Learn Shibari
A shibari education brand connected to Espacio Nos that sells handmade jute rope and offers video-feedback and live one-to-one coaching. It also organizes occasional intensives in Barcelona with visiting teachers, such as a September 2026 weekend with Kasumi Hourai.
Learn Shibari is an online-first shibari education and rope brand whose classes, coaching and masterclasses are taught by Pauline Massimo, the Brazilian artist who founded the Barcelona project Espacio Nos. The site’s about text says the project began in 2018 with tutorials shared on Patreon for students around the world, then grew into custom-dyed rope sold to rope communities and into teaching, and that the teaching rests on more than a decade of study with leading teachers. The same text mentions a performance at the Palais Garnier and the rope work for Shakira’s “Copa Vacía” music video; Massimo’s own website lists both, dating the Paris performance to 2017.
What it offers. The coaching side has two formats. Video feedback lets a student upload a short clip of one problem and receive a personal video reply with a matching tutorial; in November 2026 one video cost 80 euros and a bundle of three cost 210 euros, with feedback given in English, Spanish or Portuguese. Live one-to-one coaching is a 90-minute online session that can focus on tying, on presence as the person being tied, or on both roles, with goals set step by step. A Vimeo channel holds subscription tutorials.
Live classes. Ticketed live classes run on Zoom or on the brand’s own platform. The November 2026 program included a session of live corrections for three participants watched by the rest of the group, a class on common faults in hands-free chest harnesses for self-tyers and people who tie others, and a masterclass on self-tying on a vertical bamboo pole (hashira).
Barcelona intensives. Learn Shibari also publishes in-person intensives in Barcelona with visiting Japanese teachers. In September 2026 it listed a two-day workshop with Kasumi Hourai, described as a kinbakushi who trained with Akechi Denki and Naka Akira, and model Asami Hime. Taught in Japanese with English interpretation, it was for experienced pairs only, covering the takate kote, other upper-body ties and suspension with a focus on reducing risk, and it was organized together with Espacio Nos.