Slow Serpentology
05  /  The Person

The person, not the apparatus.

Everything on the rest of this site is evidence and structure. Reasonable, and not the whole of it. Here is the rest.

Portrait slot · 4:5 · min 1200 × 1500
Bynoi Desouza, Manchester.
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Bynoi Desouza

Deep somatic and native classical Tantrik educator, researcher, and practitioner. Internal arts coach and bodyworker. Formerly faculty at the International School of Temple Arts. Over a hundred week-long trainings and intensives since 2015, across Europe, the UK, India, and Colombia, on top of twenty years in social work.

Three worlds work this territory, and each holds one part of the same claim. The scholarship has the channel language and cannot help you at three in the morning. The somatic professions have the capacity language and removed the metaphysics, so they cannot account for what their own clients keep reporting. The workshop circuit has spent forty years selling generation to people whose channels nobody prepared.

I have spent twenty years in all three, which is unusual, and I would rather be the translation between them than pick one. I also spend my working life as a knowledge architect, which is the honest reason this site is built the way it is.

Marked slot · Rule Zero[Bynoi: the paragraph about stepping away in 2022, and what you want said about it here. Your Substack launch post has your own words on the dysfunction and the lack of accountability. I will not paraphrase that into site copy for you. It belongs in your voice or not at all.]
The other practice

Nineteen years of asking a body a question and waiting.

I have danced Argentine tango since March 2007. Not as a hobby sitting beside the work, and not as a metaphor for it. It is where the same material gets tested, in public, several nights a month, with somebody who has not agreed to any of my theories.

A partner dance is an argument about weight, invitation, and response. So is consent. So is every practice on this site.

Tango is the only room I know where an idea about attunement is falsifiable inside two seconds. You either met the person or you did not, and no amount of vocabulary covers the difference. Nineteen years of that is a large part of why the writing here refuses decorative language.

It is also, and this matters more than the epistemology, the answer to the question people ask me most often when they leave a scene: whether there is anything on the other side. There is. It has music in it.

March 2007Dancing tango since
Movement enquiryPart of the practice, not beside it
ManchesterAnd wherever there is a floor
Dance slot · 3:2 · min 1800 × 1200
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Movement over posed, and it does not need to be flattering.
Marked slot · Rule Zero[Bynoi: this section is built from two things you have said: tango since March 2007, and tango-as-epistemology. Everything else about how you position yourself as an artist is yours to write. If there are teachers, collaborators, or a school you want named here, name them yourself: I will not put a living person's name on your site without your say-so.]