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MRM 2025 Courses

Saturday - Session 1

Single Rope Bondage 101

Instructed By:

Stabby

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With a single rope and just a couple of simple building blocks, I'll show you how to play with your partner, taking them through a wide range of sensations - from gentle and caressing all the way to rough and controlling.

Pre and Post Scene Bodywork for Rope Bottoms

Instructed By:

Ari Sky

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This class will give rope tops various types of body work to help prepare their rope bottoms, as well as help rope bottoms recover after being tied up.

Reverse-Engineered Riggery

Instructed By:

MyFrogHasHat

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Explore a systematic approach to rope deconstruction and reconstruction, with emphasis on engineered solutions for the unknowable.

Suspension Uplines: From The Ground Up

Instructed By:

Shibari Shawn

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This advanced rope bondage workshop will look at the various aspects of suspension uplines, discuss safety precautions, and identify the possible emergencies in rope suspension and 5 steps to addressing them.

Modular Rope Theory

Instructed By:

ropeism.sf

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This intermediate level bondage class introduces a modular framework for rope bondage, focusing on constructing ties rope-by-rope rather than following fixed patterns.

Saturday - Session 2

Cowboy Bondage - Hogties

Instructed By:

TieguyWYO

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This class will focus on rope techniques for creating a comfortable and secure hogtie position.

The Floating Cloud: Gentle Rope Suspension

Instructed By:

ropes.sweat.and.tears

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While most rope suspensions can involve bodily discomfort, they don’t have to focus on suffering. In this class, we’ll explore rope suspension with intention of creating a peaceful, meditative experience for the rope bottom.

An Ultrasound-Guided Tour of the Human Body

Instructed By:

NervesOfPurple

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This class will take you on a tour of various anatomic structures that are relevant to rope and body safety.

Patience, Proximity, & Pauses in Tying

Instructed By:

Master R.

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Do you find yourself rushing through a tie? Struggling to make rope feel like part of the scene? If the tying process feels more like work than play, then Patience, Pauses, & Proximity in Tying is the class for you.

Copycat Killer: Finding Your Unique Rope Aesthetic

Instructed By:

BondageOtter

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This workshop is about moving past imitation and toward intention. Together, we’ll examine what actually makes a style—cohesion, rhythm, tension, line—and how both Japanese and Western approaches have developed distinctive aesthetics.

Sunday - Session 1

Picturing the Obscene: Power Dynamics of Rope, Camera, and Photograph

Instructed By:

Thiktool

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Toolboi

In this hands-on workshop, you will explore the shifting dynamics - not only between rigger and rope bottom, or photographer and subject, but also through the final image’s connection to its viewers.

Frustrating Escape Artists

Instructed By:

Naturalturn

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In this class, we'll cover both principles and specific steps to secure several common ties such as the takate-kote and how to do it without making the bondage too tight.

Getting From Here to There – Transitions On the Floor

Instructed By:

Zuttoman

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This class will explore how to create flow in your transition -- from standing to floor – from open to closed shapes – to add variety and sensation to your rope scene.

Around the World With the Agura

Instructed By:

Oliver Klossof

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In this class Oliver will go over his variation of the agura which focuses on a single cuff which offers free rotation in the air, supported by hip lines.

Connective Rope Bondage: It’s not what you tie but how you tie it!

Instructed By:

Shibari Shawn

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This rope workshop will be a hands-on class with active participation and rope tying. We will briefly analyze the methodology of sensual rope bondage highlighting rope bondage as a erotic process rather than a simple means to an end.

Sunday - Session 2

Progressive Chair Tie for Any Chair

Instructed By:

Oras

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Rather than focusing on a specific chair tie or harness, Oras will guide you through multiple "macros" that can be combined to create endless variations.

What Do I Do Now That the Knots Are Done?

Instructed By:

KnotYourDaddy

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This course will examine the before and after of the tie. Participants will explore what their goals are before the tie, and what their expectations are after the tie.

Tying Transmasculine Bodies

Instructed By:

J TheRawKitty

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Juice

This floor based class is meant to create a container to explore adaptations that give those positive gender feels and experiment with what feels good for your body!

Shall We Dance In Rope?

Instructed By:

JonTheRigger

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The word “movement” has two meanings, to physically move someone and to emotionally move someone. It’s the latter that interests me the most in tying!

Intro to Suspension for the Bedroom

Instructed By:

BondageOtter

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Introduces participants to the foundations of partial suspension in a safe, playful, and bedroom-focused context. Designed for those who are brand new to suspension but already competent with a single column tie.