YUKIMURA-RYU II

This workshop builds on the content from "Ropeknights Yukimura Ryu I". 

Participants will revisit familiar ties and deepen their understanding of these techniques. Along with learning new rope patterns, emphasis will be placed on the Japanese aesthetic of form. The focus will expand to include scenarios, personas, Ki (energy), and Kotobazeme (verbal techniques), allowing participants to explore the concept of "tension" on multiple levels. Once again, the primary goal is to evoke emotions through the how of tying. 

Throughout the weekend, the understanding of both partners' roles will be further refined, with special focus on the importance of letting the ties have their effect as well as the actual tying actions. This dynamic becomes an integral part of the overall tying experience. 

FOR WHO?

This workshop is aimed at bondage couples who have previously attended the "Ropeknights Yukimura Ryu I" workshop and are looking to delve deeper into the world of Yukimura Ryu and Michael Ropeknights approach. Since this is ultimately a world of eroticism, there should be no fear of intimacy between the bondage partners. 

WHAT TO BRING?

• Models are encouraged to wear clothing with potential for exposure (e.g. no leggings and tights)

• Approx. 5-7 ropes are required - recommended rope: 7 to 8m long, 4-5mm in diameter.

• Bring a blanket to use as a base.

SCHEDULE

Saturday 10/10

• Doors open: 09h30

• Workshop begins: 10h00

• Workshop concludes: 17h00

Sunday 11/10

• Doors open: 09h30

• Workshop begins: 10h00

• Workshop concludes: 17h00

PRACTICALS

• Info about parking, bikes & public transport

• Info about traveling by plane

• Accommodation advice

We are here to assist you: Do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns.

ABOUT ROPEKNIGHT

Michael Ropeknight had the opportunity to experience and learn different styles of Shibari during his various trips to Japan. 

He studied under several well-known Bakushi and became an official student of Osada Steve, who shortly thereafter introduced him to Yukimura Haruki Sensei. 

In the following years, Michael spent a great deal of time with these two masters, studying their techniques and philosophies. 

Yukimura Sensei and Osada Steve described his emotional abilities in dealing with his Shibari partners and his use of energetic components (Ki) as extraordinary. Not only because of these exceptional strengths did both masters honor him by appointing him as an official instructor of their styles. 

In 2024, Michael decided to retire as an official Osada-Ryu instructor, as physical limitations no longer allowed him to teach suspensions at the highest level. Since then, he has focused on his core competencies: deepened communication and personal development for all participants involved in rope. With this focus on Ropeknight’s Yukimura-Ryu, Michael brings valuable insights into the emotional and mental connection between partners, thus fostering the development of a mindful and conscious dynamic in Shibari. 

In recent years, Ropeknight has further developed the Yukimura-Ryu within a Western mindset, making it a cornerstone in the training of rope enthusiasts around the world by incorporating his unique strengths and understanding of the human soul—just as Yukimura Sensei had expected of him. 

ABOUT CandyDandelion

CandyDandelion (alter ego Alice in Nawaland on Instagram) was introduced to the art of shibari in 2018 and quickly became enamored with Al-Walthery's skillful sadistic ties. Their partnership has continued to this day, with CandyDandelion teaching alongside Al-Walthery in Liège and Brussels.

She has been featured on stage by renowned riggers including Yoi Yoshida, Marc Akuaku, and Tati Limati and performing together with Al-Walthery at Onawa Asobi festival in Shibari Lounge in 2024. 

In 2023, she joins Studio TIEY. She becomes the teaching model for Michael Ropeknight, known for his empathetic, intuitive, and unique approach, and performs with Yagami Ren, who explores the duality between pleasure and pain. She also headlines with Naka sensei in his 2025 Nawa Kai at the studio.

She is highly sought after as a model for both photography and public performances, known for her pure and expressive emotions that she exudes during the intense connections she creates as an ukete. She is open to exploring various contexts, such as nature, underwater settings, abandoned places, workshops, and public sessions.

TICKETS

ONE SPOT AVAILABLE

Full refund on cancellations up to three months before the event.
After the full refund mark, standard cancellation terms apply, and tickets remain transferable to another participant, meeting the prerequisites.

And now for something completely different...

We are thrilled to welcome WillCat and Fox to our studio for their first appearance in Europe together. Traveling from Montreal, they are here to offer something refreshingly different: workshops that blend clear structure with curiosity and creativity, and a performance that will be bold, surprising, and unforgettable.

If you're looking for a different perspective on rope and challenge your practice, this is the time to join. Whether you're an experienced rigger, a rope bottom, or simply curious to explore new ideas, their workshops will challenge how you think about shibari.

You don't have to always know where you are going. The shape of things takes time, and sometimes changes entirely before it arrives. Our visit to Studio TIEY is an invitation at shifting perspectives; to have you question what you thought you knew, and sit with the questions that replace it. I hope it gives you answers. I hope it gives you more questions. Both are the point.

~ WillCat

Program

Foundations of the 3-shape rope philosophy

Rope asks more of you than almost anyone warns you it will: more technical, more intimate, more demanding of your attention. This evening is not about collecting more ties.
It is about adapting how you see, so that whatever you tie, you understand what you are doing while you do it.

Three shapes hold Willcat's whole practice.

• The square is structure: the form, the frame, the pattern repeated until it is reliable.

• The triangle is tension: the moment of decision, where you choose a direction, apply pressure, and answer for the consequence.

• The circle is flow: the return, the dialogue, adapting in real time when the body in front of you is not the body you planned for.

We spend the evening inside those three; the universe.
We build something simple, and read and feel it: what holds, what does not. We choose what to do with it, and feel the difference intention makes. Then we let it move, listening with the hands, responding rather than imposing. None of it is advanced. All of it is the whole practice, the part you return to at every level.

You will leave with more answers than you came for, and far more questions and destinations to explore. I will answer the most frustrating one: is this suspendable?
The path is not something you ever complete; it is something you continue to grow.
& That is the point.

PREREQUISITES

Open level. No suspension experience required.

SCHEDULE

Friday 30/10/2026

• 19h00 | Doors open – welcome, settle in

• 19h30 | Tuition begins

• 23h30 | Tuition concludes

Living Structures: Load Paths in Motion

This workshop is for people already solid in frictions, partials, uplines, and load work, who want to understand force itself rather than gather more patterns. A portion of the workshop will be dedicated to the foundations of integrating bamboo & similar objects.

Every tie is a structure, and every structure has a path that force travels through: into the body, along the lines, through the frictions, out to the floor or the point. Many people only see that path when it fails. This weekend is about seeing and feeling it before it does, testing it on purpose, and then playing with it on purpose. The workshop is based on the three concepts that guide Willcat's practice: the Square, the Triangle, the Circle.

• SQUARE: identify and establish.
  Body positionality, maximums, and feeling connected. What does that feel like? We build structures that can be read through touch. Which lines carry weight, which are doing nothing but looking good. We locate where force enters and where it leaves, and we build the path until it is reliable and known, rather than hoped for. We will create a few front-hand structures (Maete). Kata first; you cannot play with a path you cannot yet draw.

• TRIANGLE: test and stress.
  Here we load deliberately and find the edges: partials and controlled stressors, leverage used to redirect force rather than fight it, the moment where forces meet and something has to give. A line that carries weight can carry torment, so the same path that serves the structure through sustainability also serves seme; learn to use that tension explicitly. We find where it holds, and where it groans. A limb, a length of bamboo, a wall, anything rigid becomes a way to send force somewhere new.

• CIRCLE: play and adapt.
  Floor into partials, partials into floating, all throughout being dynamic. Advanced body manipulation. Understanding the body: Active and Passive positioning, creating living structures; using leverage, locking, and weight migrations, effectively.

PREREQUISITES

Intermediate to advanced:

• You are executing full suspensions. You have solid grounding in previous material and can reproduce a harness from start to finish with accuracy and functionality. Your frictions are firm, your tensions precise. You may be eager to explore dynamic transitions, even if the mechanics aren't yet second nature.

• Goal: Refinement · Precision · Confidence under load · Mindset: Mastery through awareness, not ego

SCHEDULE

Saturday 31/10/2026

• 10h30 | Doors open – welcome, settle in

• 11h00 | Tuition begins

• Lunch break (approx. 1 hour)

• 18h00 | Tuition concludes

Sunday 1/11/2026

• 10h30 | Doors open – welcome, settle in

• 11h00 | Tuition begins

• Lunch break (1 hour)

• 18h00 | Tuition concludes

Studio TIEY – 5 Year Anniversary Celebration

Five years ago, Studio TIEY opened its doors with the ambition to create a welcoming space for learning, sharing, and exploring rope together. Thanks to our incredible community, we've grown into something we could only have dreamed of.

We would love for you to celebrate this milestone with us!

To mark the occasion, we're delighted to present a special performance by WillCat and Fox, visiting us from Montreal. Together they create performances that are playful, intense, theatrical, and full of unexpected twists. Having tied together since 2020, their connection on stage is unmistakable, blending technical excellence with emotion, tension, and a healthy dose of mischief.

Whether you've been with us from the very beginning or are joining Studio TIEY for the first time, this evening is about celebrating our community, our shared passion for rope, and the exciting years ahead.

Come celebrate with us, enjoy an unforgettable performance, and join us for cake as we toast to the next five years of Studio TIEY!

SCHEDULE

Saturday 31/10/2026

• 20h00 | Doors open – welcome, settle in

• 20h30 | Doors close - start of the celebration

• 01h00 | End of the evening

Bring your ropes!

ABout WillCat

Willcat (William Desjardins, she/her, they/them IG @Willcatropes) is a shibari educator, performer, and author based in Montreal, and the founder of Tension MTL. She came to rope in 2014 and has not stopped since, with over ten thousand hours tying, teaching, and performing. Her teaching grows out of a background in component-based teaching, application of martial arts pedagogy & serious kenjutsu practice. This all evolved into her current practice and Nawajutsu: a martial path through rope, where the body and its mechanics come before the rope itself.

Her practice is organised throughout a thorough curriculum where she talks constantly about three shapes drawn from philosophy & martial arts: the Square, the Triangle, and the Circle. Structure, tension, and flow. The square holds, the triangle chooses, the circle returns. The same framework runs from the first lesson through to advanced load work.

For a deeper understanding, visit: willcatropes.art

About Fox

Fox (she/her, IG @Bruise.cruise) is a healthcare practitioner whose work in medicine became the root of a distinctive artistic voice in rope, and in particular in medical play. She brings a clinician's precision and a real appetite for intensity to the same body of work, equally at home giving pain and receiving it, and she treats the edge as a place to play rather than something to prove. Her interest is always in what a body can be made to feel, and in doing it with care, control, and intent. Kink has been a place of real empowerment for her, a way to meet intense needs on her own terms. As a partner she offers range: she can be caring or merciless, as her name would imply… sometimes wild, and she is most alive in the moments a scene refuses to go where anyone expected.

PRACTICALS

• Info about parking, bikes & public transport

• Info about traveling by plane

• Accommodation advice

We are here to assist you: Do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns.

Tickets

International rope enthousiast and looking for payment options? More info here.

Full refund on cancellations up to three months before the event.
After the full refund mark, standard cancellation terms apply, and tickets remain transferable to another participant, meeting the prerequisites.

Advanced study of torsions for semenawa progressions and transitions

We will approach traditional semenawa through an advanced study of torsions, focusing on how they can be used to build progressions, using transitions as a tool for modulating emotional intensity within a session.

Torsion will be explored as one of the main elements through which pressure, exposure, resistance, and surrender can be shaped over time. Rather than treating each form as an isolated tie, we will look at how one position can lead into another, and how each transition can change the quality of the experience.

The study weekend will focus on how to create a gradual progression: when to increase the torsion, when to hold it, when to soften it, and when to redirect it into a new shape. These changes can create different emotional effects, from quiet tension to a more direct and demanding form of torment.

We will work with floorwork, partial suspensions, and suspensions, paying attention to how the body reacts when the tie evolves. The goal is not simply to make the position more difficult, but to understand how timing, restraint, rhythm, and small changes in posture can affect the intensity of the session.

Extensive shared feedback from the bottoms will be encouraged during the workshop, so that the technical choices can be connected to their actual physical and emotional experience.

WORKSHOP STRUCTURE

• We will mostly use a stemless gote. It is necessary to understand its structure and mechanical behavior. We will address the mechanical and psychological effect of different third ropes and discuss the adaptation of a chest piece to match the overall shape.

• Other than torsion, some other iconic patterns will be taught and put in use. Both floorwork and suspensions will be part of the schedule.

• Each exercise will be used to teach a skill that can be carried over and used in several other ties.

• Some basic ties may be variated and transformed into new shapes. Variations are didactically skill-oriented, and participants will improve rope and body handling while experimenting with new ties.

PREREQUISITES

The content is designed for:

• Semenawa Study Group members

• instructors and assistants who support others in learning and wish to elevate their demonstration work;

• advanced riggers and models who want to refine the quality of their skills;

• experienced practitioners who already tie with clean fundamentals, but wish to deepen their sensitivity within the Semenawa style.

Specifics for tops:

• Solid TK – stemless

• Smooth and safe suspension lines management

• Confidence in suspension sessions

Specifics for bottoms:

• Feeling comfortable being tied in a gote

• Understanding the difference between comfortable and sustainable, and willingness to explore both

• Being familiar with the feeling of torsion suspensions

• Ability to self monitor nerve compression and bloodflow restriction.

Due to the heavy focus on torsions, this workshop may not be suitable for participants with spine-related conditions. We encourage you to make an informed decision based on your own understanding of your body and any relevant health considerations.

SCHEDULE

SATURDAY 07/11

• 10:30 | Doors open – welcome, settle in

• 11:00 | Tuition begins

• Lunch break (1 hour)

• 18:00 | Tuition concludes

SUNDAY 08/11

• 10:30 | Doors open – welcome, settle in

• 11:00 | Tuition begins

• Lunch break (1 hour)

• 18:00 | Tuition concludes

PRACTICALS

• Info about parking, bikes & public transport

• Info about traveling by plane

• Accommodation advice

We are here to assist you: Do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns.

ABOUT Kirigami & Tenshiko

Kirigami and Tenshiko are partners both in rope and in life.
They have been teaching and performing across Europe since 2012. In 2016, they founded School of Rope Milano, where they host weekly classes in traditional Japanese rope bondage for local students as well as international guests.

Their style is deeply rooted in classical Japanese Kinbaku, refined over the years through stage performances, private sessions, and photographic work. Alongside rope, their artistic path has been strongly influenced by the study of traditional Japanese arts — particularly the tea ceremony — which they continue to explore as part of their personal and creative development.

In recent years, their work has expanded beyond Europe. In 2023, they were invited to teach in Latin America and Australia, and began collaborating with Sugiura Norio Sensei on international workshops held in both Europe and Japan, as well as on a series of editorial projects, online and in print.

In 2025, Kirigami became the first non-resident of Japan to be invited to tie for Kinbaku Sajiki, the iconic photographic series curated by Sugiura Norio.

BOOKING

International rope enthousiast and looking for payment options? More info here.

Full refund on cancellations up to three months before the event.
After the full refund mark, standard cancellation terms apply, and tickets remain transferable to another participant, meeting the prerequisites.

YUKIMURA-RYU III

We are proud to announce this exclusive Yukimura III workshop, taught by Michael Ropeknight.

Let's take our knowledge to the next level!

This workshop is aimed at unlocking a deeper understanding of the core principles and beliefs of the Yukimura style. Unleash the energy of your connections, both old and new, to enhance your comprehension. Discover the power by expanding the concepts of rigger personae, the essence of Ki, and the art of kotobazeme. The already taught cornerstones and philosophy will be deepened and new techniques will be introduced.

To enrich the experience, we are introducing a Nocturnal session as part of the weekend workshop on Saturday evening, creating a more intimate atmosphere that will allow us to explore the workshop in a different light and take advantage of the unique ambiance of the evening.

FOR WHO?

Prior knowledge of Yukimura I and Yukimura II is required.
Contact us if in doubt.

WHAT TO BRING?

• Models are encouraged to wear clothing with potential for exposure (e.g. no leggings and tights)

• Approx. 5-7 ropes are required - recommended rope: 7 to 8m long, 4-5mm in diameter.

• Bring a blanket to use as a base.

SCHEDULE

Saturday 28/11

• Doors open: 09h30

• Workshop begins: 10h00

• Workshop concludes: 17h00

• Nocturnal session begins: 19h30

• Nocturnal session concludes: 22h30

The studio will remain open between 17h00 and 19h30. Feel free to stay, step out for dinner, or come back at your leisure before we begin the Nocturnal session at 19h30

Sunday 29/11

• Doors open: 09h30

• Workshop begins: 10h00

• Workshop concludes: 13h00

PRACTICALS

• Info about parking, bikes & public transport

• Info about traveling by plane

• Accommodation advice

We are here to assist you: Do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns.

ABOUT ROPEKNIGHT

Michael Ropeknight had the opportunity to experience and learn different styles of Shibari during his various trips to Japan. 

He studied under several well-known Bakushi and became an official student of Osada Steve, who shortly thereafter introduced him to Yukimura Haruki Sensei. 

In the following years, Michael spent a great deal of time with these two masters, studying their techniques and philosophies. 

Yukimura Sensei and Osada Steve described his emotional abilities in dealing with his Shibari partners and his use of energetic components (Ki) as extraordinary. Not only because of these exceptional strengths did both masters honor him by appointing him as an official instructor of their styles. 

In 2024, Michael decided to retire as an official Osada-Ryu instructor, as physical limitations no longer allowed him to teach suspensions at the highest level. Since then, he has focused on his core competencies: deepened communication and personal development for all participants involved in rope. With this focus on Ropeknight’s Yukimura-Ryu, Michael brings valuable insights into the emotional and mental connection between partners, thus fostering the development of a mindful and conscious dynamic in Shibari. 

In recent years, Ropeknight has further developed the Yukimura-Ryu within a Western mindset, making it a cornerstone in the training of rope enthusiasts around the world by incorporating his unique strengths and understanding of the human soul—just as Yukimura Sensei had expected of him. 

ABOUT CANDYDANDELION

CandyDandelion (alter ego Alice in Nawaland on Instagram) was introduced to the art of shibari in 2018 and quickly became enamored with Al-Walthery's skillful sadistic ties. Their partnership has continued to this day, with CandyDandelion teaching alongside Al-Walthery in Liège and Brussels.

She has been featured on stage by renowned riggers including Yoi Yoshida, Marc Akuaku, and Tati Limati and performing together with Al-Walthery at Onawa Asobi festival in Shibari Lounge in 2024. 

In 2023, she joins Studio TIEY. She becomes the teaching model for Michael Ropeknight, known for his empathetic, intuitive, and unique approach, and performs with Yagami Ren, who explores the duality between pleasure and pain. She also headlines with Naka sensei in his 2025 Nawa Kai at the studio.

She is highly sought after as a model for both photography and public performances, known for her pure and expressive emotions that she exudes during the intense connections she creates as an ukete. She is open to exploring various contexts, such as nature, underwater settings, abandoned places, workshops, and public sessions.

TICKETS

ONE SPOT AVAILABLE

Full refund on cancellations up to three months before the event.
After the full refund mark, standard cancellation terms apply, and tickets remain transferable to another participant, meeting the prerequisites.