Suspension:

Q: What does suspension entail?
A: Suspension differs from general bondage and restraint inasmuch as with suspension you are both bound and suspended, i.e. hanging above the ground. Whilst there are times that Mistress would quite enjoy seeing you hanging from the neck until dead, this sort of ‘suspension’ tends to (a) make a dreadful mess as you lose control of your bodily functions in your death throes, and (b) require that Mistress has to dispose of yet another body, and this is both a dreadful bore and far too time consuming for a busy lady like Mistress. Therefore, for suspension sessions, Mistress tends to favour hanging you by your ankles and/or wrists using a pulley and/or rope system, or using My fabulous Master U sling, which was especially designed with all the facets of suspension in mind.

Q: What are the attractions or benefits of suspension?
A: The concept of suspension began as The Sun Dance Ceremony, a ritual which was practiced by several North American Indian Nations and which, in more modern times, can be said to be one of the premises behind the culture known as ‘Modern Primitive/s’. Today, there are an increasing number of people who follow in and partake of this practice, often using traditional methods. An American gentleman who took the name of Fakir Musafer and who set up and runs America’s most renowned piercing training school, is one of the most famous practitioners, being known as the ‘Father’ of this movement. Many of the Sun Dance ceremonies have features in common, including dancing, singing and drumming, the experience of visions, fasting, and, in some cases, self-torture.

The Sun Dance was the most spectacular and important religious ceremony of the Plains Indians of 19th-century North America, ordinarily held by each tribe once a year usually at the time of the Summer Solstice. The Sun Dance last from four to eight days starting at the sunset of the final day of preparation and ending at sunset. It showed continuity between life and death - regeneration. It shows that there is no true end to life, but a cycle of symbolic and true deaths and rebirths. All of nature is intertwined and dependent on one another. This gives an equal ground to everything on the Earth.

The Native American tribes who practiced sun dance were: The Arapaho, Arikara, Asbinboine, Cheyenne, Crow, Gros, Ventre, Hidutsa, Sioux, Plains Cree, Plains Ojibway, Sarasi, Omaha, Ponca, Ute, Shoshone, Kiowa, and Blackfoot tribes. Their rituals varied from tribe to tribe.

For many tribes of Plains Indians whose bison-hunting culture flourished during the 18th and 19th centuries, the Sun Dance was the major communal religious ceremony - the rite celebrates renewal - the spiritual rebirth of participants and their relatives as well as the regeneration of the living Earth with all its components - the ritual, involving sacrifice and supplication to insure harmony between all living beings, continues to be practiced by many contemporary native Americans. The most renowned priest ran the entire ceremony and would instruct the participant in building a preparatory tepee and give direction to the other tribesmen who would gather the items needed for the construction. Men known for their eminence in their tribe were chosen to look for a tree with a fork in the top. This was to be for the first and center pole of the lodge. When a suitable tree was located a special qualified person was called in to cut the tree down. The fallen tree was then treated just like a fallen enemy. Then, depending on the tribe a bundle was placed on the fork. In the Sioux tribe the bundle contained brush, buffalo hide, long straws with tobacco in them and other religious offerings.

The individual/s who was going to partake in the Sun Dance, i.e. the one who would be suspended in this way, would be pierced by means of having an eagle claw or sharp stick pushed through the skin on the chest, and a long leather thong from the tree tied to the claw or stick. After this is done, each of the dancers gets up and continues dancing again. While they are moving around the tree in a wide circle, dancers blow their eagle bone whistles and pull back strong on the thongs. They do this so that after a while they can tear themselves loose from the tree. Some dancers need a long time to do this, others do not.

Whilst the Sun Dance is a more extreme version of the suspension which Mistress offers, the liberation and gnosis which any form of suspension brings is, to varying degrees, the same. The sensations of weightlessness and helplessness are paramount, and as with general bondage and restraint, it is often reported as being akin to a feeling of being embraced or ‘protected’, to being ‘held’ in arms which possess a supernatural strength enough to keep you there, to keep you safely and comfortingly, as though back in the womb. The actual act of being suspended works towards achieving this state, as with each binding and/or attachment or equipment, each of the accumulative single acts of the binding experience, you will experience a falling away sensation which is your journey towards the unique and blissful serenity which this extraordinary discipline and meditation brings.

Q: How can suspension be used during a session?
A: Again, as with general bondage and restraint, in addition to achieving ‘gnosis’, suspension is a beautiful and blatant way for Mistress to keep all your wriggling worms from annoying Me ever further with your, quite frankly simply unacceptable, squirming. Suspension in particular, may sometimes be an essential part of an extreme session, whereby you must be held still and/or in one place for your own safety, or in order to facilitate specific access for Mistress. One example using My Master U sling is in the case of an extreme fisting session, as the ‘swaying’ movement which the sling provides assists with the systematic and methodical process of this form of penetration, one where a more static form of restraint (like being tied to a cross for example) would be too ‘motionless’ for the session to be fulfilled to the kind of high degree that suspension of this kind enables.

Q: How safe is suspension?
A: The suspension techniques Mistress uses are perfectly safe, as I use these techniques and equipment with the utmost care and responsibility. However, certain suspension techniques are not recommended for those with respiratory, heart, arthritic, circulation, or blood pressure conditions, and may not be advised for those ‘of years’. In addition, suspension may have to be avoided in the case of certain neurological and endocrine conditions, epilepsy being one perfect example of such. Therefore, it is especially vital that you not only inform Mistress of any medical or physical conditions you may have, but also any psychiatric or psychological issues, in addition to any medications you are taking, regardless of whether or not you personally feel or think that they are relevant.

Please note: I only ever use suspension techniques if I am 100% happy that you and the session will benefit from such use. If I have even the slightest doubts regarding your suitability to partake in suspension, I reserve the right to cancel and/or stop the session immediately. When suspension is in use during a session, I will be constantly monitoring you and have simple and effective techniques to ensure your safety at all times.