MissTrueBlue, Margherita & Shakti Bliss
Blue (@miss_true_blue) has been teaching and performing rope bondage since 2012, primarily in the Bay Area in California. In June 2017, she opened VoxBody Studio, the area's first rope-dedicated venue. Blue has presented at RopeCraft, Bondage Expo Dallas, Desert Bound and Karada House’s Queerope event, and performed at events such as Folsom Street Fair, Twisted Windows and Vau de Vire Society productions. She is an enthusiastic switch, believes bondage education should address both sides of the rope, and is so proud of her local rope community that has thrived at the studio and beyond.
Margherita (@mrghyseye) is an embodiment enthusiast, a dancer, a perpetual learner, and a subtle disruptor.
In rope for over a decade, her practice expanded drastically in 2019, and gradually became an integrated element of her somatic work.
Besides rope, her work involves teaching a variety of movement and mindfulness techniques in correctional facilities, substance abuse disorder treatment programs, and private settings specializing in individuals dealing with PTSD, addiction, EDs, and other mind-body complexities. She also serves as a guest lecturer on embodiment and trauma at colleges and universities, while actively engaging in scientific research on the effect of embodiment work on addiction and recovery.
Her passion lies in creating spaces for exploring embodiment, discomfort, and marginalized experiences, finding growth through catharsis and integration via somatic practices leading to liberation, such as stillness, yoga, dance, Butoh, rope, hook suspensions, and laughter.
Her mission in sharing information and experiences with others is to soften the dichotomy between body and mind and investigate visceral sensations to create emotional resilience through movement, curiosity, dialogue, and play.
You may catch her performing with Sokolow/Theatre Dance Ensemble, Vangeline Theater, Dances We Dance, and as an independent artist, or at Temple, in Brooklyn, rolling in rope.
Shakti Bliss
A sacred (s)Witch, somatic educator, and facilitator of ritualistic kink and devotional worship, Shakti Bliss (@the.rope.doula, she/her/they/them) is an intuitive somatic healing guide, full-spectrum birth worker, and Indigenous witch rooted in the lands of the Apache and Kickapoo (post-colonized: Austin, TX). She has been part of the rope community for nearly a decade, first teaching yoga, mobility, and body awareness to rope practitioners before expanding into bottoming education and the energetics of consensual intimacy.
Over the years, Bliss has grown into a competent rigger and rope sWitch whose work centers intimacy, cultural competency, emotional liberation, and consent as living practices inside the rope journey. She believes deeply in reclaiming wellness, sensuality, and authentic self-expression as our collective birthright, using consensual touch, embodied awareness, and ritual to guide people toward deeper self-knowing.
Bliss holds years of training in hatha yoga, tantric philosophy, mindful movement, facilitation, pedagogy, and various aspects of BDSM and kink. A cornerstone of her work is increasing visibility and representation for Black people in kink, sex education, and tantric studies, offering a fresh, spiritually grounded perspective on the ritual and art of interpersonal connection.
She is the owner and co-visionary of The [ _ ] Space in Austin, TX, a studio dedicated to cultivating community through movement, ritual, adult education, and somatic practices, including BDSM/kink and sex ed. When she is not teaching or tying (or being tied), Bliss is providing full-spectrum reproductive justice support and homebirth midwifery care throughout Central Texas.
