Kotori People Studio

Kotori People & Studio presents itself as a collective of shibari practitioners who share a private studio in Bangkok set aside for body-based practice. The space is in the Old Town near City Hall and the Giant Swing, and the collective points visitors to the inexpensive lodging and local food nearby.

Founder

The studio was founded by Yada Kinbaku (Yada Kaewburee). Her studio biography says she began teaching in 2018, has run workshops under the KOTORI name since 2019 and came to rope from political art and somatic study. A 2022 BBC Thai feature reports that she first met rope as a bottom while studying abroad, later met the Japanese rigger Yoshida Yoi and traveled to Japan to study with her, and that she started a workshop aimed specifically at rope bottoms. Rather than teaching one fixed style, she adapts rope to the people involved and treats communication and consent as its base; her art work deals with power, sexuality, censorship and women’s autonomy in Southeast Asia.

Approach

According to the studio’s About page, KOTORI was set up for learning that starts from sensation, movement and lived experience instead of fixed roles or looks. Rope sits next to touch, movement and guided exploration, and the collective accepts erotic and non-erotic, gentle and intense practice alike. It describes itself as an answer to spaces where access feels closed or where ideas about gender and sexuality stay narrow; a 2026 guide to the city’s kink scene calls the studio queer-friendly.

What it offers

• Workshops and performances by somatic practitioners, bodyworkers and local and visiting shibari artists, plus rope jams for open practice, mini classes and social time. Dates are on a public Google Calendar and each event links to its own registration; the same guide notes that nothing is walk-in.
• Workshops listed on Yada’s page include a class for complete beginners (body awareness, first rope techniques, safety and consent), “Diversity of TK” on adapting the takate kote to different bodies, and “Touch Before Rope”.
• Private sessions and private classes with the in-house riggers: Yada and her students, Pawin Kinbaku, who specializes in tying men and queer bodies, and PapaBear, whose main focus is suspension. Each publishes rates on the studio site; Yada’s private classes started at 4,000 THB for two hours when checked on 9 November 2026.
• Rental of the space to shibari, somatic and bodywork practitioners who need a room for practice or events.

Performances

The studio’s past events include the 2026 Bangkok Shibari Showcase, an annual show of Yada’s students with guest riggers and rope bottoms from Thailand and Southeast Asia, and “She Ties” (2026), a night of women tying men with female-identifying riggers from the UK, Russia, Thailand and Taiwan.