Blue Spruce Kinbaku
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Blue Spruce Kinbaku

Minneapolis, United States

Blue Spruce Kinbaku is a Twin Cities based group founded to promote and celebrate Shibari. We offer expert workshops and a supportive community to educate practitioners.

POC-ownedQueer-ownedWoman-ownedAnatomy & SafetyBeginner-friendlyBottom-centered educationPerformance / photographySelf-tyingSuspension
  • Workshops
  • Intensives
  • Performances

More about Blue Spruce Kinbaku

Blue Spruce Kinbaku is a Twin Cities based group founded to promote and celebrate Shibari, the highly stylized and initimate Japanese art of erotic rope bondage. We offer expert workshops and a supportive community to educate practitioners in a professional, risk aware environment. Suspension and ground based classes are offered twice a month at venues in Minneapolis, check our event schedule to find out how we can support your kinbaku journey

The team

  • Bondage Cupcakes

    Bondage Cupcakes

    (she/her)

    Co-owner

    BondageCupcakes (she/her) is a rope switch, educator and performer in the Twin Cities. Her primary love is aerial arts so in the theme of do all the things, she has recently started combing rope bondage with lyra (aerial hoop).

  • Ethearial

    Ethearial

    (they/them)

    Co-owner

    Ethaerial has always had a thing for rope and knots, so when she discovered shibari in 2017 it felt like finding her natural language. What started as self-tying quickly evolved into modeling for rope suspension and performance art across the Twin Cities, and opened a uniquely meaningful way to connect with friends and partners. These days, she finds just as much joy in tying up her friends as she does being in the air. With a focus on Japanese-style rope suspension, Ethaerial continues to refin

  • Katabound

    Katabound

    (she/her)

    Co-owner

    Katabound (she/her) is experienced in all types of rope bondage, from the bedroom to full Japanese Shibari suspension. With over twelve years of experience bottoming in rope, she has had the great honor of learning from some of the best rope bottoms in the country, as well as around the world. Her particular interest is how to age well in rope, and some of her advice can be found in the classic bottoming text Better Bondage for Every Body: With Rope Bondage Experts From Around the World, by Evie

Accessibility

Physical space

  • Accessible parking nearby
  • Lowered suspension points
  • Seating with backrests
  • Step-free entrance

Sensory experience

  • Breaks encouraged

Financial accessibility

  • Loaner ropes available

Community safety

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