Asimira
Rope switch and physiotherapist whose teaching centers on anatomy and body handling; the Berlin studio Daruma lists her workshops, and the 2026 Danish Shibari Festival announced her as a presenter.
Asimira is a rope switch who also works as a physiotherapist, and her teaching draws on both. The Berlin studio Daruma carries a teacher page for her that uses she/her, and the 2026 Danish Shibari Festival lists her among its announced presenters.
Background
Daruma’s teacher page says she came across rope during the graduation project of her art studies and that the encounter revived an older interest in touch and anatomy, which led her to train as a physiotherapist. The page adds that her history spans illustration, modeling and photography. The Danish festival’s presenter biography gives the year of that first encounter as 2015 and describes the move into physiotherapy as a new course of study.
Teaching
Daruma presents her as someone who ties and is tied, and who applies her knowledge of the human body to both roles. By her own account on that page, playfulness, movement and touch matter more to her than elaborate technical ties. The festival biography says her teaching focuses on anatomy and on becoming playful and intimate in a tie as early and as often as possible.
Daruma’s event pages show how this appears in practice:
- A two-day TK Lab dated August 2024 is listed with Gestalta as co-teacher. The description says she contributes anatomy and body manipulation from her physiotherapy training and her experience as a rope bottom, and that the workshop covers nerves, arm positioning and variations of the takate kote.
- Body Handling, a class listed for December 2024 as part of the studio’s “The Body & Ropes” series, covers techniques for moving another person’s body, and Daruma describes it as suitable for complete beginners.
- Pressure Pleasure, listed for October 2024 with Tree Ropes, looks at applying pressure in a pleasurable way within a rope scene.
Festivals
The Danish Shibari Festival listed Asimira and Noxknot as presenters for its August 2026 edition at MyShibari in Sønder Felding. The festival page, which marks the event as sold out, describes Noxknot as a practitioner with an aerial acrobatics background.