Bangkok Shibari (ShibariWorkshopsTH)
Teaching collective that wants to raise awareness of shibari and train new and improving practitioners of all styles. It ran a four-part Shibari Foundations course on awareness, technique, connection and spontaneity for both riggers and rope bottoms, and started PULSE’s monthly shibari workshops.
Bangkok Shibari, which also uses the name ShibariWorkshopsTH, is a Bangkok teaching collective whose stated aim is to make shibari better known and to train people who want to learn to tie or to improve. It welcomes every approach to rope, whether kink play, art or performance.
Organizer
The group is organized by Daniel, an artist who works under the name DrPolidori. In a June 2026 Bangkok Post interview he said he began tying in 2016 after a rope jam, and studied that year with the rigger Rigger Mortis in Chiang Mai. He described the group’s Line chat as having about 1,600 followers and said he meets an unusually high share of women and queer riggers in Bangkok. His advice to newcomers is to visit rope jams and learn basic knots first.
Teaching
Its Shibari Foundations course consisted of four stand-alone workshops for riggers and rope bottoms, focused less on particular ties than on the skills and attitudes behind a rope scene:
- Awareness, with MyLavanderMoon: personal risk, checks and communication before, during and after tying.
- Technique, with Laodai: tension, harness building, body mechanics and adapting ties to different bodies.
- Connection, with C00: making a new partner comfortable and opening and closing a scene.
- Spontaneity, with UnnamedMinor: improvised ichinawa tying and work with bamboo.
The community profile that lists the course (dated 2024) gave a price of 890 THB per person or 1,600 THB per couple per workshop. PULSE Clinic names the group as its partner for the monthly shibari events at Club Back Door.
Film and exhibition
In 2026 the group released “Bangkok Shibari”, an independent documentary of about 52 minutes in Thai and English in which local practitioners speak to camera about what drew them to rope and what keeps them practicing. Cinema Oasis near BTS Phrom Phong screened it from 30 May to 11 July 2026 together with three shorter rope films, alongside an exhibition at Galerie Oasis of work by ten artists, among them Tom Potisit, Mellow Dog and Fox Cordee. The Bangkok Post reported that the project set out to counter the stigma around shibari and deliberately left the city’s red-light districts out of the film.