Almond Linden
Sex educator and ritual facilitator who created the Chronic Pain & Rope Workshop Series; Karada House lists sessions on floor work, adaptive tying and allyship.
Almond Linden is a sex educator and ritual facilitator who teaches rope to and with people living with chronic pain and disability. Karada House in Berlin lists online sessions in English and credits Almond with creating and facilitating the Chronic Pain & Rope Workshop Series.
The Rope x Chronic Pain series
The series is built around the idea that people in pain and disabled people can tie and be tied. The 2021 listing calls the floor session the second workshop of the series, and the 2024 listing presents it as four parts. Part 1 is an introduction for people in pain, Part 2 an introduction for allies, Part 3 covers floor work and Part 4 suspension, and the 2024 listing says Almond offers the series throughout the year.
- Floor/BedWork, December 2021. The listing describes a two-hour session on tying yourself or a partner while on the floor or in a bed, with attention to pain management while topping, bottoming and self-tying. Participants are asked to bring pain-management tools, and the page recommends watching an on-demand introduction first, which is available on Almond’s own website.
- Allies session, February 2022. Aimed at people without chronic pain, this lecture and demonstration covers adaptive tying, safety considerations specific to pain, props and tools, communication, and ways ableism shows up when people tie.
- Introduction, February 2024. The listing describes it as an introduction to rope where chronic pain and disability meet, covering how comfort works, the different kinds of pain, adaptations, feelings, safety and mobility aids. It requires no prior experience.
The 2022 and 2024 listings say recordings were planned, and all three listings describe automated captions, large presentation fonts and verbal descriptions of images.
Queerope
The Queerope 2022 line-up page on Karada House’s site lists Almond Linden and summarizes the work as helping people who live with chronic pain reach sexuality and sensuality in accessible ways. The page also credits Almond with a separate workshop on chronic pain and sexuality.