Hi everyone! I’m really excited to announce that our first handful of harness guides are live! You can now find illustrated guides for the Butterfly Harness, Fisherman Harness, and Hip Cuffs (part of the Less is More course) linked in the descriptions. And you can check out the full library here: https://shibaristudy.com/pages/harness-guide-library
Special thanks to our illustrator Mooooo for such beautiful illustrations. We care a lot about using human talent to illustrate these guides, so we’ll be releasing about one a week for the time being. Keep checking back!
Getting to Know You: Top, Bottom, Switch or Self-Tie? How do you identify in rope, are you predominantly a top, a bottom or do you happily switch. Or are you one of those amazingly talent people who does all at once by self tying?
Community Agreements:1. Celebrate and embrace the diversity of thought, practice, and opinion. There are many ways to do and practice rope. The Community Discord is a way for us all to engage and interact across differences. While rope connects us all, we are still unique individually.2. Navigate disagreement through discourse. Treat others with respect, even if you disagree. Discord is primarily a text interaction platform, please be mindful that miscommunications can happen.3. Respect each community members’ identities and honor their boundaries/requests about how they wish to be treated. Treat others how they wish to be treated - this includes using their correct pronouns, name, and any other identifying factors that feel important to them. If you make a mistake, take accountability for your actions and try to repair any harm caused. 4. Help create safer spaces for learning and growth through mutual accountability and co-created community accountability. Accountability is mutually co-created. This space is meant to build community and hold each other in that process - sometimes that means making mistakes. Our commitment to accountability begins with a willingness to own and accept that we are all capable of causing harm. Let’s intentionally build a space where making mistakes and making things right is a part of how we operate.5. Bring a growth mindset and be mindful of your learning zones. Check-in with yourself and where your learning zones are. Be mindful when you are in the panic zone and ask for help if you need it. 6. Actively receive in conversation before responding. Receive information down to the last word before taking the time to communicate your thoughts. 7. Make space, take space. Reflect on when you’re able to take up more space in the discord/threads/conversations and reflect on if you need to be creating more space for others. Reflect on if you aren’t participating as much or taking up space, why that might be. Try to find the courage to share your thoughts and take up space, you belong here! 8. Be mindful of the impact of your actions, not just the intentions behind them. Just because we didn’t intend to hurt or harm someone doesn’t change that they are hurt/harmed. 9. NSFW Content. We unfortunately cannot have explicit NSFW content on the community at this time. As an education platform in Shibari we do recognise some content is concerning the practice of shibari but we cannot host explicit material. We do not want to moderate heavily in this space so please be mindful when sharing photographs. 10. This is all challenge by choice. It’s a choice of action to be here and to be participating in this space. Please participate at whatever capacity feels accessible and most authentic for you
February 27
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February 26
Intense Floorwork: Join Switchmeister and Lil today at 4PM Eastern (21:00 UTC) for their latest Shibari Study stream. This workshop explores how to make things intense in a floor-based rope scene, how to build intensity, and how intensity can be paced as you play.
Watch here: https://shibaristudy.com/programs/intense-floorwork-stream
February 26
New blog post! This feels like a really important one – it's for every rope bottom who's scrolled through photos of other folks in rope and thought "Maybe I'm not strong/flexible/resilient/whatever enough". In the article, our new author Teddy reveals what you don't see in the carefully curated shots; the limitations, injuries, boundaries and realities of every body in ropes. Essential reading to know that you are enough, exactly as you are. 💛
https://shibaristudy.com/blog/post/what-you-dont-see-getting-real-about-bodies-in-rope
in 💬 general-chat
February 25
53 Day Streak!! I’d love to hear where others are!
Starting the year like this is very inspiring! Thank you!
February 25
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Challenge
February 25 — March 11
Everything you need to learn in one place to complete Gorgone’s Xana Harness Partial Suspension! From learning the harnesses, to setting up your point and practicing your lock offs, this challenge is here to help you take a first step from floor to air. We recommend drilling your uplines till they’re smooth, and fully memorizing both harnesses before attempting the final partial suspension.
(Note: Jump to 3:50 in the Xana Harness Suspension Lines video to see the specific technique you’ll use for this partial)
in 💬 general-chat
February 24
This weekend I organised a live drawing jam and it was beautiful. It's the first time we've done something like this. I'm in love with this activity. I love art and shibari.
in 🧶 self-tying
February 23
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Self ties and coffee from last week✨🖤💋 this hishi pattern is better than its been but I run out of rope and then just have to burn the extended rope with a waist wrap but it does look pretty still.