Anoxia Rope
Chicago rope educator and performer who, according to a VoxBody Studio listing, works in rope full-time, teaches touring workshops and private lessons, works at Shibari Study and helps organize conferences.
Anoxia Rope, known as Anoxia or Nox, is a rope artist, performer and educator based in Chicago. The Shibari Study Podcast show notes for episode 16 use that description, and the VoxBody Studio class listings also give Chicago as the base of this educator and performer.
Teaching
The podcast notes describe a habit of breaking down knowledge from many sources and recombining it, aiming to understand how the physical, mental and visual sides of rope work on each other. They say Anoxia’s classes move beyond patterns and rote learning toward underlying principles useful at any stage of a student’s rope path, and that private lessons take place in a home studio.
The VoxBody listings give more detail. They say Anoxia has more than ten years of practice, mainly in Japanese-style rope, and has trained with instructors in North America, Europe and Japan. Anoxia teaches both the tying and the receiving side, covering suspension concepts and anatomy along with emotional skills and shared scene design.
Events and organizing
The podcast notes say Anoxia has presented in small local venues across the United States and at the conventions Tethered Together, Kinkfest and Desert Bound, and, at the time of the episode, sat on the steering committee of NARIX, the North American Rope Innovation eXchange. The presenter bio on the VoxBody listing, which covers Anoxia and a co-presenter, also names Ropecraft among the conferences where they have presented. The listing adds that Anoxia takes part in event organizing, helping stage conferences and touring programs, both in Chicago and at other venues in the United States and Canada.
Current work
According to the listing, Anoxia has made rope a full-time occupation, touring for workshops, teaching private students, and holding a role at Shibari Study. VoxBody Studio in Oakland lists two classes with Anoxia dated in the fall of 2026: a hogtie and quick-restraint session on September 23 and an introduction to movement rope, drawing on contact improvisation, social dance and theater, on October 21.