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Are you SERIOUS about improving your rope bondage skills?
Do you want to erotically please and sexually pleasure your partner using rope?
Do you want to learn how to be a better bottom or receiver of rope pleasures?
Ready to get to the next level of education?
Do you want to do safer rope suspension bondage the right way?

If so, you’ll love Rope Bondage Dojo®.

It’s designed with a multi skill-level layered education style to create an exceptional learning experience for both the experienced and novice players.

In two days, your rope skills will improve dramatically through16 hours of concentrated, personalized and hands-on education by Midori and DeLano, two of the best instructors around. It’s a weekend-long immersion and training course unlike any other!

For more information on what to expect during the Dojo click here.

Do you need previous rope bondage experience?
No! All we ask is that you are over the age of 18 and you are able to tie your shoelaces. (Seriously, a lot of basic rope skills and rope physics are included in this basic skill.)

For other frequently asked questions to help you prepare for the experience, take a look at the FAQ page.

Please note that we bring you the Dojo happens 3 to 4 times per year in different cities. Many students have combined their holiday vacation plans around the Dojo schedule.

Full Weekend Intensive Rope Bondage Dojo® class with expert rigger, Midori, and special guest instructor, DeLano.

Time: 8 hours each day. The specific time will vary from location to location but they have mostly been 10am – 6pm, or noon – 8pm each day.

Location: The locations will vary in each city. We find a large, kink positive space with suspension capabilities.

$350 for Singles, $600 for Pairs. Single day tickets are not available. Specially
configured smaller classes will have a unique pricing due to concentrated
instruction time and will be noted as such in the Upcoming Dojo description.

Because of the intensive nature of the material and instruction, this course is usually limited to only 28 participants or fewer.

Course Details:

A Rope Bondage Dojo® Weekend Intensive from Basic to Advanced with Midori and special guest instructor, DeLano. Want to learn about rope bondage? Frustrated with short workshops and demos? Do you want personalized attention to improve every aspect of your rope techniques? Are you ready for the disciplined approached to take you to the next level? Have you wanted to know what Midori teaches her personal rigger apprentices? Are you a total rope beginner with the motivation to move past your hesitation and blow your lover’s mind with hot scenes? Are you a master of the basics who’s ready for a real challenge?

Spend a full and concentrated weekend with the First Lady of Rope Bondage, Midori. DeLano, of DeLano Bound, will be the co-presenter sharing the heart and soul of the rope bottom experience. From the very basics to the advanced techniques of safe rope suspension, they’ll put you through the paces and improve you in the Rope Bondage Dojo® class.

Your Full Weekend Package Includes:

• 16 hours + of concentrated instruction from Midori and Delano with lots of hands-on practice.
• Continental breakfast both days
• Catered lunch both days*
• Limited edition commemorative graduation gift
• Free bamboo for play, as seen in many Japanese bondage imagery
• Certificate of Graduation ready for framing
• Saturday evening private play party at class site. Free for registered students, $15 for additional guests. (RSVP on Saturday required as space is limited.) 8pm to midnight.** This is available at most Dojo locations but not all. Please check the details for the Dojo of your choosing.

Saturday “Day 1: Fundaments of Technique and Scene Dynamics”

• Safety, rope selection, basic knots, rope care
• Basic Two-Column Tie, Body Harness, Sex Bondage, Partial Suspension, Basics of Shibari. Freestyle Bondage
• Psychology and Emotional Dynamics of Rope, Dominance and Scene Control
• History of Japanese Rope Bondage
• Speed Drills

Sunday “Day 2: Mastering Rope”

• Speed Drills
• Problem Solving Skills
• Creativity Exercise
• Taking Flight: Rope Suspension Bondage
• It’s in the Details: Hand and feet bondage
• Visions and Perversions: Learn to think and create with mastery, art and power
• And more

All exercises will be done by everyone. This means that everyone ties and feels the ties on them. This may be uncomfortable or novel for some of you, but rest assured that it’s made easy and safe. This makes for bottoms to be much better bottoms and tops to be much better tops. It’ll broaden your perspective and give you better tools to have your needs met in the long run.

If you are in a dominant-submissive relationship where the emotional dynamic of the relationship is set, this won’t be a conflict. As headspace is not expected, one can command the other to tie well. Or you might find it fun to pair up and practice with different people in the Dojo to fulfill the exercise requirements

Wear comfortable clothing. Bring large towels, yoga mats, pillows etc if you’d like. It does make things more comfortable. Bring lots of rope and a pair of safety shears or rope cutters.

Some suggestions on rope you might want to bring per person:

• 4 pieces of 12 feet
• 4 pieces of 30 or 35 feet rope
• Thin cord such as parachute cord or thin cotton cord
• Nylon, cotton, pre-treated hemp and jute are all great
• Avoid climbing rope
• More rope the merrier!

Pre-purchase books and pre-treated Japanese hemp rope using your credit card when you register for the Rope Bondage Dojo® class and we’ll bring them to the Dojo for you!

Be prepared to shop at the event! Midori will bring a small supply of her pre-treated Japanese hemp rope, the instructional book “The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage”, her other writings, Michele Serchuk’s bondage photography and other items for sale during the weekend. Cash or check only for on-site product purchases.

* We try our best to accommodate needs of those who are vegetarians. If you do have less common dietary restrictions we ask that you consider bringing the food and snacks that you enjoy.

Registration dates and cancellation refund cut off dates: Varies for each course. Click on the specific Dojo and you’ll see.

Hotel suggestion list for each city available upon request.

Acclaimed writer and lecturer on a wide range of sexual topics, Midori has a degree in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and vast indispensable experience as a pioneering San Francisco sex educator.

Midori is known for her humanistic, humorous and warm classes that help people to spice up people’s sex lives and encourage self discovery and personal growth.

A regular advice columnist for Men’s Health, she has appeared on HBO and BBC, and has been featured in Vogue, Playboy, Der Spiegel, Cosmo and more. Multifaceted, she is a skilled photographer, artist in Japanese rope, presenting to art institutions such as Tanzquartier, Vienna and Das Arts in Amsterdam. She’s the author of bestselling books “The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage” and “Wild Side Sex”.

Born in Japan and raised in a feminist intellectual Tokyo household, she served in the US Army while earning her psychology degree from University of California, Berkeley.

Numerous years as a sex educator with San Francisco Sex Information combines with her curiosity and explorations into the sex-positivity movement to complete the dynamic blend of experiences that give her breadth and depth of knowledge in human erotic expression.

Rope:
She is deeply passionate about rope pleasures. She’s been playing with rope for over 20 years now. In her twenties she apprenticed and learned from many including Kaye Buckley, Lou Duff, Mr. Nagaike, etc. She continues to learn from and exchange ideas with fellow enthusiasts. She’s considered an expert rigger in the sensual and arts realm. Along with designing and performing challenging rope stage shows to to huge crowds at clubs such as Torture Garden and Skin Two Rubber Ball in London, North Bound Leather Ball in Toronto and L’Erotica in Melbourne, Australia, she’s styled rope for fashion photographers Nick Knight for Vogue, Tiziano Magni for WestEast magazine. Like so many accomplished artists, she’s mastered various forms of rope play, including complex suspensions, Shibari (Japanese rope bondage) and more to create what has become recognized as her unique blend of aesthetics and function, a dynamic art of erotic rope. She delights in teaching the art as well as the practical realities of rope for great sex.

Rope skills have been distilled into her non-erotic artwork of installations, photography and performance art pieces as well.
http://www.ranshin.com .

Learn more about her education work at http://www.FHP-inc.com .

DeLano is dedicated to using his years of experience in the bondage scene to help others enjoy their time in rope more safely and more fully. He has presented on bondage bottoming at Shibaricon in Chicago and at TESFest in New York. He has presented with Michele Serchuk for Sexy Spirits in New York, on their photographic collaborations on bondage imagery. DeLano co-moderates the Japanese RopeArt and the Shibari Enthusiasts Yahoo groups. The former is a group specifically set up for rope bondage bottoms to share experiences with, and get advice and encouragement from, other rope bottoms. As a member of The Eulenspiegal Society in New York, he has been involved with several presentations to their Bondage SIG. He is thrilled to be assisting Midori with Rope Dojo^SM classes and is eager to bring the “bottom’s point of view” on various aspects of scene dynamics and psychology to the class.

DeLano’s love affair with bondage began at a very early age (you wouldn’t believe what his “action figures” had to endure when he was a kid) but he only consummated that affair seven years ago. Since then he’s been a frequent fixture (sometimes literally) in the New York fetish scene as a bondage bottom, performer, model, and most recently, teacher. A true rope slut, DeLano is always ravenous for bondage. His new Website, www.delanobound.com, is a personal exploration of his spiritual journeys in rope bondage through the connections he shares with his rope tops.

“We just wanted to thank you again for helping us improve our intimacy - both emotional and physical… Who’d have thought you could do that with a little bit of rope???

“Sincerely, we had the best time at the Rope Dojo and you are the most fabulous teacher. The gift of confidence and knowledge that you’d given us just keeps on giving (and giving… we’re wearing each other out!) What fun!!!

With greatest love & respect
M & M from Baltimore”