Every Thursday

The Rope Jam at Daruma welcomes shibari enthusiasts of all levels and backgrounds (beginners are super welcome!) to practice, play, chat, or just to watch.

This study group is an opportunity to delve into the intricacies of Gestalta’s personal rope style; their techniques, thought processes and aesthetics, and receive feedback and coaching on both the minute details and overarching principles of shibari from a practitioner with more than 16 years of extensive experience on both sides of the rope.

Spend your Sunday afternoon at Daruma for a cozy hangout and rope jam.

This is a space to practice new things you've learnt, lab, exchange & socialise. Share snacks, chat with someone new, or catch up with familiar faces. Fine-tune a harness, finally figure out that Summerville bowline, practice your hashira, or dive into the session you've been putting off.

with Ztella

Tying with people bigger than ourselves – or getting tied by people smaller who might not be able to move us easily – can feel daunting. This workshop gives you practical tools to tie confidently with significant size or strength differences. While designed for smaller riggers and bigger bottoms, these principles of leverage and body mechanics are useful for anyone who wants to tie more sustainably and efficiently, regardless of your size.

with Ztella

Curious about shibari but not quite ready to commit to a full 6-week course? This drop-in class for absolute beginners offers a welcoming introduction to the foundations of shibari—exploring both the technical craft of rope and its potential for connection, movement, and play.

Every Thursday

The Rope Jam at Daruma welcomes shibari enthusiasts of all levels and backgrounds (beginners are super welcome!) to practice, play, chat, or just to watch.

This open practice session is an opportunity for you to refresh your rope skills with guidance and feedback from one of our in-house teachers. You are very welcome to practice ties from our step 1-3 classes, study groups, or from other classes, or things that you are developing yourself.

In this workshop, we focus on fast and effective ways to restrain your partner using minimal rope. The goal is to create ties that can serve both as a foundation for further development within a rope session and, on their own, as the perfect basis for a wide variety of play

Every Thursday

The Rope Jam at Daruma welcomes shibari enthusiasts of all levels and backgrounds (beginners are super welcome!) to practice, play, chat, or just to watch.

This study group is an opportunity to delve into the intricacies of Gestalta’s personal rope style; their techniques, thought processes and aesthetics, and receive feedback and coaching on both the minute details and overarching principles of shibari from a practitioner with more than 16 years of extensive experience on both sides of the rope.

with Gestalta

Curious about shibari but not quite ready to commit to a full 6-week course? This drop-in class for absolute beginners offers a welcoming introduction to the foundations of shibari—exploring both the technical craft of rope and its potential for connection, movement, and play.

Every Thursday

The Rope Jam at Daruma welcomes shibari enthusiasts of all levels and backgrounds (beginners are super welcome!) to practice, play, chat, or just to watch.

This study group is an opportunity to delve into the intricacies of Gestalta’s personal rope style; their techniques, thought processes and aesthetics, and receive feedback and coaching on both the minute details and overarching principles of shibari from a practitioner with more than 16 years of extensive experience on both sides of the rope.

Our 6 week courses for shibari beginners run every Tuesday from our studio in Neukölln, Berlin. Both levels are taught in English by one of our regular in-house teachers.

The goal of these classes is to facilitate regular, structured shibari practice, that aims to go deep rather than broad, helping you to develop a really firm grasp of rope bondage basics, build muscle memory, and get to know other participants.

Towards Suspension (Step 3): Uplines, Partials and Crafting a Rope Session is a 6-week shibari course designed for those who are ready to start learning (partial-)suspensions. This closed-group format fosters a supportive learning environment, allowing you to build connections with peers at a similar skill level.

with MsFuchs

In this class, we will explore how rope bondage can be used as a tool for sexual interaction, focusing more on its practical rather than aesthetic use. We will use rope to create positions that allow for grinding, fingering, oral and penetrative sex; rope as a tool for exposing, leveraging, positioning, and supporting bodies to enhance pleasure for both bottom and top.

Performed by Gestalta and Kat Orcutt, with live music by Alex Hawthorn.

Shibari performance often explores intimate and complex dynamics between two people, shared in front of an audience. In “Mirror Stage”, Gestalta sculpts an ever-shifting relationship to self as something simultaneously familiar and alien: reflected in the rope, the tied body, and the stage itself.

Every Thursday

The Rope Jam at Daruma welcomes shibari enthusiasts of all levels and backgrounds (beginners are super welcome!) to practice, play, chat, or just to watch.

This study group is an opportunity to delve into the intricacies of Gestalta’s personal rope style; their techniques, thought processes and aesthetics, and receive feedback and coaching on both the minute details and overarching principles of shibari from a practitioner with more than 16 years of extensive experience on both sides of the rope.

Spend your Sunday afternoon at Daruma for a cozy hangout and rope jam.

This is a space to practice new things you've learnt, lab, exchange & socialise. Share snacks, chat with someone new, or catch up with familiar faces. Fine-tune a harness, finally figure out that Summerville bowline, practice your hashira, or dive into the session you've been putting off.

with Gestalta

You don’t need complex suspensions or advanced techniques to create powerful, emotionally rich rope scenes. This workshop is all about exploring what’s possible on the ground - with a focus on simplicity, movement, and sensuality.

with Gestalta

Curious about shibari but not quite ready to commit to a full 6-week course? This drop-in class for absolute beginners offers a welcoming introduction to the foundations of shibari—exploring both the technical craft of rope and its potential for connection, movement, and play.

Every Thursday

The Rope Jam at Daruma welcomes shibari enthusiasts of all levels and backgrounds (beginners are super welcome!) to practice, play, chat, or just to watch.

This open practice session is an opportunity for you to refresh your rope skills with guidance and feedback from one of our in-house teachers. You are very welcome to practice ties from our step 1-3 classes, study groups, or from other classes, or things that you are developing yourself.

with Soptik & Sansei

The word hentai can be translated from Japanese as dirty, perverted, or twisted and these are the exact words that can be used to describe the origins of Kinbaku. Nowadays, however, tying is stripped of this perverted or sexual element, and that is certainly a pity. In this workshop we will return to these roots, focusing on revealing, explicit positions, the perverse energy and rawness in our tying, and the actual fetishes that can spice up our session.

Every Thursday

The Rope Jam at Daruma welcomes shibari enthusiasts of all levels and backgrounds (beginners are super welcome!) to practice, play, chat, or just to watch.

This study group is an opportunity to delve into the intricacies of Gestalta’s personal rope style; their techniques, thought processes and aesthetics, and receive feedback and coaching on both the minute details and overarching principles of shibari from a practitioner with more than 16 years of extensive experience on both sides of the rope.