Lief and Icarus: Uplifted

Tickets will be available at 7:30am on December 20th, 2023. $250 a tying pair

Uplifted: A Suspension Intensive with Lief and Icky

Spend a full day in the air with Lief and Icky. Rope suspension is both beautiful and dangerous, which is why learning it in-person from different instructors is integral to your growth in your rope suspension journey. During this advanced class, Lief and Icky will teach several of their versatile, sustainable harnesses and suspension sequences, demonstrate upline management for connective and dynamic transitions, explore how gravity plays a key role in your rope scenes, and more. This day-long intensive will blend technical challenges with creative exploration that uplifts and centers the voices of the people in our rope.

6 hour course (with 1 hour lunch break)
Kind of Class: Suspension, hands-on, and demo
Skill Level: Advanced
Prerequisites: Tops should have foundational knowledge of and hands-on experience in suspension, including using sustainable harnesses and functional uplines. Bottoms should have good body awareness in suspension. This should not be your first suspension class, as a top OR a bottom.
Materials:

• Suspension gear including hardpoint gear and carabiners. Lief will be teaching on a suspension ring.
• 8-12 hanks of jute preferably but other standard suspendable rope is fine.
• Cutting Tool. Make sure you bring a cutting tool for safety. If you do not have a cutting tool, you will not be able to participate in the exercises.

About the Presenters
LIEF BOUND (They/Them)
Lief Bound is a full time rope artist and educator based in San Francisco, California. They have been obsessed with rope even before getting the chance to pick it up and now they can’t put it down. They got their start in the Boston scene attending rope cons such as Bound in Boston and FIRE. Since moving to Los Angeles, they have grown to become a part of the local community teaching classes, private lessons, and creating queer kink art. They’ve taught for Tethered Together, Dark Odyssey, Rope Craft, and Shibari Study. Lief is excited to share their passion with you.
Lief is available for group classes, privates, private sessions, and photoshoots. Email to book!
Email: lief.bound.ropes@gmail.com
Website: houseofbound.com
Insta: @liefboundropes
Twiter: @liefbound
Fet: Lief

ICKY (They/Them)
Icky is a queer, non-binary, switchy pain enthusiast who started their rope bottoming exploration in 2013. Their teaching has developed in kink in tandem with their career in social services, focusing on intersectionality and exploring power dynamics in consent negotiations. Icarus now resides in Los Angeles where they are most passionate about building systems of community care and creating queer performance art with their kink family. They have had the pleasure of teaching sharps at Voxbody and rope for Shibari Study and multiple conventions.
Fet: hedonist_queer
Insta: @hedonist_queer

General Rule
As with all our events, the producers of this (and particularly the instructors) have the right to interrupt your tying if it is not deemed safe for the level of class. If you are asked not to tie or participate in a certain part of the class, you will not be issued a refund. Please read pre-requisites closely prior to purchasing.