Knees to tits, Aloysius.
Are you feeling relaxed? Nice and warmed up?
What do you say?
Yes, mistress.
I like being spanked and flogged.
I like being tied up, I like the restrictive feeling
and the sort of power exchange.
Whilst you're doing the yoga class I have sexy thoughts.
You get really aroused.
She's wonderful.
Move your hands forward.
That's it, further.
At the moment I'm having radiotherapy for skin cancer.
I fear that I'm not going to last much longer.
With radio therapy or chemotherapy, it's just bad pain.
So the kink yoga is both... helps you cope
and gives you a bit of good pain.
My fetish, service sub maid, likes to cross-dress.
With a little bit of pain.
I'm taking a risk tonight telling my story.
This is the first time I've publicly acknowledged what I do
and my parents and brothers and sisters don't know what's going on.
They'd be probably quite shocked.
There are a lot of people out there with different kinds of fetishes
and kink-related activities,
that are a little bit scared or nervous or ashamed
and for the first time we're gonna be letting you
have a little sneak peek into what we get to do
behind our closed doors with our kinky yoga.
SINGS: Kink yoga!
Exercise with spies.
So I've got a special guest coming along to class today.
He's never done kinky yoga so if you can make him feel welcome...
- OK so don't be shy and nervous. - A little bit.
Take a seat and I'll get Dan to move over here.
Thanks, puppy.
Now let's just get one thing straight.
I have never been into bondage or pain or any of what you just heard.
But I am into yoga.
And I want to know how two of the most unlikely worlds,
Zen meditation and hard-core fetish come together.
Lie down.
Close your eyes and relax
Mistress Anna and her kinksters have agreed to show me on the strict condition that I do the two hour class with themd
I'm just gonna tie a Japanese rope bondage on your legs.
I'm a little claustrophobic.
You can call mercy if it gets too much.
I'm a Sydney-based professional dominatrix.
I'm also a qualified personal trainer and yoga instructor.
Knees over to the left.
Good. Feel the stretch up the sides of your body.
So whether it's sploshing, pony play or puppy play,
shibari rope, they can cross dress, or doing yoga in the nude.
As well as getting fit and healthy.
Woohoo!
Sploshing is food play.
Smearing or throwing food onto the slave or the sub.
I personally only like using sweet, confectionary cakes.
Maybe licking my fingers a little bit.
Please, mistress, more, please.
Lick my hand. Lick my hand.
It turns me on so much...
I just think it's funny.
It is funny, but don't be fooled, there's no more laughs.
We're half-way in and kinky yoga gets more and more hardcore
and I get more and more uncomfortable being here.
You've been a good boy... You stop looking and laughing at him.
Dan loves it. He's been doing it for 2 years.
Do you always have that done?
Only when I'm naughty.
What does that feel like right now?
- Painful. - On a scale of 1 to 10? What's the pain?
My pain threshold's quite high so it's about 2.
Wow.
So by day Dan is a tradie. Late 20s.
Very shy, very helpful.
Dan enjoys being tied by a female mistress
and being in service to me.
The better he is at flexibility and core strength
the more suspension and heavier bondage he can take.
What you're seeing me in right now is Japanese rope bondage, shibari.
- Is it supposed to hurt? - Don't worry, it'll all be OK.
Kink yoga is a place where I can work out in an environment
that's acceptable for me to be who I am, a space that's safe.
And it's a pretty friendly space too. Everyone's really lovely.
But the pain thing... I'm not sold.
Come on, Dan... and Pat.
I can't relax and I'm still unconvinced
that kink can make my yoga more enjoyable.
I come to kinky yoga because it feels good.
I might have this secret all my life basically.
This is Irena's first time coming out publicly.
Everyone wants to be accepted.
We're bringing kink yoga into the public eye
so people will understand us better.
We're not freaks, we just like doing things a little bit different.
And this is a nice way to show that we're all people underneath our kink.
When I'm not cross-dressed as Irena, I'm just an ordinary bloke.
I've got a regular job, I have beers at the pub with my mates.
I don't want to hide it all my life.
We're all different.
Don't knock it till you try it.
For Irena, her weekly kink yoga class over the past 12 months
was an escape.
For John, who's new to the class, it's a lifeline.
I'm afraid of 2 things, I'm afraid that I may die slowly
and very uncomfortably.
So in the meantime I try and get on with it as best I can.
It is quite challenging and some days the last thing I want to do
is get into a series of poses but I do.
The kink yoga doesn't cure your problems
but it does make things easier to deal with.
Kink yoga has helped guide John through his illness
by using the breathing technique as a relaxant.
So breathe in.
Belly button to spine.
I love my boys.
I feel like I'm empowering them and I'm opening doors for them
to take a step on becoming more of who they really are
and not worry about being judged by other people.
I feel empowered coming out
Many of my family or friends who don't know what I've been doing for a number of years
This is me, it's a big part of me.
I can't help it, it's just the way it is.
So...
Please accept it.
That's it.
Well, we're all terminal.
I'm hoping to delay my reaching the terminal for a while.
We're going to be in Shivassana. So your legs are up nice and long.
As kinky yoga comes to a close, I finally relax.
I'm glad it's over and I won't be back.
But just as I breathe out in relief...
Oh my god!