Creative Intimacy & Rope Alchemy Training
Intimacy Beyond Words
Stop settling for movie night & dinner date intimacy. You’re yearning for a connection that goes deeper than the dinner table and further than the digital screen. It’s time to trade the routine for something
novel, knotty, connective, & absolutely enlivening.
Awaken your senses, heighten connection, and bring a whole new level of playfulness into your relationships. Whether you're new to rope or looking to refine your skills, this experience will guide you in
creating electrifying moments of surrender, power, and intimacy.
Many people have a deep yearning to have richer connections, to have more aliveness in their relationships.
Yet they don’t know where to start.
The truest way to enliven your connection to others is through:
introducing novelty
presence & attunement
vulnerability & sharing greater emotional depth
sensory & physical connection beyond words
THIS COURSE IS FOR YOU IF YOU CRAVE…
✔ A deeper, more embodied connection with your partner, lover, and friends but don't know where to start
✔ Playfulness and adventure to bring aliveness into your intimacy
✔ The art of touch, trust, and sensual surrender
✔ Empowered leadership with confidence and attunement
✔ A skill that turns every encounter into a mesmerizing dance
Shibari isn’t just about rope. It’s about connection. And once you learn how to weave that connection into your touch, your presence, and your play… intimacy will never feel the same again.
ARE YOU READY TO UPLEVEL YOUR INTIMACY?
Shibari, the Japanese Art
The sensual artistry of tying the body with ropes is a profound exploration.
A dance, a game, a scene, a moment in time to share connection with another person in a unique and powerful way. The ropes become a conduit to self-awareness and empowerment, a journey that delves into the depths of our polarity, energetics of feminine and masculine, surrender and control, discomfort and pleasure, past and present. This exploration illuminates the dynamics within ourselves, our relationships, and the world around us.
It's more than just learning "how to tie"
How to convey a mood, emotion, styles of touch,
with skills that take you & your partner to another dimension.
We will explore the range of sensations and provoke deep relaxation, excitement, desire, sweet release, joy, and ease. The vulnerability in ropes, brings meaning and depth to the surface. You will experience what it truly means to hold and be held.
Experience
The program overview...
Duration: 3 months virtual + in person // Starting March 24th, 2026
Core calls: Live weekly Zoom classes with Kati + Guest Speakers + Bonus Calls
Time: 2hr calls weekly from 4-6pm PST on Tuesdays (guest speaker & bonus call times vary)
Platform: Zoom Live Calls + Rope Alchemy Instructional Course
INCLUDES: In-Person Rope Alchemy Immersion in Salt Lake City, Utah | June 12-14th (attendance for two)
You’ll receive:
- LIVE weekly classes (teaching, practice, Q&A)
- Expert Guest Speakers
- Bonus Calls (Shibari Live Classes, Rituals, Group Tying)
- Rope Alchemy Course w. Lifetime Access (pre-recorded instructional tying videos)
- Homeplay assignments to integrate what you learn
- A private community space for connection + reflection
- 3-Day Rope Alchemy Immersion in Salt Lake City with Kati June 12-14th
- ...and more!
Who is this for:
Creative Intimacy Program & Rope Alchemy Training are designed for anyone longing to use the art of Shibari as a gateway to deeper sensuality, creativity, and presence. This is a radically inclusive space that welcomes all genders, races, sexual orientations, and levels of physical ability.
The Duo Experience
For partners, friends, and dedicated tying pairs.
This program is built on the foundation of partner-based tying. A weekly devotion to connection, novelty, trust, and play! Whether you are looking to reignite a long-term spark or explore a new connection with a friend or lover, this series and experience provides a structured container to practice trust, power dynamics, sensuality and attunement.
Having a consistent partner allows you to move past the basics and into the profound alchemy of trust, surrender, and shared creativity.
- The Language of Attunement: Enhance your verbal & non-verbal connection. You will learn to read each other’s breath, nervous system cues, and subtle shifts in energy, creating a level of "instant presence" that transforms your relationship.
- Playing with novelty: This course gives you a structured way to navigate power dynamics, play with "the edge," and negotiate desires, turning every session into an enlivening dance of connection & discovery.
- Communcation tools to articiulate needs, wants, boundaries, & desires. Start discovering ideas to connect with you partner is ways you never imagined!
- The "Shared Ticket" Experience: You and your partner will journey through the 3-month program and the 3-Day Live Shibari Immersion side-by-side, integrating these transformative experiences together.
The Solo Journey & The Power of Invitation
For individuals seeking self-mastery and a new way to meet the world.
You don’t need a permanent partner to experience the magic of the ropes. In fact, joining this program solo is a powerful act of self-authorship. This path is designed to help you reclaim your own body while giving you the tools to build new, high-quality connections with others.
- Ask & Magnetize: This course isn't just about knots; we take a deep dive into the language of intimacy. You will learn how to ask for what you want, negotiate safety, and create "instant depth" with others. Skills that make you a magnetic presence in any social or community space.
- Confidence & Expansion: If you don't have a "main" partner, you aren't alone. We provide communication & attunement skills to help you reach out to your existing friend circle or the local rope community with confidence and clarity.
- Self Mastery: Use the rope as a meditative tool to explore your own boundaries, build body confidence, and enter grounded, altered states of presence on your own terms.
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The "Plus One" Invitation: Your registration includes a Guest Pass to the 3 Day Live Shibari Immersion, turning this course into a social catalyst. Use it to invite a friend, a curious acquaintance, or a potential play partner.
Skill Level & Accessibility
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Beginners: No prior rope experience is required. All ties in this course are floor-based. We focus on grounded connection; there will be no suspension in this program.
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Seasoned Practitioners: For those with existing skills, we focus on the nuance. The space between the technicality, the energetics of tension, and the psychological depths of the scene.
What’s Included
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The Rope Alchemy Vault: Lifetime access to pre-recorded instructional videos featuring both partner ties and self-tying techniques.
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Live Creative Intimacy Sessions: Weekly Zoom classes focusing on the soft skills of attunement, improvisation, and emotional depth with guest speakers & Bonus Calls ( rituals, shibari classes, & Q/A)
Inside This Transformational Journey, You’ll Discover:
✔ The Curious History of Shibari – Where it all began and how this ancient art form became a breathtaking practice of trust, intimacy, and play.
✔ The Soul of the Ropes: Intention & Energy – There are a multitude of ways to connec to ropes, what is your style? .
✔ Rope Communication for Play Spaces – How to have the language and vocabulary to open vulnerable spaces of exploration with new play partners
✔ Boundaries & Consent in Ropes – Master the art of conversation in intimacy, creating a container to cultivate safety and trust, so you can surrender deeper and play bolder.
✔ Reducing Risk: The Sacred Practice of Awareness – Understand your partner’s body, nerve safety, and practice with confidence.
✔ Foundational Ties for Upper & Lower Body – The essential ties and techniques to tie in classic positions.
✔ Two Rope Harness & Connecting Ropes – Build studier harnesses for floor-play
✔ Self-Tying: A Love Affair with Yourself – Discover the magic of tying your own body, for art, pleasure, practice, and entering altered states.
✔ Rope as Language: Evoking Emotion Through Tension & Release – Learn to create desire, longing, and tenderness through every wrap.
✔ Sensual Untying: The Art of Prolonging Pleasure – Because sometimes, the way you release a rope is even more powerful than how you tie it.
✔ How to Explore Rope Improvisation – Ditch the script and learn to move intuitively, cultivate your own creative flow with body movement, energetics of touch, and unpredictability.
✔ Creating a Scene: Crafting an Unforgettable Session – Set the stage, build anticipation, and guide your partner through a unique experience.
✔ Live Session: Witness the Magic in Motion – Watch an intimate, real-time Shibari session and absorb the subtleties of connection, technique, and flow.
Are you ready to step into this world of novel connection, exquisite charge, and boundless intimacy?
3-Month Journey
Creative Intimacy & Rope Alchemy Training
Foundations & Boundaries Dojo
week 1 & 2
How to get started in ropes. Finding partners & building play spaces with aligned intention, clarity, & scene communication.
Sensual Embodiment & Attunement
week 3 & 4
Develop abiliity feel self & other in a scene, creating safety, & trust. Energetics of rope, movement, and tension.
Power, Surrender, &Expression
week 5 & 6
Explore embodied power dynamics, control and surrender, and improvisation. Mood, creativity, & expression for unique, unforgettable scenes
Pain & Sensational Kink
week 7 & 8
Flirting with the edge of intensity. Body activation through sensation in building thresholds to pleasure
Aftercare & Regulation
week 9 & 10
Integrate experiences through aftercare, nervous-system regulation, and repair. Close the scenes with tools for sustainability and growth.
3-day Rope Alchemy Immersion
week 11 & 12
Live in-person Immersion to connect, tie, ritualize, and explore together.
Knotty Bonus Calls:
These calls will be scattered throughout of 3 months together!
Live vitual shibari classes
Bedroom Bond-ing Ties: Bedroom play ties for getting down to business
Seduce Yourself Ties: Self adornment with sexy decorative self-ties
Tied & Tired: Relaxing & restorative ties for a nurturing embrace
Itchinawa: The one rope flow of tying and untying
Let's get knotty!
'Anatomy, Body Awareness, & Safety for Floor Play'
Nadia is a switchy rope educator, consent advocate, and Doctor of Nursing Practice who brings a rare blend of medical expertise, lived kink experience, and heart-centered teaching to her work. One of her many strengths is translating complex clinical knowledge from her doctoral training into accessible, practical guidance for rope practitioners of all levels. Her teaching style is grounded, warm, and incredibly precise, making nuanced concepts easy to understand and apply. Nadia is based in Houston, Texas.
Nadia and her partner, Niho, performed last year at Elevation Rope Conference, where I first witnessed their style. The care, precision, intensity, and beauty in their rope was deeply moving. Their dedication to rope education and to cultivating safer, more conscious kink communities is what draws me to them so strongly.
'Thrill of Improvisation'
Tati, as I like to say, is a force of nature. With over 15 years of Shibari experience, she has trained, taught, and tied around the world, studying with renowned Japanese and European Masters. Through these lineages, she has cultivated a style that is distinctly her own: a rich fusion of Aikido, tango, tantra, domination, elemental forces of nature, and human psychology. She is one of a kind!
Tati is also the creator of Shibari Theatre, which she hosts internationally. Her theatrical work portrays a story, symbolism, vulnerability, raw emotion, culture, and meaning into provocative, immersive performances that explore the depths of the human experience. I have had the immense privilege of performing in, being tied for, and witnessing Shibari Theatre...and there is absolutely nothing like it in the world.
Tati has been one of my biggest & most beloved influences the last 5 years, as a mentor through out my rope journey. She has deeply influenced my style & perspective of rope.
'Body Manipulation'
Knotty Devil, is indeed just that. Their style is a potent blend of precise aesthetics, fine attunement, knotty predicaments, and fluid, embodied flow that heightens connection. With a background in martial arts, Knotty Devil brings a deeply informed sense of movement, structure, and presence into their rope work.
Having avidly studied with masters of Japanese and European lineages for 10 years, Knotty Devil specializes in creating rope sessions that emphasize connection, the space in between, the pauses, and the tension. Their rope is a dance. A tease. An intimate conversation in motion.
I had the special privilege of tying with, being tied by, and co-topping with Knotty Devil a bit over a year ago. Our styles complemented each other beautifully; feeling deeply familiar, inspiring, and eye brow raising.
Meet your instructor
Kati Bird
Kati Bird is a renowned Shibari Artist & Sorceress, specializing in Somatic Trauma Therapy, Sacred Kink, & Creative Intimacy.
Kati creates transformative spaces where conscious connection and play are pathways to depth, healing, transcendence, and meaning through ritualized symbolism. Her approach is rooted in presence through sacred touch, tantra-inspired practices, authentic relating, non-violent communication, conscious kink/BDSM, and creative intimacy.
Kati has taught & tied internationally, including as a featured educator for the renowned psychotherapist Esther Perel, where she brought her unique perspective and transmission of creative intimacy with the rope. With expertise in kink and play spaces, she emphasizes boundaries, consent, and communication as gateways to expansion for personal and collective healing, expression, and freedom
Starting March 24th, 2026
LIVE ONLINE CLASSES + ROPE ALCHEMY TYING COURSE
& 3 DAY SHIBARI IMMERISON IN SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH | JUNE 12-14TH
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