Shibari in Poland: cities, studios and events

Cities

Numbers show studios and communities.

Coming up in Poland

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Regular events

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Shibari in Poland

An early public name in Polish rope is the Warsaw performer GanRaptor. He and his partner Slaanesh present themselves as pioneers of shibari on the Polish scene; his site says his shows have appeared at fetish and BDSM events since 2009. Together they built nawado.pl, which they describe as an online manual of shibari and bondage techniques with hundreds of original photos and videos, and which also sells rope and hosts workshops. GanRaptor says he has taught abroad, among other places at a dojo in Berlin and in Copenhagen, Tallinn and Moscow, and has created rope work for film and theatre, including an opera production at the Teatr Narodowy.

The couple’s archive also records early public events. A nawado.pl post from February 2017 documents a shibari workshop and a Kinbaku Lounge evening in Warsaw, with a photo captioned takate kote.

Learning at home

GanRaptor.pl sells Polish-language video courses, among them a basics course of eleven films and a library of more than fifty tutorials, alongside jute rope that the shop describes as imported from Japan and made in Poland. Courses like these let people start without a local class, an approach discussed in Learning shibari online.

Warsaw and Kraków

Warsaw also has rope studios of its own: Yanari Studio presents itself on an events platform as a place for shibari, kinbaku and Japanese rope art in the heart of the city, and Wisimi Studio publishes studio rules and sells rope. The Warsaw guide describes both. Kraków has spaces of its own. MyShibari.life says it has run workshops since 2017 and offers beginner, advanced and open-level classes, a rope jam, private lessons and workshops for couples or groups. Tyrs Studio presents itself as a Kraków community for practicing shibari with an emphasis on safety, mindfulness and respect for each person’s boundaries; it lists rope jams, a Rope Lab for experienced practitioners and open meetups, keeps a knowledge base about rope and sells jute and rope-care products.

Languages

The sites cited here are in Polish; MyShibari.life links an English version, and Wisimi Studio publishes its rules in Polish and English. For the European picture into which GanRaptor’s teaching abroad fits, see Kinbaku in Europe, and for arriving without a partner, Finding people to tie with.

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