Rope session with E. | Rope Suspension and Photo: © FLANKUS All Rights Reserve | Daiki Rope.
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
April 10
Happy Friday, rope lovers! Our newest instructor interview on the blog is a pretty special one, since we get up close and personal with none other than Shibari Study co-founder Gorgone. I think a lot of us here could speak endlessly about how inspirational they are or the immensity of the impact they've had on rope world, so it's almost impossible to believe this whole platform grew from the seeds of "a 25-year-old exhausted person trying to recover".
Read the whole thing here:Â
https://shibaristudy.com/blog/post/meet-the-shibari-study-instructors-gorgone
April 09
Intimacy & Improvisation: Join Switchmeister and Lil today at 3pm Eastern (19:00 UTC) for their latest Shibari Study stream. In this class, the pair explore intimacy in shibari through the lens of "everyone is different during different tying sessions". They also introduce improvisation as their tool for getting out of their own heads and actively engaging with the person in ropes.
Watch here:Â https://shibaristudy.com/programs/intimacy-improvisation-stream
April 09
Hey all!Â
We're putting together a research pool — a small group we'll tap for feedback as we improve the platform. Sessions are short, and we'll only reach out when it's a good fit for you. If you’re interested in being part of the group of folks we tap when we need feedback, take 30 seconds and fill out the form below :)Â
https://forms.gle/dKzW1DVwv3NG2UHr7
April 08
Hey Everyone,
now that the easter egg hunt is closed, you might not have noticed that we also dropped some new harness guides recently. Im really loving how this is coming together and adding a new dimension to the website and more and more are in the works.
Whats your favourite guide so far?
and what harnesses would you love to see a guide created?
April 08
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Challenge
April 08 — 29, 2026
Predicaments are ties that create choice…typically a choice between one discomfort or another. The name of the game is time. Riggers: sit back and enjoy the view as your partner explores, sinks into discomfort, and finally starts to sweat. Bottoms: the choice is yours when to tap out. Predicaments ask you to calm your mind, steady your breath, and suffer a little…or a lot. If you’re new to predicaments, these handful of videos will give you some easy exploration opportunities before ramping up to more intense positions. We’ve included a lot of content for folks newer to using suspension lines for play as well as our video on hand checks, as we’ll be working with box tie positions here. Make sure to give that content a refresh if you need it.
in 🧶 self-tying
April 04
4th self tie: Rhombus Rope/Tortoise shell tie. I used 2 jute ropes that were 25 feet/8.3 yards = 7.6 meters long
in 💬 general-chat
April 02
• Edited (Apr 04, 2026)
4th self tie: Rhombus Rope/Tortoise shell tie. I used 2 jute ropes that wereÂ
25 feet/8.3 yards = 7.6 meters long