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.
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.
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
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.
MxBliss
FetLife
MxBliss is a gleeful sadist, sensation empath, consent enthusiast, rope switch, self-suspender, and quinkster (queer kinkster). As an older, queer, femme-presenting POC who didn’t initially feel welcome in the shibari community, she is committed to rope education accessibility. Her rope style is a largely self-taught jumble of American-, circus-, and Japanese- rope and is heavily influenced by her self-suspension practice. She is an attorney, kink-business consultant, dominance and executive coach, performance artist, and BDSM educator.
