Rope as Ritual featuring Tonic Tantra - Shibari Temple for Straight and Queer Couples

----- Before you buy a ticket, read thisThis is a consent-centred, safety-positive space. Everyone who attends is vetted before they arrive — no exceptions.To begin, please complete our vetting form and book a short curiosity call with us. Your ticket is only valid once you have been confirmed through that process.If you purchase a ticket before receiving confirmation, it will not be valid, and you will be refunded minus transaction costs.Start here:VETTING FORM LINK: https://amy0777.wixforms.com/f/7480577160906802183CALL SCHEDULE LINK: https://calendar.notion.so/meet/amynelson/shamanictemple----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shamanic Temple presents:ROPE AS RITUAL by TONIC TANTRA - Queer & Straight SHIBARI TEMPLE for couples 15 August 2026 | The Spice Yard, Salt River, Cape TownSoft land 17h30 — final closing 23h30. Doors close at 17h50! Sacred, authentic, and nurturing ritual space for straight and queer couples. -----------------------------WHAT THIS NIGHTS IS----------------------------- An evening for couples to gather and explore rope, Shibari, as a doorway into presence, communication, and embodied trust, held inside a shamanic temple container. We work with music, guided experience, consented exploration, and optional reflective sharing. This night is about what rope can teach the nervous system about being held, about asking clearly, and about staying present with another person through tension and release. Somatically - Rope works directly with the body, with breath, sensation, and the physical experience of being tied, held, and released. The rope is the doorway into everything else. Relationally - We practice making contact through rope with full awareness, presence without agenda, ties without assumption, connection without pretence. Every tie is negotiated before it begins. Psychologically - Rope brings up what you carry, trust, control, surrender, the stories you hold about being held or holding someone else. Tantrically - Tantra works with energy and polarity, the charge that moves between two people in conscious contact. In rope, that shows up directly: the exchange between the person tying and the person being tied, sensation as information rather than distraction, and arousal treated as available energy rather than something to suppress or rush past. Shamanically - We connect with ourselves as part of the Great Mystery, exploring rope as ritual rather than performance. There are no forced beliefs. The temple container facilitates an exploration into rope's somatic and energetic dimensions, beyond technique alone. -----------------------------WHAT WE WORK WITH----------------------------- Inside the temple, we move between guided practice and open time. You might encounter:Cacao ceremony and opening circle, where we name what we're carrying and what we're curious aboutRope fundamentals: basic ties, communication signals, and the negotiation process that precedes every tieGuided rope practice: working with your partner through structured ties, with full explanation and check-ins throughoutSomatic presence practices: learning to feel and communicate from inside the body, what the rope is asking, what you're ready for, what you're notEnergy and polarity awareness: working with charge, arousal, and sensation as part of the practice, not separate from itBreath and stillness in rope: using breath to stay present in a tie, rather than performing through itSilence and free temple time: unstructured space to integrate, rest, witness, or simply beClosing circle: landing back into ordinary reality, together The practices offered remain an invitation. -----------------------------WHAT YOU'LL GET FROM THIS EXPERIENCE----------------------------- There's something that happens when couples gather in a space held for exactly who they are. A letting down. A remembering. The particular magic of being witnessed together by others…