ShaktiBliss & -Magnolia-

• Shakti Bliss The Rope Doula A full-spectrum somatic artist based in the lands of the Apache and Kickapoo (post-colonized: Austin, TX). She has been part of the rope community for a decade, first translating her anatomical and movement practices to the community by teaching yoga, mobility, and body awareness to rope practitioners before expanding into bottoming education and the energetics of consensual intimacy. Over the years, Bliss has grown into a competent rigger and rope sWitch whose work centers intimacy, cultural competency, emotional liberation, and consent as living practices inside the rope journey. She is the owner and co-visionary of The [ _ ] Space in Austin, TX, a studio dedicated to cultivating community through movement, ritual, adult education, and somatic practices, including BDSM/kink and sex ed. When she is not teaching, tying or being tied, Bliss is providing full-spectrum reproductive justice support and homebirth midwifery care throughout Central Texas.

• Magnolia is a former ballerina and lifelong movement practitioner whose path now weaves together yoga, bodywork, and rope. With 25 years as a massage therapist and esthetician, IAYT Yoga Therapist , and more than a decade of rope bottoming experience, she brings a deeply embodied perspective to her work. Magnolia has performed and taught at events throughout the U.S., including national conferences, and runs BOA (Rope Bottoms of Austin) in Austin, Texas. Her bottoming philosophy, rooted in anatomy and movement education, centers on body awareness as a tool for resilience—supporting longer holds, greater endurance, and access to positions that once felt out of reach.