Shibari Retreat Poland 16th-18th & 23rd-25th April 2027

Saara Tsuru is a Finnish artist, performer, and Shibari/Kinbaku practitioner known for her raw, emotional style.

Co-owner of Kakumei Kan studio in Helsinki, she lives in the countryside with her family and animals, embracing life like a wild Viking woman.

Shibari is her passion and profession—she teaches workshops, offers private sessions, and performs across Europe. As a switch, she ties as she wishes to be tied, blending semenawa, dynamic play, ritual, and BDSM elements.

Inspired by Naka Sensei, her focus is on connection, trust, and emotional exchange over complex patterns.

Saara creates safe, open spaces where all feelings are welcome and the model becomes a canvas for shared experience. In her workshops, she teaches fundamentals, safe suspension, and intensity-building, while guiding models in expressing desires, setting boundaries, and surrendering with confidence.

Kasia is a trailblazer in the world of self-suspension Shibari, known for her dynamic, expressive style.

First introduced to ropes in 2011 as a model, she began tying and self-suspending in 2012. She has 14+ years of experience as a rigger, performer, and rope educator.

Her journey includes collaborations with practitioners such as Kinoko Hajime, Saki Kamijoo, Fred RX, WykdDave, Garth Knight, and Esinem. Kasia’s multidisciplinary background—aerial dance, theatre, pyrotechnics, yoga, and sports therapy—deeply informs her approach to rope, emphasizing anatomy, movement, and emotional storytelling.

She has performed at major international events including Torture Garden (London, Tokyo, Berlin, Rome), Edinburgh Fringe, Rope Spirit Prague, German Fetish Ball, Wasteland, and more. Her self-suspension shows have captivated audiences across Europe, Japan, and beyond.

Kasia’s workshops are known for their empowering energy, technical depth, and creative freedom.

She uses her skills and compassion to help people navigate challenges, improve relationships, and strengthen emotional well-being. With a deep understanding of human behaviour and communication patterns, Jowita uses Transactional Analysis as a therapeutic framework to support clients in gaining insight into their thoughts, feelings, and actions. The aim of the therapeutic process is empowerment, understanding of own emotional dynamics and breaking free from limiting beliefs. Jowita’s main interests and areas of expertise are neurodiversity, menopause and loss of any kind.
Jowita is trauma-informed counsellor, and her practice is LGBTQIA+ affirming and inclusive.
She also uses non-violent communication, mindfulness, guided meditation, somatic exercises and exploration cards which both deepen and enrich the therapeutic process.
She is a self-researcher, soul explorer, mindful observer and compassionate listener. Her warm and empathic presence provides safe space where individuals are met with respect.

We are doing everything to make each Shibari Haven interesting, educational, accommodating and unique place. This year we are working on bringing you a new subject to enrich your rope practice on a different level.

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Swen Brandy explores the profound connection between body and mind in unique, often challenging situations. Inspired by the concepts of “The Easy Way” and “When Masks Fall,” he highlights the transformative power of nonverbal communication for play, sexuality, and relationships. His motto: “When the final mask falls, beauty unfolds in its highest form.”

Combining BDSM, fetish, and sex-positive themes with photography and film, Brandy creates deeply personal experiences that push emotional and physical boundaries. Beyond documentation, his work captures the essence of intense shared moments.

He guides individuals and couples in exploring BDSM-oriented play and offers expertise in creatively documenting these experiences. Key themes include physical challenges, edge play, and rough body play. Through workshops, Brandy fosters spaces for intimacy, growth, and unforgettable experiences—with or without cameras.

Anastasia joined shibari and bdsm scene in 2022, and despite the short time, this passion has become major part of her life to which she dedicates much of her energy.

She is deeply invested in shibari art, in all its forms - performances, workshops, professional/amateur photo shoots, as well as in meeting and connecting with likeminded people to deepen her knowledge in the subject.

Anastasia has modelled and co-performed at events such as Hell Events, Tattoo Konwent, Lust Supper, Torture Garden, Black Mirror Events, and more.

Over the past 3 years she attended as a model and as a student various shibari workshops, including ones taught by Kirigami & Tenshiko, Saara Tsuru, Red Lilly, and more.

As a rope model, Anastasia believes that bottoming is a skill, and she is focused on developing both the physical and the mental/emotional aspects of it.

In her personal life she loves to express herself through modeling and she’s interested in politics, social issues, and love to have emotion-focused conversations.