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Madrid Shibari

Madrid Shibari is a dojo that offers a high quality, safe and respectful education based on the origins of Kinbaku. You will be able to learn Shibari or Kinbaku through the Shibari courses, private classes and intensive days. Madrid Shibari’s objective is fully educational. This means they take their training very seriously at any level.…
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Shibari Kinnawa Dojo

Shibari Kinnawa Dojo is a dojo in Mexico. It is the only dojo especially devoted to Shibari in Mexico. Here, you can practice and learn Shibari in a safe and professional place with a secure and respectful ambience. Kinnawa comes from  Kanji Ki, which means gold, and Nawa, which means rope in Japanese. Together they…
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Jade Rope

Jade Rope, founded in Australia, offers access to a wide range of rope for bondage enthusiasts. It is an online store that offers a diverse range of ropes, including hemp, jute, cotton and other natural fibre ropes, as well as many man-made and synthetic ropes. This online store wants to offer rope bondage practitioners exactly…
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Burning Mountain Festival

The Burning Mountain Festival is a 4-day magical festival experience in the heart of the Swiss Alps. The festival has a unique location above 1450 m over sea level and takes place in the middle of one of the highest inhabited valleys of Europe, the Engadine. The Burning Mountain Festival has one of the most…
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Naka Akira

Meet Naka Akira, a prominent Nawashi master hailing from Japan, born in 1959. He is regarded as one of the youngest and most skilled kinbaku masters in the world today. Therefore, he has garnered a reputation as a favorite among enthusiasts and artists worldwide. Discovering Japanese Bondage At the age of 30, Naka Akira stumbled…
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Jyowa “Rope Series”

Jyowa “Rope Series” is a project featuring Nawashi Kanna with Kagura and Pedro Cordas as the Filmmaker. It all started in Tokyo in 2011 as a documentary film. Jyowa is an aesthetic experience that takes the viewer into the unique universe of five of Japan’s top artists. Jyowa presents the 5 most recognized artists, Naka…
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Get Started in Shibari

Shibari is a Japanese style of bondage. It is a kind of art, where you tie rope around someone’s body, while you are making different patterns and connection with that person. Shibari focuses on the exchange of emotions and feelings among partners. Read the article and learn how to get started in Shibari. In Shibari,…
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Yukimura Haruki

Yukimura Haruki, the last of the four Japanese Shibari grandmasters, passed away on March 3rd, 2016. He was a master rigger, teacher, producer, photographer, and actor. He produced more than 3000 videos, book and all kinds of publications about Shibari or Kinbaku. Yukimura Haruki was a renowned bakushi, or rope artist in Japan. He had…
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Zetsu

Zetsu begins his rope journey in 2006 when he took his first trip to Tokyo. There, he took lessons on Kinbaku, the Japanese art of erotic rope bondage, with Osada Steve. After Zetsu took these lessons, he began to pursue the study of Japanese rope Bondage. Zetsu studied in Los Angeles and his frequent trips…
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LA Rope

LA Rope is a Shibari Dojo in Los Angeles, founded in 2011. LA Rope Dojo’s purpose is providing safe and traditional training in the Japanese art of Kinbaku. Its head instructor, Zetus, trained in Tokyo by the late Grandmaster Yukimura Haruki, is a certified instructor. Haru Yutaka, offers personal instruction in the art of Yukimura’s…
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