Yada Kinbaku

Yada Keawburee aka Yada.kinbaku is a student of Yoi Yoshida. She’s a shibari artist & sexuality/kink educator, based in Bangkok, Thailand. 

Yada started exploring Japanese rope bondage in 2015 and started her workshops in late 2018. Yada’s teaching is based on her teacher in Japan (Yoi Yoshida) and customized to suit each student. 

Yada believes rope bondage is not just tying someone up. It's also a way to communicate without saying any word. It’s about allowing ourselves to sink deep into vulnerability.

To practice rope, Yada believes that we all need to stay in touch with and go into the deepest parts of ourselves. To heal, to feel better.

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Workshop schedule
CANCELLED



Private tuitions 2.10 - 4.10 & 7.10.

SATURDAY   5.10.
Floorplay (mixed level)
Unbalanced Shibari for Floor Work (intermediate)

SUNDAY 6.10.
Semenawa (intermediate/advanced)

IMPORTANT NOTE! The workshops have been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.
Thank you for your understanding and patience!

Performance night
Fri 6.9. / 19:30–23:00

Language: English

Price: 25 € (discount ticket 15€, support ticket 35€)

Registration: Edit: The event is fully booked.

The registration opens via this form 5.8. at 18:00. With one form, you can reserve max 2 tickets. You will receive an email about information of the event and how to secure your spot in a few days.

Accessibility: Eskus is accessible by wheelchair via elevator. Please contact the organizers in advance to get access to the elevator. Personal assistants and sign language interpreters enter the workshop free of charge, safer space code of conduct applies to all participants.  Please contact the organizers in advance to get access to the elevator. Read more about the accessibility in Eskus.

Join us for a night of shibari at Eskus in Suvilahti, Helsinki! We’re in for a treat of witnessing delicious slow burn and suffering. 🔥



IMPORTANT NOTE! Unfortunately Yada will not be performing due to unforeseen circumstances. Thank you for your understanding and patience!

Schedule

19:30 – Doors open

20:00 – Doors close

20:10 – Performance: Isla Ika & Pupu (new)

21:15 – Performance: Sara & kirsikka

22:15 – Q&A with performers

23:00 – The night ends

Performance: Sara & kirsikka

Sara @finnishropebitch is a queer top, rigger and rope nerd. For her, ropes are a way to connect with a person. A way to inflict pain and to make someone suffer, but at the same time, a way to create something aesthetically pleasing and beautiful.

kirsikka @cherryandropes is a queer rope switch who, as a rope bottom, finds comfort through discomfort and pain.

Trigger warnings: impact play, kicking, breath play, degradation, partial nudity

Photo: Gennady Kurushin

Performance: Isla Ika & Pupu

For our warm-up act, we welcome one of our organizers, Isla Ika, and their bottom, Travelsizebunny. This duo will share their playful yet intensely hot energy, featuring Isla’s mad-scientist approach to sadistic ropes. This marks their premier performance on stage together!

Isla Ika @isla_ika_ a rope switch, sadomasochist, and storyteller from Finland. With over a decade of kink experience, Isla didn’t touch rope until 2018 by accident, throwing them into a rabbit hole. Read more about Isla at www.islaika.com.

Travelsizebunny @travelsizebunny is a fetish model and latex lover who has been rope bottoming since 2018. She enjoys a wide range of rope styles, from semenawa to decorative rope. Also, this pocket-size Bunny might be the cutest creature you’ve ever seen, bringing captivating energy on stage.

Private tuitions CANCELLED
2.10 - 4.10 & 7.10

Location: Sörnäinen, Helsinki

Requirements: All levels, the content will be tailored to your level. From beginner to advanced, no skills required.

Prices: 100 € / hour (2 hours minimum)

Booking: Send an email to islaikashibari@gmail.com

Private tuition is the best way to learn rope bondage in depth and get all teacher’s focus to yourself. Yada will offer private tuitions and sessions during the first days of her Helsinki visit.


To book, send an email to islaikashibari@gmail.com and tell in the email:

  • how many hours you’d like to book

  • what’s your availability (you can also suggest time slots that would work for you)

  • if you have a place for the tuition or you’d like us to provide that

  • what’s your skill level in ropes

  • what kind of rope are you into

  • what are you interested in learning right now. It can be any style, feeling or anything you’d like to extend to the form of shibari.

Floorplay CANCELLED
Sat 5.10. / 11–14.30 / Multi-level

Language: English

Bottom: Isla Ika

Venue: Eskus, Studio 1. Read more on how to get to Eskus.

Accessibility: Eskus is accessible by wheelchair via elevator. Please contact the organizers in advance to get access to the elevator. Read more about the accessibility in Eskus.

Registration: The registration is open! You can sign up for all the weekend’s workshops using this sign up form here.


Prices

This workshop will look at how to make transitions on the floor seamless and fluid. 

There will be a lot of body manipulation, guided step by step, teaching students to find possibilities on how to move the body. Exercises will help the tying partners to get to know each other better. We will also look into the ergonomy of the rigger while tying on the floor.

Requirements:

  • Basic knowledge and skills in safety, negotiation and communication.

  • For people being tied: understanding of your own body and boundaries. Knowledge of how to take care of yourself while being tied and checking for nerve damage. (You can also read about it here.)

  • For people tying: Some previous experience: this is not your first workshop. Knowledge of some basic rope techniques like single column tie, lark's head, adding new rope, frictions (e.g. reverse tension, full turn / stop, half hitch)

  • The workshop is suitable for all levels. Advanced riggers can include the use of suspension point to the exercises. If you are a beginner, practice single column ties beforehand so you’re fluent with them.

Unbalanced Shibari for Floor Work & Untie Aftercare CANCELLED
Sat 5.10. / 15–19 / Intermediate

Language: English

Bottom: Isla Ika

Venue: Eskus, Studio 1. Read more on how to get to Eskus.

Accessibility: Eskus is accessible by wheelchair via elevator. Please contact the organizers in advance to get access to the elevator. Read more about the accessibility in Eskus.

Registration: The registration is open! You can sign up for all the weekend’s workshops using this sign up form here.


Prices

In this hands-on workshop, we will learn to play with balance and unbalance using floorwork and semi-suspensions.

From the top perspective, we will play with creating discomfort and making decisions on how much we want to challenge our tying partners. For the bottoms, we focus on the mindset of letting go.

Yada will teach her tengu, but students are also welcome to use their own preferred harnesses or TK for example.

After challenging bodies, we will look into how to use untying as a method of pre-aftercare.

Requirements for participants

  • Previously formed trust between the people tying together! Good skills in safety, negotiation, and communication.

  • Previous workshop experience: this is not your first time tying together! This workshop is mentally and physically demanding.

  • Beginners are welcome as observers for this workshop.

Requirements for people tying

  • Mutual trust with the people you’re tying with, providing a safe environment for your partner to give and receive feedback

  • Solid experience in tying on the floor

  • Solid understanding of tension and frictions

  • Some experience of semi-suspensions, understanding of uplines and lock-offs

  • Knowledge of your level in ropes – if you encounter an exercise that seems too difficult for you, you know your limits and do the exercise on an easier level

Requirements for people being tied

  • Understanding of your own body and boundaries.

  • Knowing your mental state, possible triggers, and being able to communicate these to your rigger.

  • Knowledge of how to take care of yourself while being tied and checking for nerve damage. (You can also read about it here.)

Semenawa CANCELLED
Sun 6.10. / 11–19 / Advanced

Language: English

Bottom: Isla Ika

Venue: Eskus, Studio 1. Read more on how to get to Eskus.

Accessibility: Eskus is accessible by wheelchair via elevator. Please contact the organizers in advance to get access to the elevator. Read more about the accessibility in Eskus.

Registration: The registration is open! You can sign up for all the weekend’s workshops using this sign up form here.

Prices

Yada’s semenawa is about  “stillness“. The feeling of being abandoned. The beauty of letting go. The balance and the peace inside of chaos.

Students can choose their own semenawa journey, going as easy or challenging as they want to go.

There will be philosophical conversations on the nature of semenawa. 

While the focus of the workshop is not technical, Yada will teach her signature booty basket, which works great for many different kinds of semenawa. From the bottoming perspective, we will focus on breathing as a tool for semenawa.

Requirements for participants

  • Previously formed trust between the people tying together! Good skills in safety, negotiation, and communication.

  • Previous workshop experience: this is not your first time tying together! This workshop is mentally and physically very demanding.

  • Beginners are welcome as observers to the workshop

Requirements for people being tied

  • Previous experience of being in demanding ties and suspensions

  • Understanding of your own body and boundaries

  • Knowing your mental state, possible triggers, and being able to communicate these to your rigger

  • Knowledge of how to take care of yourself while being tied and checking for nerve damage (You can also read about it here.)

Requirements for people tying:

  • Mutual trust with the people you’re tying with, providing a safe environment for your partner to give and receive feedback

  • Solid experience on tying on the floor and some experience with suspensions (this is not your first time suspending someone)

  • Good understanding of uplines and lock-offs

  • Solid understanding of tension and frictions