Rope Bottoming Resources
This is by no means an exhaustive list of the rope bottoming resources available to you and we encourage you to do your own research.
Consent, Negotiation & Risk Profiles:
Rope Study’s – Consent, Negotiation & Risk Profiles
Shibari Study’s Consent Negotiations
Rope Bottom Focused Blog:
Books:
General Guide and Overview – free to download – Clovers Rope Bottoming Guide
Better Bondage for Every Body – Evie Vane
The little guide to getting tied up – Evie Vane
Somatics for Rope Bottoms – Natasha Nawataneko
Rope Bottom Focused Podcast:
Model Behaviour – 3 rope bottoms discuss their personal experiences on various topics
Warming Up for Rope:
Shibari Study’s – Warm up for Rope
Rope Safety / Nerve Information:
Shibari Study’s General Rope Safety (FREE)
Shibari Study’s Fundamental Body Awareness
Shibari Study’s Hand Checks (FREE)
Shibari Study’s Master Class on Nerve Compression management/p>
Frozen Meursault’s Nerve Injury reference Card
Rope Study’s Reducing Risk (nerves)
Other Rope Resources
Devil Mask Society’s YouTube Channel – where they have online resources for their Cell Program. A ~16 month program taking you from nothing through to suspension. This group has a Fetlife Presence as well. They have a discord server, and are doing a “book club” which is a rewatch of the previous recorded live stream and have office hours once a month to answer questions regarding the classes and content.
For a deep dive on nerves, where they sit on the body and where they sit when you do specific rope harnesses check out Rope Study’s Nerves & Circulation module
Here’s a YouTube video that shows Peripheral Nerve Sliders & Tensioners | Upper Limb Neurodynamics. Which can be done to promote nerve health.
For a really great overview of rope consent, negotiation that respects the nuance of those two things check out the EURIX Guidelines for Negotiation and Establishing Consent
” I mean, with modern jet travel you can arrive instantaneously. What happens as a result of that is that the two ends of your journey becomes the same place. So you eliminate the distance and you eliminate the journey, but the fun of the journey is to travel, not to obliterate the travel.” – Alan Watts
A podcast interviewing Gorgone – “one of the OG’s of the European Rope Scene. A french rope switch who co-founded Shibari Study.” They talk about their rope journey. On Spotify
An interesting perspective of a specific type of rope from a bottoms perspective – on Kinbaku Today a blog that discusses rope.
An article from Natasha Nawataneko the author of Somatics for Rope on slowing down in rope.
P E Ropes on Instagram talks a bout “Let them sink in Mentally.”
“In my vision, semenawa is a way for revealing what the two people (top and bottom) have inside and bring out those “muddy things” that both of them wouldn’t ever show to anyone. It’s not an act (I’ll do semenawa to you), its a process that may work only if we are 2 kindred spirits that have some turmoil inside to bring out” –Kurogami