Stockholm

The Stockholm scene

Stockholm’s rope scene is run by organizers who hold courses, rope meets, parties and retreats. One of them, Stockholm Kinbaku Studios, has posted courses and events since at least 2016.

Courses, meets and visiting teachers

In autumn 2016 Stockholm Kinbaku Studios advertised an eight-hour beginners’ course in kinbaku that covered safety, how to negotiate a tie and ways of communicating with a partner, alongside a single column tie, a friction lock and upper-body ties. It was taught by instructors from the studio and from Peer Rope Stockholm, and participants took turns tying each other. The same season the group hosted a party and performance with the Japanese rope artist Yagami Ren; entry to the party was included for participants in his masterclass. In a Nyheter24 article on shibari, the rope teacher interviewed advised people who want to learn to seek out Swedish rope communities, and the article named Peer Rope Stockholm, a network on the BDSM forum Darkside.

Today the studio’s program includes a one-day beginners’ course that costs 900 kronor per participant whatever their role, teaches safety, communication and one upper-body tie, and has everyone switch roles during the day. Its calendar also lists rope meets with Peer Rope Stockholm, themed rope parties and, in autumn 2026, a series of rope events called Kontraster at Fabriken in Spånga. Unless an event says otherwise, people can come alone or with company.

Queer groups and Pride

Queerknyt is a member group within RFSL Stockholm for queer people who are curious about or already practice shibari or rope bondage. Its meetings are for socializing, learning together and occasional workshops with a queer instructor; mutual, enthusiastic consent is its stated ground rule, and rope can be borrowed. Stockholm Kinbaku Studios’ calendar lists Queerknyt sessions at RFSL as well as a queer-separatist rope workshop. During Stockholm Pride, the Pride Kinky area has a rope corner where adult visitors can try being tied in a short introduction held in English.

Community spaces and teachers

Noden, a community space whose workshops are non-profit and created by its members, includes shibari sessions among its program of tantra, dance and bodywork. Conscious Shibari, whose about page introduces Christian Haag and Jessica as its two teachers, offers workshops and private sessions at Studio Kontakt in Bagarmossen and runs three-day retreats open to all levels that explore rope as a way of meeting, letting go and taking control; its November 2026 retreat is held outside the city, near Uppsala. Molly Sjöberg teaches courses, private lessons and workshops through Sensual Shibari, and says her teaching is shaped by a background in fine art and social work and by the psychotherapy studies she is now pursuing; she teaches risk awareness, anatomy and circulation and nerve checks alongside technique.

What the city offers now

A newcomer can start with a one-day course, a peer rope meet, a queer group session or a private lesson, and later join themed rope parties or retreats. Stockholm Kinbaku Studios and Conscious Shibari publish in Swedish, while Molly Sjöberg’s site and the Pride rope corner use English. The wider European story is told in Kinbaku in Europe. For what to expect at a first session, see What happens at a first shibari class.