New Class Structure at LA Rope

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Over the next few months, LA Rope will be restructuring its core mission to focus exclusively on the teaching of Yukimura Ryuu. The new structure...

Murasaki san and Iroha san in LA

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Thursday, March 16th, LA Rope hosted Murasaki sensei with Iroha for an advanced workshop on Yukimura Ryuu. We began the evening with a ceremony remembering...

Yukimura Style Study Group

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Beginning in September, LA Rope will offer monthly meetings for the opportunity to study the style of Grandmaster Yukimura Haruki in greater depth. Rather that...

Emotion and Communication: Building Rope Progressions

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Too often, rope classes focus on ties, patterns, and technique, without really delving into how those ties can be used to create emotion, feeling,...

Feb 4th: How to Take Great Kinbaku Photos

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About the Class This class explores the question “What makes a good rope picture?” There are almost as many approaches to kinbaku photography as there are...

LA Rope at Threshold: Humiliation Ties: Kinbaku for Shame and Pleasure (Sept. 3, 7:00)

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So often we focus on the physical aspects of kinbaku, while paying less attention to profound and intense psychological effects our ties may have....

Yukimura Style Predicament Ties

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In January, we will be offering a new intermediate workshop introducing as style of "predicament ties," based on Yukimura's style of rope bondage. ...

March 5th: Torture Ties: The Ebi and Gyaku Ebi

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Join the LA Rope Dojo as we explore two of the most famous and legendary "torture ties" from Edo era Japan.  The Ebi or...

Yoga for Rope Bottoms, August 16th, 10:00am

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We are really happy to announce that our friends from NoCal are going to be in LA offering a workshop on yoga designed specifically...

May 7th: Rope Suspension: Theory and Practice

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Join us for a discussion of rope bondage suspensions. One of the most dramatic and intense forms of rope play, suspensions have a long...

What is Yukimura Style Shibari?

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Yukimura Haruki (1948-2016) was one a handful of bakushi (rope masters) who elevated the art of tying by creating his own style (ryuu in...

Feb 5th, Safety for Rope Bottoms (and Tops)

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Come join us as we begin our workshop series for 2015. Our first class will be on safety in kinbaku, covering everything from anatomy and...

New To Shibari?

New to Shibari? Start Here

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Over the past few years the interest in Japanese erotic rope bondage has exploded. Whether you call it shibari or kinbaku or just Japanese rope, it is worth...

What is Yukimura Style Shibari?

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Yukimura Haruki (1948-2016) was one a handful of bakushi (rope masters) who elevated the art of tying by creating his own style (ryuu in...