Karada House
Non-profit, queer-centred education space offering shibari from weekly absolute-beginner classes through suspension, alongside rope labs, queer rope jams and online self-tying sessions. It uses solidarity pricing and also organises the multi-day Queerope Berlin conference.
Karada House describes itself as a queer project based in Berlin and online whose central concern is the politics of body, power and identity. Its about page calls it non-profit, international, LGBTQIA+-centered, trauma-informed, neurodivergence-friendly and intentionally sober, and says it accepts donations. Its program covers shibari alongside kink education, relationship formats, performance and coaching, from beginner workshops to advanced topics.
Team
The team listed on the site includes Caritia, an educator, coach and performer focused on the body; Mamana, a licensed therapist, artist and academic; the visual artist Renée de Sans; and the sexologist Ceci Ferox, who has taught bondage and BDSM for about ten years with a particular interest in shibari.
Rope program
A weekly class for absolute beginners runs on Monday evenings (€25–35 as listed in November 2026). Ceci Ferox teaches Rope Fundamentals weekends, either as single days (Foundations & Fun, or the harness-focused Nerdery & Harnesses) or as a two-day Shibari Starter Kit weekend, and hosts Rope Hangout, a peer-to-peer practice evening open to every level. Suspension classes have included Rope in the Air with Dasniya Sommer. Online formats include the series Communicating with Ropes and a class on short bamboo restraint, and the wider program has included an online negotiation class with Lee Harrington. Regular attendees can buy discounted 5- or 10-credit rope cards; solidarity and supporter tickets exist, and people who cannot afford a ticket are invited to get in touch.
Queerope Berlin
Karada House organizes Queerope Berlin, a five-day in-person conference on shibari, kinbaku and Japanese-inspired bondage for LGBTQIA+ people and women. The 2026 edition was announced for September 2–6 with a program of 37 workshops and facilitated spaces plus skill-shares and lab time, and ten facilitators from Europe, North America and Japan, among them Lief Bound and Icky. Participants were expected to know basics such as single column and double column ties, and full tickets were listed at €275–325, with solidarity pricing, installments and volunteer places. A virtual Queerope conference is scheduled for February 10–14, 2027.