Saara Kantanen is an artist, performer, shibari practitioner and teacher. Shibari has become a way of life and a passion for Saara. She’s been working with shibari for several years as her main job. She organises popular workshops in her farm and many places in Europe: self-tying, weekend workshops for couples and private sessions and tuitions. Saara will participate in many events this year both in Finland and abroad.
Saara thinks it’s more important to share the energy and exchange the feelings than learn the most complicated patterns. She creates the open and safe space where the model is the empty canvas to paint. All the feelings and emotions are allowed. Safety comes when there is connection, and connection comes when there is trust. Saara gives herself to the models, for them to feel more.
At the moment Saara is focusing on Naka style and learning it with Kinbaku Luxuria teachers. Kinbaku Luxuria is a traditional style, which directly descends from Naka-ryu. Semenawa, the tormenting rope, is the word that resumes the mood of this style. Saara’s speciality is to make beautiful suspensions with many transitions during one session.
The performances take the audience into a magical, aesthetic, passionate and emotional atmosphere. The audience feels their own inner world while watching the show where the audience and the performers become equal.
