Czechia
Czechia's rope scene is centered in Prague, with a twice-yearly festival since 2016, studios including Subspace and Alive Kinbaku Dojo, a second festival since 2025, and a national directory that lists studios in Brno, Ostrava, Plzeň and Pardubice.
Cities
Numbers show studios and communities.
Coming up in Czechia
Regular events
Shibari in Czechia
Czechia’s rope scene is centered in Prague, with studios in several other cities. Its best-documented starting point is the teacher Petr Soptík, who according to Subspace’s history began teaching shibari in 2012 in Prague and Brno, as well as elsewhere in Europe and in America. In 2015 Joan von Brook joined him, and at the end of 2018 the two opened Subspace in Prague as a body-work studio focused mainly on shibari and BDSM. The Prague guide follows the studio’s growth and its regular guests from the Naka line.
Festivals
Festivals give the country a fixed place on Europe’s rope calendar. Soptík organizes the Prague Shibari Festival, which has met since 2016 twice a year, in spring and autumn, for three days of parallel workshops, with performances and rope jams in the evenings. Its focus is Japanese bondage, though it welcomes less traditional forms, and it aims to suit all levels, roles and genders. The touring teacher Gestalta lists appearances at festivals in Prague in 2016, 2019 and 2024. Another Prague studio, Alive Kinbaku Dojo, held its first Alive Kinbaku Festival over three days in September 2025 and has announced a fourth edition for April 2027.
Beyond Prague
The Czech site ShibariRigger, which also runs an events calendar, a magazine and a wiki, lists studios it describes as verified and safe in Prague, Brno, Ostrava, Plzeň and Pardubice. In Brno, Bad Reputation describes itself as a community space in the city center for people interested in Japanese rope bondage, bondage and BDSM. Its program includes multi-session courses from basics to bamboo and hashira work, open jams that welcome people who only want to watch, taster evenings, among them one for LGBTQ+ people and friends, and a women-only evening.
Languages
Most of the programs cited here, including ShibariRigger’s directory and Bad Reputation’s events, are published in Czech, and Subspace’s site is in Czech with English and German versions through an automatic translation widget. How the Czech scene fits the Naka line in Europe is told in Kinbaku in Europe, and Rope when you travel helps if you are visiting for a festival.