Nikoleta
Prague rope teacher, rigger and model at Subspace studio who has tied since 2018, has taught there since 2020 in Czech and English, and co-teaches Nicolas ryu and active-bottoming workshops with Joan von Brook.
Nikoleta, who also appears as Nikoleta Ginger, is a shibari teacher, rigger and rope model at Subspace, a rope studio in Prague. Her profile on the studio’s site says she has tied since 2018 on both sides of the rope, learning first as a model and later as a rigger. It names Petr Soptík and Honza Dark, both Subspace teachers, as the strongest influences on her tying and says she also seeks knowledge and inspiration from teachers abroad. The profile credits her with a wide range of tying styles and describes her as combining safety and trust with a cruel streak beneath an elegant surface.
Teaching at Subspace
The workshop history attached to her profile begins in May 2020 and runs without a break into 2026. Early entries include a beginners’ workshop, partial suspensions with bamboo and evenings of the studio’s “Vázání pro každého” (tying for everyone) series. During 2020 and 2021 she taught in the studio’s streamed program, with classes on tying safety, nerve injuries of the upper and lower body, consent violations, bed tying and simple positions, as well as a live tying session with Honza Dark. Later entries cover the studio’s beginner and intermediate workshop series and its advanced Thursday classes, on topics such as side suspension, futomomo into suspension, co-tying, effective rope handling, D/s dynamics in rope and play with fear. From 2022 she has also taught English-language “Tying for everyone” evenings, among them classes on sadistic rope, tying for bed, caressing ties and bamboo floorwork.
She is one of five teachers the studio lists for its Subspace Akademie shibari, a course of three linked workshops from first contact with rope to suspensions and transitions, bundled with a rope first-aid workshop and a lecture series on consent. Since late 2025 she has also taught in the studio’s mini-workshops and study groups on Nicolas ryu, the style developed by A-Nicolas that Subspace describes as drawing on Japanese kinbaku combined with aikido, Thai massage, dance and contact improvisation. In October 2026 she and Joan von Brook taught a Nicolas ryu weekend at Subspace on enzo, circular rope structures and flow, on the floor and in partial suspensions.
A testimonial from one of her models, quoted on the profile, describes her as a patient but firm teacher who explains how to avoid mistakes, teaches riggers and models alike and keeps her classes relaxed and humorous; the same text praises her improvisation and her attention to her partner’s safety. She offers private lessons, preferably on Wednesdays.
Festivals and teaching abroad
Nikoleta was one of the official presenters at SHNEK, a three-day rope festival Subspace held in July 2020 in which participants shaped the program themselves, and the festival appears again in her history for 2021 and 2025. In 2024 she was listed for a “first time in rope” workshop prepared for the Intimity festival. Outside Prague, the Berlin studio Daruma lists two events with Joan von Brook and Nikoleta Ginger in January 2027: an evening on active bottoming in floorwork and suspension, covering body mechanics, weight shifts and tension from the side of the person in the rope, and a weekend on playful floorwork and partial suspensions.