Diana Vera
Diana has been working as a professional rigger and shibari – Japanese style bondage instructor since 2016. Her workshops focus not only on the technical side of bondage, but also on the conscious experience in the ropes. She teaches bondage to mixed groups, organizes women’s circles and training for professionals in touch. She provides private bondage sessions – shibari sessions – and hundreds of people have passed through her hands with all sorts of reasons to be bound. She teaches couples privately.
She has been navigating the world of tantra with Honza a Marie since 2019. Her journey has taken her through theatre school, the RUS method (regression) to constellations and tantric training. In the beginning she learned from European shibari leaders, most inspired by Georg Barkas, Kristina Marlen and Nicolas Arnoys. Later she drew mainly from her own practice. She is a big fan of the whole BDSM world, which she considers an adult playground. Her style benefits mainly from the art of domination, the popularity of elements from raw body play or all sorts of theatrical, therapeutic and bodywork techniques she has gradually picked up. She prides herself on presentable, safe rope work and a conscious approach to her body and people.
Restrained body – free mind.
Bondage takes us into the “here and now” extremely effectively. The rope touches the body and soul, carrying energy in a similar way to our hands. Unlike them, it stays in place, expanding the range of places we touch, where our intention remains imprinted on the body.
For bound people – the receivers – bondage brings grounding and affirmation of self on a physical level. It exposes them to a situation where they can surrender, stimulates their perception and feeling, allows them to slip into the body and find themselves in a landscape of “subspace” where things happen without will. It confronts the bound people – the givers – with feelings of power, responsibility, guidance and control, opens them to enter a state of flow-mindfulness and inspires them to create artistic representations of the relationship with the body/between partners. The dose of mindfulness that flows between people in a bonding couple is extremely nourishing.
There is not a person who does not have an opinion on bonding. In this workshop, you can subject yours to an encounter with a real-life performance, feel it in kindness, look it in the teeth, or water it or transform it. Bondage will test your ability to communicate your desires and boundaries.
In this workshop we will work dressed. We will discuss the basics of safety, rope and body handling techniques for bondage. You will learn a technique – a tether that hugs the body. There will be room for questions. I invite individuals who I will help fit into an appropriate pair. Come straight-legged to jump into the pleasure and harmony that this practice offers. Jute ropes twisted specifically for shibari will be on site for loan and, on a limited basis, for purchase.
Dominance with your own body
Combining massage and bondage in one session is a very popular theme. Practically, we move between two options. To quickly functionally tie and then massage the bound body or to create the bondage continuously during mutual movement, touch and play.
We will demonstrate how to get the partner comfortably into the desired positions using their own body, pressure points and bodymechanics. We will incorporate gestures, words, eye contact, and positioning of bodies in relation to each other as additional tools to create a dominant-submissive polarity between you in the moment.
The result will be a sensual dance of bodies and ropes, a melding of emotions, a particular BDSM constellation in each couple depending on your attunement. Technically you can be a complete beginner, touch will play the main role, ropes only secondary. You will only need the desire to control your partner or to be guided physically and mentally.
Come to stand in your dominance, create and experience unrepeatable situations with a minimum of resources.
Bondage jóni/lingam
In this workshop, you will learn the technique of crotch/genital bondage in the broader context of which position is advantageous for intimate bondage and for what reasons. Powerlessness, the restriction on movement, works not only with the body but also with the mind of the partner. Exposing him to our gaze is often a more powerful card than touch alone on sex. However, even pure work with the amplification of perceived stimuli on the subjugated parts (bloodied, uncovered, curious) brings intense experience. We offer nudity to the male receivers, and lingerie to the female receivers. Clothed and nude options are possible for both sexes.
If you can bring your own synthetic ropes, approx. 4mm thick, 2-4m long for male wedges, approx. 6mm thick, 6-8m long for naked female wedges. Clothed wedges will appreciate classic shibari ropes, i.e. rolled jute or hemp. All will also be available for purchase on site on a limited basis. Scarves, stockings, laces or various ribbons are also suitable. There will also be material to borrow for dressed options.
Workshop timetable: explanation and demonstration of women’s wedge tying, practice, break, explanation and demonstration of men’s wedge tying, practice, conclusion