Vik & Gala workshop: suspension transitions

This workshop will focus on transitions. We will work with a single exercise that offers many possible directions, and together we will explore how transitions can open different ways of moving, adapting, and developing a rope session.

This is a multilevel workshop, where each participant can work within their own level and tie as far as their experience allows. We require an intermediate level of rope knowledge, including solid rope foundations and up-line management.

After the practical part, we will dedicate some time to speaking about our vision of semenawa, and how sessions built around transitions can help create this kind of feeling through rope.

Requirements: For this workshop, we require a solid TK. Bottoms should have previous experience in ropes, with good body knowledge and awareness.

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.