Month: September 2024

Happy Leather week!!! If you’re in SF, come see Wicked Grounds at Folsom Street Fair on Sunday, Sept 29th – we’ll be on Folsom between 10th and 11th. 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 Links below are to our primary ticketing via Forbidden Tickets. If you’re a Plura member, check the Plura app for ticketing there as well. The Roundup! Multi-week Intensives October – November 2024: Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires Self-Directed Digital Downloads Diving Deep (video class) NEW: KINK 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics (video class) NEW: KINK 202: Advanced Negotiation for Dynamics & Relationships (video class) Private Joy: Sadomasochism for Solo & Distance Play (video class) Kink Self-Discovery Workbook (self-directed template) Aftercare Kit Checklist S/m & the physical side of play NEW: 10/2 7pm PDT: Wicked Grounds Presents: SpankLab! with impossiblepain (SF) NEW: 10/21 6pm PDT: Step by Step Foot Play: From Sensual to Sadistic with Miss Mackenzee (ONLINE) NEW: 11/18 6pm PST: Flogging With Style: From Basics to Brilliance with Miss Mackenzee (ONLINE) NEW: 1/25 6pm PDT: Beginner Sharps Play: Staples Edition with Miss Mackenzee (ONLINE) Bondage NEW 11/19 6:30 pm PST: Getting Started with Rope Part 1 with Psychokitty (SF) NEW 12/17 6:30 pm PST: Getting Started with Rope Part 2 with Psychokitty (SF) D/s & the mental side of play 9/12 6pm PDT: Waking the Beast: Primal Play 101 with Wiley Wolfe (ONLINE) 9/26 6pm PDT: Strategies for Switching with Lee Harrington (ONLINE) 10/1 6pm PDT: Kink 201: Advanced BDSM Negotiations for Dynamics and Relationships with Miriam Green (ONLINE) 10/6 11:30am PDT: Submissives in Solidarity: A Discussion Group facilitated by Miriam Green (SF) 10/8 6pm PDT: How to Learn Protocols with HannahtheScribe (ONLINE) 10/15 6:30pm PDT: Setting the Scene with Psychokitty (SF) NEW 10/20 11am PDT: Age (Play) Theory with Draven (ONLINE) 11/9 2pm PST: Productivity for Service with HannahtheScribe (ONLINE) 11/17 2pm PST: Dark Roleplaying with Lee Harrington (ONLINE) NEW 12/16 6pm PST: Exploring Little Space: A Caregiver’s Guide with Miss Mackenzee (ONLINE) Movement workshops 10/7 2pm PDT: Erotic Movement with Alexandria (SF) Sexy Times 10/30 6pm PDT: Booty Basics: Anal for Anyone with Jamie Joy (ONLINE) NEW: 11/20 6pm PST: Gender Affirming Intimacy with Lady V & Jamie Love (ONLINE) NEW: 11/21 6pm PST: Voyeurism and Exhibitionism: Thrill of the Spotlight and Shadows with Lilith Foxx (ONLINE) NEW: 12/19 6pm PST: Pleasure Mapping for Couples: Discovering New Pathways to Intimacy with Lilith Foxx (ONLINE) Polyamory & ethical non-monogamy 9/26 6pm PDT: The Breakup Blueprint: Compassionate Polyam Breakups w/ Lilith Foxx (ONLINE) 10/3 6pm PDT: The Art & Science of Compersion with Marie Thouin (ONLINE) 10/7 6pm PDT: Non-Escalator Relationships: Strategies and Challenges with Laura Boyle (ONLINE) 11/6 6pm PST: Anarchy! In Your Relationships with Laura Boyle (ONLINE) 12/3 6pm PST: Polyamory and Parenting with Laura Boyle (ONLINE) Self-knowledge, negotiation & consent 10/10 6pm PDT: Dealing with Drop with Miriam Green (ONLINE) 10/24 6pm PDT: Beyond Taboo: Embracing Hidden Desires and Shedding Kink Shame with Lilith Foxx (ONLINE) NEW: 11/25 6pm PST: KINK 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics with Miriam Green (ONLINE) NEW 11/30 2pm PDT: Consent, Accountability, and Neurodivergence with Adam and Draven (ONLINE) Community: Friends, dating, relationships & kink culture! 9/26 6pm PDT: The Breakup Blueprint: Compassionate Polyam Breakups w/ Lilith Foxx (ONLINE) 10/5 Noon PDT: Welcome to the SF Bay Area Scene with Miriam Green (SF) 10/5 2:30pm PDT: Negotiation Improv with Wiley Elote (SF) 10/7 6pm PDT: Non-Escalator Relationships: Strategies and Challenges with Laura Boyle (ONLINE) NEW 10/9 7pm PDT: Wicked Grounds + Plura Present: Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty Ryan (SF) 10/23 6pm PDT: Breathing for Connection with HG Wyndell (ONLINE) NEW: 11/2 11am PDT: Welcome to the Kink Scene (National Version) (ONLINE) 11/5 6pm PST: Tips for House Topping with Miriam Green (ONLINE) NEW: 11/13 7pm PST: Wicked Grounds + Plura Present: Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty Ryan (SF) NEW: 11/27 6pm PST: Boundaries: Mapping the Self in Community with HG Wyndell (ONLINE) Spirituality, Magick, and Occult (with Magickal Crossroads) 10/23 6pm PDT: Breathing for Connection with HG Wyndell (ONLINE) NEW: 11/27 6pm PST: Boundaries: Mapping the Self in Community with HG Wyndell (ONLINE)

Howdy kinksters – It’s a big week for everyone in the greater Bay Area kink community, and we’re no exception. We’ve been spiffing up for Folsom week, and we’re excited to see some of your faces this weekend. If you are at Folsom, please swing by Wicked Grounds Booth at Folsom Street Fair — we will be between 10th and 11th on Folsom, at lucky space 77. Rough Cut Leather will have new goodies for you! This is also our big fundraising time for our scholarship fund. Wicked Grounds offers scholarships to every class to help our community have fun and play safe. We are only able to do this with the generosity of kinksters like YOU. We will contribute proceeds from this weekend’s booth sales to the fund, so get some great deals and help future kinksters get classes!!! Can’t join us in person? We welcome your small, sustainable gift through Venmo or regular contribution on Patreon. We are just starting to turn a corner on our sustainability plans, and every contribution will make an enormous difference to keeping our accessibility open and our instructors paid for their amazing contributions! Now is also the time to the fall cohort of our six-week intensive Diving Deep: Discovering and Voicing Your Erotic Desires. Read on for this week’s events, and plan ahead by checking out all our ticketed events. This week! Thursday 9/26 Breaking up is hard to do. While it’s difficult, it doesn’t need to be harmful or hurtful. It can be done with compassion and grace. Learn more tonight about some strategies and frameworks that might work for you and your relationships in The Breakup Blueprint: Compassionate Polyam Breakups with Lilith Foxx. This online class meets at 6pm Pacific, and you can get tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday 9/27 No live classes today, but check out our brand new digital downloads! We now have both our BDSM Negotiation Basics and our Advanced Negotiations class available for digital download: Kink 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics Kink 201: Advanced Negotiations for Relationships & Dynamics Sunday 9/29 We hope to see you at Folsom Street Fair this Sunday! RSVP for our FetLife event to spread the word! We will be in Booth 77, between 10th and 11th on Folsom (near Sextant Coffee). Come peruse the new gear from Rough Cut Leather, talk with us about classes, and get incredible discounts on what’s left of our retail books and gear. Monday, 9/30 Nope! Absolutely not! Nope! Get some sleep. Maybe take the day off. 😉 Tuesday, 10/1 Join us online at 6pm Pacific for a live session of Kink 201: Advanced Negotiations for Relationships & Dynamics with Miriam Green. Advance ticketing available through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. We will record this session for later watching if you can’t make it live. Wednesday 10/2 If you’re in the SF Bay Area, join us for the most fun you can have on a Wednesday night. It’s SpankLab with host impossiblepain. This hands-on playshop is a chance to meet new friends, learn basic impact play techniques, and spend a night of practice. If you’re having too much fun to go home, head up to PlayXLand after to dance and play the night away! This post-Folsom date is likely to sell out, so get your advance tickets on Forbidden Tickets or Plura now! Thursday 10/3 Polyam folks are often advised to cultivate compersion in relationships. But what is it, and how does it work, anyway? Join us only at 6pm Pacific for The Art & Science of Compersion with Marie Thouin. Marie will discuss her “compersion roadmap”, which will help every attendee understand what promotes and hinders compersion for them. She will also demystify some of the main myths you might have heard around compersion, and tackle some controversial questions regarding the topic. Get advance ticketing through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Saturday 10/5 It’s first Saturday! This month, we’ll be live in San Francisco at Noon for our Welcome to the SF Scene class live at our space in Trellis! If you just got curious about the SF kink scene at Folsom, now is the time to learn about all the spaces, organizations, events, and culture that make San Francisco extraordinary! This is a live class with Miriam Green. Get your advanced tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Door ticketing is available, but please arrive by 11:55am to ticket on site. Then stick around for Negotiation Improv with Wiley Elote at 2:30pm to learn the basics of Negotiation and how to find your voice in different realistic negotiation scenarios. This live workshop is the best way to develop confidence in negotiations — fast. Get advance tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday 10/6 Our Diving Deep: Discovering and Voicing Your Erotic Desires six-week workshop officially goes live today! If you’d like to go really, really deep in your kink journey, please commit to yourself and sign up for our fall cohort. If you’ve ever felt like you’re the only one experiencing what you feel in submission, we assure you — you are NOT alone. Often it’s helpful to talk with other folks on the same side of the slash to share experiences and ideas. Join us live in San Francisco at 11:30am for Submissives in Solidarity, a discussion group facilitated by Miriam Green. We’ll meet in the cozy Mukunda Studios in SOMA. Advance ticketing recommended. Get yours on Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Then join us at 2pm in San Francisco for Erotic Movement with Alexandria from Click Your Heels. ALL bodies, ALL genders, all orientations, all ages, all ethnicities! YOU are welcome as you are for this dance and movement class to express your own erotic identity. Advance ticketing strongly recommended, as space is limited. Get your tickets on 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

Howdy kinksters – It’s Leather Month! Yay! We hope to see you at our Wicked Grounds Booth at Folsom Street Fair — RSVP to let friends know you’re coming, and get the booth location details as soon as we have them. And we are just three weeks away from launching the fall cohort of our six-week intensive Diving Deep: Discovering and Voicing Your Erotic Desires. Space is limited, and with Folsom just weeks before our launch, our fall cohort always sells out. If you want to get the ticketing tier with four consult sessions, please book early! To appropriately manage our time, we usually close that tier early. Read on for this week’s events, and plan ahead by checking out all our ticketed events. This week! Thursday 9/12 Curious about primal and animal play? Already love playing primally, and want to pick up some new tricks? Join us online tonight at 6pm Pacific for Waking the Beast: Primal Play 101 with Wiley Wolfe! Learn more and get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday 9/15 D!ck pics can be a lot of things. Artistic? Maybe! Join Lady V to learn about Erectile Artistry: Taking Delicious D!ck Pics online today at 2pm Pacific. (Or, get a ticket and watch the recording later.) Get your tickets in advance via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Monday 9/16 Great scenes start with great negotiations! I don’t know about your sex education, but most of us didn’t learn how to have a great consent and negotiation discussion when growing up. There are some key skills we can build to cocreate great scenes and stay connected throughout them. Learn more in our monthly class Kink 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics with Miriam Green tonight at 6pm Pacific. Get your advance tickets via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Wednesday 9/18 Want to get out and start making more of playtime with others? Join Lee Harrington, who literally (co-) wrote the book on Playing Well With Others. Learn everything you need to know to make the most of your public BDSM, kink, and fetish scenes, wherever you are. Details & ticketing through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Thursday 9/19 Whether you’ve been in the scene for decades, or you’re brand new, it is vital to know about consent, and you can never explore too many perspectives! We’d love to see you tonight for Consent: The Ins and Outs with Nyx Lunaea. We’ll go over what consent looks like in vanilla and BDSM spaces, why it matters, and how you can implement it in your daily lives! All weeknight online classes launch at 6pm Pacific. Get your advance tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Saturday 9/21 This weekend, we are offering two critical perspectives on neurodivergence and kink. Join us Saturday at 2pm Pacific for Consent, Accountability, and Neurodivergence with Adam and Draven. How does neurodivergence affect consent mistakes, incidents, and violations? How does it affect boundaries, grappling with hurt and harm (and discerning between the two), and accountability at the personal, interpersonal, and community levels? You’ll learn all this and more in this critical online class! Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday 9/22 Join us at 11am Pacific for our extremely popular class Autism & Kink with London-based BDSM educator John Pendal. In this workshop we look at the overlap of autism and kink. This workshop isn’t just for autistic folk, it can help anyone who feels like an outsider or would like to create a more inclusive environment. Get your advance 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)

Happy Leather season, happy fall, and happy back-to-school season! We’re gearing up for a lot of great new classes, and look forward to seeing you either online or in one of our San Francisco workshops. 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 Links below are to our primary ticketing via Forbidden Tickets. If you’re a Plura member, check the Plura app for ticketing there as well. 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 S/m & the physical side of play NEW 9/4 7pm: SpankLab w/ impossiblepain (SF) 9/23 6pm PDT: Staples 101 with Miss Mackenzee (ONLINE) NEW: 11/17 11am PDT: Edge Play: Pushing Limits with John Pendal (ONLINE) D/s & the mental side of play 9/12 6pm PDT: Waking the Beast: Primal Play 101 with Wiley Wolfe (ONLINE) NEW 9/26 6pm PDT: Strategies for Switching with Lee Harrington (ONLINE) NEW 10/1 6pm PDT: Kink 201: Advanced BDSM Negotiations for Dynamics and Relationships with Miriam Green (ONLINE) NEW 10/6 11:30am PDT: Submissives in Solidarity: A Discussion Group facilitated by Miriam Green (SF) NEW 10/8 6pm PDT: How to Learn Protocols with HannahtheScribe (ONLINE) NEW 10/15 6:30pm PDT: Setting the Scene with Psychokitty (SF) NEW 11/9 2pm PDT: Productivity for Service with HannahtheScribe (ONLINE) NEW 11/17 2pm PDT: Dark Roleplaying with Lee Harrington (ONLINE) Erotic Hypnosis NEW 9/9 6pm PDT: Induction Sampler with HypnoStory and PandaPet (ONLINE) Movement workshops NEW 10/7 2pm PDT: Erotic Movement with Alexandria (SF) Sexy Times 9/15 2pm PDT: Erectile Artistry: Taking Delicious D*ck Pics with Lady V (ONLINE) NEW 9/30 6pm PDT: Booty Basics: Anal for Anyone with Jamie Joy (ONLINE) Polyamory & ethical non-monogamy NEW 9/10 6pm PDT: Monogamy? In this Economy? Polyamorous Cohabitation with Laura Boyle (ONLINE) 9/26 6pm PDT: The Breakup Blueprint: Compassionate Polyam Breakups w/ Lilith Foxx (ONLINE) NEW 10/3 6pm PDT: The Art & Science of Compersion with Marie Thouin (ONLINE) NEW 10/7 6pm PDT: Non-Escalator Relationships: Strategies and Challenges with Laura Boyle (ONLINE) NEW 11/6 6pm PDT: Anarchy! In Your Relationships with Laura Boyle (ONLINE) NEW 12/3 6pm PDT: Polyamory and Parenting with Laura Boyle (ONLINE) Self-knowledge, negotiation & consent 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) 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) NEW 9/25 6pm PDT: Mobility, Disability, and Kink with HG Wyndell (ONLINE) NEW 10/10 6pm PDT: Dealing with Drop with Miriam Green (ONLINE) NEW 10/24 6pm PDT: Beyond Taboo: Embracing Hidden Desires and Shedding Kink Shame with Lilith Foxx (ONLINE) NEW: 11/17 11am PDT: Edge Play: Pushing Limits with John Pendal (ONLINE) Community: Friends, dating, relationships & kink culture! NEW 9/7 11am PDT: Welcome to the Kink Scene with Miriam Green (ONLINE) NEW 9/11 7pm PDT: Wicked Grounds + Plura Present: Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty Ryan (SF) 9/15 2pm PDT: Erectile Artistry: Taking Delicious D*ck Pics with Lady V (ONLINE) NEW 9/18 6pm PDT: Playing Well with Others with Lee Harrington (ONLINE) 9/26 6pm PDT: The Breakup Blueprint: Compassionate Polyam Breakups w/ Lilith Foxx (ONLINE) NEW 10/5 Noon PDT: Welcome to the SF Bay Area Scene with Miriam Green (SF) NEW 10/5 2:30pm PDT: Negotiation Improv with Wiley Elote (SF) NEW 10/7 6pm PDT: Non-Escalator Relationships: Strategies and Challenges with Laura Boyle (ONLINE) NEW 10/23 6pm PDT: Breathing for Connection with HG Wyndell (ONLINE) NEW 11/5 6pm PDT: Tips for House Topping with Miriam Green (ONLINE) Life Stuff, wellness & adulting for kinksters 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) NEW 9/25 6pm PDT: Mobility, Disability, and Kink with HG Wyndell (ONLINE) Spirituality, Magick, and Occult (with Magickal Crossroads) 9/22 2pm PDT: Sex Magick for Kinksters with Miriam Green (ONLINE) NEW 10/23 6pm PDT: Breathing for Connection with HG Wyndell (ONLINE)

Howdy kinksters – Many folks are out at Burning Man this week, so it gets tranquil in the SF Bay Area this time of year. This week’s live class roster is seasonally quiet. However, back-to-school season is in full swing! We have two new video classes in the final stages of production and expect to have those for you this week. A fat new class roster will also go out for you this weekend – watch your posts! Want to go much deeper into your kink explorations? Join us 10/6 – 11/16 for Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires with Miriam Green [A 6-Week Online Intensive]. And, of course, we’re always available for one-on-one coaching and consulting. This week! Wednesday 9/4 In San Francisco? Join us at 7pm for the most fun you can have on a Wednesday night! Yep, it’s SpankLab with impossiblepain (and you’ll have Mir dropping in this week, too)! We meet at the Folsom Street Community Center. Get your advance tickets via Forbidden Tickets or Plura or take a chance on space-available tickets at the door. Saturday 9/7 Want to get involved in your local kink scene, but not sure where to start? We can help! Join Miriam Green online at 11am Pacific for Welcome to the Kink Scene. We’ll cover etiquette, culture, vetting, and what to expect for quality classes, munches, play parties and more! Get your advance 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)