RINA TREVI
More about Me
When we surrender we find the freedom within
Rina Trevi (formerly Ms. Renee Trevi) is a Vulnerability & Intimacy Guide, Shibari artist, and author. She is the originator of Shibari as Ritual - a ceremonial modality that approaches rope as a tool for presence, nervous-system attunement, and embodied transformation rather than performance or spectacle.
She is not a Dominatrix, not a masseuse, and not a psychotherapist - though her work draws from all three realms. Her vocation is guiding people back to themselves: raw, unmasked, and alive. Rina creates rigorously safe spaces for healing, self-discovery, and spiritual exploration through the body.
Her path includes 12 years as a full-time professional Domme in New York City and internationally, 10 years of extensive meditation and Tantric spiritual practice in Asia, and 7 years each devoted to Tantric bodywork for women and Shibari as an art of self-discovery.
Rina is the author of Shibari as Ritual, an art book devoted to rope as presence, prayer, and relational alchemy. Through this work, Shibari is reclaimed as a lived ritual - one that bridges structure and surrender, discipline and devotion, intensity and care.
She holds certifications in Awaken as Love, Trauma & Somatics, Female Reproductive Massage, NLP / Hypnotherapy / QTT, Life Coaching, and is a trained Death Doula and Life-Cycle Celebrant. She holds an MBA and is the creator of Underline | World, a Tantric BDSM immersion and mentorship platform.
Often described as a tantric bodyworker, rigger, author, BDSM coach, and explorer of consciousness, Rina is also a world traveler, skydiver, BASE jumper, and freediver - devoted to living at the edge where precision meets reverence.
Creating safe spaces for people to fall apart.
It is in the falling apart, the messiness, that you find your way to healing and wholeness. I know this because I've lived it and watched this transformation in countless humans I’ve worked with.
But it wasn’t always this way for me. I grew up in post-Soviet Russia where secrets and silence founded my childhood. I felt completely out of place, a misfit. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t conform to my family culture. And my body let me know it. I felt sick, depressed, and completely alone.
I wasn’t going to live that way, so I jumped. I knew I needed an entirely different kind of existence so just like the movie, The Matrix, I became a ‘Matrix Jumper’.
My first ‘matrix’ after leaving Russia was in the American Dream. I lived in DC, got my MBA, and worked my way into a corporate finance job. But after a while, my body let me know it was time for change again when I would fall asleep in the middle of the day and cry all night.
I knew there were options. I could numb myself into accepting this was my life, like my alcoholic father and countless others, or I could jump again. I jumped.
This time, I went for the unknown. I traveled throughout the US, went to Thailand, then to India, and learned about alternative ways of healing.
I connected to myself. I found true freedom like I never knew existed. I wanted to share it with the world!
And now I do. After many years as a professional dominatrix in NYC and also learning the sacred art of Shibari, I am now immersed in coaching others to transformation and healing through various modalities of vulnerability.
Though my body loudly led the way for me, we can all find our way to healing, wellness, and bliss ❤️🩹😇🧘♀️
Stepping Up
My journey has empowered me to proudly step outside norms in order to express my own sexuality and, through my work, assist others in doing so. I felt ready to step up and dive into my biggest dreams and here I am - offering others counseling and journeys into self-discovery and spiritual illumination.
I am also a certified death doula, which helps me to gain a deeper understanding of and respect toward the ultimate journey of surrender - physical death. I have found the contemplation of death and various forms of “Die before your die” experiences to have a profound effect on choices we make while still fully alive, and I continue exploring such experiences.