STUDIO ES
About Me
I’m Sam,
pleased to meet you!
My true life started when I was 27 and felt compelled to leave behind what, seen from the outside, most people would call a middle class dream life: a well-paid academic teaching job, a beautiful suburban house, a new car, an eight-year long conventional marriage. On the inside, that life made me feel truly miserable. That life had been scripted for me by others since I was little, but it was never meant for me.
I spent the 10 years that followed searching for my own truth and purpose in this universe. I have travelled three continents as a backpacker, explored alternative relationship forms, the deepest bowels of human hedonism and the beauty and pain of true deep connections between human beings. All this while engaging on an endless quest of self-development to become the best possible version of myself.
Of all that I emerged with the tools, knowledge and calling to be a guide for other souls who have wandered off, or are yet to find their own path. I offer different flavours of Shibari rope sessions from energetic expansion to deep relaxation, tantra massages, de-armouring, trauma body work, inspirational life coaching and empowering masculinity coaching. In addition I teach Japanese and Western bondage and offer workshops for couples and singles on tantra, non-violent communication, relationship skills and more.
Dr. Jonathan Beger, the founder of ConSensual – Embody your temple describes me as the embodiment of full presence and that is what I offer to my customers: a constant, reassuring, loving and grounded presence – the feeling that somebody is there, who listens, feels and cares, and keeps them safe, no matter what happens.
You can come to me for coaching on the following topics, among others:
- Dealing with conflict situations, at home, in relationships, at work, …
- Learning to recognize and name your own feelings and communicate them better
- Navigating life and difficulties in alternative relationship forms (Polyamory, ENM, swinging, …)
- Learning to know your own boundaries
- Becoming an empowered man and embracing your masculine side
- Becoming a better lover as a man
- Learning how to give and ask for consent in relationships and sexuality
- Learning about kink and Safe Sane and Consensual BSDM
Or simply because you want a safe and caring person to listen confidentially to your small and big worries and you don’t feel helped or understood by healthcare professionals.
Coach
Body worker
Photographer
Trainer
Story of Studio ES
I founded Studio ES (originally “Echos Statiques Photography”) in 2019 as a purely photo studio. After a flying start, Covid forced me to shut down all my activities in 2020, which was also the time when I enrolled with my partner Ann-Sofie on the fundamental tantra massage training. In 2022 I completed the my shibari fundamental training. During my 4 months traineeship, I got inspired to do a photo reportage of each of my training sessions for my sensei. That project marked the rebirth of the studio.
While I originally intended shibari to be just a photo product, soon enough customers started enquiring about the possibilities to come just for the shibari experience without the camera. As of 1 January 2023, the shibari services was launched. Soon enough requests for shibari training followed, and the workhops offering was born as well.
The year 2023 was very transformative for me personally. Not only did I follow many trainings, but also gained new insights about myself, starting to feel more and more clearly that I want to work more one to one with people and that all the knowledge I had gathered in my personal life over the past 10+ years could be extremely valuable to others. As I transformed during the year, so did Studio ES transform into a platform for much more personal services than just photography and shibari.