This Shibari workshop for models and rope bottoms puts the person in the ropes at the centre. You will learn how to participate actively in a tying session, communicate your boundaries clearly and use body awareness to help create a safe, intense encounter in rope.
Taught by Shana and Belledie
To register, simply select your preferred date:
As a model, you contribute just as much to a successful Shibari session as the rigger. Your awareness, responses and decisions shape the experience you create together in rope.
We do not treat the model side as a passive role. You will discover which skills improve the interaction and how you can help make the session a positive and intense experience for everyone involved.
Good communication begins before the first rope is applied and continues throughout the session. In this workshop, you practise noticing physical and emotional signals, giving useful feedback and communicating boundaries early and clearly.
Through practical exercises, you will explore how to use body tension intentionally and how it affects stability, movement and the experience of a tie. You will try out ways in which immediate feedback can support your shared actions.
We also take a nuanced look at pain: What may be expected in a particular context, what is changing and where are your personal limits? The focus is not on enduring pain, but on noticing, understanding and communicating it consciously.
The workshop is suitable for models of all experience levels.
The person tying should be comfortable with:
The workshop is primarily for the person being tied. Riggers will also benefit from better understanding the model's perspective, needs and signals.
This is a partner workshop. Please attend together as model and rigger.
Photography is permitted as long as only you and your partner appear in the image. Shana and Belledie may be photographed. Video recording is not permitted at any time during the workshop.
A workshop place is confirmed once the course fee has been received. If a date is fully booked, places that become available are offered in waiting-list order. If no reply is received within two days of an invitation, the next couple will be contacted.
Cancellations made up to four weeks before the workshop receive a 100% refund; cancellations made up to two weeks before receive a 50% refund. No refund is available from one week before the workshop. If a couple from the waiting list takes the place, the full fee may be refunded once their payment has been received.
Participation is voluntary and at your own risk. Please assess your health realistically, follow the teachers' instructions and ensure that you have adequate accident, health and liability insurance.