This is a guided exploration of self with the physical and emotional hosted by Sophia Rose and Giap Tongsayor in an intimate private residential venue.
About this event
We invite you on a journey of surrendering to self, with guided self-tie lead by Sophia Rose and Crystal Sound bath by Giap Tongsayor.
Shibari is the Japanese practice of rope bondage literally meaning 'to tie'. It's origins draw on Hojujitsu and was used by Samuri as their technique to capture, restrain, and transport prisoners in a functional and aesthetic way. Though these techniques stopped being used, the imagery and aesthetic made its way into the underground BDSM and artistic culture of Japan. Shibari and images of people tied can be found in pornography, photos and paintings to this day.
Nowadays, enthusiasts of rope bondage and shibari draw on more traditional methods of tying as well as merging techniques with more western style bondage and imagery. Self-tying and tying for the purpose of conscious meditation is something which people are exploring more and more, rope bondage may always be intimate and personal, but it does not always have to be sexual.
Hosts
Giap Tongsayor is an intuitive energy healer and well-being coach. She works closely with sound through her team of crystal bowls, instruments and light language channelled through her voice. After her breakthrough whilst working in the financial sector due to high stress workload, she put herself on the path towards inner peace by studying various human behaviour and returning to her childhood teachings of spirituality with Buddhism and mindfulness.
Sophia is a facilitator and educator living in London, who has been involved in rope and BDSM since 2013. Sophia teaching is grounded in trauma aware practice, conscious communication, and curious exploration. Her interest and passion lie in what is benefit the surface… in many senses. Sophia enjoys thinking about how our bodies, minds, and ways of being become shaped consciously and unconsciously, and using physical tools and practices to explore these thoughts and ideas. Sophia believed there is something deeply powerful and healing about self-acknowledgement, self-accompaniment, and self-compassion, which she brings to her own practice.
