Very Hot Weekend: Brooklyn Edition
with Syd and Kitten
11:00 AM - 6:00 PM each day
A full weekend of very hot, super sexy, downright steamy shapes and concepts. We'll indulge in thigh spreading, booty lifting, crotch roping, and perhaps drool-inducing shapes, along with ideas, concepts, and conversations for spicing up your play. The workshop bounces between structural, technically grounded exercises and others based in exploration and improvisation. Our goal is to find rope that truly makes us tick in a delightfully sensual, sadistic, and playful way. Emphasis on creative expression, sustainability in suspension, awareness of safety and risk, and how to find PLAY within these techniques.
For those who take Syd’s core curriculum classes, there will be some new shapes and exercises, and some familiar shapes that we’ll be making steamier.
PLEASE NOTE: Temple NYC is located on the second floor with no elevator and is not an ADA-compliant/accessible space. There are several sets of stairs and the bathrooms are not ADA compliant. Please let us know what accessibility needs you have and we will do our best to assist you.
Prerequisites:
Riggers: Experience building suspendable harnesses, the ability to build and manage multiple uplines in static suspension, confident in-rope communication, and knowledge of safety and risk in rope specific to suspension. Students should have multiple upper body harnesses already in their toolbox.
Bottoms: Confident in-rope communication, knowledge of safety and risk in rope, and the ability to monitor and communicate signs of nerve compression.
This course is best suited for pairs who have tied together previously, and are comfortable exploring and discussing sensual and intimate subjects. The following is a list of elements that should be specifically discussed between tying pairs before the workshop, in addition to their regular negotiation.
Intentional emotional attunement
Crotch rope
Rope near or on the sides of the neck (blood choke)
Mouth rope
Excessive drool
Hair rope
Rope around toes and fingers
Facilitators:
Syd and Kitten both work full-time as kink professionals, regularly teaching, performing, and facilitating rope together. They're particularly interested in the intersection of technical structure, psychological dynamics, and embodied experience in rope, creating education around these topics that support autonomy, creativity, and critical thinking. Individually and together, they've taught and presented in a range of local and international contexts, most notably at Anatomie (London), Devil Mask Studio (Los Angeles), KOR (Berlin), EspacioNos (Barcelona) and Studio Friction (Denver). Syd is resident educator at Temple and Hit Me Up—both in NYC—and together they perform in nightlife and performance spaces across NYC, Brooklyn, and beyond. Kitten recently toured with and taught alongside Tamandua at That Rope Place (Singapore), Cats Downstairs (Taipei), and E-flow (Shanghai). She runs a dungeon space in NYC and has planned and facilitated kink education and exploration events for many years. In addition to working as a rope model, she is also a professional dominatrix, which leads her to bring and share a unique perspective in her rope bottoming practice.
Their ongoing education has included extensive study with international instructors, including Fede Kirigami and Marta Tenshiko, Tamandua, Ropunawa, Soptik and Sansei, Banana, Hua Hua, Murasaki Haruan, Hajime Kinoko, Yagami Ren, Naoko, KissMeDeadlyDoll, Tamandua, and Naka Akira. For both of them, rope is a topic they never tire of discussing endlessly; they are grateful to be able to practice so frequently, so freely, so passionately, and to share this enthusiasm extensively all around the world.
RSVP is $375 per pair
If the event is sold out, you can sign up for a WAITLIST HERE.
Two 40% discount tickets are available per event for PoC, sex workers, and trans folks. Please reach out for the code.
PLEASE NOTE: Temple NYC is located on the second floor with no elevator and is not an ADA-compliant/accessible space. There are several sets of stairs and the bathrooms are not ADA compliant. Please let us know what accessibility needs you have and we will do our best to assist you.
CANCELLATION POLICY: Please provide at least 48h notice via email to refund or reschedule a ticket. A 5% processing fee will be subtracted from refunds.