Vik & Gala workshop: Bamboo

This workshop will cover a single exercise although we’ll be able to see how to transform a session that is meant to be just a suspension to a predicament on the floor. We will use the bamboo as our ally to create shapes but also to create torment at the end during the predicament session.

For this workshop is mandatory to have good foundations plus a solid TK or another upper body structure that works similar to the TK and safe and solid uplines.

For bottoms is required to have experience on body awareness (tracking their physical and emotional state and changes during the rope sessions).

Vik and Gala are a couple from Barcelona. They have done ropes together for more than 5 years.

Vik started exploring both roles in ropes before finding his preference for the rigger side, while Gala started bottoming until she discovered her curiosity for tying both others and herself.

Both have learned from local and international teachers. For them, rope is a tool to explore, discover and express their feelings and highlight them. They found simplicity and intricacy in a style that enhances the beauty of the body and emotions, simple in appearance but with a great purpose, intention, complexity and intensity. Through their way of tying, they both exemplify a mixture of darkness, strength, delicacy, eroticism, closeness, power and more primal instincts.

They have had the opportunity to do performances or, as they prefer to call them, live sessions with an audience, both locally and internationally, as well as professional photo and video shoots. They have also been invited to Milan to participate in the Kinbaku Lab research group and, both as riggers, created the Kinbaku Lab Barcelona along with other riggers and bottoms.

For several years now, they have been focused on sharing Kinbaku professionally, both in international workshops and at the studio they are running together, Shizen Studio Barcelona. Gala also co-organizes the Fem Rope Getaway and has been involved in the teaching part of different bottom’s festivals.