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• Clothing Optional Yoga Class

  • When
    7 Jul 2020
  •  
    6:00 PM - 7:30 PM (MDT)
  • Location
    Studio Friction

  
  

  Clothing Optional Yoga Class 
  “Open Your Energetic Heart”

  Cost: $15/class or $45 for a 4 class pass

  There are so many yoga classes out there, why do we need another one? Because THIS is a yoga class for people who want to be more comfortable in their own skin taught by a yoga instructor who is! Learning how to be fully present in the moment will bring a new dimension to your life and relationships. Let mtn grrl help you stretch your mind and your body. Please note that these classes are clothing optional but there is nothing sexual about the practice. Classes are clothing optional – wear as much or as little as you wish. If you do plan to wear clothes, please wear work out type clothes that are not too baggy. Please bring a small blanket or large towel, and yoga mat. We meet every Tuesday at Studio Friction. Doors are locked for privacy, so please arrive 10-15 minutes before class begins! Anyone 18+ is welcome. mtn grrl is a certified yoga instructor. She and her partner, Fox, practice yoga together and feel it helps strength their nearly 40 year relationship. This month we will be focusing on opening our hearts - physically, emotionally and energetically.

  To register, or if you have any questions or need directions, please feel free to email mtn grrl here, or at mtngrrlks@gmail.com or call or text her at 720-663-9752
  

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• Studio Friction Presents: Tight Lines a kink life drawing event

  • When
    7 Jul 2020
  •  
    8:00 PM - 10:00 PM (MDT)
  • Location
    Studio Friction

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  Tight Lines: A kink life drawing event
  Every first Tuesday of the month. 

  Cost: $10 suggested donation

  Bring your favorite drawing materials, we will be drawing the human form in an array of kinky activities. Obviously there will be a strong focus on rope, and we will likely start there, but eventually here will be a range of kinks represented. We will create a relaxed atmosphere to see and draw fun sexy things. 
  

  If you are new to rope or kink, this will be a great low pressure atmosphere to spend some time watching and drawing some beautiful kink. Models will pose for varying times in various kinds of positions. 

  We will provide some basic materials if you don’t have them, but certainly bring your favorite sketch book / tablet / easel and mark making supplies. 

  Switchtext isn’t an art instructor, but he does have an art degree and has spent a lot of time in life drawing classes. He is happy to offer input and suggestions on your work if you would like. 

  If you are interested in posing and tying for these drawing sessions, reach out to nate@studiofriction.com

  This is a BYOB event, please drink responsibly. Glass is not allowed in the studio, please make sure to bring cans or a cup to pour your drink into.
  

  For our friends safety and health:
  

  • All attendees must register and pay online to reduce exposure for our volunteers at the door

  • All attendees must sign a covid waiver and submit to a symptom check including a no touch temperature check

  • All attendees must wear masks in the studio unless tying / scening at a station or hard point and 6' apart from others in the space

  • Please bring your own mat and rope, mats and rope will not be available from the studio

  • The studio will be disinfected after each event, and commonly touched surfaces will be cleaned during the event

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• Studio Friction's Rope Bondage Series - Intermediate Course 1

  • Start
    9 Jul 2020
  •  
    (MDT)
  • End
    30 Jul 2020
  •  
    (MDT)
  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    Studio Friction
  • Spaces left
    3

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  Studio Friction's Rope Bondage Series

  Intermediate Course 1

  Cost/Tying Pair: New Member Price* - $125 | WRAPPED Member Price** - $120 | TIED Price - $100 | BOUND Price - $90

  Instructor: SwitchText & Smitten_
  When: Thursdays July 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th

  So you know your 3 rope gote, some leg ties, and a few single columns... Time to start thinking about flying!

  Description: This course builds on the first 2 beginner courses and is the first in the intermediate level. During these four weeks we will Refine the structure and tension of our chest harnesses for suspension, gain an understanding of load line mechanics and safety, tie a mermaid harness that can be suspended, learn about directional suspensions including side, face up, and face down, and ultimately tie a static suspension.

  Requirements: Working knowledge of the three rope gote (TK), basic negotiation skills, 6-10 - 30' lengths of rope, 3-5 load rated carabiners or a suspension ring.

  
  

  For our friends safety and health:
  

  • All attendees must register and pay online to reduce exposure for our volunteers at the door

  • All attendees must sign a covid waiver and submit to a symptom check including a no touch temperature check

  • All attendees must wear masks in the studio unless tying / scening at a station or hard point and 6' apart from others in the space

  • Please bring your own mat and rope, mats and rope will not be available from the studio

  • The studio will be disinfected after each event, and commonly touched surfaces will be cleaned during the event

  • Hand sanitizer and surface sanitizer will be available thru out the studio

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• Thursday Night Virtual Rope 101 Class with Tensegrity

  • When
    9 Jul 2020
  •  
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM (MDT)
  • Location
    Your Living Room via Zoom

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  Thursday Night Virtual Rope Class
  7-8:30 PM

  Tensegrity will teach a single column tie (always a great place to start), and a variation on the bones 'n rope hip harness with a gunslinger style cuff addition.

  Tensegrity she / her / hers As a professional bodyworker with a degree, many certifications, and over 10,000 hours of experience Tensegrity's knowledge has been an outstanding asset to rope experiences for both herself and her tying partners. Ten loves rope especially for the opportunity to explore bodily experiences within a unique container that also allows for profound connection with another human.

  With the studio closed and everyone practicing good social distancing, Studio Friction is still running some online classes for folks to be social and learn some rope! Pay on a sliding scale for the Thursday night classes ($5 - $10 - $20). Once registered you will receive the Zoom Meeting link where you can tie yourself or tie someone your social distancing with**!

  If you are willing and able to help Studio Friction in this  time, PLEASE use our donation page and help us if you can!

  * MyNawashi - Jute Rope
  

  * Knot_Head Nylon - Nylon Rope
  (10% off using code Friction10)
  

  **Only one person will need to register if both people will be using the same laptop and connection!

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• Studio Friction Rope Intensive: Up the Wall with Smitten_, Victoria, and Switchtext

  • When
    11 Jul 2020
  •  
    2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (MDT)
  • Location
    Studio Friction Main Room
  • Spaces left
    12

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  Cost: $10 for BOUND and TIED Members - $15 for WRAPPED Members

  Note: you must register and pay online, no admittance or registration at the door 

  Rope Intensive : Up the Wall

  with Smitten_, Veronica Wolfe, and Switchtext

  You may have noticed that studio Friction has a number of wall anchors throughout the space, 276 of them to be exact. These wall points are a fun way to add variety to tying scenes. Smitten_, Veronica Wolfe, and Switchtext are going to teach us how to tie into them! This class will include suspension and the moving your bottom from a hard point to the wall. Attendees will be expected to have suspension experience and riggers are expected to have experience in up line management. Participants should come prepared to tie an arms-free suspendible chest harness and a suspendible hip harness. As always, everyone is welcome to participate up to their own comfort level or just observe the class. 

  The class will be limited to 6 tying pairs and 4 auditors and pricing is per person.

  Please have at least 10 25' to 30' ropes, and 8 carabiners
  

  Smitten_

  She/Her/Hers

  Smitten has completed 5 levels of curriculum at Studio Friction and has been tying and teaching curriculum courses with Switchtext for the last year and a half. She also attends community classes and rope cons whenever possible. Smitten_ loves teaching and introducing new folks to rope and embraces rope for it’s unique connective qualities and unlimited creativity. 

  
  

  Veronica Wolfe

  She/Her/Hers

  Veronica moved to Denver from New York 1 1/2 Years ago. She got started in the kink and rope scene upon moving after a spontaneous introduction to shibari while CouchSurfing at a kinkster’s in Oregon. She identifies as slightly switchy but mostly a bottom, and enjoys rope and bondage, breath, sensation, wax, and knife play.

  
  

  Switchtext
  

  He/Him/His
  Switchtext is a designer and a co-founder and creative director of Studio Friction. He is more interested in sensations and understanding the elements of rope bondage than mastering someone’s specific pattern. Switchtext has been tying for 14 years. He has learned so much in that time and enjoys knowing he has so much more to learn. 

  
  

  For our friends safety and health:

  • All attendees must register and pay online to reduce exposure for our volunteers at the door

  • All attendees must sign a covid waiver and submit to a symptom check including a no touch temperature check

  • All attendees must wear masks in the studio unless tying / scening at a station or hard point and 6' apart from others in the space

  • Please bring your own mat and rope, mats and rope will not be available from the studio

  • The studio will be disinfected after each event, and commonly touched surfaces will be cleaned during the event

  • Hand sanitizer and surface sanitizer will be available thru out the studio

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• Thursday Night Virtual Rope 102 Class with Mia and Ev

  • When
    16 Jul 2020
  •  
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM (MDT)
  • Location
    Your Living Room via Zoom

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  Thursday Night Virtual Rope Class
  7-8:30 PM

  In this class Mia will demonstrate and teach 3 different futomomos (folded leg ties) that are quick, easy, and suspension ready when you are. All 3 ties can be done solo or with a partner. 2 hanks of 25 to 30 ft rope (of any kind) will be needed to participate.

  Mia (she/her or they/them) is a queer, gender bending bottom leaning switch active in the rope community for 4 years. Their journey in rope started as a bottom. They decided to take a break from playing with others but still loved the community and the feeling of being in rope so they started to self tie/suspend. More recently they have been topping others both in and out of rope but still enjoys the fun and challenges that come along with bottoming.
  

  Ev (they/them) is a white, genderqueer switch. The first time someone asked them to take a belt to a back, Ev was hooked on the trust, physicality, and magnitude of kink. They’ve been in various kink communities for the better park of a decade and are so excited to continue to meet folks in their new home of Denver. T4T and BLM.

  With the studio partialy and everyone practicing good social distancing, Studio Friction is still running some online classes for folks to be social and learn some rope! Pay on a sliding scale for the Thursday night classes ($5 - $10 - $20). Once registered you will receive the Zoom Meeting link where you can tie yourself or tie someone your social distancing with**!

  
  With the studio partialy and everyone practicing good social distancing, Studio Friction is still running some online classes for folks to be social and learn some rope! Pay on a sliding scale for the Thursday night classes ($5 - $10 - $20). Once registered you will receive the Zoom Meeting link where you can tie yourself or tie someone your social distancing with**!

  
  

  If you are willing and able to help Studio Friction in this  time, PLEASE use our donation page and help us if you can!

  Rope sources if you don't have rope:
  

  * MyNawashi - Jute Rope
  

  * Knot_Head Nylon - Nylon Rope
  (10% off using code Friction10)
  

  **Only one person will need to register if both people will be using the same laptop and connection!

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• Thursday Night Virtual Rope 101 Class with Bishop

  • When
    23 Jul 2020
  •  
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM (MDT)
  • Location
    Your Living Room via Zoom

  Register

  
  

  Thursday Night Virtual Rope Class
  7-8:30 PM

  The goal of this 101 class is to get you the initial information required to start having fun with rope right away! Basic consent, types of rope, basic equipment, basic safety will be covered. 

  Also:

  • Non-collapsable single column (reef knot): purpose, safety, technique, exercises

  • One friction and a twist (counter-tension)

  • Introduction to Ichinawa or one rope tying

  
  

  Bishop (He/Him)

  KinkyNubian on fetlife

  Bishop is a rope top, sadist, and amateur photographer. He discovered rope bondage in 2015, and his life hasn't been the same since. Bishop is active in the Denver and Seattle kink communities, thirsty to learn "all the things", and most recently served on the communications team for The Center for Sex Positive Culture.

  
  

  With the studio partially open and everyone practicing good social distancing, Studio Friction is still running some online classes for folks to be social and learn some rope! Pay on a sliding scale for the Thursday night classes ($5 - $10 - $20). Once registered you will receive the Zoom Meeting link where you can tie yourself or tie someone your social distancing with**!

  
  

  If you are willing and able to help Studio Friction in this  time, PLEASE use our donation page and help us if you can!

  Rope sources if you don't have rope:
  

  * MyNawashi - Jute Rope
  

  * Knot_Head Nylon - Nylon Rope
  (10% off using code Friction10)
  

  **Only one person will need to register if both people will be using the same laptop and connection!

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