We host classes/rope sessions as a local community every second Tuesday. Vetting is required to gain entry as this ensures everyone is safe and comfortable. contact us for more information. 

There is; $20/person.

We have access to some amazing facilities that not many other places in NZ are lucky enough to have, certainly nowhere as small as Dunedin.

This small fee goes towards paying for the hire of the space, as well as paying instructors for their time.

Dress code?

There is none, however, rope bottoms (people being tied) typically prefer non baggy clothes such as active wear, as it is comfortable, easy to move in, and is slightly easier for the top (person doing the tying) to tie over.

Basically The only requirement is that you be dressed comfortably, and don’t come in full ‘kink dress’ (if you have it). The venue is heated so you can wear what you like.

If you do not own or are not comfortable in active wear, that’s fine, just wear something you can move in.

Absolutely not, and yes, respectively; “Consent Is Mandatory!”

If you want to just chill out and see what rope is all about, then feel free to just come along and hang out while we run a class or a rope hang out session. 

No one is required or expected to participate in anything they do not wish to, “no” is a complete sentence, and consent can be revoked at any time. 

If you do wish to come along just to watch and ask questions/meet the community, you will still need to be vetted; this ensures the comfort and safety of everyone present in the group, and allows you to meet one of the instructors before you walk into a new group for the first time. 

*Consent Is Mandatory*

Everyone that comes to rope sessions is responsible for finding their own tying partner, or working the current exercises as a self tie.

You are free to approach someone you feel comfortable with and ask if they need someone to tie (in a no-pressure fashion), but exercise care if you are thinking of approaching someone to ask if they would like to bottom for you.

We will not ‘pair you up’ during the class, so you are safe from the concern that you will be expected to interact with people you do not know.

Note that it is standard practice that those present do not ask people if they can tie them. Usually people only tie those they drove to the class with, but nothing is stopping anyone from discussing a tying partnership with those they feel comfortable.

Again, you are free to offer to someone specific that they may tie you if they need a practice partner, and others should not take this as an invitation to as of they can also tie you.

Diversity has always been something we welcome and encourage in these sessions, and in our community.

Since beginning these group sessions in mid 2021, we have had every demographic of human join us; gender, sex, culture, ethnicity, sexual orientation (or lack there of), age, nationality.

We are a proudly diverse community in Dunedin. We have had the privilege of welcome men, women, nonbinary, gender fluid, & trans people into our group.

We have taught students from 18 up to 65, and have had that same age range in a single class. 

We respect peoples chosen pronouns.

We are also fortunate to not see any self/group imposed assumptions made about gender roles when it comes to tying.

Gender presentation does not define if you are a top (someone who does the tying) or bottom (someone who gets tied), that said, its often the case that those who identify as male prefer to tie, and those that identify as female prefer to be tied. With this in mind; none of the masc’ presenting students we have ever taught have been opposed to being tied, so that they can learn what their actions feel like for their partners.

All students who bottom regularly take the initiative to learn the basics of tying as well as all safety information, so that they are more able to keep themselves and others safe.

Again, gender does not define if you will (or ‘should’) be a top of a bottom, but it is worthwhile noting that the un-spoken assumptions or concerns that some may have about gender based biases to roles in tying, have never found a place in our group. 

We also have a number of female identifying rope tops, for those that are concerned that they may be walking into a room full of (exclusively) men that tie (exclusively) women.