Ranboo, literally translated means stormy, overwhelming, wild. About 10 years ago, Barkas developed Ranboo as a way of rejecting a static and often seemingly boring practice of rope bondage. A wild dance while tying with each other is the result. Ranboo is characterized by a large amplitude of variation of distance, speed, and intensity, paired...
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Karada House works mostly within the realm of kink, BDSM, gender, and sexuality. This work can only be seen and understood as an intersectional endeavor encompassing many other aspects such as language, wealth, housing, body size, mental health, neurodiversity, ability, education, skin color, relationship constellations, and citizenship. This specific 2-part workshop series is not specifically...
Join us to take your very first steps in learning rope bondage (shibari/kinbaku), based on Japanese-inspired rope bondage. This class is designed for absolute beginners with no prior knowledge whatsoever. You do not need a partner (but you can bring one if you like). You do not need rope as we will provide you with...
Join us to take your very first steps in learning Japanese-inspired rope bondage within a closed group setting. This weekend intensive course is designed for absolute beginners with no prior knowledge whatsoever and gives more structure and time to learn than our drop-in classes. Gestalta will be your guide and teacher and will encourage you...
In this session, Subay will share her experience tying diverse bodies. She will discuss general concepts and demonstrate practical skills, including assessing and designing alternative structures, tension control, rope handling, body movement, suspension set-up, and other tips and tricks. * Content of this session is subject to changes (based on the capabilities of Subay and...
Join us to take your next steps into learning Japanese-inspired rope bondage within a closed group setting. This weekend intensive course is designed for those who have learned some of the basics, and want to take their rope skills forward, in a space that gives more structure and time to learn than our drop-in classes....
How can we approach the big ominous terms in kink and intimacy? In the vast field of kink, sexuality, and intimacy we encounter them on almost every step. Nothing seems to be able to hide from them; if we meet them, they are often the reason for heated debates and absolutistic claims about their meaning....
Join this workshop to learn bondage basics for self-tying. This workshop is specifically aimed to get the most out of solo play with rope. By tying ourselves we can not only understand rope techniques better but also get an embodied understanding of what rope does to our body. We can use self-tying for pleasure, meditation,...
Are you tired of feeling like your body doesn’t fit the narrow imagery of bondage? So are we. This is a rope jam for people who dress in sizes 44 and up. Because we want a space that celebrates the fact that not only can all of us tie and be tied, but we look...
You have solid floor tying and at least beginner suspension skills. You want to understand more about what’s important when building suspendable harnesses. This workshop will give you tools for inventing and building your own suspendable harnesses that fit the person you are tying and your own personal tying style. You will bet both technical...
Join Ev for a work investigating the intersections of trauma and kink. The vast majority of us carry trauma with us. How can we better understand how trauma operates, both in general and in ourselves? We will work to understand the answer to this question so that we can enter into our kinks better aware...
Sadness and grief touch so much of our present-day journey. They are multi-layered and challenging to navigate, but do they have a purpose? How can we personally, collectively, and metaphorically allow ourselves to sit with the complexity of sadness? And cherish, honour, and release our grief? Let’s give ourselves the gift(s) of transformation and inspiration....