Self-tying Floating Hashira by Pauline Massimo

Masterclass: Self-tying Floating Hashira (2,20 hours) by Pauline Massimo

Buying tickets for this class allows you to access the class recording of this class offered in the past.

Limit date to buy access: 13/Dec/2025

Limit date to watch: 13/Jan/2026

Pauline Massimo will share in this masterclass their long experience with self-tying specifically for Hashira, where the body is tied on a vertical pole for experienced students, both classic shapes as well more freestyle suspensions and transitions for those who love self-tying.

What you will learn:

- Risks, injuries, and accidents: how to avoid and/or mitigate them.

- Suspension line locking and fixed anchoring on the vertical pole/Hashira.

- Demonstrations and exercises closer to the ground and full suspension options on the Hashira.

- Special attention to the anatomy and well-being of your body tied up.

- Adaptations and creative explorations tips for different bodies and tastes.

Requirements:

It is very important to meet the requirements for this online workshop to ensure that the group is at an uniform level of practical knowledge and safety:

Know about safety, the anatomy of your body tied up, risks of injuries, and accidents, and how to act in each situation.

Have a good understanding of single and double-column ties and basic and complex frictions (X, L, half moon, and hitches, at least). Know how to self-tie a proper harness suitable for suspensions on the chest and lower part of the body that you find suitable and comfortable. Know how to make classic suspension line locks and have some experience suspending in general (bamboo o ring/carabiner).

As self-tying, you should have enough experience with body awareness. Know how to detect when something is not right, recognize the signs of a nerve injury, and differentiate from the numbness of blood circulation.

It would be advised to have a spotter present when you are practicing either during the workshop or outside of it.

About Pauline Massimo:

Pauline Massimo (no pronouns/they), with roots in Brazil and feet in Barcelona, co-founder of Espacio Nos and Learn Shibari.

They have been very intense and proactively involved in Shibari for a decade, exercising multiple roles as a visual artist, performer, instructor, organizer, learner, researcher, mentor, and among other things, nationally and internationally. Their way of feeling, experiencing, and exposing Shibari, starts from its interdisciplinary and multifaceted base where they explore the infinite relationships with other disciplines and ways of coexisting in the world with a strong tie to radical politics, social constructions, neurodivergence, etc.

They have vast experience giving workshops, classes, lectures, and courses on Shibari and interdisciplinary practices contributing from their own perspective as a rigger, model, and selftier in well-known rope spaces in Europe such as in England, Mexico, Germany, Czech Republic, France, Spain, Costa Rica, Martinique, Colombia, Portugal, The Netherlands, as well as in Brazil, Turkey, etc.

They opt for a more progressive way of studying and learning, choosing precision and detail in their classes. They work from an approach where it takes the student's existing knowledge as a starting point and helps them to realistically approach their goals, always keeping their feet on the ground with conscious practice.

When Pauline is talking about Shibari and teaching, always has in their mind the involvement of both roles with their own complexities and contributing inputs. Both the rigger and model coexist independently and need attention separately, but also as a team working together in having a productive, positive, and intimate journey.

As an agender person, they have no pronouns or gender reference but do not mind having neutral terms used toward them (They/them, for example).

More info:

• This is a recording of an online workshops from Pauline's archive. You will be sent access to all together automatically on your email confirmation once paid.

• Please respect the class ticket policy.

• The workshop was designed originally by Pauline Massimo based on more than 13 years of knowledge and experience.

• Taxes are included in the ticket price.

•The workshop is offered at scale prices for different economic situations.

•Participants are not allowed to teach the techniques taught by Pauline without their permission.

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