Shibari is the Way

Shibari is the Way, 2020s-, is a American community in the bakushi / kinbaku ecosystem.

2020s-

Era: 2020s

Spokane shibari education and performance-community project founded by Ray Duran. The official site presents Shibari is the Way as Spokane's home for shibari classes, burlesque shows, Shibari and Flow Nights and nylon rope; its class page describes hands-on beginner through advanced rope training in Spokane, and its shows page frames the project with Spokane Flow Syndicate as a local collective producing burlesque, drag, flow-arts and rope-art shows. Host-side Dream Studio, Spokesman-Review, AllEvents and Handstamp pages independently preserve 2025-2026 class and Shibari and Flow event traces in Spokane. documented as compact local rope / performance infrastructure; Aley Kitten, Lush Cabaret, Spokane Flow Syndicate, The Chameleon, Dream Studio, Quality Inn Oakwood, specific class/show occurrences, Seattle wording and performer rosters remain source context only.

People associated with Shibari is the Way: Ray Duran.