
Natasha NawaTaNeko
Natasha NawaTaNeko is a Russian-born, Berlin-based rope bottom, performer, and educator with more than a decade of experience in Kinbaku.
Known internationally for her embodied approach, she teaches Kinbaku as an intimate practice that combines erotic intensity with personal exploration.
Before dedicating herself fully to the arts and embodiment, she built a successful career in corporate law and management. This background gave her a sharp understanding of structure, communication, and leadership—qualities that now inform her teaching as much as her artistry.
In Kinbaku, Natasha seeks authentic emotion and lived intensity, viewing rope bondage as a deeply intimate and erotic art with profound potential for personal transformation. Her perspective is rooted in a somatic approach: inviting awareness of breath, movement, sound, silence, posture, and subtle shifts of attention. Each element becomes part of a dialogue, a non-verbal language between partners, opening the possibility to experience rope as a ritual of presence, awareness, and vulnerability.
Her professional training as a Certified Sexological Bodyworker (2015) set her on a path of exploring life as lived through the body. Joseph Kramer remains her main teacher and mentor, while she has also studied with Betty Martin and Staci Haines. Since 2021, Natasha has been practicing Hanna Somatics with her coach Jess Lefebvre, alongside years of exploring contact improvisation and other forms of bodywork and movement. This diverse background allows her to teach not only from the perspective of a model, but from the depth of embodied practice—recognizing the body’s internal language, navigating limits, and integrating impact in a sustainable and enriching way.
In 2020, she published Somatics for Rope Bottoms, a collection of twelve essays exploring the body’s wisdom in ropes. More than a guide, it is an invitation for readers to turn inward, explore their own experience, and reclaim agency in the intimate choices that arise when stepping into kink. The book has since inspired practitioners worldwide and contributed to a new discourse around rope bottoming, embodiment, and consent.
At Discover Kinbaku, Natasha works alongside her partner Alexander MA to create workshops, performances, and publications that bridge tradition with contemporary expression. Their teaching is known for being technically precise, emotionally intelligent, and artistically inspired.
For students, audiences, and readers alike, Natasha’s work is an invitation: to breathe, to feel, to listen—and to discover the transformative potential of ropes.