Under Review

price per tying pair: 

BOUND Members $80 |TIED Members $90 | WRAPPED Members $100

Saturday June 14th, 10AM to 5:30PM

Under Review: a collaborative day-long workshop to build better harnesses and find your own voices in suspension. 

Morning [2 hrs]: Under Tension
In this session, we’ll conduct hands-on collaborative experiments within our Under Tension framework to assess if a harness is suspendable and iterate to improve it. No more cookie-cutter harnesses.

This session focuses on questions like:
What does it mean for a harness to be “suspendable?”
How do you give (and receive) feedback in a way that strengthens tying relationships?
How do you adapt patterns to fit people, rather than asking people to fit patterns?

Lunch Break [90 minutes]
Design a suspension pose using the harness(es) you worked on during the morning session to be tied that afternoon. This pose can be either a full or partial suspension.

Afternoon: [4 hrs] Peer Review:
Ever re-read a draft so many times it becomes word soup? It happens with harnesses, too! Peer Review is a framework for getting feedback on that ‘draft’ in a way that builds community and shared context - no more listening to TKGod6969 on Instagram. 

Students will work in groups to discuss and iterate on their findings from the morning’s session. You’ll tie the pose you designed over the lunch break, discuss the changes you’ve made so far, brainstorm additional improvements/choices with your cohort, then repeat.

Everyone (both people tying and people in rope) will be expected to offer constructive feedback. Get ready to flex your creativity and communication skills, not just your bodies!

Things to bring:

• A kit of rope (6-8 lengths) including some that can be used for uplines

• Suspension hardware

• Cutting tool

Prerequisites:

The person tying should be comfortable tying harnesses on the body that do not collapse under load, attaching up-lines, and locking them off.

The person being tied should have some experience with being partially or fully suspended and be capable of either verbal or non-verbal communication under stress.

About the Instructors:

Ordinals (Nora) (they/them)

Nora Last (they/them) is a queer switch, cheesemonger emeritus, and the Big Boss of Devil Mask Studio. You’ll most frequently see them behind the desk, running registration from our nerve center. Nora brings over a decade of experience to the studio, having taught across North America about the intersections of rope, embodiment, neurodiversity, and kink. Their work has been strongly shaped by collaboration with a number of educators, most importantly Ojipan, GoodMostTimes, and Hedwig. Outside of the studio, Nora possesses a deep appreciation for life’s small pleasures. When not guiding transformative workshops or honing their rope skills, they indulge in the art of crafting intricate cocktails and curating exquisite cheese boards. These personal interests underscore their belief that the purpose of life is to find delight in its many forms. Nora is thrilled to offer Devil Mask Studio as a secure and welcoming environment for individuals to explore the ways that a rope practice can unlock pleasure, agency, and self-discovery.

Goodmosttimes (Melissa) - She / Her

goodmosttimes AKA Melissa (she/her) started her rope education, as a bottom, in early 2012. She has since continued to expand her knowledge as a switch. She loves to share new techniques from both sides of a tie which led to developing and teaching comprehensive curricula for people honing their skills for tying and being in rope (the Cell and Cell X programs respectively). Fortunate to be based in Los Angeles, CA, she has happily been part of the Devil Mask Society since its inception and is a co-founder of Devil Mask Studio alongside her partners Ojipan and Ordinals. She has an extensive background in event production and organized Ropenspace LA, NARIX 2016, and Kinoko’s Los Angeles Cyber Rope performance as well as innumerable rope intensives.

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