Author: Miriam Green

This Week with Wicked Grounds (6/25 – 7/5)

June 25, 2026 By Miriam Green

Howdy kinksters – Happy Pride weekend to our San Francisco folks! Want to hang out in person? You’ll find us in Leather Alley Sunday, as part of the Root of Pride adults-only kink friendly part of the fair. Get to meet us, learn about several other local kink organizations, and check out some great live kink and shibari performances on the Root of Pride stages, including the talented artists from ​Twisted Windows​. We’ll have some great prizes at the Wicked Grounds booth, and you can ask us anything about kink, kink education, and the local scene. We have lots of great online classes this week, as well as live classes in both Los Angeles and San Francisco. Would you like to take pride in your favorite kink educators? Help us stay strong in these weird times by ​becoming a member​. Memberships at any level help us cover our overhead for running classes: all the software, bits, and bytes that keep the kink classes flowing. And VIP members get some great discounts and freebies for your added support! (THANK YOU VIPS!) Let’s dive in! This Week! Thursday, June 25 Online: Join Lilithfoxx tonight to take your oral skills to the next level in The Art of Pussy Eating. Advanced ticketing required to attend either live or through the recording. Get yours from ​Plura​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​. Friday, June 26 No live programming today, but check out our growing list of video classes and other useful information at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​. Saturday, June 27 and Sunday, June 28 San Francisco, CA: It’s Pride weekend in San Francisco, and there are a couple of places you can catch us this weekend! On Saturday, our own Miriam Green will be house topping at the ​AfterDark Queerdos party​ at Paradox. If you’d like to go to Pride Sunday with lots of cane stripes, come sign up for their station! Then on Sunday, come find us in Leather Alley, where we’ll be running an information booth about kink education and probably giving away a lot of cool stuff. We could still use a couple of people to help us make the magick happen, so if you’re in the SF area and would like to volunteer between 2 and 4pm, let us know! (You’ll get some free classes or coaching for your time and help!) Monday, June 29 No live programming today, but check out our growing list of video classes and other useful information at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​. Given that many of us will be recovering from SF Pride, perhaps ​Dealing with Drop​ would be a good choice!!! Tuesday, June 30 It’s a three-ring circus today! Online: If you’re already registered for Writing Spicy with Sinclair Sexsmith join us live online tonight for part two. (This workshop is closed to new attendees, but we’ll offer it again in a few months.) Online: Want to bring more magic into your BDSM play? Madam Rosie Rose has got you covered with a new two-part workshop timed to the full moons. Join us tonight and again on 7/29 for Full Moon Class: Elemental Magic in BDSM. Can’t attend live? We’ll record for you. Learn more and reserve your spot from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Online: Join us online this evening to take your rope skills to the next level in Affirming Ties for Trans Femmes with Empress Oxblood. This online and recorded class centers creating attractive and sexy ties that are geared toward the bodies of trans women, while teaching patterns that can be adapted for rope bottoms of any gender. Advanced tickets required from ​Plura​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​. Wednesday, July 1 It’s another three-ring circus today with classes online, in San Francisco, and in Los Angeles! Online: Join Lee Harrington online tonight for Body Modification: Sacred and Profane. We will look at the wide variety of body modifications available today from henna/mehndi to hook suspension, tattoos to ritual jewelry, stage makeup to genital reconstruction surgery, breast augmentation to flesh removal. Advanced tickets are required to attend either live or through the recording. Get yours from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Los Angeles: Join us tonight in our gorgeous studio in DTLA for Trans Femme Affirming Intimacy/Euphoric Sex for Trans Femmes with Lady V and Empress Oxblood. Advanced ticketing required to attend, and space is limited! Secure your advanced tickets through ​Luma​, ​Forbidden Tickets​, or ​Plura​. San Francisco: Join us in San Francisco tonight for the Bay Area’s original impact play lab: Wicked Grounds Presents: SpankLab! Learn impact play by doing (or observing), whether you’re brand new or have years of experience that you want to take to the next level! Our host impossiblepain brings their own switchy sadomasochist expertise to the group, but specializes in helping each attendee discover their own unique strengths and style! Because this is the session right after Pride, we’re VERY likely to sell out. We strongly recommend snapping up tickets before we tell hundreds of folks about it this Sunday! You can get yours from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Thursday, July 2 through Sunday, July 5 Please be safe and have fun this weekend. No live programming this weekend, but check out our growing list of video classes and other useful information at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​. Intensives! We offer several intensives throughout the year, both in person and ​online​. Kink Self-Exploration Deep Dive: July 25th 10am – 5pm. (San Francisco, CA) Ticketing available through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. ​Pentacles of Power: A Six-Week Sex Magick Intensive for Kinky People​ with Miriam BatAsherah Green. Registration now open for September 8 – October 13. (ONLINE) ​Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires​ with Miriam Green. Registration now open for November 2 – December 14. (ONLINE) ​Month of Mindfulness for Kinksters​. Registration now open for January 1 – January 31, 2027. (ONINE) Warmly, Mir & The Wicked Grounds Team Support. Follow. Share. Join our ​Patreon​ for personal benefits and to stabilize our long-term trajectory. Book ​with us​ for coaching and consulting time with Mir. Do you find this weekly roundup helpful?

This Week with Wicked Grounds (6/18 – 6/28)

June 18, 2026 By Miriam Green

Howdy kinksters – It’s hard to believe, but San Francisco Pride is just a week and a half away! If you’re in the SF Bay Area – or visiting for the weekend – come find us in Leather Alley Sunday at Pride! We’ll have lots of information about kink education and the local kink community as well as fabulous prizes that may be relevant to your interests! We also have a wide variety of online classes this week, going deeply into creativity, sexual pleasure, creative new kinks, and much more! Check out the full event listing below. We’ve also added a couple of new intensives to the line-up, including the return of our sex magick intensive ​Pentacles of Power​ this September and our annual ​Month of Mindfulness​ next January. Let’s dive in! This Week! Thursday, June 18 and Friday, June 19 No live programming today, but check out our growing list of video classes and other useful information at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​. Saturday, June 20 Mendocino, CA: It’s not technically a Wicked Grounds event, but our own Miriam Green organizes a monthly munch and rope lab for north coast kinksters, and our next session is this Saturday! The Mendocino Munch meets from noon – 2pm, followed by the Mendocino Rope Lab from 2:30 – 4:30pm. Find out all about it at the ​FetLife event listing here​. Sunday, June 21 Online: It’s Father’s Day, so of course we’re doing classes on DD dynamics! Join Lady V online today for Daddy Issues: Daddy Dynamics & You. Learn about Daddy Dynamics in this workshop dedicated to the Daddy who understands from the inside & out! Can’t attend live? We’ll record it for you! Tickets are available from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Online: Yes, of course submissives make excellent community leaders! Join Hannah The Scribe online today for The Literal Servant Leader. In this class, we’ll cover being a successful community leader for those on the right side of the slash. Join live or through the recording with advanced tickets through ​Plura​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​. Monday, June 22 Online: Looking for some new ways to explore sadomasochism? Join Miss Mackenzee online tonight for Torture with a Twist: Fun with Tickling! Get an inside look into Miss Mackenzee’s trade secrets for elevating your experiences and bringing uncontrollable laughter into the bedroom. Advanced tickets require to attend live or through the recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Tuesday, June 23 Online: Ready to get creative and deeply in touch with your desires? Join erotica author and editor Sinclair Sexsmith this and next Tuesday for Writing Spicy: A Two Part Series. Learn all the basics of writing your own erotica! This class is offered online and is not recorded. So get your tickets and mark your calendars! Tickets available through ​Plura​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​. Wednesday, June 24 Online: Want to unearth some new ideas for great BDSM scenes? Mine your own subconscious! Tarot for Scene Creation with H G Wyndell will teach you an approach for using your tarot deck to unlock some great new scene ideas. Learn all about it either live online or through the recording with your advanced tickets from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Thursday, June 25 Online: Join Lilithfoxx tonight to take your oral skills to the next level in The Art of Pussy Eating. Advanced ticketing required to attend either live or through the recording. Get yours from ​Plura​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​. Friday, June 26 No live programming today, but check out our growing list of video classes and other useful information at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​. Saturday, June 27 and Sunday, June 28 San Francisco, CA: It’s Pride weekend in San Francisco, and there are a couple of places you can catch us this weekend! On Saturday, our own Miriam Green will be house topping at the ​AfterDark Queerdos party​ at Paradox. If you’d like to go to Pride Sunday with lots of cane stripes, come sign up for their station! Then on Sunday, come find us in Leather Alley, where we’ll be running an information booth about kink education and probably giving away a lot of cool stuff. We could still use a couple of people to help us make the magick happen, so if you’re in the SF area and would like to volunteer, let us know! (You’ll get some free classes or coaching for your time and help!) Intensives! We offer several intensives throughout the year, both in person and ​online​. Kink Self-Exploration Deep Dive: July 25th 10am – 5pm. (San Francisco, CA) Ticketing available through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. ​Pentacles of Power: A Six-Week Sex Magick Intensive for Kinky People​ with Miriam BatAsherah Green. Registration now open for September 8 – October 13. (ONLINE) ​Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires​ with Miriam Green. Registration now open for November 2 – December 14. (ONLINE) ​Month of Mindfulness for Kinksters​. Registration now open for January 1 – January 31, 2027. (ONINE) Warmly, Mir & The Wicked Grounds Team Support. Follow. Share. Join our ​Patreon​ for personal benefits and to stabilize our long-term trajectory. Book ​with us​ for coaching and consulting time with Mir. Do you find this weekly roundup helpful? If this newsletter has saved you time, or given you a great idea, feel free to leave a little something ​in our tip jar​)

Wicked Grounds Full Events Roster (last updated 6/16)

June 16, 2026 By Miriam Green

Wicked Grounds has a variety of new classes available for you. Check it all out below! Many of our classes are available online, and we also offer in-person classes in San Francisco and Los Angeles! The Roundup! Daylong & Multi-week Intensives November – December 2026. ​Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires​ (ONLINE) 7/25 10am – 5pm: Kink Self Exploration Deep Dive with Miriam Green. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (San Francisco, CA) S/m & the physical side of play 6/22 6pm PDT: Torture with a Twist: Fun with Tickling with Miss Mackenzee​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 7/1 6pm PDT: Body Modification: Sacred and Profane with Lee Harrington​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 7/1 7pm PDT: Wicked Grounds Presents: SpankLab! with impossiblepain​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 7/19 11am – 4:30pm PDT: Out for Blood Sharps Play Intensive with Miss Mackenzee. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) 7/20 6pm PDT: Blood, Sweat, & Fears: The Art and Thrill of Blood Play with Jamie Joy.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) 8/8 Noon PDT: Face Slapping Mastery with Marla Renee Stewart. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (San Francisco, CA) 8/8 3pm PDT: Sensual Pussy Torture with Marla Renee Stewart. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (San Francisco, CA) Bondage 6/30 7pm PDT: Affirming Ties for Trans Femmes with Empress Oxblood. ​Devil Mask Studios​, ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (Los Angeles and ONLINE) D/s, role play & the mental side of play 6/17 6pm PDT: Intro to Dominance/submission (D/s) 3 Hour Class with Mel and Memi.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/21 11am PDT: Daddy Issues: Daddy Dynamics & You with Lady V.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 7/7 6pm PDT: Advanced BDSM Negotiations for Dynamics & Relationships with Miriam Green. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 7/9 6pm PDT: Reclaiming Your Inner Villain: A Fantasy Roleplaying Workshop with Lila Hades. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) 7/12 6pm PDT: Trauma Informed Caregiver/Little Dynamic, Age Play & Dark Age Play with Kare Bear.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) 7/16 6pm PDT: Strategies For Switching with Lee Harrington. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) 7/25 11am PDT: Total Power Exchange: The Unsexy Logistics with Aidan Sunassee. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) 7/29 6pm PDT: At Your Feet: Foot Worship & Domination Play with Lady V. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) 8/11 2:30 PDT: Improv for Kinksters with Psychokitty Ryan.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (San Francisco, CA) Fetish 7/29 6pm PDT: At Your Feet: Foot Worship & Domination Play with Lady V. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) 7/30 6pm PDT: Intro to Fetish Wear: Dressing for Pleasure with Dolly Diatima. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) Sexy Times 6/25 6pm PDT: The Art of Pussy Eating with Lilith Foxx.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 7/1 7pm PDT: Trans Femme Affirming Intimacy/Euphoric Sex for Trans Femmes with Lady V and Empress Oxblood. ​Luma​, ​Forbidden Tickets​, or ​Plura​. (Los Angeles, CA) 7/8 6pm PDT: The Art of the Hookup with Lady V. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) 7/12 11am PDT: Booty Bomb! Anal Prep Without Enemas with Lady V. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) 7/16 6pm PDT: The Art of Dirty Talk with Marla Renee Stewart. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) 7/23 6pm PDT: Pleasure After Trauma: Reclaiming Your Erotic Self with Lilithfoxx. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) 7/28 6pm PDT: Cock Confidence with Sinclair Sexsmith. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE: No Recording) 7/30 6pm PDT: Intro to Fetish Wear: Dressing for Pleasure with Dolly Diatima. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) 8/8 3pm PDT: Sensual Pussy Torture with Marla Renee Stewart. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (San Francisco, CA) Polyamory and Nonmonogamy 7/22 6pm PDT: Long Distance Polyamory with HG Wyndell. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) Creativity and Movement 6/23 & 6/30 6pm PDT: Writing Spicy: A Two-Week Series with Sinclair Sexsmith.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE: No Recording) 8/11 2:30pm PDT: Improv for Kinksters with Psychokitty Ryan.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (San Francisco, CA) Self-knowledge, negotiation & consent 6/24 6pm PDT: Tarot for Scene Creation with H G Wyndell.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 7/13 6pm PDT: Bottoming Safety 201: Negotiating Edgeplay Safely as a Bottom or Submissive with Laura Boyle. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) 7/14 6pm PDT: BDSM Negotiation: From Awkward to Awesome with Miriam Green. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) 7/26 11am PDT: Why We Don’t Speak Up with John Pendal. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE: No Recording) Community: Friends, dating, relationships & kink culture! 6/16 6pm PDT: BDSM and Attachment Styles with Sir Panda.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/18 6pm PDT: The Future of Black Kink with Marla Renee Stewart.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/21 2pm PDT: The Literal Servant Leader with Hannah the Scribe.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/28 Noon – 5pm PDT: Come meet Wicked Grounds at Leather Alley! We’ll have a booth in Leather Alley at San Francisco Pride. (San Francisco, CA) 7/6 6pm PDT: “What’s Your FetLife?” Managing Social Media Profiles for Kinksters with Miriam Green.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) 7/8 7pm PDT: Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty Ryan. Exclusively on ​Plura​. (San Francisco, CA) 7/21 6pm PDT: Tips for House Topping with Miriam Green. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) Spirituality, Magick, and Occult (with Magickal Crossroads) 6/24 6pm PDT: Tarot for Scene Creation with H G Wyndell.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/30 and 7/29 6pm PDT: Full Moon Class: Elemental Magic in BDSM – A Two-Part Class with Madam Rosie Rose.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 7/17 7pm PDT: Play Lab: Sacred with Miriam BatAsherah Green.​Luma​, ​Forbidden Tickets​, or ​Plura​. (Los Angeles, CA) 7/18 Noon PDT: Partnered Magick (aka Sex Magick for Kinksters) with Miriam BatAsherah Green. ​Luma​, ​Forbidden Tickets​, or ​Plura​. (Los Angeles, CA) 7/18 3pm PDT: Practical Magick (aka Put A Sigil On It!) with Miriam BatAsherah Green.​Luma​, ​Forbidden Tickets​, or ​Plura​. (Los Angeles, CA) 7/19 10am – 2:30pm PDT: Tarot Halfday Intensive with Miriam BatAsherah Green. ​Luma​, ​Forbidden Tickets​, or ​Plura​. (Los Angeles, CA) Self-Directed Digital Downloads ​Diving Deep (video class)​ ​KINK 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics (video class)​ ​KINK 202: Advanced Negotiation for Dynamics & Relationships (video class)​ ​Private Joy: Sadomasochism for Solo & Distance

This Week with Wicked Grounds (6/11 – 6/21)

June 11, 2026 By Miriam Green

Howdy kinksters – I had a fantastic time last night in San Francisco watching dozens of brave kinksters connect and make new friends. As we head into this Pride month, I hope that you get out and have fun being yourself a LOT, no matter where you are in the world. We have a lot of great classes for you this week on the techniques, relationship styles and cultures that make the kink and BDSM world so vibrant. We have one live Lap Dancing Fundamentals workshop in Oakland this week, and all the other workshops are online for you to check out from anywhere! For those if you in the Bay Area, be sure to take a peek at the Intensives section! I’ve just set a date to bring our daylong Kink Self-Exploration Deep Dive to SF on July 25th, and space is limited to only 16 total attendees. This is likely to see out quick, so you might want to grab tickets early from ​FT​ or ​Plura​. Let’s take a peek at what’s going on this week, shall we? This Week! Thursday, June 11 Online: Join us online tonight for Building Confidence in the Bedroom: Own Your Energy with Dolly Diatima. You’ll learn how to let go of shame, tap into your desire, and step into your own erotic power! Advanced tickets are required to attend live or by recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday, June 12 We have no live programming today, but check our ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​ for a wide range of pre-recorded classes and digital downloads. Saturday, June 13 Join us today for a special day of sex magick in theory and practice! Attend one class or spend a half-day with Miriam BatAsherah Green. Both sessions can be attended live or through the recording. Online: Join us online at 11am Pacific time to explore the theory and background of sex magick in Sex Magick for Kinksters. You’ll learn why sex magick emerged as a practice, the basics of how it works, and basics of the ethereal body and ritual theory in this two-hour session. Tickets: ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Online: Then, join us online at 2pm Pacific time to explore all of the basics of how to create simple and effective sex magick spellwork in Put a Sigil On It! You’ll walk away with all the information you need to engage in solo or partnered sex magick that works! Tickets: ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday, June 14 Oakland, CA: Ready to get really into your body and practice erotic empowerment and self-expression? Join us in Oakland today for our three-hour Lap Dancing Fundamentals with body empowerment coach and educator Alexandria from Click Your Heels. Find out all about the noon – 3pm workshop and get your tickets through ​Plura​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​. Monday, June 15 Online: Ready to take your impact play skills to the next level? Join Jamie Joy online tonight for Heavy Hitter: Advanced Impact Play. From the cruel sting of a cane to the rhythmic thud of a boot, we’ll explore high-intensity techniques including punching, kicking, stomping, bruising, and spiked implements. Advanced ticketing lets you attend live or through the recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Tuesday, June 16 Online: Attachment theory helps us understand our relationships, but what about D/s dynamics? Join Sir Panda online tonight to explore BDSM and Attachment Styles. This presentation will examine the basics of Attachment Theory, how attachment styles are expressed, and how they are manifested in different BDSM identities and roles. The class will also touch on how to encourage secure attachment in ourselves and in our relationships with others. Attend live or through the recording with advanced tickets through ​Plura​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​. Wednesday, June 17 Online: Want to start exploring D/s in your relationships or play, but not sure where to start? Join Mel & Memi online today for Intro to Dominance/submission (D/s) and learn all the basics. This three hour workshop will cover types of power dynamics and how to play with them. We will discuss how to create scenes that fulfill your dominance and/or submission fantasies and needs, as well as what style of D/s works for you. Attend live or by recording with your tickets from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Thursday, June 18 Online: Are you interested in learning about the future of Black kink and where we’re headed? Tonight’s presentation on The Future of Black Kink with Marla Renee Stewart will help you learn the history of kink from a Black perspective and to see how the present will shape the future for Black kinky folks. Attend live or through the recording with your tickets from ​Plura​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​. Friday, June 19 and Saturday, June 20 No live programming today, but check out our growing list of video classes and other useful information at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​. Sunday, June 21 Online: It’s Father’s Day, so of course we’re doing classes on DD dynamics! Join Lady V online today for Daddy Issues: Daddy Dynamics & You. Learn about Daddy Dynamics in this workshop dedicated to the Daddy who understands from the inside & out! Can’t attend live? We’ll record it for you! Tickets are available from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Online: Yes, of course submissives make excellent community leaders! Join Hannah The Scribe online today for The Literal Servant Leader. In this class, we’ll cover being a successful community leader for those on the right side of the slash. Join live or through the recording with advanced tickets through ​Plura​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​. Intensives! We offer several intensives throughout the year, both in person and ​online​. Kink Self-Exploration Deep Dive: July 25th 10am – 5pm. (San Francisco, CA) Ticketing available through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. ​Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires​. Registration now open for November 2 – December 14. (ONLINE) Warmly, Mir & The Wicked Grounds Team Support. Follow. Share. Join our ​Patreon​ for personal benefits and to stabilize our long-term trajectory. Book ​with us​

Wicked Grounds Full Events Roster (last updated 6/9)

June 9, 2026 By Miriam Green

Happy Pride Month! Before we get into the current events roster, we’d like to encourage you to take Pride in one of your favorite kink education & community resources by becoming a supporter at ​Patreon.com/WickedGrounds​. Each and every membership plays a critical role in our continued class development as well as our ability to keep kink education affordable through sliding-scale and scholarship seats. Thank you! The Roundup! Daylong & Multi-week Intensives November – December 2026. ​Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires​ (ONLINE) S/m & the physical side of play 6/15 6pm PDT: Heavy Hitter: Advanced Impact Play with Jamie Joy.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/22 6pm PDT: Torture with a Twist: Fun with Tickling with Miss Mackenzee​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 7/1 6pm PDT: Body Modification: Sacred and Profane with Lee Harrington​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 7/1 7pm PDT: Wicked Grounds Presents: SpankLab! with impossiblepain​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 7/19 11am – 4:30pm PDT: Out for Blood Sharps Play Intensive with Miss Mackenzee. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) 7/20 6pm PDT: Blood, Sweat, & Fears: The Art and Thrill of Blood Play with Jamie Joy.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) Bondage 7/2 6pm PDT: Affirming Ties for Trans Femmes with Empress Oxblood. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) D/s, role play & the mental side of play 6/10 6pm PDT: Tease and Denial with Mel and Memi.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/17 6pm PDT: Intro to Dominance/submission (D/s) 3 Hour Class with Mel and Memi.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/21 11am PDT: Daddy Issues: Daddy Dynamics & You with Lady V.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 7/7 6pm PDT: Advanced BDSM Negotiations for Dynamics & Relationships with Miriam Green. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 7/9 6pm PDT: Reclaiming Your Inner Villain: A Fantasy Roleplaying Workshop with Lila Hades. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) 7/12 6pm PDT: Trauma Informed Caregiver/Little Dynamic, Age Play & Dark Age Play with Kare Bear.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) 7/16 6pm PDT: Strategies For Switching with Lee Harrington. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) 7/25 11am PDT: Total Power Exchange: The Unsexy Logistics with Aidan Sunassee. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) 8/11 2:30 PDT: Improv for Kinksters with Psychokitty Ryan.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (San Francisco, CA) Sexy Times 6/11 6pm PDT: Building Confidence in the Bedroom: Own Your Energy with Dolly Diatima.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/14 Noon – 3pm PDT: Lap Dancing Fundamentals with Alexandria from Click Your Heels.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (Oakland, CA) 6/25 6pm PDT: The Art of Pussy Eating with Lilith Foxx.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 7/8 6pm PDT: The Art of the Hookup with Lady V. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) 7/12 11am PDT: Booty Bomb! Anal Prep Without Enemas with Lady V. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) 7/16 6pm PDT: The Art of Dirty Talk with Marla Renee Stewart. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) 7/28 6pm PDT: Cock Confidence with Sinclair Sexsmith. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE: No Recording) Polyamory and Nonmonogamy 7/22 6pm PDT: Long Distance Polyamory with HG Wyndell. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) Creativity and Movement 6/14 Noon – 3pm PDT: Lap Dancing Fundamentals with Alexandria from Click Your Heels.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (Oakland, CA) 6/23 & 6/30 6pm PDT: Writing Spicy: A Two-Week Series with Sinclair Sexsmith.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE: No Recording) 8/11 2:30pm PDT: Improv for Kinksters with Psychokitty Ryan.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (San Francisco, CA) Self-knowledge, negotiation & consent 6/9 6pm PDT: BDSM Negotiation Basics with Miriam Green.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/24 6pm PDT: Tarot for Scene Creation with H G Wyndell.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 7/13 6pm PDT: Bottoming Safety 201: Negotiating Edgeplay Safely as a Bottom or Submissive with Laura Boyle. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) 7/14 6pm PDT: BDSM Negotiation: From Awkward to Awesome with Miriam Green. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) 7/26 11am PDT: Why We Don’t Speak Up with John Pendal. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE: No Recording) Community: Friends, dating, relationships & kink culture! 6/10 7pm PDT: Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty Ryan.​Plura​ (San Francisco, CA) 6/16 6pm PDT: BDSM and Attachment Styles with Sir Panda.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/18 6pm PDT: The Future of Black Kink with Marla Renee Stewart.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/21 2pm PDT: The Literal Servant Leader with Hannah the Scribe.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/28 Noon – 5pm PDT: Come meet Wicked Grounds at Leather Alley! We’ll have a booth in Leather Alley at San Francisco Pride. (San Francisco, CA) 7/6 6pm PDT: “What’s Your FetLife?” Managing Social Media Profiles for Kinksters with Miriam Green.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) 7/8 7pm PDT: Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty Ryan. Exclusively on ​Plura​. (San Francisco, CA) Spirituality, Magick, and Occult (with Magickal Crossroads) 6/7 2pm PDT: Astrology & Kink with Lila Hades.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/13 11am PDT: Sex Magick for Kinksters with Miriam BatAsherah Green.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/13 2pm PDT: Put a Sigil On It! with Miriam BatAsherah Green.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/24 6pm PDT: Tarot for Scene Creation with H G Wyndell.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/30 and 7/29 6pm PDT: Full Moon Class: Elemental Magic in BDSM – A Two-Part Class with Madam Rosie Rose.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 7/17 7pm PDT: Play Lab: Sacred with Miriam BatAsherah Green.​Luma​, ​Forbidden Tickets​, or ​Plura​. (Los Angeles, CA) 7/18 Noon PDT: Partnered Magick (aka Sex Magick for Kinksters) with Miriam BatAsherah Green. ​Luma​, ​Forbidden Tickets​, or ​Plura​. (Los Angeles, CA) 7/18 3pm PDT: Practical Magick (aka Put A Sigil On It!) with Miriam BatAsherah Green.​Luma​, ​Forbidden Tickets​, or ​Plura​. (Los Angeles, CA) 7/19 10am – 2:30pm PDT: Tarot Halfday Intensive with Miriam BatAsherah Green. ​Luma​, ​Forbidden Tickets​, or ​Plura​. (Los Angeles, CA) Self-Directed Digital Downloads ​Diving Deep (video class)​ ​KINK 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics (video class)​ ​KINK 202: Advanced Negotiation for Dynamics & Relationships (video class)​ ​Private Joy: Sadomasochism for Solo & Distance Play (video class)​ ​Dealing with Drop (video class)​ ​Kink Self-Discovery Workbook (self-directed template)​ ​Aftercare Kit Checklist​ Go deeper! Need personal coaching & guidance for

This Week with Wicked Grounds (6/4 – 6/14)

June 4, 2026 By Miriam Green

Howdy kinksters – Happy Pride month!!! Our team were all over the place starting the month, from the Sonoran desert of Phoenix to DomCon in Los Angeles and SpankLab in San Francisco. Greetings from a tired but satisfied Wicked Grounds crew! Want some travel of your own? I’ll be one of the presenters at this year’s Boundless Retreat in the beautiful hills of Mendocino County this summer. Get in some camping, swimming, hot tubbing, and kinky shenanigans in the outdoors July 10 – 13. ​Find out more here!​ Are you planning to be at San Francisco Pride this year? You’ll find us in Leather Alley on Sunday, June 28th where you can ask us (almost) anything about kink and leather culture. We have a lot of great classes and events for you this week online as well as in San Francisco and Los Angeles. From polyamory to pet play, and sexy talk to sex magick, we’ve got you covered this week. Let’s take a peek! This Week! Thursday, June 4 Online: Join Dr.Marie Thouin online tonight for The Art & Science of Compersion. In this comprehensive webinar, Thouin addresses compersion using her breakthrough research and wisdom from her book, ‘What is Compersion? Understanding Positive Empathy in Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships’. Advanced ticketing is required to attend live or through the recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday, June 5 Los Angeles, CA: Ready to start exploring the sex-positive and kink scene in LA, but not sure where to start? We can help! Join Killmeat Nick tonight in DTLA for Welcome to the LA Scene. You’ll learn all about the culture, best practices, organizations, and venues that make the LA scene so special. Attend live in DTLA with your advanced tickets from ​Luma​, ​Forbidden Tickets​, or ​Plura​. Los Angeles, CA: Calling all human animals, handlers, and folks curious about pet play! Join us in downtown Los Angeles tonight for Wicked Grounds Play Lab: Pets! Our play labs provide an opportunity to safely build BDSM and kink skills through practice. Tonight’s host Madam Rosie Rose will provide some brief tips and tricks for pet play, lead a consent discussion for the evening, and then you’ll spend the rest of the evening learning by doing (or watching, if you prefer). Advanced ticketing is required, and you must be on time for our consent discussions. Get your advanced tickets through ​Luma​, ​Forbidden Tickets​, or ​Plura​. Saturday, June 6 Online: Balancing your kink life with your family life is often a challenge, but it can be done! Join Ancilla L online tonight to learn some great strategies in tonight’s class on Practising Kink As Parents. Advanced tickets are require to attend either live or through the recording later. Get yours through ​Plura​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​. Sunday, June 7 Online: Are the answers in our stars or in ourselves? Maybe sometimes it’s both! Join Lila Hades of The Unconventional Plutonian online this afternoon for Astrology & Kink. Attend this online class life or through the recording with your advanced tickets from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Monday, June 8 Online: Ready to have fun with impact play like spanking or flogging, but not sure where to start? We’ve got you covered! Join Jamie Joy online tonight for Cruising for a Bruising: Impact Play 101 to explore all the safety, connection, and fun you can have in impact scenes. Advanced tickets will allow you to attend live online or watch the recording within one week. Get yours from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Tuesday, June 9 Online: To have more fun and intensity in BDSM play, you’ll want excellent communication with your partner(s) before, during, and after the scene. Learn all the whys, hows, and potential pitfalls of kink communication with Miriam Green tonight in BDSM Negotiation Basics. Watch live or through the recording with your advanced tickets from ​Plura​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​. Wednesday, June 10 Online: Join Mel & Memi online tonight for a class on Tease & Denial! In this workshop we will go over the psychological impacts of teasing, discuss how to find your tease, give examples of how to use these components in scenes and demo some examples. Advanced tickets will allow you to attend live or by recording. Get yours from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. San Francisco, CA: Want to meet a lot of new kinky friends and potential play partners, fast? Join us live in San Francisco tonight for this month’s Kinky Speed Friending hosted by Psychokitty Ryan. This event is over halfway sold out, so we recommend getting tickets fast, exclusively on ​Plura​. Thursday, June 11 Online: Join us online tonight for Building Confidence in the Bedroom: Own Your Energy with Dolly Diatima. You’ll learn how to let go of shame, tap into your desire, and step into your own erotic power! Advanced tickets are required to attend live or by recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday, June 12 We have no live programming today, but check our ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​ for a wide range of pre-recorded classes and digital downloads. Saturday, June 13 Join us today for a special day of sex magick in theory and practice! Attend one class or spend a half-day with Miriam BatAsherah Green. Both sessions can be attended live or through the recording. Online: Join us online at 11am Pacific time to explore the theory and background of sex magick in Sex Magick for Kinksters. You’ll learn why sex magick emerged as a practice, the basics of how it works, and basics of the ethereal body and ritual theory in this two-hour session. Tickets: ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Online: Then, join us online at 2pm Pacific time to explore all of the basics of how to create simple and effective sex magick spellwork in Put a Sigil On It! You’ll walk away with all the information you need to engage in solo or partnered sex magick that works! Tickets: ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday, June 14 Oakland, CA: Ready to get really into

This Week with Wicked Grounds (5/28 – 6/7)

May 28, 2026 By Miriam Green

Howdy kinksters – What a week we have in store for you! Wicked Grounds is offering 15 classes in four cities over the next ten days. Whether you’re able to join us in person or remote from your living room, you’ll find a wide range of classes to take your kink and relationships to the next level. We’re offering live play labs for impact play and human animal play, technique classes on clothing bondage and sex magick, and a wide range of classes on kink and relationship theory and practice. Keep reading to take a look at what’s best for your next step on the path! Join us for a kink self-exploration deep dive in Phoenix this Sunday! Join us in Phoenix this Sunday for a daylong Kink Exploration Deep Dive with Miriam Green! This Week! Thursday, May 28 Online: Calling all folks in or wanting to be in relationships! Join Lilithfoxx tonight online tonight to make all your relationships a bit better in Unfuck Your Relationship Escalator: (Re)Building Healthy Relationship Foundations. If you ever find yourself getting tripped up by assumptions and blind spots, you’ll benefit from this class! Attend live or by the recording with your advanced tickets from ​Plura​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​. Tucson, AZ: Join us tonight at Desert Dominion in Tucson for Sex Magick for Kinksters with Miriam BatAsherah Green. Whether you believe in magick, want to believe in magick, or just think this is all a great metaphor for spicy psychology, you’ll learn all about how to use sexual and kinky energy to get the fuck out of your own way and improve your life. No advanced ticketing required – get your tickets at the door! Just $5 for members and $10 for non-members. Find out more at ​DesertDominion.org​. Friday, May 29 No live classes today, but you can explore our growing collection of video classes and other digital downloads at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​. Saturday, May 30 Phoenix, AZ: Dating is hard enough, to be honest. Add in being polyamorous or kinky and it suddenly gets more complex. How do we find partners who will embrace and celebrate all of who we are and get the kinds of play and relationships we want? We’ll explore all of it today from 11am – 1pm in Dating While Kinky with Wicked Grounds’ Miriam Green, live today in Phoenix! Advanced ticketing is strongly recommended, and you can get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​, where you can sign up for some or all of our weekend classes all in one spot. Phoenix, AZ: Want to start incorporating rituals, protocols and other ongoing kink dynamics into your kinky relationships? Let’s think through great strategies to figure out what you want and how to talk about it successfully in Advanced BDSM Negotiations for Relationships & Dynamics with Miriam Green today from 2-4pm at Arizona Power Exchange in Phoenix. Advanced ticketing is strongly recommended, and you can get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​, where you can sign up for some or all of our weekend classes all in one spot. San Francisco, CA: This isn’t our class, but one that we’ve hosted before that we thought you should know about. Alexandria from Click Your Heels is going to be offering a two-hour in-person class today at 2pm: Under Her Heels: Heels as a Dungeon Implement. If you missed our recent high heels intensive with Alexandria – or want to brush up – you might want to check this out. Find out more on ​Partiful​. Sunday, May 31 Phoenix, AZ: The first step in asking for what we want in relationships and the kink community at large is knowing ourselves. But in a culture that makes it hard to connect with desire, we don’t always have the tools to get real about our kinks, desires, and turn-ons. Today from 10am – 5pm, Miriam Green will take you through proven strategies for figuring out your evolving erotic roadmap in out Kink Self-Exploration Deep Dive. You’ll learn the key tools we teach in our annual six-week Diving Deep intensive all in one day, and walk away with tools you’ll use for a lifetime. Advanced ticketing is strongly recommended, and you can get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​, where you can sign up for some or all of our weekend classes all in one spot. Monday, June 1 Online: Curious about exploring trance states for hypno or energy play, but not sure where to start? Join us online tonight for Trance Work 101 with Keiden Bren to learn all about trance and how to incorporate it into your play! Advanced ticketing is required to attend either live or through the recording, so get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Phoenix, AZ: Sub drop. Top drop. Con drop. “A case of the Mondays.” Whatever it is, what is this horrible feeling we often have after peak experiences, and what can we do about it? At 7:15 pm at Arizona Power Exchange, join our own Miriam Green to figure it all out in Dealing With Drop. This class is FREE for all-access members, $5 for Pay-per-event members at the door. Not a member yet? Come early at 6pm to join APEX for their New Member Orientation and sign up for lots more great kink education and events! Learn more at ​ArizonaPowerExchange.org​. Tuesday, June 2 Online: Take your bondage well beyond rope, and incorporate some new tools you probably already have! Join Lee Harrington online tonight to explore Clothing Bondage Made Easy: Encase, Rip, Wrap, and Transform. Can’t attend live? We’ll record it for all advance ticketholders. Get your tickets from ​Plura​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​. Wednesday, June 3 San Francisco, CA: If you’re in San Francisco, join us for the most fun you can have on a Wednesday night! At 7pm, join us for Wicked Grounds Presents: SpankLab! hosted by San Francisco’s impact play power switch, Impossiblepain. We’ll start with a short discussion or demo, continue with consent discussions, and then learn impact play through peer skill share and practice. This event often

Wicked Grounds Full Events Roster (last updated 5/27)

May 27, 2026 By Miriam Green

We have a lot of great new classes and events and are starting to push out our calendar all the way into July. Read on for details on a wide array of online classes, plus upcoming in-person events in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Tucson. (We’ll be in Tucson and Phoenix THIS WEEKEND!) Go deeper! Need personal coaching & guidance for questions around sex, kink, and relationships? Reach out for one-time or ongoing coaching sessions at WickedGroundsAnnex.com. If you love what we do and want to help us expand our access, please contribute to our annual Scholarship Fund Drive or become a supporting member of Wicked Grounds. Both of these programs help us provide classes with the greatest access as well as provide more specialty and niche education that you won’t find anywhere else! The Roundup! Daylong & Multi-week Intensives 5/31 10am – 5pm MST: Kink Self-Discovery Daylong Intensive with Miriam Green. (Phoenix, AZ) Forbidden Tickets November – December 2026. Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires (ONLINE) S/m & the physical side of play 6/3 7pm PDT: Wicked Grounds Presents: Spanklab! Hosted by impossiblepain. Forbidden Tickets or Plura. (San Francisco, CA) 6/8 6pm PDT: Cruising for a Bruising: Impact Play 101 with Jamie Joy. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 6/15 6pm PDT: Heavy Hitter: Advanced Impact Play with Jamie Joy. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 6/22 6pm PDT: Torture with a Twist: Fun with Tickling with Miss Mackenzee Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 7/1 6pm PDT: Body Modification: Sacred and Profane with Lee Harrington Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 7/1 7pm PDT: Wicked Grounds Presents: SpankLab! with impossiblepain Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 7/19 11am – 4:30pm PDT: Out for Blood Sharps Play Intensive with Miss Mackenzee. Forbidden Tickets or Plura. (ONLINE) 7/20 6pm PDT: Blood, Sweat, & Fears: The Art and Thrill of Blood Play with Jamie Joy. Forbidden Tickets or Plura. (ONLINE) Bondage 6/2 6pm PDT: Clothing Bondage Made Easy: Encase, Rip, Wrap, and Transform with Lee Harrington Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 7/2 6pm PDT: Affirming Ties for Trans Femmes with Empress Oxblood. Forbidden Tickets or Plura. (ONLINE) D/s, role play & the mental side of play 5/27 6pm PDT: Creating Energetic Containers for Kink with HG Wyndell. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 5/30 2pm MST: Advanced BDSM Negotiations for Dynamics & Relationships with Miriam Green. Forbidden Tickets (Phoenix, AZ) 6/10 6pm PDT: Tease and Denial with Mel and Memi. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 6/17 6pm PDT: Intro to Dominance/submission (D/s) 3 Hour Class with Mel and Memi. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 6/21 11am PDT: Daddy Issues: Daddy Dynamics & You with Lady V. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 7/7 6pm PDT: Advanced BDSM Negotiations for Dynamics & Relationships with Miriam Green. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 7/9 6pm PDT: Reclaiming Your Inner Villain: A Fantasy Roleplaying Workshop with Lila Hades. Forbidden Tickets or Plura. (ONLINE) 7/12 6pm PDT: Trauma Informed Caregiver/Little Dynamic, Age Play & Dark Age Play with Kare Bear. Forbidden Tickets or Plura. (ONLINE) 7/16 6pm PDT: Strategies For Switching with Lee Harrington. Forbidden Tickets or Plura. (ONLINE) 8/11 2:30 PDT: Improv for Kinksters with Psychokitty Ryan. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (San Francisco, CA) Primal & Animal Play 6/5 8pm PDT: Wicked Grounds Play Lab: Pets! hosted by Madam Rosie Rose. Luma or Forbidden Tickets or Plura. (Los Angeles, CA) Sexy Times 6/11 6pm PDT: Building Confidence in the Bedroom: Own Your Energy with Dolly Diatima. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 6/14 Noon – 3pm PDT: Lap Dancing Fundamentals with Alexandria from Click Your Heels. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (Oakland, CA) 6/25 6pm PDT: The Art of Pussy Eating with Lilith Foxx. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 7/8 6pm PDT: The Art of the Hookup with Lady V. Forbidden Tickets or Plura. (ONLINE) 7/16 6pm PDT: The Art of Dirty Talk with Marla Renee Stewart. Forbidden Tickets or Plura. (ONLINE) Hypnosis 6/1 6pm PDT: Trance Work 101 with Keiden Bren. Forbidden Tickets or Plura. (ONLINE) Polyamory and Nonmonogamy 5/28 6pm PDT: Unfuck Your Relationship Escalator: (Re)Building Healthy Relationship Foundations with Lilith Foxx. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 6/4 6pm PDT: The Art & Science of Compersion with Marie Thouin PhD. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) Creativity and Movement 6/14 Noon – 3pm PDT: Lap Dancing Fundamentals with Alexandria from Click Your Heels. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (Oakland, CA) 6/23 & 6/30 6pm PDT: Writing Spicy: A Two-Week Series with Sinclair Sexsmith. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE: No Recording) 8/11 2:30pm PDT: Improv for Kinksters with Psychokitty Ryan. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (San Francisco, CA) Self-knowledge, negotiation & consent 5/31 10am – 5pm MST: Kink Self-Discovery Daylong Intensive with Miriam Green. (Phoenix, AZ) Forbidden Tickets 6/1 7:15pm MST: Dealing with Drop with Miriam Green. For Arizona Power Exchange members only – check our Arizona Power Exchange for details. Not a member yet? There’s a new member orientation at 6pm the same night! (Phoenix, AZ) 6/9 6pm PDT: BDSM Negotiation Basics with Miriam Green. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 6/24 6pm PDT: Tarot for Scene Creation with H G Wyndell. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 7/14 6pm PDT: BDSM Negotiation: From Awkward to Awesome with Miriam Green. Forbidden Tickets or Plura. (ONLINE) Community: Friends, dating, relationships & kink culture! 5/30 11am MST: Dating While Kinky with Miriam Green. Forbidden Tickets (Phoenix, AZ) 5/30 2pm MST: Advanced BDSM Negotiations for Dynamics & Relationships. Forbidden Tickets (Phoenix, AZ) 6/5 6pm PDT: Welcome to the LA Kink Scene with Killmeat Nick. Luma or Forbidden Tickets or Plura. (Los Angeles, CA) 6/6 6:45pm PDT: Kink and Kids: Practising Kink As Parents with Ancilla L. Forbidden Tickets or Plura. (ONLINE) 6/10 7pm PDT: Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty Ryan. Plura (San Francisco, CA) 6/16 6pm PDT: BDSM and Attachment Styles with Sir Panda. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 6/18 6pm PDT: The Future of Black Kink with Marla Renee Stewart. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 6/21 2pm PDT: The Literal Servant Leader with Hannah

This Week with Wicked Grounds (5/21 – 5/31)

May 21, 2026 By Miriam Green

Howdy kinksters – “You can’t go home again.” “You can’t cross the same river twice.” “I am not who I was.” I’m thinking a lot this week about erotic evolution – the evolution of communities, the evolution of my thinking over time, the changing landscape of my own erotic roadmap as I start adopting new kinds of play. I feel generally fearless about sex and kink these days, but I definitely didn’t start out this way! When I was in my twenties and lived in a college town in Arizona, my polycule used to host an ongoing coffeehouse which was full of local artists, geeks, pagans, polyamorous folks, and people who just thought our DJ played great music. I was partnered with about six people at the time and was focused on healing my own trauma and building sex-positivity. I read voraciously: Annie Sprinkle, Susie Bright, the earliest books of Carol Queen. I had some toys and was experimenting with kinky play, and had started exploring the local nudist scene. But I was still scared to death to explore BDSM classes or the public kink scene. Two of the folks who regularly came to our coffeehouse were a sweet polyamorous couple who were members of ​Arizona Power Exchange​, a lifestyle club in neighboring Phoenix. Every month, they invited us to be their guests at a play party, and they were kind and gentle in explaining what one was. I think some other members of my polycule went, but I didn’t. At that time, I was terrified of going to a play party. (I know, I know!) It took me several more years before I was brave enough to get involved in the Austin and Houston scenes. If you’ve attended my 101 classes, you’ve probably heard me say: If I had one thing to do over, I’d have gotten involved in the public kink scene sooner. The scene has improved my safety, my courage, and my ability to reclaim my own erotic authenticity. So: guess who I’m teaching for next weekend? Yep, that’s the good folks of Arizona Power Exchange (as well as Desert Dominion in Tucson). I’m especially looking forward to facilitating my ​Kink Self-Exploration Deep Dive​ on Sunday 5/31 – it will be particularly resonant to explain my early fear in the room where it (should have) happened. If you’re in a reasonable drive of the Phoenix area, I hope you’ll join us for a full weekend of classes. ​You can find out more here!​ Bonus points if you’re scared and you come anyway. 😉 Now, let’s take a look at a very full schedule of online and live classes this week! This Week! Thursday, May 21 Online: Want to go much deeper with your play and really get into your partner’s head? Join Keiden Bren online tonight for Crafting A Psycho-Emotive Ritual Scene. Attend live or through the recording with your advanced tickets from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (This class was rescheduled from last Thursday, so you still have just a smidge of time to get tickets!) Friday, May 22 No live classes today, but you can explore our growing collection of video classes and other digital downloads at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​. Saturday, May 23 Mendocino, CA: It’s not technically a Wicked Grounds event, but our own Miriam Green hosts monthly events for kinksters in coastal Mendocino county. If that’s you, you’re warmly welcome to join this month’s The Mendocino Munch + our maiden voyage of the monthly Mendocino Rope Lab! To attend either or both, join us at the Good Life Bakery back picnic benches for the munch from noon – 2pm. (The location for the rope lab will be provided at the munch, and the rope lab will continue from 2:30 – 4:30pm!) Online: Curious about incorporating verbal humiliation into your kinky scenes, but want to do it in a way that’s hot (and not harmful or just awkward)? Join Dolly Diatima online today for Intro to Verbal Humiliation: Off the Cuff, On Your Knees. Can’t attend live? We’ll record it for viewing within one week as long as you have advance tickets from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday, May 24 Online: What is a risk profile, and why do you need one for kinky play? A well thought-out risk profile can radically simplify your approach to consent and communication, and can help us better respond to what works for our own needs in kink. But how do you go about creating yours? Join Mel & Memi online today to explore it all in Creating Your Risk Profile and learn a simple but comprehensive method for crafting yours. Advanced ticketing required to attend live or through the recording. Get yours from ​Plura​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​. Monday, May 25 Online: Tonight we wrap up this year’s annual Kink Class Incubator. What a great time we’ve had this year! Thanks so much to all the instructors and aspiring instructors who attended. This year’s cohort is closed to new members, but mark your calendars for next spring. Tuesday, May 26 Online: Ready to take your kink protocols to the next level, but not sure where to start? Sinclair Sexsmith has a creative solution to get you unstuck, and it’s called The Protocol Game. Learn all about it and add new spark to your D/s dynamics in tonight’s class! Sinclair’s classes are not recorded, so you need to get your tickets and plan to attend live. Tickets are available through ​Plura​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​. Wednesday, May 27 Online: We raise a lot of energy in kink scenes, whether we think of that as a metaphor or more palpably. But how to we keep all that energy moving toward our goals? H G Wyndell has practical techniques to keep your scenes on track. Join them tonight for Creating Energetic Containers for Kink and learn new ways to make your scenes stronger and hotter. Advanced tickets will allow you to attend live or by recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Thursday,