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Gestalta's Study Group
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.
The Rope Jam
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.
Rope Hangout & Jam
This summer, spend your Saturday afternoons 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.
Open Practice: All Levels
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.
The Rope Jam
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.
Shibari for Beginners: drop-in class
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.
Rope Speed Dating
Finding friends and community within the rope scene can be challenging—finding new rope partners even more so. Our wish is to break down the barriers of shyness, fear of rejection, and social awkwardness. We want to make it easier for you to meet new people, find someone to tie with and enjoy an exciting evening.
Towards Suspension (Step 3)
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.
Shibari Classes for Beginners (Step 1 & 2)
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.
Gestalta's Study Group
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.
The Rope Jam
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.
Step 2: Weekend Edition
This weekend intensive offers you a chance to continue your shibari learning in an immersive, hands-on format; perfect if you already have the absolute basics and want to expand on what you’ve learned.
Gestalta's Study Group
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.
The Rope Jam
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.
Rope as Ritual
with Anna Noctuelle
In this workshop, we explore how to create a meaningful container for the ritualistic and meditative dimensions of rope for an experience that is deeply felt, sensual, and alive in the body.
Ritual helps us arrive. It calms the nervous system, sharpens presence, and opens the door to intimacy, intensity, and altered states. Through intentional beginnings, conscious transitions, and meaningful endings, scenes become richer, more vivid, and more deeply lived.
We’ll explore:
Rituals before a scene, to open a scene and step out of everyday life
Ways to weave ritual into the scene
Closing rituals that ground, integrate, and let the experience land fully in the body
How ritual enhances trust, surrender, sensuality, and emotional depth
The evening blends demonstration, discussion, and guided exercises in an immersive way.
Participants are warmly invited to actively contribute. If you have personal rituals — or objects, textures, scents, sounds, or symbols you love to use in your scenes — bring them along and let them become part of the shared exploration.
This class is for rope practitioners who want to go into presence, meaning, and sensation.
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You should know how to smoothly tie a single and double column tie and have basic rope handling skills.
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Anna Noctuelle is a highly experienced Shibari practitioner with over twenty years of dedication to the art. Her practice has evolved into a multifaceted international work encompassing teaching, modelling, and performance.
Since 2016, Anna has taught, co-taught, and performed across multiple Shibari lineages and styles. This breadth of experience has given her technical, emotional, and somatic understanding that spans Aibunawa, Semenawa, and contemporary rope practices—allowing her to bring nuanced, cross-traditional insight to her teaching.
Grounded in classical dance, choreography, and authentic movement, Anna brings grace, precision, and deep somatic awareness to her work. Her approach is profoundly influenced by embodiment, somatics, and emotional attunement, treating rope as exploratory space for deepening connection with oneself and others. Informed by studies in Yoga, Tantra, and Movement, her work carries contemplative and ritual quality where movement becomes meaning and connection becomes expression.
As an educator, Anna is known for embodied, mindful teaching that honours both physical and emotional dimensions of tying. Drawing from extensive collaborative work across diverse traditions and disciplines, she offers students an integrated perspective rather than a single dogmatic approach. At the heart of her teaching is creating space where people are free to express what they are afraid to express—welcoming fears and insecurities alongside curiosity, discovery, and growth.
Anna is a linguist and the creator of Shibari Score Notation (the first comprehensive notation system for rope). She co-hosts the podcast Model Behaviour and co-founded Studio Ma, London's tatami room and dedicated Shibari space. She creates environments that are safe, inclusive, playful, and rooted in consent.
Anna's wider offerings extend into Tantra, Reiki, intimacy and couples coaching. Her work is informed by lived experience met with deep empathy and holistic understanding.
Across all modalities, Anna's work is rooted in safety, compassion, and authentic connection, supporting each individual's unique path toward healing, intimacy, and growth.
Gestalta's Study Group
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.
The Rope Jam
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.
Open Practice: All Levels
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.
The Rope Jam
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.
Shibari for Beginners: drop-in class
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.
Rope Hangout & Jam
This summer, spend your Saturday afternoons 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.
Tying Tengu in Flow: Hot Play Without a TK
with Ztella and Moir
The Tengu is stable, versatile, easy on the shoulders, kind to sensitive nerves – and so cute! But the tying often feels a bit awkward... and why do the hands stay free for so long?
Gestalta's Study Group
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.
Gestalta's Study Group
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.
Spiritual Mechanism: Butoh Workshop with Stefano Taiuti
with Stefano Taiuti
“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.
Gestalta's Study Group
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.
Rope Hangout & Jam
This summer, spend your Saturday afternoons 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.
Semenawa (Level 1)
With Kirigami & Tenshiko
Approaching traditional semenawa from a practical and theoretical point of view, understanding the iconic patterns of the style, and the philosophy behind them.
Rope Hangout & Jam
This summer, spend your Saturday afternoons 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.
Rope Hangout & Jam
This summer, spend your Saturday afternoons 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.
Rope Hangout & Jam
This summer, spend your Saturday afternoons 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.
Introduction to Hashira: Techniques for Tying (in)to Upright Objects
with Ztella & Moir
Tying to a hashira can be restricting like almost no other way of tying; when tied effectively, hashiras offer unparalleled opportunities for intimacy, dominance and eroticism.
Threading the Unknown: Rope Meets Fear Play
with Anna Lysee
Together with a trusted partner, you will explore the textures of fear in rope. You will learn not only how to induce fear, but how to recognize its signs, how to hold it, and how to channel it into creative, connective play. Here, fear is neither spectacle nor cruelty, but an opportunity to touch something real that is trembling just beneath the surface.
Beyond the Frame: Exploring 3D Suspensions
with Anna Lysee
This workshop invites you to move beyond static suspensions and discover the possibilities of flow and spatial play around the bamboo. A central focus of the workshop lies in exploring how bodies can be placed and tied in relation to the bamboo in a truly three-dimensional way – not simply parallel along its length, but rotated into striking 90° angles that transform both the visual impact and the physical experience of the suspension.
Build-A-Harness: from Rope Chaos to Functional Form
with Anna Lysee
This hands-on workshop guides you in creating your own chest harness - starting from chaos and evolving into structure. You’ll explore how to work intuitively with tension, wraps, and body mechanics to build stabilizing shapes.
The Rope Jam
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.
Gestalta's Study Group
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.
The Rope Jam
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.
Gestalta's Study Group
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.
Shibari for Beginners - Weekend Intensive (Step 1)
This weekend intensive offers a complete introduction to Japanese-inspired rope bondage in an immersive, hands-on format — perfect for absolute beginners or for returning students wanting to refresh their basics before moving on to more advanced classes.
The Rope Jam
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.
Gestalta's Study Group
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.
Rope Hangout & Jam
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.
Body Handling for Dynamic Floor Play
Body handling as a skill is sometimes overshadowed by rope technique, yet it can be what distinguishes a good session from a great one. The ability to move safely and with confidence is more than just the act of "physically relocating" body parts: It can expand your creative options and allows the expression of intent when tying, as the manner in which a person is moved can evoke a wide range of emotional responses and invite engagement.
Shibari for Beginners: drop-in class
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.
The Rope Jam
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.
Open Practice: All Levels
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.
Shibari Classes for Beginners (Step 1 & 2)
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)
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.
Movement & Dance with Rope
with A-Nicolas (formerly Yoroï Nicolas)
Breathe. Shift your balance. Walk, weave, occupy the space—and disappear. Now, do it all with your partner, a rope, and the magic of movement. In this workshop, we’ll transform into an organic system: unpredictable yet beautifully organised, learning to move freely and naturally within the ropes.
The Rope Jam
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.
Gestalta's Study Group
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.
Butoh Performance: Susan
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.
Spiritual Mechanism: Butoh Workshop with Stefano Taiuti
with Stefano Taiuti
“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.
The Rope Jam
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.
Gestalta's Study Group
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.
Introduction to Hashira: Techniques for Tying (in)to Upright Objects
with Ztella & Moir
Tying to a hashira can be restricting like almost no other way of tying; when tied effectively, hashiras offer unparalleled opportunities for intimacy, dominance and eroticism.
Rope Speed Dating
Finding friends and community within the rope scene can be challenging—finding new rope partners even more so. Our wish is to break down the barriers of shyness, fear of rejection, and social awkwardness. We want to make it easier for you to meet new people, find someone to tie with and enjoy an exciting evening.
The Rope Jam
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.
Gestalta’s Study Group
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.
Rope Hangout & Jam
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.