Beyond the Ropes: Energy, Elemental Touch & Rope-Assisted Stretch
About this Event
**Keeping with Eventbrite guidelines, this event is not sex based, explicit or pornographic. This is an educational workshop with lecture, guided massage and communication practice, theory, and practical elements as explained in details below.
Why this event
This one deliberately takes the technique out of rope, so the rope stops being something you have to be good at and becomes an instrument of attention. It is the most accessible rope event we run, and the one that reaches people who would never buy a rope class — bodyworkers, massage and energy practitioners, tantra people with no rope background. No experience, and you will not be tying anyone.
It also happens to be the landing for anyone who went deep on Saturday. A fire peak at midnight deserves somewhere to go.
What happens
You arrive to a simple repetitive rope meditation — hands busy before anyone has to talk, and latecomers filter in without disrupting anything. Then an opening circle: introductions, agreements, how to ask and how to decline, and injury disclosure, which matters because of the stretching later. Then we teach you the chain you have already been making.
Ether rope is the first partner exercise and involves no touch at all — attention given somewhere to go, framed so that a complete sceptic can participate honestly. Elemental rope is the heart of the day: earth, water, fire and air as four qualities of touch with a short piece of rope, run in that order as one nervous-system cycle — settle, move, warm, cool.
Then rope-assisted partner stretches: passive, static, never forced past resistance, ended instantly by the person receiving. Open practice follows, and we close in one connected circle with every person's hands in the same chain.
What you get out of it
- Four distinct qualities of touch you can use in any bodywork or intimacy practice, with or without rope.
- A way into energy work that does not ask you to believe anything.
- Rope-assisted stretching you can take home to a partner.
- Four hours of being worked with by several different people, which is its own education.
YOUR FACILITATOR
Sir Pocketz is a Houston-based facilitator, coach and performer, and the founder of Dark Tantra Temple — a consent-forward, trauma-informed community for adults exploring tantric practice, somatic embodiment and conscious intimacy, with roughly 500 members across Texas and nationally.
He works where rope, somatic bodywork and nervous-system awareness meet, a practice he calls Bondage Directed Somatic Medicine. He has taught and performed in rope, aerial and immersive spaces.
This October, Dark Tantra Temple's four-event weekend tours Houston, Washington DC, Boston and New York.
Agenda
🕑: 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Doors, solo rope meditation on arrival
🕑: 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Opening circle — agreements, rotation, injury disclosure
🕑: 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM
Teaching the chain
🕑: 12:50 PM - 01:30 PM
Ether rope — first partner exercise, no touch
🕑: 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
Elemental rope — earth, water, fire, air
🕑: 02:30 PM - 02:45 PM
Break
🕑: 02:45 PM - 03:30 PM
Rope-assisted partner stretches
🕑: 03:30 PM - 03:45 PM
Open practice
🕑: 03:45 PM - 04:00 PM
Closing circle — the whole room in one chain
Where is it happening?
USD 47.00 to USD 57.00
