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Bamboo Leverage : A Single Point Approach

10:00 am – 1:00 pm · LGBTQIA+ & Womên

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Quick Info

Where: main room
Format: workshop
Max. participants: 10 pairs
Constellation: paired & groups
Can I passively watch?: yes
Minimum knowledge: Intermediate - Advanced Level This class is intended for participants with an intermediate to advanced level in ropes, who are familiar with suspension. Person tying : comfortable with building harnesses and structures, suspension lines management, communication, safety and adaptation skills while tying. Person tied : Good knowledge of their bodies in rope, nerve and join safety, communication and immediate feedbacks.
What to bring: 6-10 ropes
Accessibility notes: This class can be quite intense for people who don't like or can't have blood pressure as it involves really tight ties and lacings.
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During this class, Juliette and Olive will guide you in exploring how to tie using bamboo on a single point suspension. We will first tie the body to the bamboo on the floor before lifting the whole structure from the bamboo to go to partial or full suspension and play with nice shapes leverage and sensations. Those kinds of ties are a great way to move away from very closed, compact positions often found in ring suspensions, and to discover new perspectives.

Juliette will demonstrate different ways of attaching the bamboo to the body or integrating it into harnesses, as well as how to (partially-)suspend it in more vertical positions. She will also focus on adapting ties to each partner in order to create comfort and support within intensity.

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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