The School of Tantric Ropes

Andy Buru founded the school of tantric ropes ten years ago. Back then, he was the only one mixing tantra with rope bondage. He met thousands of people that joined his passion, mostly practitioners, but also teachers and bodyworkers.  The school of tantric ropes is a non-profit organization that puts the human connection first. Likewise, it is a platform, in which people with the same passion can gather, share experiences, and learn.  

The School of Tantric Ropes gathers people interested in a tantric approach to rope bondage. It is a place where everyone can honour the heritage of Shibari and Kinbaku. The Neo-tantric approach to rope bondage was first established in Scandinavia by Andy Baru in 2010. Tantric Rope Bondage shares much of the technique and mindset of Japanese rope bondage of Shibari and Kinbaku.

The School believes that in order to learn and practice rope bondage, you need to do it and practice it. Presence is the best guide, where dedication over time is always the key to success. That’s why practicing once a week is only enough to maintain your knowledge, but in order to grow, you will need to practice 2 or more times a week.
The School of Tantric Ropes uses the polarity between the person tying and the person being tied to make bondage powerful and transformative, where they understand, respect, and share the paradox between dominating and holding space, and between submitting and surrendering.

Mostly, the school acknowledges that the therapeutic setting is different than a personal play, where any domination must be an act of service, and therefore the person tying is ultimately only holding space, rather than focusing on their own gain. The School empowers people to express their boundaries and support them in avoiding dissociation, or pressure from society, where bondage includes all emotions and expressions, where it can be loving, and caretaking, painful or shameful, or sexual and hedonistic.

Image: Andy Buru