truefeeling

truefeeling is a collective of two artists, Joanna and Julia, who have worked together since 2019 after meeting in an Atma Touch body and emotional work training. In January 2023 they founded an association for sexual culture and education to support the work. Their “about” page describes their interest in the emancipatory side of touch: closeness, intimacy and consent as a counterweight to both repression and commercialization. A recurring theme is feeling one’s own limits. Julia works as a couple and sexuality counselor, and Joanna combines art with somatic bodywork; she lists courses with teachers including Kristina Marlen and Andy Buru.

Their rope work is framed as body and emotional work with rope, summed up in the motto “bondage through feeling.” The workshops start with arrival time and include guided conversation, touch and consent exercises, short guided sessions, music and plenty of breaks, with regular check-ins about how participants feel. They favor improvisation and concepts over exact knot instructions. Touch happens over clothing, and the group decides by an anonymous blind vote if anyone wants to undress further. The collective says its courses suit complete beginners but are not only for beginners. People can come alone, as a couple or in small groups, and solo participants are paired by lottery if they wish, with a willingness to work with all genders.

The collective has developed seven standalone workshops. The seminar “Rope Somatics” combines four of them: True Bonding, Feel Free, Tech+Style, and Pleasure and Trust, which looks at bondage within BDSM, leading and surrender. The January 2026 edition ran on two Saturdays a week apart, 24 and 31 January, and was booked out at a sliding-scale price of €250–350 per person. An ichinawa workshop in December 2025 cost €65–75. Both took place at the Tanz*Hotel in the 2nd district (Leopoldstadt). As of November 2026 the site listed no later dates.