AppeTIEzers - Our Favorite Scene-Starters and Warm-Up Ties

Whether you're sharing your first or thousandth tie together, these rope exercises are some of our most valuable tools for flirting with rope, calibrating to your partner, checking in, and finding your play headspace. We will practice mapping intent to interaction through each exercise using process-focused concepts including variations in pacing, distance, quality of touch, and body/rope handling. Some of these appeTIEzers are based on classics that have become favorites, and others we have developed through our years tying and co-tying together. Techniques draw from Japanese martial arts including aikido and hojojutsu, as well as our interpretations of other partnered movement practices.