ShibariClasses must be the biggest selection of shibari tutorials on the net with over 40 now! We started ShibariClasses just over 3 and a half years ago when we were trying to make the sequel to the best-selling ‘Japanese Rope Bondage: Tying people, not parcels’ DVDs and now we teach thousands of students. When ShibariClasses launched, …
Our latest tutorial, ‘Mastering ingredients’, will teach you how to master the ‘ingredients’ of shibari, i.e. the components that are used, to create your own ‘recipes’ (ties).The objective is not simply to teach a tie but how to create ties. Teaching ‘ingredients’ that make up the ‘recipes’ and how they can be varied and substituted …
The plan for the next ShibariClasses tutorial is to demonstrate how to use ‘ingredients’ in shibari, i.e. the components that are repeated in ties, to solve a problem. In this example, how to tie tengu shibari (here’s Bob Ropemarks’ interpretation); the ‘devil tie’, so-called because the arm position resembles wings…or, less romantically, an oven-ready chicken 🙂 Whatever, you call it, …
Over the past year, we have been busy creating the most comprehensive shibari suspension course ever produced. We are now are up to Part XI with lots more to come. If you haven’t already tried our tutorials, we think you’l be surprised as they are far more detailed than anything you have seen before. These aren’t …
This week Nina has been workshopping a new suspension tutorial with Sofinda. As you might know, we already have ten tutorials in the ‘Suspension techniques’ series making this the most comprehensive shaibari suspension course ever produced. In fact, we have a very special offer on the Level I bundle which you can catch if you are …
In this edition of the ‘What I wish I had known‘ series, I look back on how I learned shibari and give some advice to those starting out and continuing on their journey. The first step is to decide which of the many definitions of shibari suit your vision. Like many things, it means different …
Like it says on the label, here are some bargain shibari rings! Stainless steel light-weight shibari ring, 10″ (25.5cm) SPECIAL OFFER! £34.95 £19.95 Incredibly light, yet deceptively strong. We tested one on a load cell. Whilst it started to distort at around 400kg, it held a lot more! The tester only went up to two …
We have been hard at work again, shibari Suspension Techniques is now a 10-part series! Shibari Suspension Techniques is undoubtedly the most comprehensive suspension course available anywhere, on-line or in any format for that matter. Originally, you might recall that we intended to bring out a DVD set. However, we soon realised that this was a …
Our latest shibari tutorial, ‘Suspension techniques: Part IX’ now on-line at ShibariClasses.com! This 9 part course is undoubtedly the most comprehensive resource for learning suspension and we haven’t finished yet. This tutorial introduces a more advanced suspension with multiple transitions with many options for variations. As this one moves up a skill level, it is …
We have just launched ‘Shibari: The easy way’ with a 20% introductory discount to get yourself kitted out at ESINEM-Rope In my first shibari tutorials, ‘Japanese Rope Bondage: Tying people, not parcels’, my focus was on teaching ties and how to perform them with connection. In this course, we develop this approach further by both simplifying learning …