New year, new blog post – and what an insightful and powerful article to kick off the year, thanks to none other than Shakti Bliss who is as amazing a writer as she is a rope educator. This is for everyone wanting to "tend the thread" and practice rope with purpose, not just because it's a new year but because connection, intention and the joy of ropes are so intertwined. Happy reading and happy tying!
https://shibaristudy.com/blog/post/tending-the-thread-practicing-rope-with-purpose-in-2026
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
January 13
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in 💬 general-chat
January 12
what's up y'all im 30 m and straight im from San Antonio tx and im new to this life style. looking for like minded people to show me the ropes lol
in 💬 general-chat
January 12
I have to draw out ties, as well as practice them on my dojo-doll, to really grok them. This is the Lexi front facing tir.
in 💬 general-chat
January 11
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(Confession: feeling quite nervous sharing this fragment. Fairly new to recording my ropes and observing myself. So my inner critic is tap dancing on my thoughts 🫣)
Playing freely with shibari basics, exploring possible exercises for our very first class together.
Felt like a fun twist on the Lark's Head.
Ukete: Morwen 🙏
in 💬 general-chat
January 11
Hi friends,
MoBights (Community Manager) I don’t know if there is a better place to post this, but is there anyone I can talk to privately about a possible scholarship for Shibari Study?
Thank you 🥲
January 11
Rope Journal - Week 2
January's Theme - Reflection & Intention
"What was your first impression of rope bondage before you tried or learned about it?"
This is always such an interesting question, it opens up the variety of ways in which we discover rope, how we are initially exposed to it and what sparked the intrigue that got us onto this journey.
As always love to hear your thoughts and opinions in the comments. If you are handwriting your journals in a book, feel free to just drop a photo of your response this week 🙂
in 💬 general-chat
January 11
Excited to share some Improv tie at a local rope jam. The irony is nailing a really aesthetically pleasing Butterfly TK, only to place Spider Monkey on her front. 🤷🏻
in 🧶 self-tying
January 10
Nothing truly exciting but I just liked this futo
Was at a glow party so not the best light quality lol 😆