Touch is, for infants, as important as water and food – this insight from behavioural science caught me at the beginning of my exploration with touch and body contact. How do we experience the world through feeling and sensing? Why is the tactile sense at the same time active and passive? How do bodily contacts develop a beneficial, even healing effect – while wrong forms of touch can be the cause for harm and trauma? How do institutions regulate our bodies and how do we shape our feelings and sensations? What does physical contact mean for individuals, for groups, for society?

I consciously work with these questions by doing research as a cultural theorist, and as a bodyworker. This means: I read and write about body knowledge, sexuality and states of consciousness, and I participate in a variety of workshops in dance, massage and BDSM practices. Since five years I am also a workshop facilitator (www.luhmendarc.com).

We will create a session collectively together. I like working dynamically, moving the body gently by using my own body and the force of gravity as a kinetic instrument. But I also love to immerse into slowness and delicate subtlety. If it feels right, I appreciate using breath and voice to dive even deeper. If you feel like laughing, crying, singing, talking, humming – go for it! Furthermore, I am interested in using rope as a body-therapy tool to enable a sense of security, being held and to intensify experiences.

My practice always leaves me touched by the courage it takes my guests to literally put themselves into my –initially a stranger's – hands. I also greatly respect and appreciate their search for self-care. Doing something good for yourself, and potentially also carefully confronting yourself with the so called inner demons, can be understood as a rebellious act in a world that greatly profits from self-doubt.

I understand myself and my work as accompanying, holding space, simply working with all that you and I bring along, which is first and foremost allowed to just be here. Then I invite you to let go of what needs to go and unfold and expand what wants to flourish. If I would need to express my aspirations in one word, it would be: Empowerment.

It is my special wish to also create an open and inviting space for women and people from the LGBTQI+ community.

My offer

For men and women

• ​Ritual of intimate Touch

• Coaching of Touch

For couples

• Couples massage

• Trio massage

Languages

German, English

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