Learning The Ropes
Devil Mask Studio offers shibari and rope bondage classes for every experience level in the Historic Core of Downtown Los Angeles. Whether you’ve never held a piece of rope or you’re refining suspension technique, there’s a class designed for exactly where you are.
We believe rope is for everybody and every body – and that includes you.
Not sure where to start? Keep reading (or take our quick quiz).
Why Knot
Rope Curious? Start Here
The starting point for anyone curious about rope bondage in Los Angeles.
Why Knot is a beginner class designed for the rope-curious: no partner, rope, or prior experience required. You’ll leave with a foundational understanding of safety and consent in rope, the basic knots and handling skills to begin practicing, and a clearer understanding of what shibari actually feels like. Why Knot runs twice a month: one Saturday afternoon and one Friday evening.
All Why Knot classes are $35 per person.
The Studio Series
A Progressive Shibari Curriculum
Our in-house rope bondage curriculum runs on four tracks, each taught twice a month at Devil Mask Studio in DTLA. Topics rotate within each level, so you can drop in at any session and build your practice over time.
No need to attend in order – each class is designed to stand on its own while building on the level before it.
All Studio Series classes are $50 per person or $35 to audit.
- Shibari 102: Foundational Skills
The techniques that underpin everything else: rope handling, flow, cuffs, frictions and harness components, and the fundamentals that make more advanced work possible.
A single-column tie is all you need to attend. - Shibari 201: Harnesses & Patterns
The iconic shapes of shibari: structural patterns and the physiology that makes them work. This track focuses on understanding why harnesses work, not just how to tie them, so you can adapt what you know to different bodies and scene goals. - Shibari 301: Preparing for Suspension
Everything you need to know before getting into the air: harness evaluation, load testing, playing in partial suspensions, and the in-the-moment decision-making skills that make suspension safer. - Shibari 401: Suspension & Transitions
For tying pairs already working in full or partial suspension. This track focuses on refinement, dynamic transitions, positional challenges, and the deeper conceptual and technical work that comes after your fundamentals are rock solid.