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Jytte is a creative, organised and rather particular submission-positive feminist with a background in massage and perception research who has a long time ago decided to never let go of child-like wonder at what is big and beautiful. She loves dead-serious play, true smiles, abandon, physicality, and having her mind fucked with. She also loves kneeling.
The knee is made flexible by which the offence of the Lord is mitigated, wrath appeased, grace called forth.
(St. Ambrose of Mailand: Hexaemeron, VI, ix.)
Like no other gesture going down onto one's knees before another signifies hierarchy and power exchange. Motivations for kneeling can be varied, though: There is submission, yes, as the kneeling position clearly renders a person defenseless and unable to flee, but also a show of respect towards a superior, the dedication of one's strength to the purpose of another (think of a knight laying down his sword before his liege) or religious abandon or ritual, where it is the position assumed in worship to receive a sacrament or blessing. One can kneel out of weakness, or out of a position of strength.
In this workshop I would like to explore these various motivations, and also have a look at how the other person's position in space influences the meaning of the gesture: How does it make one feel if the other is standing or sitting or kneeling him/herself? What is the difference between kneeling alone or in a group, and how does it change the experience whether one is made to kneel as opposed to sinking to one's knees out of one's own deep desire?