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Event name: Intro to Shibari : your complete guide to Shibari with Gestalta
Event Date: 23/10/16 (DD/MM/YY)
Start Time: 13:00                                                        
End Time: 19:00                                                        
Description:
This is a one-day workshop for complete beginners taught by rigger, self-suspension artist and London-based rope enthusiast, Gestalta. This course will be on offer once per month.

About Gestalta

Gestalta is a rigger, self suspension artist, and general rope enthusiast based in London. She was first introduced to rope in 2007 and since then has been travelling around the world to perform and teach at rope and fetish events. She has considerable experience on both sides of the rope, allowing her to bring the perspective of both the rigger and the model into her teaching. She has been lucky enough to work with many of the world's top riggers during her time doing rope, allowing her to observe and absorb their styles and techniques into her own work.

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Program, Description and Requirements

Part 1.

This workshop is aimed at people who have no experience of Shibari and aims to give a comprehensive overview of the basics, whilst also explaining the reasons and principles behind the things I’m teaching. I aim to give you an introduction to some of the most fundamental knots and frictions used in Shibari, and also to help you begin thinking about the importance of ‘flow’ when tying as I believe that working on this right from the beginning of your bondage journey will help you to progress later on.

I will explain some of the most common safety concerns within bondage, and how to communicate about this effectively with your partner.

For those that are interested, I’ll talk a little about the origins of Shibari in Japan, and it’s development through to it’s present day form – and will explain a bit about the differences between types of rope and which to choose.

The ties in this course are chosen both because it’s important to learn these ties in themselves, but also because they’re great tools for explaining the principles of bondage, rather than just learning to copy and follow a useless pattern.

The ties we’ll focus on are:

– single column tie: I cover three variations of this tie within the workshop, in order to help explain the principle, however we will only be focusing on tying one of them.
– ‘quick release’ tie
– double column tie
– creating ‘ladders’

Part 2.

I continue to work on the idea of ‘flow’ when tying and in addition I will explain how to choose a good tension to tie with.

We will focus on:

– Hojo wraps.
– Simplified Gote, or ‘box tie’.
– I will also demonstrate different ways of putting together elements covered during the parts of the beginners course to create other useful ties, such as the shinju (another form of munenawa), tying the hands behind the head or to the legs, the futomomo (leg tie) etc.
– time permitting: basic introduction to hip harnesses. 
Dress Code:
Anything comfortable 
Cost of Entry: £50 per person / £80 per couple (switching allowed)        
Venue:
Anatomie Studio (Studio 9)
7-17 Latona Road Peckham SE15 6RY 
Map: A map.......      
Website: www.anatomiestudio.com                                        
  https://fetlife.com/events/487909                             
Email: anatomie.studio@gmail.com