Month: August 2024

Howdy kinksters – I am so excited! I’ll be in San Francisco this Sunday to host author and educator Anton Fulmen for a full-day workshop on The Heart of Dominance. Many of you already know that Anton is the author whose work on D/s I recommend most. I truly cannot wait to see what we all get up to. Now, let’s look at what next week has in store! Thursday, August 22nd Dating can be frustrating, but it doesn’t have to be! Join sex therapist and educator Lilith Foxx for “Kinktuitive” Dating tonight at 6pm Pacific to learn a different approach! Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, August 23rd No classes today, but check out our pre-recorded classes at Wicked Grounds Annex Saturday, August 24th Join us at 11am Pacific for The More the Merrier: Group Sex 101 with Jamie Joy. Whether you’re curious about group play or want ways to make it even more fun, join us! Get your tickets via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Want to change how you approach S/m? Join us at 2pm Pacific for Make Me a Masochist: Changing Your Relationship With Pain with vahavta. Get tickets via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday, August 25th If you’re in San Francisco, join us for The Heart of Dominance Daylong Intensive with author and educator Anton Fulmen. This is a full day of instruction, that gets to the heart of what it takes to be great at consensual dominance. Get your tickets via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Monday, August 26th There are a lot of ways to enjoy consensual sadomasochism! Join us online at 6pm Pacific for Spanking for Punishment or Reward with Miss Mackenzee. You’ll learn everything you need to know to make the most out of spanking scenes. Get your tickets via Forbidden Tickets or [Plura(https://plra.io/m/online-spanking-for-punishment-or-reward). Thursday, August 29th Tonight we host the second part of Kink and Trauma with BearJew, however registration is restricted to those who attended part one. Saturday, August 31st Some conflict in kink is to be expected. Rather than avoiding or minimizing it, learn to deal with inevitable conflict productively and proactively. Join us at 2pm Pacific for Conflict in Kink with Mistress Solaris for strategies, tips and tricks. You may get advance tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Support. Follow. Share. Warmly,Mir & The Wicked Grounds Team (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)

Howdy kinksters – I feel very blessed to be on this kink journey with you. Whether it’s teaching, amplifying the voices of other educators, facilitating intensives, or offering one-on-one coaching, I learn so much about myself by doing this work. For several years now, we’ve offered scholarship seats to our classes with no questions asked. Many of our Patreon members have signed up at a level that automatically boosts our scholarship fund each month; other folks have generously contributed in other ways. It’s my birthday tomorrow. The best present you could give me is paying it forward to students we haven’t met yet, by keeping our scholarship fund well-resourced for the next few months. You can contribute through our website. Or, use our Venmo for one-time donations. Just note that they’re for the scholarship fund! Now, let’s look at what next week has in store! Events Roundup! Thursday, August 15 If you want to be mindful about how to address the trauma that kink can unearth, join us tonight for the first of a two-part series on Kink and Trauma with BearJew aka Ev Evnen. Advance ticketing required for the full two-part series to attend. Get yours via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, August 16 No classes scheduled tonight. If you’d like to give Mir the best ever present for their birthday, consider donating to the Wicked Grounds scholarship fund to keep our classes accessible for kinksters without means to attend on their own. You can contribute through our website. Or, use our Venmo for one-time donations. Just note that they’re for the scholarship fund! Sunday, August 18th We have two in-person classes for San Francisco folks today, both at the Folsom Street Community Center. At noon, please join Jamie Joy for a special rope class Let’s Get Knotty! You’ll learn all the basics of having fun with rope bondage. Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Then at 3pm, we offer Leading and Following: Non-verbal Communication for D/s with Alexandria. This embodied, movement-based class will deepen your D/s bonds and scenes in profound ways. Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Monday, August 19th Join us online at 6pm for an important discussion on Disability, Chronic Pain, and BDSM with Nyx Lunaea. Tickets available through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Tuesday, August 20th If you’re in the SF Bay Area, join us at 6:30 pm for one of my favorite classes. If you’ve ever been stuck wondering how to develop headspace, stay in headspace, or figure out what to say in a scene, join Psychokitty Ryan for Improv for Kinksters. Psychokitty brings a lifetime of improv training to the dungeon, helping you figure out how to stay in character during your scenes while staying connected. Fun stuff! Get your tickets via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Wednesday, August 21st Tonight is our third part of Self-Care as Spiritual Practice with H G Wyndell. Class registration is closed to those who’ve attended the previous two sessions. Thursday, August 22nd Dating can be frustrating, but it doesn’t have to be! Join sex therapist and educator Lilith Foxx for “Kinktuitive” Dating tonight at 6pm Pacific to learn a different approach! Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, August 23rd No classes today, but check out our pre-recorded classes at Wicked Grounds Annex Saturday, August 24th Join us at 11am Pacific for The More the Merrier: Group Sex 101 with Jamie Joy. Whether you’re curious about group play or want ways to make it even more fun, join us! Get your tickets via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Want to change how you approach S/m? Join us at 2pm Pacific for Make Me a Masochist: Changing Your Relationship With Pain with vahavta. Get tickets via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday, August 25th If you’re in San Francisco, join us for The Heart of Dominance Daylong Intensive with author and educator Anton Fulmen. This is a full day of instruction, that gets to the heart of what it takes to be great at consensual dominance. Get your tickets via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Support. Follow. Share. Join our Patreon for personal benefits and to stabilize our long-term trajectory. Annual memberships now available! Use our Venmo for one-time donations toward our sustainability, and to help specifically with scholarship tickets. Book with us for coaching and consulting time with Mir. Warmly,Mir & The Wicked Grounds Team (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)

Howdy kinksters – I hope this late summer is treating you well! For many, it’s back-to-school season. I hope that amid the hustle and bustle, you take some time to go deeper with your kink adventures! Speaking of back to school, registration has officially opened for our six-week intensive Diving Deep: Discovering and Voicing Your Erotic Desires. This six-week online intensive comes with live group discussions, lots of weekly homework, and individual coaching and consulting. Both new and experienced kinksters have reported this workshop has had a profound impact on their way of approaching erotic life on their own terms. It’s a deep ride, and it usually sells out well in advance. If you’re interested in attending, we’d love to have you! If you’d like to give Mir the best ever present for their birthday next week, consider donating to the Wicked Grounds scholarship fund to keep our classes accessible for kinksters without means to attend on their own. You can contribute through our website. Or, use our Venmo for one-time donations. Just note that they’re for the scholarship fund! Now, let’s look at what next week has in store! Events Roundup! Thursday, August 8 Want to dive into the deeper possibilities of erotic hypnosis? Join us online at 6pm Pacific for Erotic Hypnosis 201 with James Gordon and Rebecca Doll. Some experience with hypnosis is helpful, but not required. Find out more and sign up at Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, August 9 We don’t have any scheduled classes over the weekend, but you can check out all our digital downloads, pre-recorded classes and coaching at WickedGroundsAnnex.com Monday, August 12 If you’re balancing multiple dynamics, you know it can be a lot to juggle. Tonight’s 6pm online class has you covered. Join HypnoStory and PandaPet for The Littlest Sub: Balancing Multiple Dynamics. Advance ticketing required. Get yours via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Tuesday, August 13 Speaking of multiple dynamics, who says submissives can’t top? Join us tonight at 6pm online for At Your Service: Topping from Submission with HypnoStory and PandaPet. Advance ticketing required. Get yours via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Wednesday, August 14 Are you in the San Francisco Bay Area? Do you want to make a lot of new friends, fast? Join us tonight for Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty, a coproduction of Wicked Grounds and Plura. Ticketing for this one is only available through Plura. Get yours here! Thursday, August 15 If you want to be mindful about how to address the trauma that kink can unearth, join us tonight for the first of a two-part series on Kink and Trauma with BearJew aka Ev Evnen. Advance ticketing required for the full two-part series to attend. Get yours via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, August 16 No classes scheduled tonight. If you’d like to give Mir the best ever present for their birthday, consider donating to the Wicked Grounds scholarship fund to keep our classes accessible for kinksters without means to attend on their own. You can contribute through our website. Or, use our Venmo for one-time donations. Just note that they’re for the scholarship fund! Sunday, August 18th We have two in-person classes for San Francisco folks today, both at the Folsom Street Community Center. At noon, please join Jamie Joy for a special rope class Let’s Get Knotty! You’ll learn all the basics of having fun with rope bondage. Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Then at 3pm, we offer Leading and Following: Non-verbal Communication for D/s with Alexandria. This embodied, movement-based class will deepen your D/s bonds and scenes in profound ways. Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Support. Follow. Share. Join our Patreon for personal benefits and to stabilize our long-term trajectory. Annual memberships now available! Use our Venmo for one-time donations toward our sustainability, and to help specifically with scholarship tickets. Book with us for coaching and consulting time with Mir. Warmly,Mir & The Wicked Grounds Team (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)

Here’s the latest, and there are dozens of new classes for everyone, from complete beginners to advanced players. Want to take a lot of classes? Get a monthly or annual event pass! Need personal coaching & guidance for those sticky issues around sex, kink and relationships? Reach out for one-time or ongoing coaching sessions at WickedGroundsAnnex.com The Roundup! Multi-week Intensives October – November 2024: Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires Self-Directed Digital Downloads Diving Deep (video class) Private Joy: Sadomasochism for Solo & Distance Play (video class) Kink Self-Discovery Workbook (self-directed template) Aftercare Kit Checklist Bondage NEW 8/12 Noon PDT: Let’s Get Knotty with Jamie Joy (SF) S/m & the physical side of play 8/7 7pm PDT: Wicked Grounds Presents: Spanklab with impossiblepain (SF) 8/24 2pm PDT: Make Me a Masochist: Changing Your Relationship With Pain with vahavta (ONLINE) 8/26 6pm PDT: Spanking for Punishment or Reward with Miss Mackenzee (ONLINE) Save the Date! 9/4 7pm: SpankLab w/ impossiblepain (SF) 9/23 6pm PDT: Staples 101 with Miss Mackenzee (ONLINE) D/s & the mental side of play 8/7 6pm PDT: Exploring Gender and Sexuality Through Animal Role Play with Wiley Wolfe (ONLINE) NEW 8/13 6pm PDT: At Your Service: Topping from Submission with HypnoStory and PandaPet (ONLINE) NEW 8/18 3pm PDT: Leading and Following: Non-verbal Communication for D/s with Alexandria (SF) 8/20 6:30 pm PDT: Improv for Naughty Play w/ Psychokitty Ryan (ONLINE) 8/24 11am – 5pm PDT: The Heart of Dominance Daylong Intensive with Anton Fulmen (SF) 9/12 6pm PDT: Waking the Beast: Primal Play 101 with Wiley Wolfe (ONLINE) Erotic Hypnosis 8/8 6pm PDT: Hypnosis 201 with James Gordon and Rebecca Doll (ONLINE) Movement workshops NEW 8/18 3pm PDT: Leading and Following: Non-verbal Communication for D/s with Alexandria (SF) Sexy Times NEW 9/15 2pm PDT: Erectile Artistry: Taking Delicious D*ck Pics with Lady V (ONLINE) Polyamory & ethical non-monogamy 9/26 6pm PDT: The Breakup Blueprint: Compassionate Polyam Breakups w/ Lilith Foxx (ONLINE) Self-knowledge, negotiation & consent 8/15 and 8/29 6pm PDT: Kink and Trauma: A Two-Part Series w/ BearJew (ONLINE) 8/19 6pm PDT: Disability, Chronic Pain, and BDSM: A Discussion with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) ONLINE 8/31 2pm PDT: Conflict in Kink Mistress Solaris/ Ember (ONLINE) 9/16 6pm PDT: Kink 101: Negotiation Basics with Miriam Green (ONLINE) 9/19 6pm PDT: Consent: The Ins and Outs with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) NEW 9/21 2pm PDT: Consent, Accountability, and Neurodivergence with Adam and Draven (ONLINE) 9/22 11am PDT: Autism and Kink with John Pendal (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings) Community: Friends, dating, relationships & kink culture! 8/6 6pm PDT: Tips for House Topping w/ Miriam Green (ONLINE) NEW 8/14 7pm PDT: Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty (SF) 8/22 6pm PDT: “Kinktuitive” Dating with Lilith Foxx (ONLINE) Save the date! 9/11 7pm PDT: Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty Ryan (SF) NEW 9/15 2pm PDT: Erectile Artistry: Taking Delicious D*ck Pics with Lady V (ONLINE) 9/26 6pm PDT: The Breakup Blueprint: Compassionate Polyam Breakups w/ Lilith Foxx (ONLINE) Life Stuff, wellness & adulting for kinksters Keep checking back! Spirituality, Magick, and Occult (with Magickal Crossroads) NEW 9/22 2pm PDT: Sex Magick for Kinksters with Miriam Green (ONLINE)