Besides my regular workshop for all levels (which becomes something like tailored teaching in a small group), I am teaching "I did my first rope suspension, and now what.."

I am collecting topics and wishes. What do you think needs covering. Wishes. Please comment or pm.

Based on my first person experiences when learning myself, or teaching people who just did their first suspensions, and based on people's wishes and suggestions.

I remember when starting to learn asking myself a lot "why would I even want to do that" and sometimes ppl not being able to answer. Sometimes I found the solution/s down the road, sometimes the solution was "traditiooooon" (as in fiddlers on the roof).

There will be things like safety, line management, leverage, pain management, the influence of angles, but mostly trying to conveys a general mindset. As "one can do this (ex. a transition) to get that, whith this trade off".

What else?

#shibari #bondage #ropesuspension
#kinbaku
@shibari

dear pride button makers, specially community and diy. does anybody have buttons on ageism?

edit: in case it was not clear, i want to buy some. or consider commission. in this pride season, this is another brick I will throw

#pride #buttons #ageism #queer

next rope harness workshop in Berlin.
7.5 18h at Other Nature, in Berlin.

contact me or other nature for registering or more information. https://other-nature.de

open to all levels, we will concentrate on harnesses and choosing one together that works for everybody, there can be a repetition of basics if necessary.. it is your workshop and your needs.

#bondage #shibari #berlin #queer

April is a short month: all new beginnings, pollen allergies, berlin lifestyle sprouts and workshop dates will have to fit snugly or not at all.

Mon 22.04 -  sExtended WS 19h30-22h00m content prob. A fluffy oriented strapado susp. - Glitter UnDojo

sun 28.4.2024 if enough ppl, another suspension ws and lab with individual solutions.

23.05 - Mini WS Basics 18h-19h30m - Shiatsu School Kreuzberg and

23.05 - Next steps Workshop 20h00-22h00m

no Workshops in June, as i will be in Dresden for Agnus Dei Theater project.

Questions and registration: [email protected]

Check also my workshops at Other Nature Berlin and Laura Merrit's Exklusivitäten Salon.

Intensive workshop weekends coming: 20-21.April in Kassel, 25-26.May in Jena, 24-25 Aug in Bremen, 16-17.November in Mannheim. Let me know if you have friends in the area.

A common ground might be the underground!

Stay safe and inspired!

#bondage #shibari #berlin #berlinbondage #ropesuspension #queerberlin

the sentence/question "this bondage tie works for the majority of body types"

I prefer to reframe / specify if one means the model or the rigger + model.

"works", for clarity, we can replace with: feels stable mechanically, needs or not pain management, reduces nerve or injury risk.

I suggest this for clarity, not for bitching.

I see a lot that sentence, and usually implies the model.

I am a small, feather weight, not physically strong person with back issues. I tie much bigger people. that sentence mostly well intended, usually doesn't include me and my constellation.

in my teaching since 2010 etc I very seldom I saw a tie that works for everybody: one always needs adaptations or completely new structures. the amount of variety - nerves, motoric conditions, weight distribution, pain sensitivity and location, flexibility (a lot, mid, none), skin, preferences, fear, muscle tone, etc..

and in that is where beauty lies.

#shibari #bondage #ropesuspension #ropebondage

put the warning because of the bondage mention/hashtags

remember when you were told in shibari workshops to be careful when folding ropes in half? si that when you prolong it doesn't look like the picture below? like, you will not go to shibari valhala?

two reasons to do it, also with varied lengths of the difference:

1-it will reduce wear at the bight and/or mid of the rope, so it is an ecological and (financial) accessibility argument. not everybody can buy new ropes every 3 months.

2- unperfect ends will explode the brain of every shibari zealot in the room. highly encouraged from my side. no, serious, we need less dogmatic rope practices, more humor.

3-if you still don't like how it looks, there are a lot of amazing things you can do with those extra cms, including bows.

feel free to comment and share. I wanted to do a zine, but no spoons.

#shibari #bondage #ropebondage #japanesebondage #tsuri

in German, a book about therapy and kink.

This little but important book - BDSM und Psychotherapie, eine Handreichung auf dem Weg zum kinkrespektvollen Arbeiten, by Fux Wolf - arrived this week with the post.

I feel honorored and satisfied in having contributed to it, with an interview and reviewing.

I hope this books helps to close many gaps, misunderstandings and exclusion/s, and helps pave ways of hope, joy, recoveries, inclusion and diversity.

the series has a similar book on non binary gender*.

no plans to translate it yet. I raised my hand.

order it from edition_assemblage

#queer #kink #queerkink #psychology #therapy #berlin #germanbook

The dates for the next rope workshops in Bremen, Germany.

(Check upcoming dates for Berlin, Vienna and Leipzig in separate posts or just write me).

Thanks to Jo Pollux for the amazing photo, to Lou Smorals for modelling.

Write me for more detailed information.

There are also vouchers available, both for workshops or private lessons/slots.

#ropeart #queerbremen #queer #shibariBerlin #shibariworkshop #shibari #queershibari #bremen #germany #kinky #bondage #ropebondage

The dates for the next rope workshops in Berlin.

(Check upcoming dates for Bremen, Vienna and Leipzig in separate posts or just write me).

Thanks to Amaury Grisel for the amazing photo.

Write me for more detailed information.

There are also vouchers available, both for workshops or private lessons/slots.

#ropeart #queerberlin #queer #shibariBerlin #shibariworkshop #shibari #queershibari #berlin