Bondage Soup

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

Our community includes current cohort members and graduates of our Bondage Soup programs, along with instructors and GAs who continue to learn, teach, practice, share knowledge, and support one another.

Through Bondage Soup, Pressure Cooker, Test Kitchen, and Soup Kitchen, there are different ways to learn and stay connected to the community.

Bondage Soup

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.

Bondage Soup builds the foundation.

Pressure Cooker

Pressure Cooker is a 6-month immersive program created by the Bondage Soup community in McMinnville, Oregon. It is presented through three weekend intensives and supported by office hours that create space for skill growth, questions, and practice between intensives.

Built from the shared language, terminology, and curriculum of Bondage Soup, Pressure Cooker offers an adapted and accelerated learning experience for rope practitioners who are no longer at the beginning.

Pressure Cooker starts with proficiency in tying a fully structured futomomo. This establishes where the curriculum begins rather than assuming proficiency in everything that might come before it.

From there, Pressure Cooker develops and strengthens skills, fills in gaps, introduces new concepts, and creates a shared foundation for continued growth within the Bondage Soup community.

Pressure Cooker adapts and accelerates the Bondage Soup learning experience.

Test Kitchen

Our 6-month cohort is a multidimensional program for experienced rope practitioners who are ready to explore what they can do with a strong foundation.

Test Kitchen creates space to deepen understanding, refine skills, experiment with established concepts, explore new ideas, and develop greater confidence making informed choices.

It is not graduate school or a higher tier of Bondage Soup. 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.

One Community

Bondage Soup began in 2018 with the belief that learning rope is better when we learn together and share what we know.

Since then, Bondage Soup has grown into a community of more than 150 graduates, alongside current cohort members, instructors, and GAs. Graduates return to practice, mentor, GA, 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.

As the community has grown, so have the ways people can learn and participate. Bondage Soup, Pressure Cooker, Test Kitchen, and Soup Kitchen each serve a different purpose while remaining connected through shared language, values, knowledge, and community.

There is no single way to stay involved.

Bondage Soup gives you ingredients, patterns, tools, and a shared language.

Pressure Cooker adapts and accelerates that learning for practitioners who are no longer at the beginning.

Test Kitchen gives experienced practitioners the room to experiment, refine, and discover what you can create.

Soup Kitchen gives you a place to keep practicing, sharing, and learning alongside the community.

Different programs. Different purposes. One Bondage Soup community.