Shibari Workshop

Intro to Shibari: Workshop and Private Tuition

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Variation on 'Takate-kote' tie with Tanty Lovell - Adelaide 2015 (Shibari by Mo Latin, photo by Gavin Bell)

Shibari (also known as Kinbaku) has it’s roots deep in Japanese culture and history, being inspired and influenced by the martial art of ‘hojojutsu’, Kabuki theatre plus Ukiyo-e (‘pictures from the floating world’) and Shunga (‘Spring pictures’) art.

Osaka, Sadamitsu 2nd (Sadamitsu Hasegawa) Picture, Yao Yoshitaka

Princess Chujo tied under a cold snowstorm by Itoh Seiyu

Shibari is sometimes described in the west as the Japanese Art of Erotic Rope Bondage (and could also be described as something like ‘passionate tango in rope’…) … This has evolved over the last 70 or so years on both sides of the Pacific and around the world, in both exploration of tying styles and printed form, with varying degrees of acceptance and censorship in Japan, The US and elsewhere.

'Bedroom Bondage' with Jeyda Miller - UK 2014 (Shibari & photo Mo Latin)

This fascinating and beautiful art form has grown massively in popularity in just the last few years into a worldwide passion in practice, play and performance, with people all over the globe forming communities, running workshops, creating art, giving live performances and more.

Couple tying at a Shibari Class - South Australia, 2016 (photo Mo Latin)

In this one day workshop, discover the interconnectedness of how Japans’ centuries-old traditional and deeply cultural entanglement with rope, tying, punishment and eroticism has evolved into today’s exploration and expression of Shibari.