Japanese rope bondage
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Master René - Shibari/Kinbaku blog and
Garth Knight - More elaborate Shibari/Kinbaku art sessions
Beautiful Suffering
Shibari/Kinbaku is the Japanese-inspired art of tying a subject to not only immobilize her/him, but to do so elegantly and beautifully - creating an intimate and erotic experience for both the subject and the Master tying (the Rigger). This is about the bondage art that comes from the humanity of those that participate in this fascinating practice. This is bondage done with love and care. This is bondage done because it is beautiful, because it is an expression of love, because it's teasing, because it's erotic. This is a world of intense emotion and sensation, this is "beautiful suffering". It is where sensation is taken to the limits of what is possible, where emotion is experienced to its utmost. It is where we are alive as completely as we can be while being as together as we can.
The tension in the rope, controlled entirely by the Master, becomes a link between you and your Master, so being tied feels like an all-over embrace. As the cords tighten around you, your Master can actually employ Shiatsu techniques (a type of Japanese massage) on specific pressure points. The roughness of the natural fibers in hemp or jute rope gives you goose-bumps as it slowly trails across your skin.
Shibari/Kinbaku = Power Exchange
A Shibari/Kinbaku session is a Power Exchange session, through the use of ropes. The Rigger, in Japanese Kinbakushi, builds the session on the basis of what the person tied inspires and suggests through emotional and physical reactions to ropes. During a Shibari session, the person that gets tied experiences different strong emotions, which can also be initially difficult to manage, especially if never been tied before. You can be brought to fall into a trance-like state of deep relaxation and euphoria known as ‘rope space’: flooded with endorphins, your muscles relax, and you esperience a great sense of relaxation, tension release and abandonment. You submit yourself entirely to the ecstasy of being bound. The experience of being tied has among its primary effects an intense erotic sensation, which comes directly from the act of tying: a good Rigger passes the rope on the skin in a sensual way, uses it to pat, shake, move, hold and deter, coerce and manipulate the body of the person bound.
