
Quick Info
- When:
- 19. July 2026, 1:00 pm – 7:00 pm
- Where:
- KARA
- Format:
- workshop
- Who can join:
- LGBTQIA+ & Friends
- Constellation:
- solo, paired, groups - all constellations welcome (everyone needs a ticket)
- Language:
- English
- What to bring:
- 5-8 ropes (we have some to borrow if you don't have enough)
- Questions:
- Message us via info@karada-house.de
- Add to calendar:
- Google Calendar / iCal / .ics file
Tickets
If you cannot afford this event, please check the ticket option "solidarity" for reduced ticket prices. If that is still too much or they are out of stock, feel free to send us a message via info@karada-house.de.
This workshop explores how to use rope to create clear, intentional restrictions in the body — whether through tying limbs together, shaping posture, or connecting a body to itself, another person, or an object. We’ll work with positions such as hogties, folded and asymmetrical shapes, and tying to furniture, using accessible tools like single column ties, basic harnesses, and frictions.
To continue growing your shibari harness toolbox, you will learn Ceci’s arms front chest harness, a structured futomomo, and a crab tie. You can also continue practicing harnesses from the previous day’s workshop. This workshop gives you a first taste of techniques you will need for moving into shibari suspensions.
We’ll also cover practical considerations like transitions, adaptability for different bodies and flexibility levels, and maintaining awareness of safety while working with restriction.
This is a hands-on, exploratory space to better understand how rope shapes bodies, and how to make intentional choices about the kind of experience you’re creating.
What to expect
- Practice with tying body parts together and creating restrictive positions
- Exploration of classic positions (e.g., hogtie, M-shape, kata-ashi) and their variations
- Working with harnesses, single column ties, and basic frictions to build restriction
- Attention to how restriction changes sensation, movement, and experience
- Guidance on adapting positions for different bodies, flexibility, and contexts
Who should join
- Riggers and rope bottoms with solid fundamentals who want to explore restriction more intentionally
- People interested in how to use harnesses in play
- Those looking to expand their repertoire of positions for floorwork
- Anyone wanting to better understand how to create intensity safely and sustainably
- Practitioners curious about combining structure, posture, and environment (e.g., furniture)
Facilitator
More Information
You can absolutely join solo, but we can’t guarantee that you will find a partner to tie with at the event. A lot of the workshop contents are possible to self-tie (excluding the arms front harness). Watching the parts you can’t actively tie for also offers great learning opportunities as you have the possibility of witnessing all the feedback Ceci gives other students.
LGBTQIA+ describes the full spectrum of non-mainstream sexual orientation and/or gender identity, meaning: lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, non-binary, genderqueer/fluid, queer, intersex, asexual, aromantic, agender.
Friends describe people of any and all kinds of gender and sexual identities who are aware and respectful of the necessity, needs, and boundaries of a queer space and its marginalized community.
When you consider yourself a friend you show acknowledgement to and are respectful of everyone's self-expression and do not assume, presume or project non-consensual ideas onto others. You actively request and use people's chosen pronouns. You remain mindful of the fact that Karada House is first and foremost a space for queer people that you are also invited to attend. You have a genuine concern for the well-being of LGBTQIA+ people and remain in awareness of heterosexual and gender-straight privileges.
Friends don't have to be perfect. None of us are. We request that we all proactively work and strive to be good friends and allies to marginalized people.
- Ground floor location with 3 steps at the entrance – a wheelchair ramp is always available
- A bell on ground level for people who need support with the stairs is available
- Accessible bathroom and no thresholds throughout the space
- Parking directly in front (please message if you want to use the spot)
- Chair seating, cushions, mats, couches available
- Fidget toys, visual clocks, quiet areas to retreat to available
- Psychological first aid tools available
- Workshop is held in spoken English, German available upon request
- Karada House is a sober space
- Please do not wear perfume
- Need more support? Message us at info@karada-house.de
- Please do not attend if you are feeling sick.
- The indoor areas will be constantly aired and two HEPA-14 filters will be running the entire time. We also have outdoor areas that are open during warmer days when it is not raining.
- We provide hand and surface disinfectant, please make ample use of it.
- All appliances, surfaces, blankets, etc. will be disinfected on a regular basis and before and after every class. Blankets, towels, etc. will be washed after every use.
- For workshops that require a partner, we encourage you to bring a person from your household, safe(r) Covid-19-bubble, etc. Working with someone you do not know is possible but at your own risk.
- We reserve the right to carry out mandatory Covid tests for large events. In case of testing positive you cannot enter the event and we need to ask you to leave for the sake of safety for the other participants.

