Blue (La Virgen Blue)

Blue, who works under the name La Virgen Blue, is a rope and kink educator in Mexico City and the founder of Shibari México, a teaching and community project for rope bondage. Her site describes her as a sex-positive activist and educator, a multilingual community organizer and a rigger who also enjoys being tied, and says she uses she/her pronouns.

Shibari México

According to her biography, she is originally from the desert of the United States and has lived in Europe, Asia and Mexico. When she arrived in Mexico she could not find a rope community or a space where she felt safe practicing, so she created one; Shibari México exists, the site says, so that she can share her knowledge and help make Mexico more rope-friendly and better informed about alternative practices. She leads most of its teaching. The core course, “Shibari Desde Ceros” (shibari from zero), is sold per three-hour class, with at least four classes recommended for the basics, and covers basic, suspension, dynamic and decorative harnesses, futomomo for suspension and floor play, rope care and body handling, with an emphasis on safety and on helping students find their own style. It is also offered online.

The project’s 2026 calendar in Mexico City includes an intermediate lab, a fundamentals class, a rope tasting evening and a beginners’ workshop on semenawa that adapts intense, pressure-based tying to floor work and stresses check-ins and aftercare. Online programs cover consent and negotiation, self-tying and dating as a kinky person. Shibari México also sells jute rope and runs a membership community.

Teaching approach

Her site frames shibari as a practice of Japanese origin that has become a form of expression, connection and exploration, and stresses that it needs no previous experience or particular body type and can be practiced alone, with a partner or in a group. She describes her goal as creating safe, playful and inclusive spaces where people can learn shibari and kink, and focuses on non-normative sexual and sensual education. Her biography says she trained in what it calls Kink Informed Treatment and is committed to spreading sexual wellbeing and diversity.

Performance and public work

Her biography says she has taught, tied and given talks at conferences and sex-positive venues internationally, and that over the five years before the text was written she traveled to teach about eroticism, connection and the benefits of tying and being tied. She has performed with art galleries, worked as a rope stylist for films and music videos, and acted as performer, ambassador and writer for sex-positive brands; the site adds that she was recently featured in the book “Kink Is.” Her projects page lists radio appearances on AireLibre FM and Radio Nopal, a talk for an erotica series in collaboration with Hotaru Centro Cultural in Mexico City, a May 2022 piece on the Ludaa platform about practicing shibari, and a shibari question-and-answer video. She also organizes kinky film screenings, immersive retreats, munches and interviews for the local community.