Kinbaku is not only knots and techniques but it is connection, sensuality, beauty. Ropes can be used to communicate and create fear, pleasure, suspense and much more. We will learn how to connect with our partner in a non-verbal communication, and will play with distance, speed, sight, touch.

This teppou shibari can be used for floor work or suspension. It is particularly good for partial suspension scenes were a strenuous position adds to the tension.

The Yukimura-Ryu workshop will be an opportunity to get a solid grounding in the skills and concepts of this style. Much less focused on suspension and engineering, Yukimura-Ryu is all about feel, flow, and tying for connection with your partner.

In this workshop you will learn the full body harness including hands, body and hip bondage. It is suitable for any body orientation suspension. A multi pose show could be done with this single harness. It is also good for sex in bondage.

In this workshop Vlada and Falco will teach you to tie on bamboo.

We invite you to tie with the seriousness of a child at play with the ropes and other materials, to get into the space of childlike curiosity and imagination, which is probably the origin of all creativity. Messy bondage brings up emotions quite different from that of normal bondage. It calls and responds to different thoughts in our psyche. It is not an anti-aesthetic, but a different aesthetic to conventional bondage. It combines structure and unpredictability. It is also a chance to learn new unshibari techniques, performance skills, as well as body and spacial awareness.

The Closing Ceremony with be an opportunity to come together and process as a whole group what we've experienced. We will be providing tea and snacks. This will also be opportunity for you to get some nurturing aftercare and storytelling.