Andy Buru

Andy Buru is an author and event producer who teaches European and Japanese rope work. The Vienna association Querverbindungen has hosted their workshops repeatedly since 2022.

Background

Andy Buru’s website describes them as professionally nomadic and says they spend about six months of each year traveling and teaching. In 2017 they left a career as an organizational coach at a technology company to concentrate on teaching, writing and practice. The site says that in 2004 and 2005 they roamed Tokyo’s Kabukichō district and learned from Yukinaga Max, whom it calls the little Yukimura, and that they later discovered the Berlin communities Schwelle7 and Xplore, where they still teach. A course biography describes Buru’s background in theatre, massage therapy and organizational coaching and presents Buru as an instructor in European and Japanese rope work.

Teaching

Querverbindungen’s archive lists a retreat called “Happily Masochistic” (2022) and workshops titled “On Power” (2023 and again in May 2026), “On Surrender” (2023), “On Shame” (2024), “On Desire” (2025) and “On Obedience” (2026). For the 2024 “On Shame” weekend, held at a Vienna studio, the association described exercises in pairs or trios and asked for basic rope skills. Copenhagen Tantra Festival and House of Play listed a December 2024 weekend called “Power”, describing Buru as a workshop leader and author. Buru’s online course, the Tantric Rope Journey, covers the basic tying techniques taught at tantra-festival workshops. A 2021 podcast interview says Buru sometimes teaches at the Ängsbacka tantra festival.

Projects and publications

The 2021 interview describes Buru as co-producer, with colleagues from theatre and opera, of Salongen (“The Parlour”), a conscious kink event series that combines BDSM and art in theatre settings. Buru’s website lists a 2024 book, Rituals and Paradoxes: The Intimacy of Belonging in Sadomasochism and Esoteric Eroticism, and says a first novel is in development.