DANISH SHIBARI FESTIVAL

Teacher

• Athen Shibari
  

  Athen Shibari

  WisDomme
  She began her rope journey in 2012. In 2017 she started attending workshops and rope events. Since then, she has attended classes with as Felix Ruck-ert, Sophia Rose, Boris Mosafir, Jonathan Ryan, Pauline Massimo, Aku Aku, Gestalta, Green Gorilla, Tamandua, La QuartaCorda, Tako and many more. She has performed all over Greece, but also Cyprus.
  In 2018 she founded the AthenShibari and started to organize rope events in Athens and other places.
  WisDomme loves all the aspects of rope, mostly restriction, the connections, the visuals, and creativity. She works with different body types, finding new ways of creating shapes and movements.
  Her main goal as a presenter is to encourage everyone to discover their own path in shibari; to gain confidence in their skills, making secure steps and be their own artists.

  Nyx
  For Nyx, shibari refers to challenge, to SM, to art, to eroticism. Ropes seduce her and make her willing to discover the limits of her body and her mind. She also loves the aesthetics of the art of japanese bondage. For her it is the unique connection with the person who is tying her, the trust, the power exchange.
  She began her exploration in 2021 in a professional way, participating in workshops, photoshoots and performances.
  She is an active member of the AthenShibari team. She is also co-teaching in workshops and guide new models. Her goal is to show that shibari is for everyone and to help in creating a comfortable and safe environment for all those who want to explore it.

• FoxyLock
  

  FoxyLock

  My name is Rikke. I am 38 years old, and have been in the rope community since 2013. I have been at both sides of the rope, both as a model and rigger – but clearly with most hours as a rigger. I have participated in workshops in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Holland, Germany etc.
  Through my professional background, I have good knowledge of how to put together motivating and exciting learning courses, creating the best frame for my participants to go home with a lot of great experiences and memories.

• Haag and Husalia
  

  Haag and Husalia

  Haag is a professional rope bondage teacher and runs the Ellipsis Rope Events Foundation based in Rotterdam. He has hosted countless rope events varying from international workshops, performances, demonstrations and rope jams throughout the last decade. Haag is passionate about photography, community work and teaching and his tying style is focused on safety, knowledge/experience-based improvisation, high paced tying, dynamic movement, and creativity. He has a very technical approach to rope which is complemented by his dance background, psychology studies and various hobbies that incorporate fine motor skills.
  Husalia started her rope journey in Berlin in 2015 and over time she explored the scenes in England and France. She adapts her active rope bottoming to different styles of tying while focusing on the connection to the partner and the journey that one can create with the help of movement and interaction. She is a ballroom and latin dancer for more than 18 years and has an extensive background in gymnastics. With this knowledge she will share her insights with regard to tying in movement, body awareness and balance.
  Haag and Husalia focus on teaching techniques and insights that can be incorporated in existing tying styles. We provide content for both the rigger as well as the model and facilitate switching during the workshop for couples who are interested in doing so.

• MieNeko
  

  MieNeko

  When I think about how to describe my way of tying, the first thing that comes to mind is the word “soft”. Communicative. I want to feel how my model becomes soft when I start to wrap rope around his/her body. And I have found out that I achieve exactly this softness in my models by being soft myself.
  My partners start to trust me as soon as they realize that I take them as they are and, based on that, lead them to where I want them to be. When I am soft, they can feel my flow. They can follow me. And if they trust me and follow me… Then I can achieve everything together with them.
  I can shape them, I can bring them into my desired mindset and I can make them suffer.
  I would like to try to teach you this softness because I believe it opens the door for further paths. Gentleness can initiate dominance, can initiate overpowering, can initiate sadism. No matter in which direction your dynamics and your session should go, we will explore the path together. But in the beginning, there is softness!