Biography

Hebari is a rope bondage artist and educator based in Sydney Australia. As a member of the Sydney rope community Hebari has been partly responsible for the social and educational events that have increased acceptance of BDSM and rope bondage more specifically within the Sydney region.
More recently Hebari has worked to promote Shibari and rope bondage in general to both the Sydney and wider communities through the production of a series of online resources that are now being widely recognised in the rope bondage and BDSM communities.

Naturally Twisted Co

In late 2010 Hebari started Naturally Twisted Co, a website to disseminate information about Japanese rope bondage which had previously been difficult to find due to the small amount of Japanese literature that had been translated and disseminated. Previously people such as Go Arisue

Go Arisue

is one of the world's top kinbakushi .Born in 1954 he became interested in rope bondage at an early age inspired by paintings of the legendary bondage artist Seiu Ito and the works of Akira Minomura....

 and Midori (author)

Midori (author)

is a prominent human sexuality writer, speaker, and sex educator based in San Francisco, California. Her writings and contributions have appeared in many books and magazines...

 had written about the topic however very few video tutorials were available in English along with detailed written instructions.
In 2011 Naturally Twisted Co was expanded to include rigging equipment and hand made rope

Filmography

Director and producer of Love and Rope, a documentary about the western interest in Japanese rope bondage. Love and rope is currently in production and is due for release mid 2012.

Performance

Hebari has performed through Australia for over three years with regular appearances at Sydney's fetish event Hellfire.

Teaching

In early 2011, after training with teachers including Go Arisue

Go Arisue

is one of the world's top kinbakushi .Born in 1954 he became interested in rope bondage at an early age inspired by paintings of the legendary bondage artist Seiu Ito and the works of Akira Minomura....

, Osada Steve

Osada Steve

is a German nawashi and adult video director and performer based in Japan.-Coming to Japan : 1980:After living one year each in India, Thailand, and Hong Kong, and extensively traveling through Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Korea, Taiwan, China, and Vietnam, settled down in Japan for...

, Satomi Zpira and Hajime Kinoko, Hebari began teaching Japanese rope bondage to the Sydney community. Over the course of 2011 the rope classes have grown to include Sydney's first rope dojo, teaching Shibari based largely on the style of Hajime Kinoko and Osada Steve.

External Links

• [Naturally Twisted Co http://www.naturallytwisted.co/] - Community website dedicated to Japanese rope bondage
• [Sydney Rope Dojo http://www.sydneyropedojo.com.au/] - Sydney Rope Dojo website
• [Youtube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/spankysockbat?feature=mhee] - Youtube channel of rope bondage tutorials