Sensual Shibari: Communication, Intention & Emotional Intelligence through Rope with Marie Sauvage & glory moonfire

With gratitude to sponsor Noah Youngs, VoxBody is pleased to announce this beginners class with Marie Sauvage (France) and glory moonfire (Bay Area).

Sensual Shibari: Communication, Intention & Emotional Intelligence Through Rope

Join us December 9 for a three-hour partnered class exploring how verbal and non-verbal communication can create a beautiful connection through rope.

The class starts by setting intentions with your partner and practicing clear consent: how to ask, offer, decline, and adjust; how to name boundaries and desires; and how to talk about meaning, sexual health, and aftercare.

Through guided exercises, partners will explore verbal negotiation, then turn to nonverbal communication—presence, touch, breath, body positioning, and attentive observation.

After establishing consent and intention, we will explore foundational rope techniques, including the single-column tie as a foundation that builds upon more complex patterns. We will practice some body transitions to keep the flow of the scene unfolding.

The class closes with a mindful untying/practice, and space to reflect on what surfaced with a Q + A.

* No experience necessary!

* Materials needed: 2-3 lengths of rope. VoxBody has loaner rope for attendees to use during class.

* Tickets are offered for tying pairs; sign up with a friend or beloved!

* If finances are a barrier for your attendance, please email us at voxbody@gmail.com; we have limited scholarship observer spots for this class!

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About the presenters:

Marie Sauvage (she/her) is a Paris-based shibari artist, performer, and teacher. She started her shibari career when she met Hajime Kinoko at his Burning Man installation in 2017. Since then, Marie has practiced shibari full time and trained in Japan with Hajime Kinoko and Ren Yagami. Her style of rope focuses on creating a sensorial journey for her rope partners while immersing them in an aesthetically beautiful floor ties and rope suspensions.

Find Marie on IG @marie.sauvage

glory moonfire (they/she) is a non-binary interdisciplinary performance artist, somatic guide, and creator of Rope as Medicine, an embodied rope practice centering ritual and transformation. Their body of work investigates the longing for human intimacy alongside cultural, ancestral, and transpersonal themes in rope. glory has presented work at VoxBody Studio, San Francisco State University, private retreats, and festivals. As co-founder of Bound to Rise, they have created 80+ immersive performances and participatory rope experiences across the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Hawaiʻi. Their work is informed by depth psychology, contemporary movement practices, shamanism, and their Chinese-Vietnamese heritage, inviting audiences into new ways of relating with the human condition.

See more of glory's work here: https://www.ropeasmedicine.com/ and on IG: @glorymoonfire