Shibari.ph offers workshops for Japanese style rope bondage players & enthusiasts in the Philippines.
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[100] Introduction to BDSM will introduce you to the world of BDSM with a focus on Satisfaction, Safety, and Sustainability.
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[101] Introduction to Shibari will introduce you to the world of Japanese style rope bondage with a focus on Satisfaction, Safety, and Sustainability.
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[201] Sensual Bondage Basics will teach you how to explore sensuality through the lens of connection—with our partners, our own bodies, or the present moment. Together, we’ll learn how to evoke and navigate feelings of closeness, intimacy, and vulnerability by gently engaging your senses during play.
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[202] Sadistic Bondage Basics will teach you how to explore suffering through pressure—ranging from minor stress to a profound struggle. Together, we’ll learn how to induce feelings of consensual pain, torment, and suffering by wielding different kinds of tension.
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[203] Dominant Bondage Basics will teach you how to explore power exchange in a rope session—from simple guidance to complete control. Together, we’ll learn how to facilitate said power exchange physically through movement, eventually making room for mental and emotional surrender as well.
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[204] Aesthetic Bondage Basics will teach you how to pursue beauty during a rope session—honoring both symmetry and asymmetry. Together, we’ll learn to celebrate a composition’s geometric purity or the wonders of disorder.
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[301] Gote Shibari I will teach you our interpretation of one of the most iconic ties in Japanese style rope bondage: the Gote Shibari (i.e. hands tied in the back, aka Takate Kote, TK, or boxtie).
The gote shibari comes in different shape and styles in response to varying body types, needs, and limitations. Rather than force one pattern for the whole class, we’ll help you build a gote that works best for you and your partner.
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[302] Gote Shibari II invites students to join a masterclass-style workshop on the gote shibari. While the rest of the class observes, students will take turns doing 1:1 demos with the facilitator who will share feedback, experiences, insights, and advanced techniques to help with each student’s situation.
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[401] Hishi Karada Shibari will walk you through how to tie and sustain this beautiful body harness whose highly recognizable hishi (diamond) shapes are commonly seen online and in hentai.
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[402] Futomomo Shibari will walk you through how to tie and sustain the legs in a folded position for use in the bedroom, for aesthetics, or as part of a larger system of ties.
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[403] Agura Shibari will walk you through how to tie and sustain the legs in a cross legged position for floor-based sessions.
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• Must have completed [301] Gote Shibari I
• Three to six (3-6) pieces of 8-meter rope (jute ropes preferred)
[404] Ebi Shibari will walk you through how to tie and sustain the position with both your legs crossed and your upper body folded forward—imitating an ebi or shrimp.
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• Must have completed [301] Gote Shibari I
• Three to six (3-6) pieces of 8-meter rope (jute ropes preferred)
[405] Gyaku Ebi Shibari will walk you through how to tie and sustain the “hogtied” position where your arms and upper body will be bound in the back with both your legs crossed and pulled towards them.
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[406] Teppou Shibari will walk you through how to tie and sustain the “rifle carry” position where one arm reaches for the back from overhead while the other reaches from below.
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[407] Koutoubu Ryo Tekubi Shibari will walk you through how to tie and sustain what western circles refer to as the “bunny ears” position where both arms are folded behind the head and secured in place.
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[408] Maete Shibari will walk you through how to tie and sustain the “hands in front” which has a unique set of challenges compared to the various types of gote (or hands in the back ties).
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[409] Chokushin Maete Shibari will walk you through how to tie and sustain a “hands in front” tie that keeps the arms in a straight and outstretched position—the front-side counterpart of what’s commonly known as the armbinder tie.
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[410] Munenawa Shibari will walk you through how to tie and sustain an arms-free chest harness (wrist ties optional!)—a great option if your arms are sensitive or simply want to keep your mobility.
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[411] Kakae Shibari will walk you through how to tie and sustain a position that involves embracing one or both thighs and having them locked in place.
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[412] Kani Shibari will walk you through how to tie and sustain a position that uses a person’s anatomy to spread their legs open in an M shape and holds them in place using the arms.
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Sit tight! This page will be updated to reflect all the available workshops soon!
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Introduction to Shibari is for complete newbies who want get started with Japanese style rope bondage. You’ll learn how to safely and enjoyably tie the one magical pattern that works for most Shibari sessions and styles so you don’t need to memorize dozens of different ties.
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Sensual Bondage Basics is for graduates of Course 101 who want to enjoy sensual, erotic, or sexual bondage sessions. You’ll learn three (3) approaches for sensual play and three (3) basic patterns so you can inspire genuine feelings of sensuality, connection, or seduction.
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Sadistic Bondage Basics is for graduates of Course 101 who want to enjoy sadistic, challenging, or tormenting bondage sessions. You’ll learn three (3) approaches for sadistic play and three (3) basic patterns so you can induce real but consensual feelings of pain, torment, or suffering.
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Dominant Bondage Basics is for graduates of Course 101 who want to enjoy exchanging or exerting power during their bondage sessions. You’ll learn three (3) approaches for power play and three (3) basic patterns so you can draw out genuine feelings of submission, servitude, and surrender.
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Aesthetic Bondage Basics is for graduates of Course 101 who want to create visually beautiful ties during their bondage sessions. You’ll learn three (3) approaches for pursuing beauty and three (3) basic patterns so you can work together to create shapes and figures that are alluring, visually striking, and evocative of the feelings you’re after.
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Gote Shibari is for Shibari enthusiasts who want to learn our interpretation of one of the most iconic ties in Japanese style rope bondage: the gote shibari (i.e. hands tied in the back, a.k.a. the takate kote, TK, or boxtie).
The gote shibari comes in different shapes and forms in response to our varying body types, flexibility limitations, and needs. Rather than force one pattern for the whole class, we’ll help you build a gote that works best for you.
We will focus on the base form of the gote for floor-based play purposes.
By the end of this course, you and your partner will be able to:
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If you ever struggled with the “standard” positions or felt disappointed that the most popular ties don’t play nice with your flexibility or physical context, you aren’t alone. We’ve been misled into thinking that there’s some kind of “correct” body for Shibari when in reality, the rope is always meant to adjust to us.
Function: How to Play with Bodies in Bondage invites you to take a closer look at how our bodies move, the positions that work for us, and how to transition between our options more easily. Together, we’ll identify what makes us and our shapes unique, their advantages and opportunities, so that we can focus on enjoying ourselves with the incredible bodies that we already have in the here and now.
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Wraps that get so tight that your limbs end up numb, or those that keep sliding around and pose risks from shearing forces—they’re no fun. Emergencies don’t just cut our play time short: they can also risk our lives.
Form: How to Tame and Troubleshoot Tension invites you to peek into how rope really behaves to make finding your partner’s ideal Goldilocks-level tension while still keeping the ties beautiful, safe, and secure. Together, we’ll study how to improve our tension, knowing when and why we use which frictions, and build systems with our rope harnesses and cuffs—so we can keep having fun without sending people to the emergency room.
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Performance anxiety sucks and nobody enjoys feeling like we need to apologize when we fail to stay in sync because we’ve forgotten the pattern or struggle to stay in our ropey headspace.
Flow: How to Focus & Flow with Your Partner invites you to analyze the little things you do that may make or break our bondage sessions and the specific keys that unlock kink space for you. Together, we’ll work on our self-, time-, and distraction-management during play, so that we can eliminate fumbling and develop finesse, intentionally take as much or as little time as we need, and manage our experience with elements like pain and mistakes during play.
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Communication is the core of Japanese style rope bondage but people often hyperfocus on tying techniques. As a result, we have an abundance of pattern-collectors who treat their partners like poseable mannequins instead of partners who genuinely enjoy playing with each other.
Fluency: How to Touch Hearts & Tell Stories invites you to revisit the different ways that we communicate so that we can be more intentional during our rope scenes. Together, we’ll communicate in different ways to better navigate our desires or alert partners to danger, observe and convey each other’s intentions during play, and structure our sessions for the type of interactions we enjoy—so that our bondage can go beyond the mere repetition of popular shapes.
(Jute and synthetic ropes are available for borrowing or for sale at the studio.)
Learn with a group during our public workshops or study at your own pace during a private 1:1 workshop at our Makati Rope Studio.
Shibari.ph is an educational resource and kink community for Japanese rope bondage enthusiasts in the Philippines.
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We highly encourage you to study directly under a responsible and experienced practitioner to avoid serious injuries and lasting harm.
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