Bondage Soup

Bondage Soup is a rope education community built around learning, practice, sharing knowledge, and supporting one another.

Since 2018, our community has brought together tying partnerships, current cohort members, graduates, instructors, and GAs who continue to learn, teach, practice, and contribute to one another's growth.

Through BoSo Progressive Learning, Bondage Soup Test Kitchen, and Soup Kitchen, we create different opportunities to develop skills, explore new approaches, and stay connected to the community.

Our Community

Bondage Soup began with the belief that learning rope is better when we learn together and share what we know.

What started as a 12-month progressive learning program has grown into a community of more than 150 graduates, alongside current cohort members, instructors, GAs, and others who contribute their knowledge and experience.

Graduates return to practice, mentor, serve as GAs, teach, perform, interview future applicants, and support the people coming after them. What we teach continues to evolve through experience, feedback, and what we learn from the wider rope community.

Bondage Soup is more than a single educational program. It is a community where learning continues, knowledge is shared, and people have opportunities to contribute in ways that are meaningful to them.

Our Educational Programs

BoSo Progressive Learning

Our 12-month, in-person progressive cohort takes tying pairs from little or no rope experience through foundational skills, harnesses, suspension, and suspension transitions.

Each month builds on the last through instruction, practice, repetition, feedback, and learning together as a cohort.

BoSo Progressive Learning builds the foundation.

Bondage Soup Test Kitchen

Our 6-month, instructor-led cohort is a multidimensional program for experienced rope practitioners who want to investigate familiar structures, explore different approaches, and make more intentional choices in their rope practice.

Through instruction, demonstration, discussion, and guided practice, Test Kitchen creates opportunities to deepen understanding, refine skills, and explore what different approaches can offer.

Test Kitchen is not graduate school or a higher tier of BoSo Progressive Learning. It is another room in the same house, created for a different kind of learning.

Test Kitchen gives you room to experiment, refine, and create.

Soup Kitchen

Soup Kitchen is our continuing education and practice space for graduates and current cohort members.

It is a place to practice, ask questions, share knowledge, explore techniques, and keep learning with people who share a common rope language.

Soup Kitchen keeps us learning together.

What We Value

Learning Together

We believe learning is stronger when people share knowledge, ask questions, practice together, and support one another. Our programs create opportunities to learn from instructors, GAs, fellow cohort members, graduates, and people with different experiences and perspectives.

Partnership-Based Learning

Rope is something a tying partnership does together. Both people are active participants in learning, communication, feedback, risk awareness, and decision-making. While their technical responsibilities may differ, both contribute to the experience and its development.

Adaptability

Every body is different, and every tying partnership brings different needs, abilities, preferences, and goals to rope. We value understanding how and why structures work so that people can make informed choices rather than expecting every body or partnership to work in the same way.

Consent and Accountability

Consent, communication, negotiation, and accountability are fundamental to how we practice rope and participate in community. We value people who listen, respect boundaries, recognize their limits, take responsibility for their actions, and remain open to learning.

Diversity and Inclusion

Bondage Soup welcomes people with different bodies, identities, backgrounds, experiences, and resources. We work to reduce barriers to participation, including offering our cohort programs without tuition, while continuing to learn and adapt as our community grows.

One Community

As Bondage Soup has grown, so have the opportunities to learn, participate, and contribute. Some people are building their first foundation in rope. Others are investigating familiar skills, sharing what they know, or returning to support new learners.

There is no single way to stay involved.

BoSo Progressive Learning is our 12-month program that gives you ingredients, patterns, tools, and a shared language.

Bondage Soup Test Kitchen is our 6-month program that gives experienced practitioners room to investigate, experiment, refine, and create.

Soup Kitchen is our continuing education and practice space where graduates and current cohort members keep practicing, sharing, and learning together.

Each program serves a different purpose, with opportunities to learn, participate, and contribute to the larger community.

Different programs. Different purposes. One Bondage Soup community.