Co-Topping with Gravity with Lief & Icky

Join Lief & Icky for their last suspension-level class at VoxBody for 2025, and it's a goooood one!

When suspending someone in rope most people see a Top and Bottom, but they forget the third and most important player in the scene: Gravity. In this class, we will talk about gravity and its role in your rope suspension scene.

We will explore how to create balance in the air, how to find it, how to utilize it to our advantage. Once understanding balance, we will use gravity as our co-top to create an intense, unique experience for our bottoms. Once we understand the effects of gravity on them we will add even more weight to give us a broader scope of how adding more weight makes a suspension more intense.

Lief and Icky will also show you how to utilize gravity as a tool to lift and lower your partner more effectively. By the end of class, you will have a new view into your rope suspensions or at least know how to add rocks to rope suspensions like they do on the internet!

Kind of Class: 3 hours, hands on, single point

Skill Level: Advanced Suspension

Prerequisites: non-collapsing single column ties, structural/suspendable body harnesses for the chest and hips, rope suspension knowledge and practice. This shouldn’t be your first suspension class (rigger or bottom)

Materials needed:

Rope - 8 to 12 hanks of jute or hemp. All suspension gear needed to create a point and uplines including suspension ring, climbing straps, and carabiners. Bring an object that weighs 5lbs or less to play with (examples: a few books tied together, a small rock, a 5lb weight). Cutting Tool - Make sure you bring a cutting tool for safety.

If finances are a barrier for your attendance, please email us at voxbody@gmail.com; we have limited scholarship observer spots available for this class

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About the presenters:

Lief Bound (He/They) and Icky (He/They) are queer and trans rope educators and performance artists currently residing in San Francisco, California. Lief Bound is a rope switch who found their love of rope ten years ago and believes that rope can be the most honest way that we can connect with each other. Icky is a switchy pain enthusiast who started their rope bottoming exploration ten years ago and is most passionate about exploring intersectionality and positionality in consent. Their teaching styles bring the best of both worlds combining crucial perspectives of the top and the bottom. They value consent and safety in every topic they teach, bringing an inclusive and trauma-informed approach to learning rope bondage. Lief and Icky are most passionate about using multimedia process art to share their vision with the world and push the boundaries of what defines rope.

Lief and Icky are available for group classes, privates, private sessions, and photoshoots. Email to book!

Email: lief.bound.ropes@gmail.com

Website: houseofbound.com

IG: @liefboundropes and @hedonist_queer

X: @liefbound

Fet: @lief and @hedonist_queer