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.