Finding Your Edge With Somatic Rope

Building body awareness prepares you for latent factors in rope play. How do these factors affect both rigger and model as we dance on the edge?

This rope workshop ask you to lean into sensation and connection. It also seeks to unpack elements of play that can arise unknowingly in rope. How do we get better prepared for this? Here ethical empowerment through rope, regardless of our role, will be experienced at the edge.

What you can expect:

• Technical knowledge around somatic rope, including our autonomous nervous system, held energy in fascia and working with biofields.

• Opening the space for floor rope with predicament bondage, plus enhancing your current skill level with connective tying principles.

• Tools to negotiate the edges as a non-verbal response in context to our intentions, body image & identity.

• Exposure to the felt sense of finding an edge and creating a language around that to build a safer container in your play.

What you need:

• Your own rope kits (3-5 ropes and safety shears).

• A minimum knowledge of the first rope of a TK (single column, tensions, frictions).

• Completed a pre-negotiation between model and rigger within 24hrs of workshop or, best practice on that day before arrival.

• BYO water, snacks & comfortable clothing to tie and be tied in.

Please note: Your participation in this workshop is an ongoing and active consent to explore your edges in rope. The container being created here is to fabricate a controlled environment through edge play and work as a collective body through the experience. Numbers will be limited as a result.

About the facilitator: Jess (she/they) or @starlove.shibari is the owner of Peer Rope Melbourne and teaches at the school weekly. She has been practicing shibari as a switch since 2015, facilitating private session since 2022 between Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth. Their approach to teaching is an eclectic mix and knowledge of various Japanese rope bondage styles. This informs their own unique style of facilitating to deliver their insights into the deeper meanings behind the practices of Shibari/Kinbaku.

Teaching the 'why' we do what we do to consider safety and technical engineering. She believes in a 360 degree learning experience, workshopping ideas, focussing on model led teaching, and embodies the somatic aspects to rope bondage.

Jess is also a registered psychotherapist with a post grad degree in Somatic Dance Movement Therapy. She uses the modality of somatic movement to help clients process psychodynamic challenges. Their work is heavily informed by Laban, developmental movement, polyvagal theory, Hanna Somatics plus other integrative creative therapies. She specialises in the demographic of mental health, chronic pain, physical disability and neurodiversity. They are an active member of the LGBTQIA+ communities and practice relationship anarchy (RA).

FAQs

• This workshop is for one tying pair

• The workshop is based on floor work only

• Doors open at 630pm - we will start at 6.45pm

• No shoes on the mats please

• Clothing options: lounge wear, yoga or dance wear

• Full address details will be provided on purchase of ticket.

• Cancellation Policy is refund available 14days prior to the event (minus 20% admin fee)

Feel free to ask any more questions! info@peerropemelbourne.au