Molly Sjöberg
Stockholm shibari teacher and somatic practitioner, also presenting as Molly Maria, who has tied since 2015, taught since 2019 and runs Sensual Shibari, with workshops, weekly classes, private tuition and online courses.
Molly Sjöberg, who presents as Molly Maria on her teaching site, is a shibari teacher and somatic practitioner based in Stockholm. Sensual Shibari is the name of her teaching practice and of her particular approach, which joins practical rope skills with movement, communication and the experience of leading and receiving.
Background
Her site dates her start in shibari to 2015 and her first teaching to 2019. It lists fine art and social work as her professional background and says that psychotherapy studies continue alongside the teaching; dance, tantra, meditation and bodywork are named as further influences. Sjöberg credits fine art with a feeling for form, materials and the process of making, and dance with a sense of rhythm, weight and moving with another body, and describes rope as the practice that brings these interests together. The site names no rope teachers.
Teaching
Sjöberg teaches through workshops, weekly classes, longer gatherings and retreats, private tuition and recorded online courses. In autumn 2025 and in spring and summer 2026 the weekly classes ran on Wednesdays at Sensual Institute, a Stockholm center for education in sensuality. Beginner workshops cover rope handling, foundational techniques, awareness of physical risk and communication; continuation workshops may center on one pattern, on movement, on improvisation or on the shape of a whole session. Communities and venues elsewhere can invite Sjöberg to teach.
The three online courses are A Taste of Rope, two guided date nights for couples who are starting out; Sensual Shibari for Couples, six modules running from basic handling through upper-body patterns, communication, movement and receiving skills to improvisation; and The Sensual Self, which combines self-tying with movement and guided meditation organized around five elemental themes. Private options include individual or couples tuition and sessions in which Sjöberg ties and the client receives. Beyond rope, Sjöberg offers online embodiment and sensuality coaching and leads Nurturing the Feminine, a women’s gathering built on movement, meditation, consensual touch and shared ritual.
Approach
The stated aim is for students to understand what they are doing and then discover how they want to do it. Sjöberg describes a balance between precise technique and noticing when the person being tied needs something different, prefers learning through practice to explanation alone, and pairs the teaching of rope handling and patterns with conversations about what each pair wants to explore.