Bas Spacewalk
Munich rigger and teacher who calls his modern, Japanese-inspired style emotional-erotic SpaceRope, runs couples' shibari workshops with co-teacher Vero under the name Mein BONDAGE, and wrote the 238-page book Mein BONDAGE on the emotional side of tying.
Bas Spacewalk is a rope bondage teacher and author in Munich who runs the workshop and session project Mein BONDAGE. His site says he has lived and tied in Munich for many years and concentrates on intensely emotional rope, mostly in private settings or selected sessions. He describes his style as modern, Japanese-inspired and based on empathy, ranging from subtle tying to very intense impact rope, and gives it his own name, “emotional-erotic SpaceRope.”
Book
He is the author of Mein BONDAGE, a 238-page hardcover in German sold through his site. Its seven chapters cover the kinds of tying, the skills and motivations of both the person tying and the person being tied, the emotional possibilities of rope, communication during a tie, consent and boundaries, risk, aftercare and the first rope encounter. Four interludes give the perspective of the tied person, in which four of his rope partners describe their own emotions and views. The shop description presents the book as a broad grounding in modern, Japanese-inspired tying for beginners and experienced practitioners alike, and stresses that it is not a technical manual and has no illustrations. A quotation on the shop page describes tying with rope as a deep, erotic and more or less intimate encounter between two people on a physical, mental and emotional level.
Workshops and private teaching
His public workshops, co-taught with Vero, are listed at the Tantra Studio Spiritual Touch in Munich and are open only to couples. In the taster course both partners can try both roles; in the beginner and follow-on courses each couple decides at the start who ties and who is tied, and keeps those roles for the whole course. The program runs from a taster course through a beginner course, which introduces a first upper-body tie, leg ties, the effects of rope and the basics of risk and safety, to two follow-on courses called “Shibari Wonderland” and “Shibari Miracle.” The first adds a new upper-body and leg tie together with consent and boundaries; the second focuses on positioning, rope intensity and how both affect the two partners. The workshop page says the courses deal with the emotional effects of tying as much as with technique, and participant reviews quoted there mention small groups, feedback rounds and individual guidance.
For couples who cannot or do not want to attend public classes, he offers private tuition for single couples or private groups, from a single taster to a basic module of beginner and follow-on courses, held on site, in hotels or at selected venues. He also offers private rope sessions of three to four hours that start with a conversation, proceed in small steps with continual check-ins, and end with time to rest and reflect.