Shibari Studio Berlin
Artist-led studio founded in early 2024 by Dan Carabas, centred on aibunawa (tender, caressing rope). It runs small tantric-shibari workshops for couples, private sessions and tuition, shibari life-drawing evenings and online courses.
Shibari Studio Berlin was founded in 2024 by Dan Carabas, who was born in Romania, grew up in Germany and spent around 18 years as a fashion and beauty photographer and commercial film director, starting in Paris in 2008. His fine art has been shown at Kunsthalle Wien and the ESSL Museum, and his Metamorphic Sculptures project filled 1,700 m² of Kühlhaus Berlin in October 2022. He says he has worked with rope in an aesthetic way for more than a decade and describes his teaching as shibari with intention.
What it offers
The studio grounds its work in aibunawa, a gentle, caressing style of rope, and presents shibari as a practice of connection, presence and intimacy. Its main group format is the Tantric-Shibari workshop, which combines rope with ideas from tantra around presence and polarity; the Level 1 beginner workshop is for couples and friends in groups of at most four couples. In November 2026 a couple’s ticket for the group workshop was listed at €145 (reduced from €150). Private sessions and tuition are offered one-to-one or for couples, who learn both to tie and to be tied; a private Date Night for two was listed at €330.
Shibari Life Drawing evenings have Carabas and a model perform two slow rope pieces with six poses for the audience to draw, in watercolor, charcoal or ink. The studio also produces photo and film work, sells rope, prints and vouchers, offers online courses and live performance formats, and publishes a journal, Tension & Trust, with interviews, practice notes and safety guidance. Its website is in English, and it addresses couples, curious beginners, artists and experienced practitioners alike.