Private classes
Whether you are a beginner or already have some experience, I can support you in developing your practice as a rigger. Classes can focus on technical elements — such as the construction of a takate gote, futomomo, strappado, specific patterns, suspension lines, hashira or floating bamboo — as well as connection with a partner, consent and safety.
Other practices can also be explored within a shibari session, including wax play, impact play and the use of clamps.
Whatever the subject being studied, safety is an integral part of every class. It may be addressed specifically in relation to the risks associated with a particular technique, or more generally as part of shibari practice.
How private classes work
Private classes are taught in pairs, so you will need to attend with your rope partner.
Before the first class, we discuss your goals in order to determine together the programme and the time required to develop the technical or relational skills you are looking for.
The price depends on the amount of time involved, the complexity of the techniques covered and the risks they entail. It may also be adjusted when I need to attend with a model. A fixed price can be agreed when several hours of tuition are planned.
As a guideline, private classes start at €60 per hour.
Example curriculum
A complete curriculum can, for example, be structured as follows:
- Fundamentals (6 to 10 hours): single column tie, double column tie, frictions, body manipulation, connection, rope handling (tension, types of rope, hooking), consent and safety.
- Takate gote (4 hours): construction of the chest harness and working on connection while tying it.
- Ichinawa, futomomo and improvisation (3 hours): working with a single rope, constructing a futomomo and improvising patterns.
- Strappado and tengu (3 hours): construction and use of these forms of restraint.
- Eroticism and sexuality in rope / aibunawa (4 hours): connection, risks and practices, including the crotch rope.
- Suspension lines (minimum 4 hours): progressive training in suspension techniques according to your goals.
- Hashira and floating bamboo (minimum 4 hours): techniques specific to these two forms of practice.
- Semenawa (6 hours): working with restraint and pain in rope, with particular attention to risk management.
These durations are indicative. They refer to teaching time, not to the time required to fully master a technique. The different parts of the curriculum do not necessarily have to be studied in the order presented here. Some are independent, while others require certain skills to have been acquired beforehand. Depending on your level and experience, it may therefore be possible to begin directly with specific parts of the curriculum.
Learning method
Each class combines explanations, demonstrations and supervised exercises. Repetition is an integral part of the learning process. Depending on your experience and confidence, the same exercise may need to be repeated several times.
An important part of my teaching also consists in identifying and correcting unnecessary movements that affect the fluidity, precision or safety of your practice.
Attending a class or workshop, whether with me or another teacher, is not enough to acquire a technique permanently. Progress requires regular personal practice. When tying different partners, you must also take their experience, abilities and limits into account in order to adapt your practice and, where necessary, decide not to use a particular technique.
As a guideline, after a class you should generally allow for around twenty hours of regular practice, at approximately three to four hours per week, before beginning to feel genuinely comfortable with a new technique.
Shibari is a physical practice. As with a sport or martial art, understanding a movement intellectually is not enough: it must be repeated until it becomes physically integrated. Technical proficiency must always be accompanied by an awareness of the effects of your actions and of the risks they may create for the person being tied.
Group classes and workshops
Group classes and workshops are organised from time to time. Dates, locations and topics are announced in the News section.
If you have a suitable space and would like to organise a group class or a workshop on a particular topic, please contact me.