Masha's path into conscious kink and Japanese-inspired rope bondage has been fueled by a life-long passion for accompanying people in the physical and emotional journeys through life's transitions. She is a certified nurse-midwife, sexual and reproductive rights advocate, public health researcher, and a student of somatic trauma therapy and psychedelic facilitation. As a birth worker with 25 years of experience, she is an expert in the therapeutic use of human presence, a hallmark of midwifery, which is an integral part of her practice as a rope facilitator. Over the last 5 years she has studied rope and BDSM with leading teachers at domestic and international conferences such as Eurix, Narix, Rome Bondage Festival, Winter Fire, Rope Craft, QueerRope,Tethered Together and Montreal Fetish Festival. For the last 3 years she has created collaborative performances for the Montreal-based shibari festival, Nuit de Corde, as both top and bottom. The rope experiences she creates, both in private sessions and for an audience, focus on exploration of the emotional and somatic journeys within the rope exchange. As a rope educator, she is moved by guiding new rope practitioners in building authentic human connections through expansive consent-building, safe and body-aware techniques, and emphasis on slowness, space-holding, and creating attunement within the tying pair. She is thrilled to be part of the rope education team at Temple and committed to co-creating a diverse and trauma-informed space built on the principles of transformative justice. She aims to facilitate spaces that welcomes all to explore their shadow and light through the various tools of kink, while being held in community.

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