HELD

A facilitated cuddle container built around one rope suspension, witnessed from inside the nest. Clothing-optional, nonsexual.

**Keeping with Eventbrite guidelines, this event is not sex based, explicit or pornographic. This is an educational workshop with lecture, guided massage and communication practice, theory, and practical elements as explained in details below.

Why this event

Almost every rope performance is watched sitting upright, at a remove, as spectacle. This one is watched lying down, from inside a cuddle nest, with the rig in the middle of the room. That single change turns a performance into a shared somatic experience: you are being held while you watch someone else be held. The person in the rope is doing, in an extreme and beautiful form, exactly what everyone on the floor is doing in a small one — giving their weight to someone who has them.

What happens

We open in circle with agreements and introductions, then work through four relating games that escalate gently — conversation, then noticing, then eye contact, and finally asking for something you actually want and hearing a real yes or a real no. By the time the nest forms, the room is not strangers any more; the relaxation is earned rather than requested.

Then the lights drop, bodies come down onto the floor, and the suspension happens in the centre of the room, staged low and mid so that people lying on their backs get the actual picture rather than the underside. Afterwards the floor stays open for a long, slow hold, then a closing circle and aftercare.

What you get out of it

• Practice asking for what you want and hearing no without it costing anything.
• Non-sexual touch in a room that has been prepared for it properly.
• A rope performance seen from a vantage almost nobody gets to see one from.
• A nervous system that has spent five hours down-regulating in company.

YOUR FACILITATOR

Sir Pocketz is a Houston-based facilitator, coach and performer, and the founder of Dark Tantra Temple — a consent-forward, trauma-informed community for adults exploring tantric practice, somatic embodiment and conscious intimacy, with roughly 500 members across Texas and nationally.

He works where rope, somatic bodywork and nervous-system awareness meet, a practice he calls Bondage Directed Somatic Medicine. He has taught and performed in rope, aerial and immersive spaces.

This October, Dark Tantra Temple's four-event weekend tours Houston, Washington DC, Boston and New York.