Rope bondage is an exciting and dynamic play style with its own set of risks and challenges.
This workshop presents basic techniques for evaluating the suitability of your bottom for certain bondage positions and play styles. Specific topics include:
These skills are an important part of being an effective, confident and responsible rope top.
Bottoms / practice partners While no "practice partner" is required for this workshop, bottoms are strongly encouraged to attend. You are ultimately responsible for your own safety, and an understanding of your body is one of your most powerful tools.
This workshop assumes no previous bondage experience, and is appropriate for all genders and orientations.
This workshop teaches rope players how to better understand the physical and energetic effects of different rope suspension techniques.
Visual analysis, verbal assessment and palpation techniques will be covered.
Key body areas including nerves, muscles and joints will be analyzed and compared in the context of several actual suspensions. For each suspension, health, bio-mechanic and energetic issues will be discussed.
This class is strongly encouraged for people who do suspensions.
Bottoms / practice partners While no "practice partner" is required for this workshop, bottoms are strongly encouraged to attend. You are ultimately responsible for your own safety, and an understanding of your body is one of your most powerful tools.
This workshop assumes no previous bondage experience, and is appropriate for all genders and orientations.
Mark Yu is a Kinbaku / Nawa Shibari artist/educator, Bamboo artist and Feng Shui design consultant.
His bondage and art draw from his lifetime study of Oriental medicine and twenty years of clinical experience treating muscle pain and bio-mechanical dysfunction.
Mark has taught bondage, healing arts and energetic play techniques publicly and privately for several years, to include standing-room only workshops at Shibaricon and two very popular workshops in Seattle in 2005.
He is a devotee of Taoist Oriental Medicine and Zen and a pioneer and advocate of progressive alternative energetic and bio-mechanically based body disciplines.
Mark is also the Grand Poobah of The Jade Gate Studio and Gallery in Austin, Texas and maintains a blog with insights on Shibari, erotic art and writing, rope and BDSM issues at JadeGate.blogspot.com
Each workshop: $25
Both workshops: $45
CSPC membership is NOT required for these workshops. Please bring ID to verify that you're at least 18 years old.
Pre-registration is NOT required for these workshops.