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.

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 night is for everyone craving an intense and sensual Halloween experience, where boundaries, imagination, and the playful exploration of fear intertwine. Our Halloween party starts with an immersive, interactive performance by Anna Lysee. After the performance, the space transforms into a playful party area. Dare to engage, to explore the unexpected, and to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of this special evening!

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.

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.

with Anna Lysee

This 4-hour class opens a door to the world of tying: first knots, first structures, first moments in which rope becomes a connection. In this beginner's class, we combine technique with what happens between the persons involved – physically, emotionally, socially – and give space for creative experimentation. ESSENTIALS provides you with solid tools, an understanding of safety and dynamics as well as the spark that turns technique into play.

Finding new rope partners, friends and community.

You are welcome to come to the unpartnered rope jam, even if you are not attending the rope speed dating.

with Anna Lysee

A laboratory for simple yet powerful single-rope techniques and patterns – perfect as standalone moments or as the finishing touch to your scenes. Together we will explore not only versatile ties and playful patterns that are easy to learn, adaptable and full of character, but also discover how one rope can create rhythm, flow and dynamic connection throughout a session.

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.

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.

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.

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.

with Stefano Taiuti

Throughout over 30 years Stefano explored the body in motion as an expressive tool, studying with internationally renowned Mime teachers and Butoh masters and thus developing his own methodology. “The Spiritual Mechanism” is a unique approach to dance and self discovery that integrates western movement analyses focusing on the visible, and Butoh to explore the invisible, the subtle, what is behind the movement and generates it.

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.

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.

Refine your Hashira skills in our open training sessions guided by Ztella.

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.

Predicaments are all about playing with the balance between endurance, threat and impossible decisions. This workshop explores how to create scenes that engage the body and the mind — where every movement comes with a consequence, and the person being tied must constantly choose between effort and surrender.

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.

with Saara Rei

Explore what it means to humiliate and be humiliated, to shame and be shamed, reflecting on how these experiences function in our personal and cultural lives, and how they can become tools for play.

with Kirigami and Tenshiko

The hashira – the iconic wooden post – is one of the most recognizable props in Japanese bondage imagery. In suspension, it is often associated with impressive and dramatic shapes, as seen in old Japanese pictures and movies. But Hashira is not only about spectacle: on the floor, it offers an intimate and versatile space for exploring rope in a different register.

Nocturnes: Intimate Shibari Salons at Daruma

with Kirigami & Tenshiko

For this performance, we’ve invited Kirigami & Tenshiko to pull you into a world of things you’re not supposed to see — hentai—kinky, dirty, or perverted—shibari stripped back to its core. A contemporary echo of old-school shibari shows — provocative, erotic, and unapologetically perverse — the kind of intensity that lingers long after the ropes are undone.

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 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.

Performance with A-Nicolas (formerly Yoroï Nicolas)