Conversing in Ropes: Sacrificial Offerings with fuoco & ordinals

🎟️ $400 per tying pair | $100 per auditor

💡 Admission is included in our weekend pass.

Join fuoco & ordinals for an exploration of what happens when we tie 'in the moment' - rope that is emergent, responsive, and specific. Both workshops are part of a series and designed to be attended together. Individual tickets are available if only one session fits your schedule.

Day Two: Sacrificial Offerings

In this workshop, we aim to trouble the binary of "active" and "passive" bottoming, and instead explore the numerous offerings that live on the spectrum within and between these two modes. This workshop will explore release/surrender as an intentional bottoming-mode that also requires skill and effort, and we'll consider what conditions are necessary for surrender to be accessed. We'll discuss how we can communicate, through our bodies, our new ideas and give permission to push into uncharted territory together. Tops will explore tying responsively and grow their capacity for listening to the non-verbal communication that originates from bodies within rope.

This workshop is best suited to attendees who are interested in growing their capacity to release in ropes, however, there is no requirement for how to be in ropes throughout the day. However you show up and whatever your body opts into is welcome and correct. The majority of the day will consist of technically simple exercises, requiring tops to be familiar with locking uplines. Bottoms should be at least intellectually aware of the difference between circulation restriction and nerve compression, and feel comfortable communicating through stress. Please come knowing at least one upper body harness that can be loaded from the back and one hip harness that can be loaded from the front (a simple hip harness or half-basket will do). This means knowing the patterns by memory and being familiar with how they feel to bottom to in suspension.

You Should Know

Tickets for this event are not refundable; however, they may be transferred to another customer if there is a waitlist.

You Should Bring

• Rope, hardware, and a complete suspension kit - we've got plenty of straps, carabiners, and bamboo

• Comfortable clothing and hydration

• Curiosity, care, and readiness to explore high-intensity rope with rigor

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