Ori Ropeart

Ori Ropeart is a shibari artist, workshop leader and event organizer from northern Germany. According to her own website, she has been tying since 2016 and draws on martial arts and acrobatics as well as shibari, from which she has developed a dynamic style both for tying with a partner and for the stage.

Approach

Her site describes rope as a kind of string telephone through which she tries to reach the inner motivations of the people she ties, and says she relies on a great deal of body dynamics to lead the person in her rope gently but firmly. Her workshop page adds that tying can be gentle, painful, sensual or sexual, and that it creates a particular kind of togetherness.

Teaching

Ori teaches mainly in the Rhine-Main region and in Hamburg and occasionally travels to other cities. Besides group workshops she offers private lessons, aimed mainly at couples, and individual sessions for people who want to learn or refine their skills as rope models. An archived copy of her workshop calendar from March 2025 shows the range of that teaching: online workshops held in German and in English, two workshops in Karlsruhe on restrictive tying with a single rope and on body handling, a workshop in Darmstadt for tying couples centered on perception within a session, and a Hamburg workshop on body handling and suspension for larger models. In Hamburg she teaches at the Fuck Yeah Sexshopkollektiv, a sex shop and workshop space in the Gängeviertel, which lists beginner workshops with her in January and February 2027 and a follow-up workshop in March 2027.

Workshop weeks

Ori runs a series of week-long workshop retreats at Haus Apfelbaum, a house in Born on the Darß peninsula on the Baltic coast. The summer event Meerleben combines shibari with yoga and bodywork; an archived copy of its program page names three international shibari trainers, Asiana and Haag from the Netherlands and Ori herself, alongside a yoga teacher and a bodyworker. Because Meerleben was well received, her site says, the team added a winter edition, Windflüchter, named after the wind-shaped trees of the Baltic coast; its current listing is for February 2027. A third format, Acrobari, held in May 2026, mixes shibari with acroyoga, aerial work and body awareness. All three are built around optional daily workshops at different levels, morning yoga and a cooking crew drawn from the participants, and the next Meerleben is announced for August 2027.

Performance and events

On stage, her site calls her an aerial dancer in ropes who likes to create new shows and pick up the energy of a party. She offers dance-like shibari performances as a solo artist or with a partner, with length, genre and theme choreographed for the event. Her events page promotes parties in Wiesbaden and Hamburg, among them the Freaky Fuckin’ Time Out at the Fetischhaus Wiesbaden, the Hamburg alternative party Sin InSane and Teatro Delicat, a kinky-queer variety evening in Wiesbaden with an open stage for performers from the kink and queer scenes, held in March 2025 and again in October 2026.