Your Host
Sir Pocketz
Founder & Lead Practitioner
Sir Pocketz is a Houston-based somatic practitioner and the creator of Bondage Directed Somatic Medicine™, a professional somatic healing modality built around rope, sensation, and consent. The work is rooted in Muganawa (無我縄), the "empty mind" rope tradition articulated by Osada Steve in the lineage of grandmaster Akechi Denki, translated and modernized here for contemporary somatic practice. Ten years and hundreds of sessions across Houston, Austin, Dallas, NYC, Maine, and Hawaii shaped how the work runs in the room. Sessions are built around the receiver's transformation, not the facilitator's gratification.
How the work began
"My entry into this work began not with desire, but with witnessing. Ten years ago in Brooklyn, my partner at the time invited me to a Shibari showcase. I walked in resistant: I am not into any of this bondage shit. What I found changed everything: a Black male artist tying a woman under UV black lights, UV-reactive ropes glowing as the only light in the room, the artist placing rope on her body like a body painter with a muse, not sexual, not intense. Afterward, a flogger dipped in UV paint, used as a brush across her body. Two things hit me at once: representation, the first time I'd seen someone who looked like me practice this craft, and possibility, that BDSM could be art, could be beauty, could be something entirely different than what I'd imagined. The artist's parting advice has been the foundation of everything since: Understand your intention. Make sure your energy matches. Those looking for that energy will find their way to you."
— Sir Pocketz
Representation matters in this. Sir Pocketz is a Black male practitioner in a space with little visibility for facilitators who look like him. Showing up changes who walks in.
What sessions actually look like
His framing for anyone new is this is a parking lot, not a highway. People come in expecting intensity; he starts at the comfortable end of the spectrum and lets the receiver ask for more once they know where they actually are. First-timers are his specialty. Most of the people he works with have never done this before.
Guided meditation begins inside the tying process, not as a precursor. The Brahmaviharas (loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, equanimity) plus Muga (ego detachment) form the ethical floor: a way of being he embodies before touching a rope.
Beyond rope
Sir Pocketz is also a professional fire performer (with Miss Fay, his wife and creative partner) and an aerial Shibari performer. He's a certified CBC Level 1 Instructor (Contact Beyond Contact). He records music as Master Pocketz on Spotify. He's given talks to physicians and therapists on ego and BDSM safety, and co-created Embodiment thru BDSM™, a structured 6-8 week rehabilitation program designed with a licensed sex therapist for people who have had adverse experiences with BDSM.
What you can expect
Sessions open slowly and stay specific. A 24-hour follow-up afterward is standard protocol. The work is built around whoever is in the room with him: what their body has bandwidth for that day and what they need afterward.
Show up curious. He'll meet you there.
Miss Fay
Somatic Practitioner & Creator of Knotty Yoga
Miss Fay (also known as Nadia) is a Maine-rooted, Houston-based somatic practitioner, yoga teacher, and the creator of Knotty Yoga, a fusion of yoga and Shibari where rope becomes a tool for deeper stretches and a steadier presence in the body. Seven years of practicing Bondage Directed Somatic Medicine™ alongside Sir Pocketz, who taught her the work, shaped how she runs a session.
She completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training in 2022 and is trained in Authentic Movement and energetic practice. She's also a fire performer and working herbalist. She co-facilitates the Double Dom Immersion (SUBS WAY) and the Partnered Sensation Journey alongside Sir Pocketz.
How she came to the work
"I grew up in Maine, homeschooled by my mom (a yoga teacher and herbalist) and my dad, my best friend, who taught me what unconditional love looks like in practice. As a teenager I absorbed my friends' pain. They were struggling with their mental health, and I carried their burdens, engaging in self-harm and neglecting my own well-being. That experience put me on a path: I learned what it means to hold space, to facilitate healing rather than perform it.
I met Sir Pocketz under a full moon when I was twenty. The same week, Shibari entered my life. The two have been intertwined since. He taught me everything I know about rope, about ego, about what it means to facilitate someone else's experience without reaching into it for your own. Today, through this work, I can explore sensation and meet impact from a place of self-love rather than self-hate. That's the gift I bring into every session."
— Miss Fay
What her sessions look like
Her sessions weave Shibari, yoga, breath, and Authentic Movement-based attunement. A lot of the pre-session work happens through energetic and movement-based grounding. What's happening in your body before any rope touches you matters as much as what happens once it does.
Knotty Yoga is her signature offering: rope used as a stretching aid, a posture support, a deepening tool for poses the body might not access on its own. The rope holds you where you might otherwise have to hold yourself. From there, breath finds more room, and the nervous system can settle into a position rather than fight to maintain it. Her next Knotty Yoga class is on the Dark Tantra Temple events calendar.
Beyond rope
Miss Fay performs as Fay across multiple disciplines: fire, Lyra (aerial hoop), bellydance. Performing is part of how she expresses, and the artistic literacy carries into how she facilitates. Her herbalism practice grounds the post-session aftercare side of her work. She draws on plant knowledge for the small rituals that follow a session: grounding teas, recovery support, what helps a body soften back into ordinary time.
What you can expect
Slowness. Lots of breath. A teacher's instinct for adjusting, refining, holding a posture exactly where it's working. Aftercare that includes warm tea and gentle holding if you want it. The 24-hour follow-up afterward is standard, the same protocol Sir Pocketz uses.
Show up ready to soften.