Denver's Home for Rope and AErial Art

7:00pm - 7:50pm 

Opening Session/ Rules and Agreements / Studio Friction Board Chat / Q and A - Hosted by the @theshamanatrix 

8:00pm - 8:50pm

The Loft: Performance live from Studio Friction - Goddess_Sphinx and Switchtext

Switchtext (He, Him) 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.

Goddess_Sphinx (She, Her) is an eclectic kinkster who recently started a love affair with rope bondage. She strives to bring a deep presence and enthusiasm to each moment and loves to seek out new experiences. A fan of bondage and power dynamics, she brings to the table a strong knowledge of how bodies and minds work. Goddess_Sphinx continues to work towards achieving integration of her kinky self and revels in her journey. 

The Champagne Room: Tempo - Traveling Kinky (BDSM 130)

Description: In kink, we explore our minds, bodies, sexuality, and beyond. We can take our exploration even further by traveling outside our own communities. This guided discussion will help students uncover tips and special considerations when traveling to other communities, major events, and even when traveling solo. Bring your questions about how to plan, pack, play while traveling.

Bio: Tempo (He/Him) is a traveling top who has visited different communities and different countries to learn from the resident experts and masters of different journeys of kink. He takes what he learns to bring back to his present home community in Boise, ID where he hosts Boise Rope Jam. He primarily seeks out rope instructors to help guide him on his journey for rope mastery. True to his name, much of his play involves weaving music into his scenes. Whether it be occupational- or kink-related, his true calling is teaching. Outside the kink community, Tempo teaches for a regionally accredited college and manages the school's curriculum. Inside the community, he is often found serving whatever city he finds himself in as an instructor, a volunteer, a dungeon monitor, medical staff, or consent incident responder. His personal kink project, Alternative Lifestyle Instructional System Topics (ALIST), is to convert kink classes into standardized lesson plans for more effective teaching.

Front Room: Mtngrrl - Clothing Optional Yoga 

Join Mtngrrl, a certified yoga instructor, for a slow and gentle yoga practice.  While the practice will be slow and gentle, you will get a good stretch, get your breath flowing and your blood moving.

Bio: mtn girl has been teaching yoga since 1996 and has been offering clothing optional yoga classes for the kink community since 2009.  Let her help you stretch your body and your mind!  She believes that yoga is a practice that should be available to everyone and people of all levels of experience are welcome in her classes.  Variations and modifications to the poses are available to make them accessible.  If you are not able to get up and down from the floor, she also offers Chair Yoga classes.

Clothing Optional Yoga is offered at Studio Friction on Tuesday evenings at 6:00 PM.  Starting on February 2^nd, these classes will be offered in person AND via live stream on Zoom.

The Teal Couch: Social time hosted by Tyger

Because we can't all gather on the teal couch at this time, here is your chance to say hi, and connect with friends you have not seen for far too long. Stop in an say hi, and as always, Tyger will lead a fun conversation.

9:00pm-9:50pm

The Loft: Miss Doctor - Bottoming Round Table: Adapting ties for success

Description: How many times as a rope bottom have you been told you can't do something because of "X"? How many times have you been afraid to try something because of "Y"? How often have you found an old injury or a part of your anatomy makes certain ties very difficult? Miss Doctor is facilitating a round table for rope bottoms to come together and discuss the challenges they have run into with various ties. She combines her knowledge of anatomy and physiology as well as her experiences as a rope switch to help find paths to success. Success may involve changing how a tie is constructed, adapting how one's body is placed into position for a tie, or even exploring how one could achieve bottoms' goals through similar ties. This is a forum for bottoms to help each other - if we combine our experiences and our knowledge, we can empower each other to reach farther than we thought possible.

Bio: Miss Doctor is a kink-friendly practicing physician who works in primary care with an emphasis on musculoskeletal medicine, endocrinology, and women's health. She has been personally involved in the world of bondage for over 20 years, and she started to explore Shibari in 2013. Her experience as a rock climber, athlete, and artist provide her with a practical perspective on bottoming, rigging, and self-suspension. Her years of experience as an educator help her make safety, anatomy, and health concerns easy to understand and apply. She encourages hands-on exploration and helps students develop a more intimate understanding of themselves and their partners. She is one of the leaders of the Arizona Shibari Studio and one of the organizers of the rope convention Desert Bound.

Front Room: Creative Mayhem - Kink & Tech: Understanding Online Privacy

Description: People get outed every day. Usually the consequences are minimal, but sometimes they are devastating. As the collection of personal data by companies continues to increase, protecting your information is now more important than ever. Companies have a vested interest in finding out as much as possible about you and commoditizing that information. They don’t talk a lot about what they’re doing even if you bother reading the terms of service. In this class, we will go over how people can inadvertently get “outed” in the online world and go over some basic methods to assess and protect your privacy. The goal of this class is to make you aware of how much exposure you have and to let you decide if that exposure is appropriate. Please note that Internet privacy is a vast and complex topic and we will only be able to scratch the surface.

Bio: Creative Mayhem has been practicing Japanese style rope bondage since 2008, including studying in Japan. He has presented and performed internationally and currently serves on the board of Studio Friction in Denver. Some of his personal influences are Osada Steve, Barkas, and the late Yukimura Haruki. He also has over 15 years experience working in Information Technology.

The Champagne Room: Thor - Rope Bondage 101

Description: Starting with the basics, we will learn some about safety/ rope/ vocabulary, and then some tie along foundational ties.

Bio: Thor (They/Them) Thor has been part of the Denver rope community since 2016, bottoming for Denver Bound, and going on to volunteer with Denver Rope Bite. They primarily focus on self-tying and have taught self-suspension classes at Rope in the Rockies 2018 and for Denver Rope Bite.

The Teal Couch: Social time hosted by Smitten_

Cuddle on the couch with smitten_ who could resist? We hear there may be sexy games