Sarkadi Eszter Mirka
Budapest facilitator, trained in expressive and dance therapy, whose shibari-based somatic self-awareness work, The Healing Art of Shibari, uses rope to explore boundaries, consent and trust rather than to teach technique.
Sarkadi Eszter Mirka is a facilitator in Budapest who uses shibari as a tool for body-centered self-awareness work. Her Hungarian-language website is the only source found for her work, and it says little about her own rope training, so this page describes her practice as she presents it.
Background
Her about page introduces her as an integrated expressive and dance therapist, a shibari therapist and a practitioner in touch-therapy settings, and as a psychology student with a particular interest in sexual psychology. She describes her outlook as feminist and sex-positive. The site does not say when she began working with rope or with whom she trained.
The Healing Art of Shibari
Her main rope offering is The Healing Art of Shibari, which she calls shibari-based somatic self-awareness work. The rope serves to slow down and notice physical and emotional reactions and relationship patterns; themes include body awareness, boundaries and consent, control and surrender, trust and connection, and self-expression. She treats consent as more than a single yes or no, paying attention to hesitation and to changing one’s mind partway through, and follows sessions with reflection through talk, movement, drawing or writing. No rope experience is needed and no tying technique is taught. Despite the therapeutic titles on her about page, this page states clearly that the work is not medical or psychological care, not psychotherapy and no substitute for either.
Facilitator training
She also leads a 140-hour training in shibari-based somatic facilitation, with a block scheduled for 21–22 November 2026 at Somatelier in Budapest. The course covers rope handling, ties, safe positioning and reducing physical risk, but argues that technical skill alone does not prepare someone to accompany another person responsibly through a sensitive, body-based process, and centers on the nervous system, connection and the facilitator’s presence. Alongside rope, she offers individual consultations, touch therapy, horse-assisted self-awareness work and group workshops.