DOM RAZBERRY’s Background
I had read a full bookshelf on BDSM, studying best practices mentally at first in high school. My exploration and skills bloomed when I moved to the Bay Area in 2013. I eagerly jumped into getting hands on : attending rope jams, play parties, workshops, conferences–any place where all the nerdy kinksters got together to share knowledge, soaking it all in. Among the manifold experiences, I gravitated towards and deeply explored impact play, heavy bondage, pet play, body handling, role play, suspension, and an extreme amount of sensation play.
To me, sensation play means opening a container in which I am very focused on tracking what particular stimuli and types of touch feel like in my & my play partner’s bodies. I am extremely somatically sensitive, with a high cultivation of empathetic mirror neurons, which means that I exquisitely experience any sensations I am witnessing (or even aurally being told the tales of). I also have a high degree of “compersion”- receiving delight from your delight. In detail, I experientially project into my own body what the things I’m doing to you feel like in your body (especially if you allow yourself to express!) -and thus we can more deeply meld in the same experience together.
I have gone deep into both experiential and academic research of how to create deep states of somatic surrender in the body. Through studies of contact improvisation (a postmodern dance form), and many years of exploring a multitude of bodywork modalities, I have created my own synthesis of therapeutic touch that I will employ–to your great pleasure–in our sessions.
Outside of my work as a Pro Dom, I have developed a career as a psychedelic crisis and sexual risk reduction trainer, high responsibility safety lead, and facilitator at festivals up and down the West Coast. Through this work, I have been present caretaking people at the highest & lowest extremes of the human psyche (from post-verbal frightened animal / infant all the way to all is one ego death), and have calmly, patiently, & compassionately guided them back to safety & wholeness. The ideal ‘out in the wild’ training for our inner wilderness work exploring together!
photos by Shadows & Curves