Bendyogagirl

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is the Director of Community Outreach for NELA, where her tendencies towards connection and networking are put to great use. She has been teaching for over 30 years and has been kinky just as long. Bendy is committed to serving community and to creating safe spaces in which people may learn and grow. Her teaching style is humorous and interactive: just like she. Bendy is a lover of rope, deep impact, sensation, takedowns, and having fun! She’s been going into trance states since kindergarten and finds S/M to be a powerful catalyst for cultivating alternate states of consciousness and creating pathways towards spiritual awakening and self-realization. A full-time teacher, just about any workshop you take from Bendyogagirl at a sex-positive event, you might find yourself taking at work. All of Bendy’s curricula are heavily influenced by the decades she has been practicing Taoism, and yet she will frequently invoke the wisdom of Jung, Buddha, various physicists and even her parents and friends. Bendy can be located online at Bendyogagirl.com, Bendyogagirl.blogspot.com, Twitter.com/bendyogagirl – and you can email her at – you guessed it – bendyogagirl@gmail.com

The Path of Kindness

 Posted by on November 20, 2012
Nov 202012
 
The Path of Kindness

I recently wrote a piece called, “How I Practice Good Poly”, which you can see on my blog and on Fetlife.  In it, I give a broad overview of some of the strategies and techniques I employ in all of my relationships.  One of the ways I practice good relationship is by choosing the Path […]

Respect & Cherish

 Posted by on October 5, 2012
Oct 052012
 
Respect & Cherish

One of the models I tend towards with regards to Power and Authority Exchange is based on Taoism and the interplay between yin and yang.  For a quick primer on how this may play out in the context of authority in D/s relationships, you can read a piece I wrote on Intent v. Rules.  You […]

You make me so mad!

 Posted by on September 9, 2012
Sep 092012
 
You make me so mad!

You know how it goes; someone does (or doesn’t do) something, and you get pissed off.  In the pissed-offness, you say something to the effect of “you made me angry,” and things go from there. Well, my friends, I’m here to suggest something to you – something that might just shift a paradigm you’ve held […]

Aug 172012
 
If you were really submissive, you would…

I’ve noticed over my years in this fun-filled kinky world of ours, is that some of us grew into our kinks, while others have known since childhood.  I fall into the latter category: had my first subspace experience in nursery school, in fact.  It wasn’t a sexual encounter – I was the ‘patient’ in a […]

Taking Up Arms

 Posted by on July 6, 2012
Jul 062012
 
Taking Up Arms

I’ve been a person who goes with her gut for decades now, and my gut is sending very strong signals that my first article for Fearless Press be about taking up arms.  How does this map to a column about health, communication and relationships?  How, indeed. Have you ever been in a moment with someone […]