⭕️ TANTRIC SHIBARI Level 1 ⭕️ Beginner Rope Workshop for Couples & Friends
About this Event
🎟 Tickets & all dates:
Booking runs through our own website — one place for all dates, tickets and gift cards.
Limited to 4 couples.
Shibari is not a technique
It is a language — one that speaks through tension, touch and presence.
A four-hour rope experience for two, where rope becomes an intimate language of touch, trust and connection. Together you slow down, breathe, and rediscover each other through Shibari, the Japanese art of rope. Guided step by step by artist Dan Carabas.
The invitation
Are you ready to meet your partner with more polarity, presence and intimacy?
Tantric Shibari brings two practices together: the energetic polarity of Tantra — Shiva and Shakti, holding and yielding — and the dynamics of Shibari, where control meets surrender. The result is a charged, alive tension between you.
The focus is not on complicated patterns, but on sensation, communication and emotional depth.
What we explore
A professionally guided session you can carry home:
- Intake & safety briefing before we begin
- Guided partner exercises leading into a full Shibari experience
- A short, playful "Escape Game" to find the right tension together
- Polarity — the play of leading and following
- Presence & mindfulness, deepening into trust and surrender
- Slowness & intensity, paired with sensuality and intimacy
You'll leave feeling closer, braver, and more connected.
"I thought we would learn some knots. What we actually learned was how to see and feel each other differently. The rope became secondary — it was about breath, eye contact, and how power flows between us when one of us holds, and the other yields. That has changed how we touch each other every day." — Susan & Paul
The space
Step off the street in Berlin-Mitte and the noise falls away. Inside is a quiet, Japanese-inspired room: we tie on original tatami mats, in candlelight, wrapped in a soft, intense soundscape.
The scent of the space, the sound of rope moving over the tatami — every detail is arranged to let you drop out of the hectic city and back into your own body. A place of calm and quiet strength, held exclusively for you.
In a city that never slows down, the rarest luxury isn't time — it's presence.
Shape of the session
Every session moves in three parts, a simple arc you'll come to recognise.
1. Tying & taking control One of you leads, the other yields. You learn to place rope with intention — slow, deliberate, present. Trust is built here, in the care of every wrap and the pause between them.
2. Playing with energy Once the rope holds, the real conversation begins. You explore polarity — leading and following, holding and being held — letting tension, breath and stillness move between you. Less about knots, more about what you feel.
3. Untying & coming back The rope comes off slowly and with care. You land together — a moment to breathe, talk, and let the experience settle before stepping back into the world.
From doing to being
Every session begins in doing — knots, frictions, the mechanics of rope. That focus is the doorway, not the destination.
As the hands get busy and the mind narrows to a single task, something shifts. The mental chatter quiets. You stop thinking about the next step and start feeling the person in front of you. That is the move from doing into being: fully present, beyond words, attention soft but complete, in flow with each other and carried by the rope.
Where doing is effort, being is what's left when the effort falls away — the state most people came looking for without quite knowing its name.
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🎟 Tickets & all dates:
Booking runs through our own website — one place for all dates, tickets and gift cards.
Limited to 4 couples.
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Good to know
- Max. 4 couples
- €150 per couple (one ticket admits two)
- Students & low income: price on request — [email protected]
- English & Deutsch
- Wear something easy to move in — underwear, lungi, sarong
- Binding ticket, not a walk-in
- Rope sets are provided, high-quality natural jute rope, singed and oiled.
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About Shibari Studio Berlin & the instructor
Shibari Studio Berlin is a dedicated space for Shibari workshops, Tantric-Shibari experiences, and private sessions in Berlin, founded in 2024 by multidisciplinary artist Dan Carabas.
The studio’s work focuses on intentional rope practice, embodied connection, and conscious intimacy, using Shibari and Kinbaku as tools for presence, communication, and trust. Experiences are designed for couples, individuals, and artists seeking a grounded, refined approach to rope — beyond technique or performance.
Dan Carabas, a multidisciplinary artist working with rope for over a decade, trained with international masters such as Nicolas Yoroï, Felix Ruckert and Hajime Kinoko. His approach: "the art of Shibari with intention" is rooted in Aibunawa (愛撫縄).
A traditional Shibari technique, the tender, caressing rope. Here, feeling comes before form, and rope becomes a practice of presence, trust, and connection.
→ Dan's rope journey
→ More about Shibari Studio Berlin and Dan Carabas’ artistic approach:
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