with Ztella

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.