EP 33: Kata

Kata discusses their journey into shibari, blending spirituality and bodywork. They reflect on fostering community, challenges of organizing workshops, and the intersection of rope bondage with Tantra. Kata emphasizes mindfulness, presence, and ongoing self-improvement.Kata (he/she/they) has been touching and trying to understand and learn "all" about touch their whole life. They are a touch professional, genderfluid (rope)switch, bodyworker, explorer, learner and forever evolving in this (mostly) human form.Originally from Austria, lived in Iceland for 8 years where they discovered ropes and the passion to work with and for the human body again. They went on to connect to the spiritual communities there as well as the BDSM community and built a rope community and created Spektrum Reykjavik and Reykjavík Ropes, these spaces were born to weave together and offer all those things that they love, experience, enjoy, research and study. Recently moved back to the south of Austria, connecting to their own roots and to the diverse communities there. Learning even more about the human body, studying physio/medicinal massage and sexological bodywork (in Zurich). Working with holistic bodywork, offering rope classes and sessions as well as continuing to collaborate with different photographers, rope artists and Finnish movement and dance artist Kaisa Kukkonen on their mutual research about touch.Instagram: @littleredridingtree, @spektrum.reykjavik, @reykjavikropesExplore 800+ high-quality rope bondage tutorials taught by world-class instructors: https://shibaristudy.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shibari.study/X: https://x.com/shibari_studyYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ShibariStudyFetlife: https://fetlife.com/users/856858