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.
Toni brianna guida wendel
(she/her)
Rope artist. sWitch.
Founder of The Rope Collective
Toni 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), Toni teaches community workshops, intensives, and organizes performance arts events in San Diego and is available for booking worldwide.
syDney Aldana
(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.
Mistress Mary8Jane
(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
Queen Melody Pond
(she/her)
BDSM Practitioner, Ritual Dominant
Specialties: Leather Bondage, Chain Restraints, Encasement, Medical Play, and more
Queen Melody Pond also know as Miss Melody Pond is a San Diego-based Dominant whose practice celebrates the power and joy of restraint. Specializing in non-rope bondage, she works extensively with heavy leather restraints , heavy chains, restrictive encasement (plastic wrap, latex, vacuum play) and other forms of immersive containment. Her scenes evoke surrender through structure holding of the body in place to open the mind.
Her work invites those who crave deep bondage experiences: the lovers of tight containment, sensory focus, and extended immobilization. Her style is simultaneously sensual, clinical, and psychologically rich—designed for those who want to be unraveled while held.
She also curates events and educational spaces that center ethical kink, power exchange, and exploration without shame. Whether you’re curious about medical restraint, or simply want to feel bound and beautifully helpless, Queen Melody offers a space of intention and indulgence.
Princess Nina
(she/her)
Kink Practitioner
Princess Nina is a kink practitioner and event producer whose work centers around immersive, intentional experiences shaped by structure, protocol, and connection. Her one-on-one sessions focus on dynamics rooted in control, surrender, and identity, offering those she works with the opportunity to explore power and purpose with clarity and care.
In addition to her private practice, Nina curates gatherings that support deeper engagement and community learning. She is committed to creating spaces that hold complexity, invite transformation, and honor the intensity and beauty of kink work done with presence and precision.
Instagram | Book a Session by email PrincessNina@protonmail.com
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.
Goddess eros
(she/her)
Sensual Shibari Practitioner
Sensual Shibari first captivated Goddess Eros through the profound sensations of release and connection it offered. Over time, her curiosity evolved into mastery, guiding others in using rope as a tool for deep intimacy, self-awareness, and embodied pleasure. As a certified sexologist and erotic artist, she fuses skill with intention, creating experiences that are both sensual and transformative. Her work extends beyond the rope, offering guided erotic meditations and storytelling to enrich the sensory experience.
Each private session with Goddess Eros is a carefully crafted journey into pleasure, trust, and self-discovery. She tailors every experience to your desires—whether it’s deep relaxation, playful exploration, or the thrill of surrender. With a background in Sensual Shibari, BDSM, and conscious eroticism, she creates a safe and immersive space for you to explore the edges of pleasure. For those intrigued by deeper sensory experiences, she also offers guided meditations and erotic storytelling to heighten arousal and connection beyond the physical.
Switchy Witch
(she/her)
Rope Practitioner
Jayna, a.k.a. Switchy Witch, is a multifaceted ethereal being, recognized as a dancer, rope artist, and the creator of The Rope Coven, a female forward community of witches who practice the magic of rope bondage.
She has since become a revered figure in the kink community by teaching workshops, hosting kink events, captivating audiences with her performances, and providing exclusive private sessions and lessons to those who are curious.
Book a private session with Switchy Witch if you are interested in being enchanted enough in her ropes to sink deeply into your own soul and meet yourself in a place you have never been before.
Andrea
(she/her)
Holistic Practitioner
Andrea is the founder & owner of Nature’s Embrace.
She holds a PhD in Metaphysical Humanistic Science with a specialization in Holistic Healing.
She is a Certified Life Coach, specializing in Transpersonal life counseling; a Certified Hypnotherapist; & a Certified Reiki Practitioner.
Andrea offers energy therapies such as Fire Cupping, Gua Sha, Reiki & Rope, Moxibustion, Craniosacral Treatment, Hypnotherapy, & more!
She has over 10 years experience in her field and prides herself in maintaining amazing relationships with her clients, as well as creating a safe space for individuals to process emotions and receive healing.
Andrea’s specialized services are homeopathic and esoteric in nature, are available at affordable rates because she believes health & happiness should be accessible to everyone.
She currently offers both in-home sessions and sessions at The Rope Collective, as well as sessions at events.
Book a Session:
https://calendly.com/natures-embrace-healing
Contact:
Jewell
(she/her)
Kundalini Reiki Master Practitioner, Energy Intuitive, Elemental Jewelry Artist
Jewell is the owner of Wildflower Culture and is our resident shibari life drawing model here at The Rope Collective with a love of creative expressions and community.
She’s a medical professional with over 10 years experience extending into whole-listic frequency wellness as a Kundalini Reiki Master Practitioner with some emphasis on somatic exercise therapies.
She helps individuals identify blockages and stagnant energy keeping you from your highest self and gently guides you to come into flow of your own unique divine universal life force energy.
She’s also a energy intuitive offering beautifully crafted jewelry pieces and crystal elements.
Her mission is to offer a divine safe space for healing, understanding and acceptance to cultivate self love within.
Email to book: Support@wildflowerculture.co | Instagram
SAINT mal
(she/her)
BDSM practitioner, rope practitioner, visual artist
My sessions are a flow of energy. With my technique and empathy, I will create an exquisite space for you to finally release control. My sessions are dynamic, fluid, and physical.
I specialize in Japanese rope bondage but enjoy exploring all the nuances of affectionate cruelty, bondage, trance/ritual, fetish play, and sadomasochism. I bring my clients to the clarifying heights of their own mental and physical limits.
My interests may seem intense to some, but I meet all my clients where they are at in their levels of interest/comfort. Holding space for someone to explore their deeper desires without judgement, but with curiosity and compassion, is how I offer myself in service to others.
Mistress Lilith 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.