"Build Your Own Chest Harness" - with Kaoru Neve & Aventurine

This is a partnered workshop.

What does this workshop cover?

Regardless whether your preferred chest harness is a TK or some hands free chest harness variation, these harnesses are often taught as fixed patterns to learn and refine. This is absolutely correct to improve safety and get to know them, but we all reach a point where it makes sense to understand more deeply the logic that these patterns use to reach their goals.

This class will take a scientific approach to these kinds of patterns, by deconstructing harnesses building blocks, explore what they do and why they work, and then learn how to put these back together.

For riggers, we’ll explore the components that make the patterns work, how they work together, and how these components can be used to create different chest harnesses that adjust for different kinds of people and body types.

For models, this class will provide a language to understand and categorize how different patterns affect your body, and how to communicate with the rigger in order to improve and find what works for you. Models are active participants and essential in this kind of exploratory class.

In brief, we will touch on these topics:

• Fundamentals of chest harnesses and how to communicate

• Parallel vs diagonal patterns

• Transfer of tension in different positions

• The fit of different harness for different goals

• Breathing techniques

• Basic Three Wraps chest harness

• TK variations

• Strawberry Harness(optional) Butterfly Harness

Who can come to this class? Are there pre-requisites?

This is a suspension class: you need to know how to suspend safely (harnesses and uplines).
Chest harness or TK knowledge is preferential as you’ll learn how to improve it.

What should I bring and what do I wear?

We have a communal kitchenette, fridge and microwave, so feel free to bring lunch/snacks. Tea and coffee are free. People usually wear comfortable clothing like yoga or dance attire. We advise against loose fitting clothing and also jeans can sometimes feel a bit restrictive to move around in and difficult to tie on. We have communal ropes if you don't have your own.

Who teaches this class?

Kaoru Neve

Kaoru Neve (she/her) has been practicing shibari since 2016 on a journey of self-discovery and connection. What started as a way to open up to her kinky side, later gave her a language to express technique, feelings, creativity, and intimacy. For her, the charm of rope is its potential to open to a multitude of experiences: the intimate moment between two or more people; the aesthetic expression of a photo; the research of elegant techniques; the highlight of the natural beauty of bodies; the meditative moment of subspace; the immersive experience of a performer; the connection of a community; the silly laughter between friends; the exploration of boundaries; the discovery of a new body; the personal journey of self-discovery, and beyond.

Her teaching doesn’t follow a specific way, it’s a-dogmatic and incorporates any style that works, to open up the possibilities that rope allows. She cares about the personal ‘why’, and she uses her skills in education and psychology to support every body type and every brain type. She gives particular care to the learning approach of the student and how she can support the individual style and growth, allowing it to blossom with awareness.

Her style has two sides. On the technical side, she is deeply passionate about understanding the rope dynamics, how they feel, how they work — structure and physics — and how they affect different bodies. On the connective side, the technique disappears to co-create a shared space along the spectrum of sensation / sensual / sexual.

Ultimately, she has found in rope a powerful way to connect to others — individuals and community — and she wants to spread that joy

Aventurine

Aventurine (she/her) is a biologist that enjoys challenging herself on both sides of the rope. As a rigger she’s a scientist in nature, enjoying the technical aspects while pursuing a geometrical and symmetrical aesthetic in her practice. As a model she’s struggling with pain and explores more painless ties with people that make her feel cared for and supported.

Her teaching practice borrows from both sides to provide an education that is clear and simple to understand, helping people to reach their own happy place within rope. She is attentive to the different needs of people in rope, and believes that everyone should be able to be in rope. She understands how not everyone can be extroverted and confident. She strives to create a learning environment that is well suited for shy people and people that are building their own confidence in rope.

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NOTE: we have added observer only tickets for this class - these tickets give individual access for people that are interested in the content of the class but for any reason can’t join in. This ticket allow access to the class, and interactions with the teachers for questions. For safety reasons these tickets will not allow any space or support for tying, and might also be asked to step off the tying area (to the lounge) while others are practicing.”

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