Subspace studio

Subspace is a Prague studio for bodywork whose main subjects are shibari and BDSM education. Joan von Brook and Petr Soptík opened it at the end of 2018 with the stated aim of creating a home where friends can meet, have fun and learn. From 2019 several of their former students joined the teaching team, among them Honza Dark and Nikoleta. The studio is in Smíchov, a few minutes’ walk from Anděl metro station, and also lends its rooms to other bodywork practices such as yoga.

Teaching follows a pathway. Newcomers usually start with the Subspace Shibari Academy: three two-day weekend workshops taken in order, moving from an introduction to rope handling, safety and first ties, through core tying structures and first suspensions, to more complex ties, suspensions and transitions. Participants choose their own dates, are advised to leave one to two months between modules and must finish within a year; the package also includes a first-aid-in-rope workshop and a lecture series on consent. No experience is needed, but places are booked as pairs. For academy runs starting in December 2026 or February 2027 the booking form listed 7,000 CZK per person paid in advance or 7,500 CZK in two payments; full-time students under 26 get 50% off, listed as 3,750 CZK.

Beyond the academy, the calendar includes the eight-evening Kinbaku Fundamentals I and II series, single-topic evening workshops (in November 2026, for example, ichinawa, futomomo and side suspension), lectures, and study programs in Nicolas ryu and Yukimura ryu. Open rope jams run every Monday and Wednesday evening. Visiting teachers come regularly: in late 2026 Kurogami & Shiawase and Kinbaku LuXuria taught weekend workshops and appeared at the studio’s Shibari Night performance evenings. Most of the site is in Czech; a few workshops, such as the November 2026 futomomo class, are announced as taught in English.

Each July Subspace hosts SHNEK (“SHibari NEKonference”), a three-day Czech gathering with two parallel study blocks at a time, evening jams and a program that participants help shape by proposing their own topics; the 2026 edition ran 4–6 July. The studio also hosts the pre-party of the Prague Shibari Festival, which Petr Soptík organizes, holds a quarterly community evening called Four Seasons, offers a membership with student discounts, and sells rope through its online shop Provazem.cz.