Travelling for work = a good moment to revisit some basic frictions ;-)

Hi community, my name is Alex. I am a 44-year-old non-binary rope-switch from Düsseldorf. This picture was taken at Iridescent studio Amsterdam in March. Rigger:Gorgone
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Feel free to connect with me!

Greetings fellow rope bottoms 👋🏾

Here in Austin (TX), we’re gearing up for our BOA (Bottoms of Austin) end-of-year potluck this weekend, and with that always comes reflection.

Rope bottoming was my introduction to this world and opened a whole new pathway to learning my body, breath, boundaries and the art of surrender. Every year I sit in gratitude for the experiences of learning how to listen to myself, how to soften into struggle to find joy, and meeting intensity with presence instead of fear.

This photo was taken earlier this year, when my love Lief Bound came to The Empty Space studio to co-teach for our Austin community. Moments like this remind me how shaped I am by the hands of those who witness me and walk alongside me. In that same light, I am endlessly grateful for people like Magnolia Monroe, who continue to pour into our community through bottoming education, meetups, classes and the BOA group. The culture we’re building is intentional and rooted in care, accountability, curiosity, and embodiment. I couldn’t ask for anything more.

As we close the year, I pose deeper questions to myself and my body as I journal, and I’d like to close out this post with the offering of some reflective prompts:

🫶🏾 What sensations has your body learned to recognize, trust, or reinterpret this year?

🫶🏾 Where did your rope practice reveal life truths about your needs and boundaries?

🫶🏾Can you already identify needs or desires for the year ahead?

Hello, Everybody! Happy Thanks Giving, to all who celebrate.

My name is Ash. I go by Frosty Cucumber on Discord. I've technically been tying for 9 years, but with a lot of breaks and varying levels of intensity. My latest round of intensive study has been going for about two years now and part of what's kept me so excited through this time is the community I've found through Shibari Study. You all are awesome and I'm very happy to have found such a passionate, supportive, and friendly group of kinky friends.

I've been working on a few things lately, but one that really stands out is vertically loading harnesses. The live class on this topic a while back was awesome and helped tremendously, but I still run into problems sometimes. Most recently, I vertically loaded the ShSt Fishermans Harness and the waist rope loaded like crazy. My tying partner said she's been in other vertically loaded fishermans harnesses before that didn't load it so intensely and I'm wondering if there are different patterns for that or if maybe I just did something wrong.

It makes sense to me that that wrap would always load heavily in the ShSt pattern because it's the lowest wrap and is fairly tight. I guess I could really intensely tighten the other wraps, add more wraps to the waist, or maybe I'm find a pattern that doesn't have the waste rope?

In the moment in question, I just added some rope to her legs to push against and take some of the load, but I'd love to know what other modifications I could make in this situation.

Hello everyone! You can call me Rainbow, i'm a rope switch, and I've been tying for several years now, but have been really intensifying my study for the past year or two as I try to get more of a rope "Scene" going in my local area. I am part of the leadership of our local kink group, and I've somehow become the de-facto rope "expert," despite still having plenty left to learn. My big goal for 2025 was to hold monthly rope events at our local group and I'm happy to report that I've done that! I look forward to interacting with everyone here and absorbing all the great knowledge and vibes.

Pictured here is a tie i did at our most recent play event, on one of my lovely partners. Im constantly learning by tying on a pretty wide variety of bodies and this was a prime example of when what works for one of my bottoms is less than stellar for another!

Oh, editing to add! I am also a fat rope bottom and beginning self tier and am always happy to commiserate about adaptation to larger body sizes or tips for self tying!