Tonsai Meditation
Kokoro Kinbaku’s Guerrilla Hashira project
Getting to Know You: Top, Bottom, Switch or Self-Tie? How do you identify in rope, are you predominantly a top, a bottom or do you happily switch. Or are you one of those amazingly talent people who does all at once by self tying?
Community Agreements:1. Celebrate and embrace the diversity of thought, practice, and opinion. There are many ways to do and practice rope. The Community Discord is a way for us all to engage and interact across differences. While rope connects us all, we are still unique individually.2. Navigate disagreement through discourse. Treat others with respect, even if you disagree. Discord is primarily a text interaction platform, please be mindful that miscommunications can happen.3. Respect each community members’ identities and honor their boundaries/requests about how they wish to be treated. Treat others how they wish to be treated - this includes using their correct pronouns, name, and any other identifying factors that feel important to them. If you make a mistake, take accountability for your actions and try to repair any harm caused. 4. Help create safer spaces for learning and growth through mutual accountability and co-created community accountability. Accountability is mutually co-created. This space is meant to build community and hold each other in that process - sometimes that means making mistakes. Our commitment to accountability begins with a willingness to own and accept that we are all capable of causing harm. Let’s intentionally build a space where making mistakes and making things right is a part of how we operate.5. Bring a growth mindset and be mindful of your learning zones. Check-in with yourself and where your learning zones are. Be mindful when you are in the panic zone and ask for help if you need it. 6. Actively receive in conversation before responding. Receive information down to the last word before taking the time to communicate your thoughts. 7. Make space, take space. Reflect on when you’re able to take up more space in the discord/threads/conversations and reflect on if you need to be creating more space for others. Reflect on if you aren’t participating as much or taking up space, why that might be. Try to find the courage to share your thoughts and take up space, you belong here! 8. Be mindful of the impact of your actions, not just the intentions behind them. Just because we didn’t intend to hurt or harm someone doesn’t change that they are hurt/harmed. 9. NSFW Content. We unfortunately cannot have explicit NSFW content on the community at this time. As an education platform in Shibari we do recognise some content is concerning the practice of shibari but we cannot host explicit material. We do not want to moderate heavily in this space so please be mindful when sharing photographs. 10. This is all challenge by choice. It’s a choice of action to be here and to be participating in this space. Please participate at whatever capacity feels accessible and most authentic for you
in 🧶 self-tying
March 05
Self-testing Gorgone's Tongue Twister,
with cotton ropes.
Next time definitely more twists for more tension, and more face rope 🙃
in 🪢 bottoming
March 04
We have not had time together to tie in months really this tie on Monday was really everything I needed lately happy Kinbaku day 🖤✨everyone. This is my first tie with my mommy bunny in 2026 here is to a good year of growing with her!
March 03
International Kinbaku Day
Today marks an important day in the rope bondage calendar, one we refer to as International Kinbaku Day and is a day of reflection and inspiration.Â
On March 3rd 1882 Seiu Itoh, often called the Grandfather of modern kinbaku, was born. His ukiyo-e artwork often depicted scenes of torture mixed with a healthy dose of eroticism and formed the inspiration for many of the early shibari artists through the "beauty of suffering". We explored this in more depth in our blog post "On Seiu Itoh and the Origins of Japanese Bondage"
Today also marks 10 years since the passing of the great Yukimura Haruki, one of the original grandmasters of shibari, developing his unique style of aibunawa (caressing rope) and lead proponent of Kotobazeme, torture with words.
Ive added some images that inspire me from both Itoh and Yukimura and Id love you to share any images that inspire you, whether they are rope or something else, maybe the first image that got you into rope, or something you are proud of achieving. There's no contest or prize, just a moment to reflect and share with each other.Â
March 02
Hey everyone,
We’re looking for someone from the community to help us engage with people across our social channels.
If you’re warm, witty, and passionate about rope, we’d love to hear from you:) Feel free to reach out if you have any questions that aren't answered in the link below <3
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February 27
• Edited (Feb 27, 2026)
Hi everyone! I’m really excited to announce that our first handful of harness guides are live! You can now find illustrated guides for the Butterfly Harness, Fisherman Harness, and Hip Cuffs (part of the Less is More course) linked in the descriptions. And you can check out the full library here: https://shibaristudy.com/pages/harness-guide-library
Special thanks to our illustrator Mooooo for such beautiful illustrations. We care a lot about using human talent to illustrate these guides, so we’ll be releasing about one a week for the time being. Keep checking back!
February 26
Intense Floorwork: Join Switchmeister and Lil today at 4PM Eastern (21:00 UTC) for their latest Shibari Study stream. This workshop explores how to make things intense in a floor-based rope scene, how to build intensity, and how intensity can be paced as you play.
Watch here: https://shibaristudy.com/programs/intense-floorwork-stream