Tease & Torment —

A Weekend with Roxu & Ena Dahl

Trondheim, February 7th & 8th 2025

We’re pleased to invite you to a weekend-long immersion into the arts of tantalizing teasing and titillating torment in ropes. Spread over two full days we’ll move from seductive floorwork where we build and hold erotic tension and create anticipation to spicy partials and predicaments where pleasure and torment intertwine.

Charm me. Furiously.
Torment me. In detail.
—Hermann Hesse

Saturday 07.02: Teasing You to Death

There are other ways to torment your partner in ropes than via pain and physical challenge. On Saturday we explore the art of teasing your rope partner, if not to death, then at least to the brink of madness 😉 You’ll learn to build and hold erotic tension, create anticipation, get into your partner’s head and play with tease and denial through exercises in touch, movement, rope and body handling.

The Game of Seduction and Anticipation

On the first day we step away from technical and structured Shibari and dive into the art of playing with the mind, desire, and tension. We challenge the need for instant gratification and explore what happens in the space where pleasure is denied, delayed, and transformed into insatiable hunger.

Anticipation is at the core of this experience; the moment before something happens, the precise pause where desire intensifies. We will create that state of expectation and longing within our rope play.

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

― Jacqueline Carey

Sunday 08.02: Tantalizing Torment.

On day two we move beyond caressing rope and dive into the realm of spicy, tormenting partials, exploring predicaments designed to awaken and ignite desire—and perhaps stir some inner demons as well… We’ll move within that space where each choice comes at a price, every movement demands effort, and each pause reveals more than it hides.

Not about enduring for the sake of suffering, but about enjoying the edge; the meaningful discomfort, where pleasure and torment intertwine and the gaze becomes yet another restraint.

Exploring the edge

What happens when we tether the edge; when we enter that space where the boundary between pain and pleasure blurs, where despair bleeds into joy, where time stops and becomes infinite all at once? Are you ready to find out?

Whether model or rigger will sweat more is yet to be determined, but this day will be more challenging for both, both technically and emotionally. This class calls for your full presence, mutual trust and excellent communication skills as you’ll be asked to step all the way up to the edge of your (dis)comfort zones, and perhaps a bit beyond?

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How and what you will learn

Though we will move through exercises and demonstrate a series of patterns and sequences, these workshops are just as much about the why—concepts, principles and philosophy—as it is about the how.

That being said, an understanding of essential, practical building blocks in shibari is needed in order to communicate through the ropes. We will therefore structure our workshops in a way that flows between the practical and technical (hard skills) and the emotional and sensual (soft skills), ensuring that basic prerequisites are covered for each exercise.

Consider this weekend an invitation to explore connection and provocation through rope. This is not just about doing Shibari; it’s about inhabiting it; being present in every touch, every look, and in every silence that lingers just a second longer than expected.

Some of the elements we’ll move through include:

Time and rhythm
Slow movements that drive frustration, changes in pace that confuse and surprise.

Touch and absence of touch
Approaching without making contact, playing with distance, provoking with fingertips before pulling away again.

Control over the partner’s body
Moving, handling and restricting the body with leverages as well as through rope and physical presence, guiding the experience through contact.

Eye contact and voice
Paying attention, tuning in and listening to our partner, watching, narrating, emphasizing vulnerability or desire without physical contact.

& more…

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Practical

We will attempt to adjust the workshop to accommodate the experience, level and skills of our attendees.

Requirements

For Saturday, riggers should be familiar with the single and double column ties, basic frictions and safe uplines for partials, as well as decent rope and body handling.

Sunday requires a solid TK (any style) and knowledge of basic structures, harnesses and uplines for semi suspension.

Rope bottoms should be familiar with being tied and possess good body awareness and have the ability to communicate clearly with their riggers.

Who is it for

This workshop is perfect for couples, duos and (play) partners who desire to deepen their erotic rope practice, to play, explore, feel, and surrender to desire and yearning through rope.

While it is possible to come solo to this workshop and be paired with another single attendee (given we have an even number of single attendees interested), the nature of this workshop is intimate and you may get more out of it attending with someone you feel comfortable with already.

Beyond that, we aim to create and hold an inclusive, safer space where all sexes, genders, orientations, ages, and bodies are welcome.

Equipment

At least 4 jute or hemp ropes for Saturday and around 8 ropes for Sunday, 7-8 meters in length.

Dress code

Dress to undress. Partial nudity and exposure is welcome, but not expected or required. Keep in mind that layers—and clothes that unbutton or unwrap—may make undressing even more fun 😉

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Dates & Times

Saturday 07.02
11:00 Workshop Day 1: Teasing You to Death
14:00 Lunch break
15:00 Workshop continues
18:00 End of workshop
20:00 Performance (doors at 19:30)
21:00 Party / Rope jam
23:30 End

Sunday 08.02
11:00 Workshop Day 2: Tantalizing Torment
14:00 Lunch break
15:00 Workshop continues
18:00 End of workshop

Tickets

If you buy tickets for more than one event during the weekend, you’ll get a package deal.

Courses

TK-lab (Friday): 500,- per person
Teasing You To Death (Saturday): 1800,- per couple
Tantalizing Torment (Sunday): 1800,- per couple

Party
Love is in the Air (party/rope jam Saturday, with show): 250,- per person

Package prices

Saturday & Sunday: 3400,- per couple
Entire weekend: 3600,- per couple

Everyone attending the workshops on Saturday and Sunday also gets free entry for the party.