Shibari Beginner Workshop: Tying with Emotion

You are invited for another Shibari beginner workshop! 🪢🔥

This is a zero prerequisites workshop giving you the very minimal technical fundamental to tie, a single column tie, and then quickly going into exploration of how to tie another person with emotions.

The particular focus will be on how to enable your tying partner to trust and surrender. How to manage your own attention while tying, pay attention to small, impactful details and reach beautiful trance states with each other. ✨

You'll learn how to play with different dimensions such as speed, intensity and distance to make the tying session a conversation between you and your partner. You'll quickly get to a point where you can find the confidence to explore and improvise by yourself.

This workshop is only floor work based, we won't go into suspension (lifting our partner up into the air with rope). Suspension will mostly be addressed in smaller, private workshops. If you are interested in these feel free to ask about details.

You can come by yourself or with a tying partner. Everyone will have the opportunity to explore tying dynamics with different people and go through a facilitated process to find someone to tie with. You can of course stick with your own partner if desired.

The details regarding the location will be announced to participants. It's a cozy cellar and provides some spaces to explore and play after the workshop.

Ropes will be provided but if you have your own please bring them.

Looking forward to welcome you to get a first real taste of the art of tying with emotion and exploration of trust! 🌱

About the facilitator:
Chris / ShiYugen is a rope artist deeply immersed in the Berlin Shibari scene and known for a unique, very emotion-focused tying style. The art of tying beautifully integrates his deeply rational side as an engineer and his passionate, emotional side of human connection and creative flow. His interpretation of Shibari has elements of dance, massage, meditative trance states and deep human trust. He enjoys focusing on the human elements and very basic principles such as friction without being dogmatic about a specific school or type. He thoroughly enjoys giving workshops to awaken the spark of passion for ropes in others. It fills him with true joy to witness other people getting a glimpse of how ropes can help us connect to others and ourselves.

Further links: https://linktr.ee/shiyugen