Model Behaviour

In this episode, Saara sits down with Freya Hellesdim to talk rope-life balance: how you keep a rope practice alive alongside kids, work, and everything else that competes for your time. They get into parenting and kink, protecting your energy, and what it really takes to stay devoted to rope through the busy seasons of life. Honest, warm, and full of hard-won perspective.

Focusing on the rope scene, we dive into how fashion shows up in unexpected ways—from tying styles, rope materials, and colour choices to photography aesthetics, teaching approaches, and even how people communicate and share knowledge.

What influences these trends? How do they evolve over time? And what does it mean to follow—or resist—them?

Join us for a thoughtful discussion on how fashion shapes not just what we wear, but how we create, connect, and express ourselves.

What do we really mean when we talk about “fashion”? In this episode, we go far beyond clothing to explore fashion as a broader concept—one that includes trends in behaviour, communication, aesthetics, and creative expression.

Starting with the familiar idea of style in dress, the conversation expands into a more abstract space: what is considered “in fashion” at a given moment, and how does that apply across different communities and practices?

This is the second part of Embodiment where we continue the conversation of what it really means to live inside a body — and how that relationship shapes everything we do in rope. We dig into the connection between body and mind: how they communicate, how they sometimes work against each other, and what it actually takes to arrive in your body rather than just occupy it.

In this episode, we explore what it really means to live inside a body — and how that relationship shapes everything we do in rope. We dig into the connection between body and mind: how they communicate, how they sometimes work against each other, and what it actually takes to arrive in your body rather than just occupy it.

We trace how our relationship to embodiment shifts over time — through experience, through trauma, through practice — and how rope can be both a doorway into the body and, sometimes, a way of bypassing it.