Embodiment Rope Space
Embodiment Rope Space, 2021–, is a community in the bakushi / kinbaku ecosystem.
Era: 2020s
Places
Cape Town queer-first rope and shibari community space active since 2021. Official Embodiment pages describe a volunteer-run physical rope space in Salt River with weekly rope jams, beginner and intermediate workshops, private lessons, floor mats and suspension hard points, plus a public Quicket ticket flow and Instagram contact surface. Astrid's 2024 Shibari Study article confirms the space grew out of earlier South African rope-community organizing and had already hosted visiting educators including Mango and Caritia.
Sources
- Embodiment Rope Space official site catalogue record
- Embodiment Rope Space: About catalogue record
- Embodiment Rope Space: Shibari Events in Cape Town catalogue record
- Shibari Study: My Journey To Opening The First Shibari Dojo In Africa catalogue record
- Quicket: Shibari Performance Cape Town with Sudo and FireLily catalogue record
- Quicket: Shibari Workshop Cape Town | Partial suspensions catalogue record
- ShibariNews: Astrid AKA Desire Lines catalogue record
- Sunga Konji: About catalogue record
- Quicket: Tsika Dzedu II with Sunga Konji catalogue record
- Quicket: Rope Bondage Fundamentals at Embodiment (March 2024) catalogue record
- Quicket: Rope Bondage Fundamentals I at Embodiment (August 2026) catalogue record
- Sunday Times: The ties that bind — why shibari is more than a Japanese rope trick catalogue record
- Quicket: Rope Bondage Fundamentals at Embodiment (July 2024) catalogue record
- Quicket: Rope Bondage Fundamentals at Embodiment (April 2025) catalogue record
- Quicket / Embodiment Rope Space: Shibari Workshop with HenRigger and A-typeSub catalogue record
- Quicket / Embodiment Rope Space: Shibari Performance Cape Town with HenRigger and A-typeSub catalogue record
- Embodiment Rope Space: Yukimura Shibari Workshop with HenRigger and Rose catalogue record
Official links
People associated with Embodiment Rope Space: Sudo, Astrid, Mango, Caritia, Sunga Konji, RopeFu, Sim, Fire Lily, Kay, HenRigger Nawa Shashin, TheBoundRose.