Where It Goes Wrong: Rectify Your Chest Harness

Where It Goes Wrong: Rectify Your Chest Harness

A harness can be technically correct and still be unpleasant to feel. Most of the discomfort people put up with in chest harnesses doesn’t come from doing the tie wrong, it comes from a handful of small, repeatable decisions: the order things get tightened, where a wrap lands against the ribs, how tension gets distributed between the upper and lower wraps, what happens at the back when the lines cross, and not thinking ahead about the suspension position it will be laying.

This class takes those apart. Pauline Massimo will tie a hands-free chest harness twice on their own body: once built slowly and cleanly, naming each decision as it's made, and once with the most common faults deliberately in place, then diagnosed and corrected live, with a running description of how each one actually feels from inside the rope.

We’ll cover

• The structural decisions that determine comfort before you ever tighten anything

• Wrap placement, spacing, and what shifts when the body moves

• Why harnesses ride up, slide, twist, or pinch, and how to catch each one early

• Under or Over-tightening at the start and compensating later: the most common cause of a harness that won’t sit right

• What to check before you call a harness finished

• How to ask for and give useful feedback about a harness, from either side of the rope

  
  

Date & time: 15th November 2026 · 17:00 to 18:30 CET] / [ 11:00-12:30 EST]. Please check time zone conversion to when booking.

Your teacher

Pauline Massimo (they/she) has been practicing Shibari since 2012. Her rope work has appeared in Shakira’s “Copa Vacía,” and she has performed at venues including the Palais Garnier and Salle Pleyel, as well travelled worldwide to teach, perform and create with Shibari.

Format

Pauline will open with the three issues most commonly submitted by attendees at booking, then move into the two demonstrations, and close with an open live Q&A. Bring your specific problem, this class is built to answer it.

Who it’s for

Self-tyers, people who tie partners, and rope bottoms who want clearer language for what their body is telling them. You don’t need to tie along; watching is a complete way to take this class.

You’ll want basic familiarity with a single column tie, and to have tied or worn a chest harness at least once before. Rope optional.

Recording available to all attendees for 60 days.

Platform: Zoom

Changes and cancellations

• Tickets can't be moved to other session, but it's possible to transfer the ticket ownership up to 48 hours before the class.

• Non-refundable.