The reality is that many of the frameworks people use for consent, the ones meant to keep us ‘safe’ or to mitigate risk in kink/rope sessions, have major gaps or...

In Japanese, “agura” refers to the cross-legged sitting position: on the floor, legs crossed, knees open, and the feet tucked under the thighs. By extension, we also use this term...

This structured conversation explores the intersections of disability, chronic illness, and rope practice. Led by Mouse, a rope educator living with fibromyalgia, this discussion creates space for honest dialogue about...

Leaning is a performative experiment drawing on the ways rope can support in and with movement, discovering balance and the pleasure of intentional exhaustion. In this piece, Caritia will lean...

Who’s been there? You spend twenty minutes tying the cleanest, prettiest gote of your life… and the person in ropes looks at you, shrugs, and casually wiggles themselves out like...

This lecture examines the prevalent rope aesthetics of the internet and asks what happens when we look at them through the lens of gay erotic imagination. It centers on the...

Caritia invites participants to join this 90-minute session to (re)discover the ways rope can support us in regulating our nervous systems, through tension, restriction, and objects

Most students begin their shibari learning with foundational techniques such as single & double column tie, frictions, knots, and basic forms. In this class, Naoko will share how she started...