Rope creates sensation and emotion. In this class, you’ll explore how body positions and spatial relationships affect the mood and headspace of your partner. Using simple ties, you’ll experiment with emotional intention in your rope. Rope Fundamentals Start here if you’re new to rope, want a solid foundation of shibari skills, or need to get...
Events
Welcome back to Rope for Nerds — the workshop series for rope brains who want to really understand what’s going on under the hood. This session is all about refinement: the often-overlooked micro-skills and subtle mechanics that elevate your rope from “functional” to “flawlessly intentional.” Whether you're chasing the mythical perfect single-column tie or endlessly...
Care Planning
It’s December, and silly season is in full swing. With the demands, expectations, celebrations, and emotional intensity that can come with this time of year, how can you prepare for what lies ahead while still making space for joy and pleasure? Caritia invites participants to create care plans that support the whole self—not just through...
Tis the Season to be Kinky
It’s the kinkiest time of the year—or at least it could be ;) December, Christmas, and all the expectations that surround them can bring up a surprisingly complicated mix of feelings. What if, instead of simply getting through the season, we played with it? How might our existing kinks, desires, and pleasures help us create...
SMishmas
Do you hate Christmas? Perhaps you just haven’t found the right way to celebrate it. SMishmas invites you to embrace the darker, stranger, more deliciously mischievous side of the festive season. Caritia welcomes participants into a playful exploration of sadism, masochism, sensation, and psychological play, using the imagery and absurdity of Christmas as our creative...
BIPOC Utopias – Celebration
This is a monthly separatist space to discuss and lab about kink, intimacy, and virtual play space for black, brown and Indigenous folks. For quite some time, Caritia has been musing on how to encourage and inspire more BIPOC into the realm of alternative lifestyles and ways of relating. There are many systemic barriers to...
Rope for Absolute Beginners
Welcome to the world of Japanese style rope bondage, friend! It's wild and fun out here and we are thrilled to be your point of entry. This weekly class is designed for anyone who would like to learn about Japanese-inspired rope bondage/shibari/kinbaku whether you see yourself in the role of the person tying or being...
Kink is Political – Restraint
In this session, we’ll read bondage and restraint as sexual practices within the context of BDSM against a broader history of restraint. Turning towards the anti-psychiatric work of Franco Basaglia and the ubiquity of physical restraint as a tool of the medical establishment and carceral state, we’ll start to contend with what it means to...
Open, beautiful, and vulnerable. Tie using your choice of chest harness with single column ties and a futomomo to explore one of the most intense suspension positions - kata-ashi, with one leg up. Practice control and intention — and discover the psychological impact of exposing the body with purpose. You will also learn how to...
Rope Hangout: Decorations
A rope hangout is a welcoming, peer-to-peer space where we research rope together, connect, and explore in a relaxed, pressure-free atmosphere, no matter your experience level. All forms of rope bondage (Japanese inspired shibari/kinbaku, western style bondage, decorative macrame...) are warmly invited. Whether you feel like tying or simply being present, you’re welcome here. Enjoy...
The idea behind this workshop is to welcome everyone with an interest for mayhem, resistance, play fighting, and mischievousness to share and learn! We will be talking about roles, care, consent and tips for a good bratting and brat taming scene! What we will teach/do Definitions, glossary and history Motivations behind this practice Roles and...
Breath Play with Ropes
During a bondage session, the breathing of the tied person is often impacted. Even a simple chest harness can become real torture when breathing in certain positions. Rope is a perfect tool for exploring breath play. A rigger can influence their partner's breathing through different areas: the mouth, throat, ribcage, or abdomen. Before experimenting, we'll...













