
Renée de Sans

Renée is a visual artist whose work focuses on the body as a site of narrative, emotion, and presence. She explores identity, gender, and vulnerability, drawing on her experience as a trans femme. Her practice combines aesthetic precision with attunement to sensation and emotional nuance, transforming personal and shared vulnerability into moments of connection and resonance.
In her rope work, she engages both perspectives — being tied and tying others — combining technical skill with the subtle dynamics of trust, touch, and dialogue. She treats ropes as a medium for presence, emotional intensity, and storytelling. Through workshops, performances, and visual projects, she aims to create spaces where bodies of all identities can explore connection, play, and self-expression.
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Queer Fall Rituals
As queer people, we often move through life without having access, time or the headspace for communal rituals that mark change, growth, or seasonal transition. Queer Fall Rituals is an intimate, queers only, space to reclaim that. Over three days, we’ll honor the Autumn Equinox by moving through the sacred themes of abundance, death, and...
This bi-weekly open training 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 tied. Our open rope training for beginners is a continuous offer for anyone looking for a regular practice space to advance their skills. Each time...
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...
Rope Beginnings Weekend Intensive
Have you become interested in trying out Japanese-inspired rope bondage? Then join us for a weekend-long deep dive into this fascinating practice. Together we will explore the vastness of rope bondage. We will talk about its history and development, about the reasons why people like to tie and be tied. We will experience rope on...
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...
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...
Ready to deepen your connection through rope? This immersive workshop focuses on intentional tying: building trust, communicating clearly, and using positions and tempo to create emotional or playful experiences. Includes hands-on practice and guided scenarios. Ideal after completing the fundamentals series. Topic: Modes of a Rope Play Session We’ll look at how intention changes everything:...
Rope for Absolute Beginner
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...
A class on sadistic play in rope that isn’t about traditional suffering/ semenawa - more a celebration of the unhinged, mischievous and experimental. Pretty much a session to explore those ideas you wondered about but maybe felt a bit too unsure to try. The things which you weren’t sure if it would work because they...
The Cocoon
A cocoon isn’t meant to capture you. It’s meant to give you space to evolve. This session looks on that contradiction: how do we tie someone into a neat, intentional package while still leaving them space — physical, emotional, psychological — to breathe, soften, and feel safe? What makes restraint feel containing rather than confining?...
Escapism
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 it was never that serious. Humbling. Kind of funny. And devinately annoying. This workshop leans directly into that irony: shibari is often not inherently inescapable....
Dive into the world of TKs and other arms-behind ties. This class covers wrap placement, cinching, and body safety for a classic gote-style tie, including strappado possibilities. Foundation knowledge for those planning to move into the air. What We Will Do Arms behind the back positions – mainly TK but also strappado possible Arm positioning...












