Rope teacher Isla Ika (FI)

Are you interested in ropes, but starting out feels too difficult and technical? This beginner workshop, suitable for pairs, forgets technical tying instructions and focuses on the connection between the tying partners.

• Introduction to what rope bondage is, and why people like to tie each other

• Risks related to rope, nerve safety and negotiation skills for rope play

• Simple rope techniques (single column tie, larks head, counter tension, how to end a tie)

• Different ways to move together when another is tied up.

This workshop will give you the most essential tools to start your rope practice straight away, and have fun along the way.

Curious about exploring your kinks and fantasies through creative writing?

This workshop is a space to blend writing with kink and sexuality. We’ll dive into fun, supportive writing prompts — ranging from light and easy to more in-depth — designed to help you express yourself.

We’ll write together, and if you’re comfortable, you can share your work with the group.

No experience? No problem! Whether you're new to kink, writing, or both, this workshop is for everyone, as long as you’re okay with exploring potentially explicit content.

Bring along your favorite writing tools — whether that’s pen and paper or your go-to digital device. While digital is fine, I encourage writing by hand for a more relaxed, offline experience.

The class will be held in either Finnish or English, depending on the group’s preference, but you’re free to write in any language you feel most comfortable with.

Tickets are paid in advance via bank transfer, and before the workshop, you’ll receive some sample texts by email. These examples will help set the stage, so feel free to read through them before we meet.

After all fun rope play, untying might feel like a boring chore. It doesn’t need to be!

Untying can be big part of building the mood of a session, bring surprises or mindfucks, or an unpredictable, continuous cycle of tying and untying.

This workshop will offer new ideas for untying, and exercises, which will enhance your communication with ropes and make untying more interesting part of your rope practice.

Skill level: Participants know some essential rope techniques, like single column tie, some frictions, and how to end a tie.

In this workshop, we will learn my own hands front harness, which works great for multiple kinds of bodies, and is suitable for many kinds of suspensions.

In this workshop, we will learn the pattern and get ideas of how to use it on the floor and in the air, including transitions.

Skill level Multi level. If testing the harness on the floor, knowing some basic techniques like single column tie, frictions and how to end a tie.

If you want to test the harness in air, participants need to have solid knowledge of upline management and successful experiences with full suspensions.

Many rope workshops focus on learning the technical skills and forget the “soft skills” which make rope sessions truly rememberable. This workshop focuses only on skills that will enhance the play and communication between the partner tying.

During the workshop, participants will fill out their own “recipe card for a perfect rope session”, which can be used as a tool to plan better rope sessions together.

Skill level: Participants know some basic rope techniques, like single column tie, larks head, some frictions, and how to end a tie.

Semenawa means physically or mentally tormenting rope, and it has long roots in Japan, where rope has had a tight relationship with sadomasochism. Techniques and positions for semenawa are often taught seperately, one pattern at a time. It’s rarer to stop and think: what is semenawa really about? why it works, or doesn’t work? what do we want out of it?

Skill level

• Workshop includes powerful exercises that carry a strong emotional risk. Just watching a demo about inducing real mental or physical distress might be triggering, if you’re not familiar with this kind of rope play.

• This workshop should not be anyone’s first workshop on rope session skills. Exercises are mentally challenging, and might evoke strong reactions. Participants should have solid experience in altered states of consciousness through sub/dom spaces from rope sessions or other high-risk practices, like BDSM.

Have you tied on the floor for some time, and are up for the extra challenge? This workshop focuses on the basic technique of rope suspensions, and how to make safe uplines.

Body manipulation is a popular term, that is often mentioned in rope workshops, but not always explained in detail, how body manipulation is done.

This workshop focuses only on body manipulation, twisting the body, and rotated movement. We’ll learn basics about torsions and deep-dive into body mechanics that bring rope harnesses to completely new dimension.

Skill level:

• Advanced participants only. Participants have experience doing semi- or full suspensions, and good handling of uplines.

• Depending on the skill level, exercises can be done either as semi- or full suspensions.