The Riggers
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FEATURED SHIBARI EXPERTS
Treaonna
Treaonna is a passionate and experienced educator with over 25 years of experience who provides lectures and workshops on a variety of topics, including kink skills (rope bondage, fireplay, cigar service/play, etc.), kimono and lolita fashion, communication tools, conflict transformation, hula hoop fitness/dance, moving meditation, energy work, and connective practices in the leather, kink, poly, geek, occult, flow arts, and other adventurous communities.
She/Ae holds the 2017 and 2018 title for Miss Ohio Leather, is a member of the 2018 class for International Person of Leather, and is a member of the Titans of the Midwest. Her/aer kimono passion started with a love of lolita fashion (specifically wa-lolita), which led to other fusion (wafuku x yofuku) styles, finally transitioning to wearing kimono more traditionally. In May 2020, she/ae began an apprenticeship with a certified kimono instructor and stylist in Japan and lives the #kimonolife by wearing kimono in some way nearly every day. She/Ae owns a kimono sales and service business, Kimono Kitsune.
Traeonna is a HoH ND queer-crip endorphin enthusiast who can be found hitting people with dinosaurs, amusing her/aer Bear with her/aer antics, and is fueled by dark chocolate, coffee, and Sir Winston snuggles. As a mononymous person, Traeonna can be found on Facebook, Instagram, or by typing .com after her name!
Shay Tizano
Shay Tiziano (she/her or they/them) is a dynamic bondage performer and renowned self-suspender known for their innovative, intense performances and friendly, attainable, and risk-awareness-focused approach to kink education. She is the author of Tying & Flying, the first-ever book about self-suspension, and Creating Captivating Classes, the first-ever book specifically for kink, sexuality, and relationship educators. Based in San Francisco, Shay is the stages & entertainment co-lead for the Folsom Street Fair and produces the acclaimed bondage and fetish performance event Twisted Windows. She has hosted events including BENT, Rope Lab, and Friction, as well as curating performance showcases for the Seattle Erotic Art Festival Aerial & Bondage Stage, Tethered Together, Ropecraft, Dark Odyssey, and San Francisco Pride’s Leather Alley.
Worldsokayestropebunny
FetLife
Worldsokayestropebunny
I'm a born and raised Austinite. My rope journey began after I witnessed someone getting tied up. Seeing that made me feel so strongly that I had to try it for myself, and in 2017 I began as a rope bunny. My new found interest in this world made me realize my desire to self suspend, which quickly led me to start to Top. I am a certified personal trainer and have a degree in education. I believe it is essential to take your time in learning rope bondage and being present with another human. My background and need for connection and energy exchange, help me immensely in teaching clearly and concisely to develop rope skills as a bottom, top and switch.
-Magnolia- is a former ballerina, and current yogi. She has 20 years of experience as a massage therapist and esthetician, IAYT Yoga Therapist and over 8 years of rope bottoming experience. She has performed and presented classes at numerous events throughout the U.S including at several National conferences. -Magnolia- also runs a group for Rope Bottoms called BOA (rope Bottoms of Austin ) in Austin, Texas. Drawing from her anatomy and movement education she has developed a bottoming philosophy that is unique. Through this body awareness she feels like she can hold stressful ties longer and push positions that she was not able to do before.
Tempo
Tempo, he/him, is a traveling top with a deep passion for education, learning, and kink. He specializes in rope and impact play and travels to various communities and countries to expand his knowledge of kink. Tempo has taught for several venues nationwide, including Studio Friction in Denver, CO, and Studio Theory in San Antonio. He has also presented at large events such as the North American Rope Innovation Exchange, Ropecraft, Frolicon, and Tethered Together. As a former teacher for a regionally accredited college, Tempo uses his knowledge of teaching practices to help other kink experts share their skills. His scenes often involve weaving music and staying true to his name.
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Miss_Acacia
Miss Acacia has been actively pursuing the intricacies and beauty of rope as an art form and science since 2014. With an appreciation for the beauty of symmetry and the details of ties, her path to rope suspension was a natural progression. She believes in focusing on the fundamentals in order to understand not just the “how,” but the “why” behind the structure of each tie. Her foundational perspective is that rope should not be about memorization of a preexisting tie, but about knowing why it's a stable tie, what makes it safer, and why people use it in certain circumstances. She is known for her functional, yet intricate, pretty rope and her ability to build harnesses and experiences for the specific bottom she is tying.
Currently, Miss Acacia focuses on tying different bodies because she is most interested in how to tie people, not rope. She approaches each new tie with expertise from years of tying a multitude of others as well as her own experiences with self-suspension. As an avid learner, she is always open to brainstorming with fellow rope enthusiasts and truly enjoys the challenge of creating ties and experiences to fit the needs and desires of her bottoms and their shared intention.
She challenges herself by working on personal projects, finding harnesses and suspension sequences for people who struggle with disabilities, both physical and mental, and working with people who are new to suspension or have had difficult experiences with suspension in the past. Miss Acacia prides herself on providing safer opportunities for bottoms to experience rope suspension.
Enlightenup-69
Enlightenup-69 and Attnwhor-69 are the organizers of MI ropes as well as SMIRC, the Summer Michigan Rope Conference. They have been sharing their passion and rope adventure as kink educators since 2013.
As rope students they are best described as rope anarchists who prefer to break rope down to its fundamentals and then build back up into the different passions from patterns such as gote' to predicaments to how to incorporate rope into sex and bedroom bondage.
They have also presented on other topics including polyamory on behalf of the Michigan Board of Education and BDSM education alongside the Center for Relationship and Sexual Health.
In addition to presenting on rope attnwhor-69 is also a licensed massage therapist and teaches on the healing power of touch and both the therapeutic and kinky uses of cupping
AIR & RopeSiren
Air is a queer non-binary neurospicy poly switchy shaninstigator of magnitude. They have been involved in the Rope/BDSM community for just shy of a decade. As an avid self-tier, rigger, and rope bottom, they've showcased their creative, precocious, and hilariously sadomasochistic style at both national and international level events. Committed to fostering inclusivity and non-judgment, Air passionately guides individuals on their magical kink journey with skill and contagious enthusiasm.
BondageNexus & RopeSiren
Your presenters are life partners, rope tops, and rope bottoms. They love rope from every angle.
BondageNexus has been playing with rope in a sexual way for 48 years. He's made every mistake in the book; some more than once.
Rope_Siren has performed super high suspensions at Trauma and loves to model in rope. Siren seeks out rope education whenever her schedule allows, and has developed a strong interest lately in combining rope with aerial arts.
