Facilitator

Queer, Neuorodivergent, BIPOC

Hazel (she/they) is a queer and BIPOC rope enthusiast who occupies all roles in the space. She began as a rope bottom in 2019 after becoming interested in new ways to “dance” in the kink space before moving to Nashville and pursuing a journey as a self-tier and top. She takes a more artistic approach, calling on skills used in her career as a ballerina, and dabbles in the aerial arts world. You will frequently find her climbing to new heights and taking on new challenges with her lab and tying partner(s). As a neurodivergent human, she takes a different approach to learning, basing her ties on feeling rather than learning set harnesses and sequences. She also remains very conscious about how different stimuli impact a person’s rope experience and works to create an inclusive learning environment for all. As a hypermobile human, she is passionate about rope bottom education and the understanding of body mechanics and stressors in rope, as well as understanding how to preserve longevity. She does not identify as disabled but lives with chronic pain and autoimmune diseases that impact her life. She believes that as rope practitioners, we are never done learning; we are never done learning the humans we tie with. In the teaching space, she enjoys facilitating self-suspension courses on movement and body awareness, as well as social-emotional and somatic studies. She has traveled to Los Angeles, California, and Montreal, Canada, and hopes to continue her studies and work worldwide.

• Rope 101: An Introduction to Your Rope Journey
• Upline Management with @__Jane
• Finding Yourself By Tying Yourself
• Introduction to Self-Suspension/Tying
• Self-Suspension Crash Course
• Chest and Upper-Body Harnesses for Self-Suspension with @GrowlinWolf
• Flow in Self-Tying
• Life Drawing Rope with @__Jane, @ficklepieceofsht and @_chaska_
• Returning to Rope After Trauma with @_chaska_
• Rope Bottom Roundtable with @_chaska_