Rope for Pick-Up Play! - with Kaoru Neve & Aventurine

This workshop will be taught by Kaoru Neve & Aventurine.

Tying with someone for the first time, or just want to play with your ability to read the other person? Let’s explore different connective techniques to read the other and improve your consent practices.

About the workshop

Tying with someone for the first time, or want to refine your ability to connect with the other person? This class will give you the space to acquire new skills or expand on the ones you have, with a mix of theory and practice, using playful exercises to explore how you connect in rope — for both riggers and models.

Tying for the first time with someone can be challenging, as a lot of pressure is put on that first tie together. This was true even for the teacher of this class, as she then tied over 100 new people over two years as house rigger, at play parties, and multiple events. This experience gave her a lot of perspective on a wide variety of possible reactions, scenarios, and spaces, and it has been distilled for you in this class.

For people that have tied for longer together, these same techniques and mental models can help to strengthen connection, explore possible edge cases that might not have been considered, and overall sharpen and refine how both rigger and model interact with each other.

This is an interactive and playful class where the mental models and ideas shared are then explored in moments of rope practice where everyone can go deeper and gain a better understanding for themselves. Group sharing will be invited but not required.

In brief, we will touch on these topics:

• Non-verbal communication for riggers: sensing, exploring, reacting

• Non-verbal communication for models: embodying, introspecting, feeling

• Explore different types of consent negotiation

• Reviewing your own rope negotiation techniques

• Spaces for rope: from studios to play parties

• Edge cases and fight, flight, freeze, flow, fawn responses.

Note: while we provide only couple tickets to allow for a smoother class experience, we suggest for people that want to practice to pair up with someone they find ideal for this kind of class and get a ticket together.

Who is this workshop for?

This rope is open to anyone good enough to do a playful rope scene with someone safely.

Schedule for the day

Doors open: 6:30pm
Workshop: 7:00pm-10:00pm
Luncch break and small breaks: TBC on the day
Doors close: 10:30 pm

About the teachers

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, emotions, 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 strict style, it’s a-dogmatic and incorporates any approach 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 (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.

What should I bring and what do I wear?

You can bring your own ropes or tie with the community rope.

Bring clothing you feel comfortable in tying in/with and that allow for unrestricted movement.

We have a communal kitchenette, fridge and microwave. Tea and coffee are free but you should bring your food and snacks (we have plates and cutlery you can use). 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.

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For our Code of Conduct see here.

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