Red Lily
The teaching practice of Copenhagen-based shibari teacher and sexologist Beatrice Gigliuto (Red Lily), offering small-group multi-session courses from beginner to suspension level, private rope coaching, online courses in Italian, and occasional performance-plus-jam evenings.
Red Lily is the professional name of Beatrice Gigliuto, a sexologist, trauma-informed relational coach and shibari artist from Italy who is based in Copenhagen. Her site describes some twenty years of work around intimacy, kink, consent and non-monogamy, and frames her approach as intersectional, trauma-informed and consent-based. Rope is one part of a practice that also includes coaching on non-monogamy, kink and erotic exploration; sessions are offered in English and Italian, online worldwide and in person in Copenhagen.
Her rope teaching is built around small-group courses of ten sessions: nine group meetings plus one private 90-minute lesson. Shibari Journey for Beginners, capped at six couples or twelve individuals, is the entry point; later courses include Find Your Identity in Ropes, Foundations of Suspensions for experienced couples, and Playful Suspensions Without Pressure for people already confident in suspension. One-day formats include My First Shibari Experience, a beginners’ day for FLINTA participants, and Shibari Night, an evening of performance and teaching. She also teaches a six-month continuation course in Malmö, intermediate weekends in Rome, and online courses in Italian called Legami, along with online theory classes on nerves. Visiting teachers such as A-Nicolas have given workshops under the Red Lily program.
Beatrice Gigliuto is the founder and artistic director of Copenhagen Queer Knots, a shibari and kink festival for queer people and their allies. Recent editions include a sold-out four-day summer edition from 30 July to 2 August 2026 with more than 18 hours of classes and round tables, rope jams, six performances and a play party, and a November 2026 “Playing Heat” edition with ten classes split between rope and kink tracks, taught by seven international educators. Festival tickets use an income-based sliding scale. Queer Knots also holds a rope jam in Copenhagen on the second and fourth Monday of the month, open to all levels with registration; the October and November 2026 listings price it at DKK 100.