Kink + Healing Practitioners
The Rope Collective provides a variety of healing arts and kink professional services inside our studio. Meet the practitioners and book a private session below. Check out our instructors and view the events calendar to find an upcoming class, workshop, or event to join.
submissivetiger / Toni
(she/her)
Rope artist. sWitch.
Founder of The Rope Collective + co-founder of Bondage and Brews
submissivetiger is a rope artist, performer, educator, community event organizer.
Her focus is on modifications in rope for every body, creating liberating experiences and connection with rope, informed consent, negotiation, and aftercare as the medium. Her style is a balance of sensual and primal expression.
She has had the honor of performing in some truly legendary local venues such as The Casbah, Kensington Club, Centro Cultural de la Raza, Spin Nightclub, Queen Bee’s Art and Cultural Center, Urban MO’s, U-31. She has also performed in historic venues such as The San Francisco Mint and El Portal Theatre in L.A.
In addition to private group classes, private 1:1 rope lessons, and well as rope experiences (being tied or suspended), submissivetiger teaches community workshops, intensives, and organizes performance arts events in San Diego and is available for booking worldwide.
syDney
(she/they)
Sydney Aldana founded In Our Nature Sex & Relationship Coaching, an inclusive adult sex education practice with a focus on LGBTQIA+ experiences. Sydney identifies as a Latinx queer non-binary woman, and they understand firsthand the importance of having a safe and inclusive space to explore one's sexuality and relationships. At In Our Nature, Sydney's mission is to empower individuals to confidently embrace their innate sexuality through education, somatic practices, support, and a judgement free space for authentic sexual expressions to flourish.
Sydney has a background in psychology and has worked with families and children as an educational therapist and social-emotional coach for 9 years. They has curated an inclusive coaching practice that serves people of all sexual and gender identities, experiences, ages, and cultural backgrounds.
In Our Nature Sex & Relationship Coaching serves single individuals, couples, and polyamorous or polycule dynamics, and is dedicated to providing a supportive and welcoming environment for all. Sydney's priority is to create a safe and supportive space for her clients to explore their sexuality and relationships, helping them to reconnect with their natural and powerful sexual selves.
Lola
(she/her)
Massage Therapist + Reiki Practitioner
Influenced by her mother’s semi-holistic lifestyle, Lola pursued a career in the holistic health field with massage therapy and reiki making their way into her life in pure synchronicity. Feeding her passion for learning and the human body, Lola completed her education in Massage Therapy in 2019, along with certifications for Reiki levels I & II.
Lola utilizes her Clair-abilities in union with knowledge of the body and how to care for it to provide a safe, comfortable and relaxing experience for the receiver. She aims to share her expertise and experiences in order to encourage others to continue down a path of self acceptance, self healing, and overall mastery of the mind.
CALBA
they/them)
Rope Practitioner + Book Artist
Co-facilitator for the Partial Suspension series. With a background in community-centered collective practices, Calba approach to rope and bookbinding is rooted in intimacy, storytelling, and connection. As with binding books, and binding bodies, they focus on the ways we can liberate legacies of intergenerational trauma through embodied restraint and sharing story. Calba centers inclusivity in their rope and values the opportunity to learn and navigate new approaches and strategies to create avenues of access to everyone.
In addition to their rope and bookbinding practice, Calba has years of experience creating spaces exclusively for queer and trans Black, Indigenous and people of color to access rope, kink, and BDSM. They are trained in restorative justice practices, de-escalation, and trauma-informed care and bring these skills to any and all pleasure based community organizing.
They are available for private group classes or one-on-ones and are always down for supporting collective and grassroots organizing.
Mary Jane
(she/her)
BDSM / Impact Practitioner
Mistress Mary Jane is our resident BDSM practitioner here at The Rope Collective! Starting back in January of 2023 she began offering Impact 101 as a beginner friendly class for those interested in learning how to properly spank, flog or crop someone. This class is offered once a month and covers how to use toys, negotiate a scene, and much more.
For the past two years Mary Jane has performed both as Femme Domme and rope bunny in the San Diego and LA kink scene respectively. She has educated herself by attending workshops, BDSM conventions and reading relevant materials. Mary Jane is known for her comforting energy, sensuality and sadistic playfulness. Her natural ability to read body language, anticipate your needs in a scene and set a mood makes play time with her feel visceral. Mistress Mary Jane is available for performances, workshops, private BDSM sessions and private lessons.
To book please email her at: Mary8Jane88@gmail.com
ryan foronda
(he/him)
Massage Therapist
Ryan helps people get back into their body & experience deep levels of healing on all levels.
He has been in business since 2020, and has completed his education in Massage Therapy in 2022, along with certification for Thai Massage & Cupping.
He focuses on Deep Tissue & Therapeutic Massage, and all his sessions include Aromatherapy, Sound Healing, Meditation, and Energywork.
WendY b
(she/her)
Sex/Intimacy Coach, Pole Dance Trainer, Boudoir Photographer
The beauty of combining movement with body exploration for creating better relationships with ourselves and partner(s) through intimacy coaching and movement exploration on and off pole is her passion. She utilizes my social work degree and pole dance/dance background to create a safe space for her clients to feel empowered, sensual and confident in their desires beyond the bedroom. She incorporates off pole movement; chair dance, floor work to inspire clients to create mind body connection for elevated sexual experiences and relationships.
She offers: private 1:1's, group workshops; floor fuck/work, chair dance, *pole dance soon*, boudoir photoshoots, intimacy coaching, Pleasure Academy Vulva Owner 8 Week Intensives
Lilth noir
(she/her)
Tantrik BDSM Practitioner
Lilith Noir is Queen of the night and Priestess of your sensory delights. She embodies the Dark Mother who guides you home to yourself. A safe and sexy space where you can reveal that which you have kept hidden. She lives life in full erotic expression and she welcome you in yours. She provide a holistic approach to sensuality, integrating all that we are.
Her guidance consists of exploring all your senses through touch, breath, presence, intentions and powerful sensations. It’s her intention for you to freely express yourself without being judged. Open to life again, allow yourself to be nurtured, unwind conditioning, and embrace your power.
mal
(she/her)
BDSM practitioner, bondage enthusiast, and visual artist.
MAL is a diehard rope enthusiast and BDSM practitioner. Her background in clinical herbalism and holistic medicine enhances her attentiveness to the human body and its energies. With a lifelong exploration of the erotic and esoteric, MAL brings a perceptive, intuitive, and evocative approach to private sessions.
Described by others as lyrical and dance-like, her sessions adapt to the flow of energy. Through them, you will find yourself participating in a rich conversation of touch, movement, and attention. MAL finds profound fulfillment in creating a safe space for vulnerability and authentic expression to unfold.
Bondage captivates her. MAL has dedicated over a year and a half to studying suspension under San Diego-based rope expert Jolly Rigs, enhancing her own technical approach to sensual and torturous ties. MAL is enthusiastic about affectionate cruelty, strict bondage, objectification, fetish play, and using rope as a medium to explore psychology and social stigma.
MAL offers hourly BDSM sessions, rope sessions, massage, and holistic health consultations. She hosts recurring private High Protocol and Objectification events at The Rope Collective.
Email to book: forsaintmal@proton.me