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Intimate Session: Juliette & Olive

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm · LGBTQIA+ & Womên

IN-HOUSE

Quick Info

Where: blue room
Format: discussion & demonstration
Max. participants: as many as fit
Constellation: solo, paired, groups - all constellations welcome
Can I passively watch?: yes
Minimum knowledge: -
What to bring: -
Accessibility notes: We can adapt to accessibility needs.
Add to calendar: Google Calendar / iCal / .ics file

This series allows rope facilitators to show participants how they approach intimate sessions, away from modes of teaching or performing. Come and witness an improvised intimate moment amongst people who do rope (pretty well). We will blur the lines of the private and the public, the curated and the improvised. After the session, there is time for a little chat, Q&A and/or just sharing thoughts, dreams and wishes.

Facilitator

Juliette (she/her)

Juliette discovered shibari in 2016. Her desire to tie emerged quickly as a need to translate the emotions and sensations she experienced in rope. Influenced by aikido and contact improvisation dance, she places the body at the center of her approach, as a medium of transmission. Juliette has trained with many shibari teachers, each contributing to her understanding through different techniques an...

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Olive

Olive discovered shibari as a rope bottom in 2019. They have been practicing yoga for around ten years and teaching it since 2022. Fascinated by the effects of movement on emotions, identity, and self-perception, they naturally bring these two practices together in their personal work. With curiosity, they explores this hybrid space as a way to deepen their connection to their own body, sensory ex...

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