Petr Soptík
Czech rope teacher who has led workshops at home and abroad since 2011, co-founded the Prague studio Subspace at the end of 2018, organizes the Prague Shibari Festival and names Naka Akira and Riccardo Wildties as the main influences on his style.
Petr Soptík, who works under the name Soptík, is a Czech rope teacher and organizer based in Prague. The Prague Shibari Festival spells his name Peter Soptik. Published information about him comes mainly from the studio he co-founded and the festival he runs.
Teachers and style
His profile at Subspace says he has led workshops since 2011, both in the Czech Republic and in other countries. It lists among the teachers he studied with Hajime Kinoko, Osada Steve, Akechi Kanna and Arnoys Nicolas, and says that his style today is shaped above all by Naka Akira and Riccardo Wildties. He ties in several forms, including rope in motion, but the profile places his main focus on Naka-ryu and stresses the close connection between two people that it associates especially with traditional kinbaku. Besides rope, he teaches rough body play and hypnosis at the studio, and he has run workshops on tying with bamboo.
Subspace
According to the studio’s about page, Subspace is a Prague bodywork studio that he and Joan von Brook opened at the end of 2018. It concentrates on shibari and BDSM education, with classes, workshops, jams and performances.
Prague Shibari Festival
The festival’s contact page names him as its organizer and says that, before the festival, its team brought workshops and performances by teachers such as Kasumi Hourai and Riccardo Wildties to the Czech Republic. He also teaches at the festival himself: the 2026 presenter list includes a workshop pair billed as Soptik and Sansei, a pairing that the Lyon teacher Eric Shore also lists for a workshop on tying with bamboo.
Influence on others
Other Czech teachers cite him. The Prague teacher Diana Vera, for example, names Soptík, whom she calls a rigger from Brno, among the people who shaped her own approach, crediting him with the blunt, practical advice to tie whatever moves.