was such a journey! The concept of my room is SENSUAL PLAYGROUND, and it totally reflects this playful, colorful, fun part of me. Feels so good 😊 It’s the first time I’ve put so much love, care, and thought into the place where I live. I felt the need to create a feeling of home after moving to Germany as a refugee. And it was totally worth it. I’d be curious to do more interior design projects in the future. It was so much fun creating spaces back when