With Tori and Fi (Torienne and Serene_Chaos)
ABOUT
In this two-day workshop we will take a deep dive into how we can be inspired by each other when we are tying, and into both aibunawa and semenawa, and how they form a spectrum that we can move along whilst tying to change the feelings and intentions that we have. This will include exploration of themes and tools that you can use to explore your partner’s shame and arousal, and to build eroticisation in your rope scenes.
When people describe aibunawa, they often translate it as caressing rope. In our minds, and in our style of aibunawa, we would amend this translation slightly to molesting rope, in combination with the shameful want of the tied person to be molested.
Aibunawa – Molesting Ropes (Being molested in a way that you are somewhat embarrassed that you enjoy, by someone you really want to be molesting you).
“I hate that I am turned on by this, it is awful but awesome” Fi (2025)
In a similar vein, people often associate semenawa with sadness; whilst this can be the case for some people, we think this can be much wider ranging. For us it often involves feelings of being objectified for the desire of the one tying, or enduring because your partner enjoys it. Whilst satisfaction and enjoyment are felt, and Fi would absolutely find it hot and wish it was her if she watched it happening to somebody else, in the moment of it happening, she is enduring it for Tori.
Semenawa – Tormenting Ropes (Being tormented in a way that you endure and which impacts you heavily in the moment, and which you will gain enjoyment or satisfaction from having done, by someone you enjoy being tormented by).
“Well, I guess this is my life now” Fi (2025)
The first day of this workshop will involve partial suspension, and will allow us to explore how we might make our partner feel explored and exposed, and how we can move between feelings that we would generally associate with aibunawa, and feelings that we might associate with semenawa in the same tie, allowing play to move in many more directions than we may be used to.
The second day will build on these themes, and will involve ties in suspension, exploring how we can still develop feelings that we might associate with aibunawa even in full suspension, but how as physical difficulty increases, feelings we may associate with semenawa become more natural to feel and much more work and skill has to be put in to add in elements of aibunawa.
We see rope as a thing that is done with loving perversion, and therefore whilst there may (will) be torment, it is done from a position of loving, wanting our partners and building them up, not putting them down. Therefore shame to us comes from the embarrassment our partners may feel from being involved in a situation that you both enjoy rather more than they may feel comfortable admitting, and from them being the inspiration for it and a complicit part in the act, and therefore just as much of a dirty pervert as the dirty pervert doing it to them.
This workshop is for couples (of all ages and gender combinations) who have some experience in Japanese-inspired bondage, are comfortable with and wanting to do erotic play together, and who want to explore aibunawa and semenawa together in a way that takes inspiration from the people involved in the tie, not centred around production of a shape or exercise; it is vulnerable for both people involved as you will both be showing each other the things you enjoy and/or are aroused by. The exercises during this workshop will provide the opportunity to become confident in using tools and techniques that elicit shame, aid the impact of exposure, and add to the erotic nature of your bondage.
THEMES THAT WILL BE EXPLORED
Inspiration and erotic history of kinbaku
Seeing and being seen
Taking inspiration from your partner
Aibunawa and Semenawa
Moving between aibunawa and semenawa as a spectrum, and how they can be very similar to one another
Kotobazeme (Dirty Talk)
Exposure, arousal, shame and objectification
Eroticisation of bondage
Impact of distance, silence and timing (Ma-ai)
Suspension vs Partial Suspension
Love, Seduction, Futility and Complicity
Effect of shape and body movement
Making the tying match the emotion, and being inspired by the gifts our partners give us
Mental vs physical predicament
BRING ALONG
Clothing that can be opened or that you can be exposed in for the person being tied
At least 12 jute ropes (5-6mm, 7-8m long)
LEVEL
Intermediate/Advanced - higher levels of tying skill will allow more focus on intensifying the impact of the bondage
PRE REQUISITS
The rigger must know how to tie a safe, stable and loadable gote that is capable of being used in vertical positions, and which the tied partner must be confident with. Both rigger and tied partner must be confident in suspension, and rigger must be able to control uplines well. The couple must be comfortable with kinbaku being explored in an erotic manner.
The weekend will be emotionally intense for both rigger and tied partner, and is also likely to be physically intense especially for the person being tied.
COST
400 per couple
Register per Mail or Messanger
Telegram: @RopuNawaOfficial
Location:
TwF Studio
Dornacherstrasse 131
4053 Basel