Trampling

What you need

A flat, comfortable floor surface. Bare feet or socked feet to start.

How to approach it

With a partner

Receiver lies face down on a flat surface. Giver begins with minimal weight — one foot on the floor, pressing the other lightly against the receiver's upper back or thighs. Gradually shift more weight onto the foot, pausing at each increment. Try different areas: the space between the shoulder blades (not on the spine), the outer thighs, the buttocks, the soles of the receiver's feet. Vary between held pressure — staying in one place — and slow deliberate movement. The giver's job is to control weight precisely and read the receiver's response; the receiver's job is to notice what sustained foot pressure produces and how the particular quality of that specific physical control registers. After one round, switch.

Things to explore

As receiver: does foot pressure register differently from hand pressure on the same areas — and if so, what accounts for the difference?
Is the physical sensation or the power dynamic — being literally under someone's foot — doing more of the work?
As giver: does applying weight via feet — the specific physical distance it creates between you — produce a different quality of engagement from hand contact?
Does the position itself (receiver horizontal, giver standing) carry its own charge, separate from the sensation?

Why people love this

Trampling combines physical sensation with a power dynamic that's unusually literal: one person is upright and weight-bearing, one is horizontal and being weighed upon. The physical geometry of the position does work that the dynamic doesn't have to explain. For receivers drawn to submission or to intensity, foot pressure from someone physically above them carries a different register from hand pressure on the same areas — the distance the position creates between the two people is part of what makes it distinct. For givers, the combination of precise weight control and the particular quality of that position produces its own form of engagement that hand-based contact doesn't replicate.