Shibari Torino
Teaching project of the rigger Black Angel, offering beginner and advanced suspension classes, lessons for individuals and couples, and workshops aimed at photographers and body-work professionals, taught at several venues around the city.
Shibari Torino is the teaching project of Marco, who teaches as Black Angel. He began practicing in 2012 in Turin’s BDSM community and learned from several teachers, among them dr. Fatso, QuartaCorda, Boris Mosafir, Beppe Ambrosia, Davide La Greca and Mao Drakaris, before developing a personal style. He has taught shibari and kinbaku in Turin since 2020, when he opened the shibari school at FunLab Torino, and he also draws on a background in psychology and education. The project presents shibari as a practice that began as a form of restraint in feudal Japan and grew into an aesthetic, sensory, relational and therapeutic art, with consent and safety as its basis.
Courses
Beginner courses cover basic knots, safety, communication with a partner and the use of space. Advanced courses deal with suspension, different binding styles and developing a personal rope expression. Programs can be tailored to individuals or to couples. Separate workshops and sessions are aimed at photographers, at psychologists and psychotherapists, and at holistic and body-work practitioners.
Venues
Lessons take place at four locations around the city: FunLab Torino in Crocetta, Ginkgo Essentia near Parco Dora, Kizuna Studio in Santa Rita and Nebi on strada Antica della Venaria. Marco teaches mainly with FunLab and Ginkgo Essentia. Group events are open to all experience levels but only to adults, and booking is required; the events page listed no upcoming dates in November 2026. Contact runs through WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram and email.