Month: February 2025

Hello kinksters – Some folks think kink is apolitical. By this point, it shouldn’t surprise you to find that I disagree. Eight years ago, when we still operated a cafe & boutique in San Francisco, we participated in the January 20th general strike by being a kind of Schrödinger’s cafe: open and closed at the same time. We felt committed to participating in the strike. At the same time, we knew that we provided a critical safe space for the community, and we couldn’t bear to have the doors closed. So, we did a little bit of both. Staffed by owners and previous owners, we gave out free “support coffees” all day and refused people’s money. In the afternoon, we held safety classes for folks planning for direct action in the coming weeks. That came in handy when we later sent snacks and other support to people at the San Francisco airport who were fighting sudden mass deportations. The fate of our communities matters. The safety of LGBTQ+ people and sexual adventurers matters. We are heading into uncertain times, and Wicked Grounds will continue to do our best to be a safe space, even virtually. I encourage you to find out more about the ​National Coalition for Sexual Freedom​. These folks do critical work to protect the rights of kinksters, polyamorous folks, and other sexual adventurers. I suspect their work will be more important in the coming years than ever before. ​TASHRA​ is also a fantastic resource in providing the research we need to assist and defend kink communities, and I am delighted to announce that we’ll be partnering with them to provide our first class from TASHRA researchers this week. See Saturday for details! Please take a look at all our upcoming events below for something to anchor us in community, and please be gentle with yourselves and kind to one another this week. Upcoming multi-week workshops to plan for! If you’d like to go deeply into the intersection of magick and power, join us in February and early March for Pentacles of Power: A Sex-Magick Intensive for Kinky People. ​Find more information and registration here.​If you need a scholarship seat, please reach out soon! We have three discounted tickets still available. Also, book before January 2 to use code BOXING for 20% off any ticket price at checkout. This week! Thursday 1/16 Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at noon Pacific. Late registration is available. ​Learn more and sign up here.​ Join us tonight online at 6pm Pacific for part two of Kink & Trauma with BearJew. Ticketing for the two-part workshop is available through ​Forbidden Tickets​ and ​Plura​. Friday 1/17 Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at 8am Pacific. Late registration is available. ​Learn more and sign up here.​ Saturday 1/18 Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at 9am Pacific. Today is the final day of late registration. ​Learn more and sign up here.​ Sunday 1/19 Join us online at 2pm Pacific for Daddy 101 with Sinclair Sexsmith! Details & ticketing through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Monday 1/20 Being able to voice and collaborate on what you want is critical to safe, healthy, and fun BDSM scenes. But most of us don’t come into the scene with these skills already. Join us for BDSM Negotiation Basics tonight at 6pm Pacific with Miriam Green and learn critical communication skills for before, during, and after kink scenes. Details & ticketing through ​Forbidden Tickets​ and ​Plura​. Tuesday 1/21 Want to learn some new beginner’s-level ties for rope bondage? Join Wicked Grounds and Psychokitty Ryan in San Francisco tonight for Getting Started with Rope: More Ties!. No previous experience required, although it’s helpful if you know single and double column ties. Class starts at 6:30pm in SOMA. Details & ticketing through ​Forbidden Tickets​ and ​Plura​. Wednesday 1/22 If you’re one of our kink-identified pagan and occult lovers, please check out tonight’s class at 6pm with HG Wyndell: Making Magical Marks: Sigils and Bindrunes. Learn these techniques in an environment where our sexual adventuring can be part of the discussion. Details & ticketing through ​Forbidden Tickets​ and ​Plura​. Thursday 1/23 If you struggle to get clear on what to ask for when negotiating, or how to get more fulfillment in relationships, please join Lilithfoxx tonight at 6pm Pacific for What Do I Really Want? Taking an Intimacy Inventory. You’ll learn how to get deeply in touch with your needs and desires. Details & ticketing through ​Forbidden Tickets​ and ​Plura​. Friday 1/24 No live classes today but check out ​WickedGroundsAnnex.com​ for a wide range of video classes and other digital downloads. Saturday 1/25 Consent and communication for kink varies somewhat based on our overall communication styles and strategies, and this can be different when we add in neurodivergence. Join us for one of two workshops exploring this today at 11am Pacific in Consent, Accountability, and Neurodivergence: Pt 1 with Draven and Adam.Participants can choose to participate in either workshop or both. Details & ticketing through ​Forbidden Tickets​ and ​Plura​. ​TASHRA​ is the world’s foremost healthcare research organization working to improve the physical and mental health of adults who engage in consensual and alternative sexual practices including kink, BDSM (bondage/discipline, domination/submission, sadism/masochism), and sexual fetishism. For over ten years, they have helped mental health and other practitioners gain access to grounded research about the issues affecting the kink community. Now, they are bringing some of that deep knowledge to kinksters everywhere in a set of workshops for the community. We hope you’ll join us at 2pm Pacific today for Kink, Flourishing, and Healing: Exploring the Transformative Power of Kink, our first online class partnering with TASHRA. Details & ticketing through ​Forbidden Tickets​ and ​Plura​. Sunday 1/26 Consent and communication for kink varies somewhat based on our overall communication styles and strategies, and this can be different when we add in neurodivergence. Join us for one of two workshops exploring this today at 11am Pacific in Consent, Accountability, and Neurodivergence: Pt 2 with Draven and Adam.Participants can choose to participate in either workshop or both. Details & ticketing through

Hello kinksters – I am very delighted to launch into this new year with you. Here in coastal northern California, I’m up well before the sunrise. It’s a big day: we launch our first live meeting of our second annual Month of Mindfulness today, I have a three-hour workshop that I’m attending as a student later today, and there’s a sense of budding energy all around. We’re also headed into the last two days of our big Boxing Day & New Year’s sale – and this will be the last big sale until we get to Pride season, so it’s a great time to lock in discounts on things like ​coaching​, courses, video classes, digital downloads, and even ​annual class passes​. Now through tomorrow at midnight, get 20% off all products and services at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.com​ and 20% off all January classes at ​Forbidden Tickets​ with code BOXING at checkout. We already have exciting classes planned throughout the last winter and spring for you, so let’s dive in and take a look at next week! Upcoming multi-week workshops to plan for! If you’d like to go deeply into the intersection of magick and power, join us in February and early March for Pentacles of Power: A Sex-Magick Intensive for Kinky People. ​Find more information and registration here.​If you need a scholarship seat, please reach out soon! We have three discounted tickets still available. Also, book before January 2 to use code BOXING for 20% off any ticket price at checkout. This week! Wednesday 1/1 It’s the first day of our Month of Mindfulness and we’ll have a live session and kickoff at 11am Pacific. ​Learn more and sign up here.​ Thursday 1/2 Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at noon Pacific. ​Learn more and sign up here.​ Friday 1/3 Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at 9am Pacific. ​Learn more and sign up here.​ Saturday 1/4 Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at 9am Pacific. ​Learn more and sign up here.​ Want to learn more about how to get involved in your own local kink scene? Join us for Welcome to the Scene at 11am Pacific online. Get your tickets from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday 1/5 Our Month of Mindfulness continues with our first weekly wrap-up meeting at 6pm Pacific. ​Learn more and sign up here.​ Monday 1/6 Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at 4pm Pacific. ​Learn more and sign up here.​ Join us in San Francisco at 7pm Pacific for a rare Monday session of SpankLab with impossiblepain. Learn the basics of impact play, or take your skills much further in this collaborative playshop from Wicked Grounds. We’ll start with a consent discussion and demo, then provide hands-on instruction and guidance throughout the evening. Get your advance tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Tuesday 1/7 Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at 12pm Pacific. ​Learn more and sign up here.​ Today is the last day for regular late registration pricing. Final registration will be available for one more week. Join us online tonight at 6pm Pacific for Advanced BDSM Negotiations for Dynamics and Relationships with Miriam Green. This class builds on what we know about negotiating for BDSM scenes and gets us thinking about how to mindfully and intentionally co-create D/s and other power exchange dynamics that really work. Advanced ticketing required. Get yours on ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Wednesday 1/8 Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at 7:30 am Pacific. ​Learn more and sign up here.​ In San Francisco? Want to meet more friends, allies, potential play partners and general rabble-rousers to hang out with this year? Join us in downtown San Francisco tonight at 7pm for Wicked Grounds + Plura Present: Kinky Speed Friending & Dating. Advanced ticketing available exclusively through Plura. ​Get yours here!​ Thursday 1/9 Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at noon Pacific. ​Learn more and sign up here.​ What is drop and why does it suck so hard?!!?! Join us online tonight at 6pm Pacific for Dealing with Drop with Miriam Green. We’ll get to understand the emotional and neurochemical dimensions of sub-drop, top-drop, and all the other flavors of drop and how to make them suck a little less. Advanced ticketing is required – get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday 1/10 Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at 7:30am Pacific. ​Learn more and sign up here.​ Saturday 1/11 Our Month of Mindfulness continues, however we will not have a live sit today. Please make use of the pre-recorded session or one of the live recorded sessions from earlier in the week. Join Jamie Joy online at 2pm Pacific for Living the Fantasy: A Guide to Erotic Role Play. Learn all the roles that might spicy up your year (and get a handle on the ones that aren’t right for you, too!) Advanced ticketing required. Get yours at ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. If you’re in San Francisco and curious about SF’s Leather Cultural District, they’ll be hosting one of their twice-yearly Town Halls at the Folsom Street Community Center from 2-5 Pacific today. If you attend the meeting, Mir will see you there! ​More details on the LCD site here.​ Sunday 1/12 Join Lady V online today at 11am Pacific for Get This Party Started! – Event Hosting & Community Organizing. This 201-level class will help you create the events, parties, and community-building you want in your own local communities. Advanced ticketing required. Get yours here on ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Are you in the San Francisco Bay Area? Join us at noon Pacific at Mukunda Studio in SOMA for Stripping 201 with Alexandria from Click Your Heels. We all have to take our clothes off – why not take your taking-off skills to the next level? Advanced ticketing available through ​Forbidden Tickets​ and ​Plura​. Previous experience not strictly required. Our Month of Mindfulness continues. Tonight we’re planning for a 6:30 pm Pacific start, since Mir will be hosting after a drive back from San Francisco. ​Learn more and sign up here.​ Support. Follow. Share. Join our

Hello kinksters – A lot is going on in the world right now. It feels more important to me than ever that we keep connecting with our values, our resources, and our community. This week, our hearts especially go out to our friends and community in southern California battling the LA area fires. If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, I’d like to encourage you to come out this weekend and connect with your​Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District​ – the world’s first city-recognized cultural district formed to recognize and support kink and leather community. The district will be hosting a town hall on Saturday, January 11 from 2-5 pm at the Folsom Street Community Center, and the entire community is welcomed and encouraged to attend. You do not need to be a current member of the district. ​Details & more information here.​ If you’re not in the SF Bay Area, I’d love to encourage you to find out more about the ​National Coalition for Sexual Freedom​. These folks do critical work to protect the rights of kinksters, polyamorous folks, and other sexual adventurers. I suspect their work will be more important in the coming years than ever before. And of course we have a lot going on in the next week or so. Let’s take a look, shall we? Upcoming multi-week workshops to plan for! If you’d like to go deeply into the intersection of magick and power, join us in February and early March for Pentacles of Power: A Sex-Magick Intensive for Kinky People. ​Find more information and registration here.​If you need a scholarship seat, please reach out soon! We have three discounted tickets still available. Also, book before January 2 to use code BOXING for 20% off any ticket price at checkout. This week! Thursday 1/9 Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at noon Pacific. Late registration is available. ​Learn more and sign up here.​ What is drop and why does it suck so hard?!!?! Join us online tonight at 6pm Pacific for Dealing with Drop with Miriam Green. We’ll get to understand the emotional and neurochemical dimensions of sub-drop, top-drop, and all the other flavors of drop and how to make them suck a little less. Advanced ticketing is required – get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday 1/10 Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at 7:30am Pacific. Late registration is available. ​Learn more and sign up here.​ Saturday 1/11 Our Month of Mindfulness continues, however we will not have a live sit today. Please make use of the pre-recorded session or one of the live recorded sessions from earlier in the week. Join Jamie Joy online at 2pm Pacific for Living the Fantasy: A Guide to Erotic Role Play. Learn all the roles that might spicy up your year (and get a handle on the ones that aren’t right for you, too!) Advanced ticketing required. Get yours at ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. If you’re in San Francisco and curious about SF’s Leather Cultural District, they’ll be hosting one of their twice-yearly Town Halls at the Folsom Street Community Center from 2-5 Pacific today. If you attend the meeting, Mir will see you there! ​More details on the LCD site here.​ Sunday 1/12 Join Lady V online today at 11am Pacific for Get This Party Started! – Event Hosting & Community Organizing. This 201-level class will help you create the events, parties, and community-building you want in your own local communities. Advanced ticketing required. Get yours here on ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Are you in the San Francisco Bay Area? Join us at noon Pacific at Mukunda Studio in SOMA for Stripping 201 with Alexandria from Click Your Heels. We all have to take our clothes off – why not take your taking-off skills to the next level? Advanced ticketing available through ​Forbidden Tickets​ and ​Plura​. Previous experience not strictly required. Our Month of Mindfulness continues. Late registration is available. Tonight we’re planning for a 6:30 pm Pacific start, since Mir will be hosting after a drive back from San Francisco. ​Learn more and sign up here.​ Monday 1/13 Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at 8am Pacific. Late registration is available. ​Learn more and sign up here.​ Join us online at 6pm Pacific for When No Means Yes: Exploring Consensual Non-Consent with Jamie Joy. If you’re curious about CNC and how to explore it safely, you’ll want to be part of this class. Get advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Tuesday 1/14 Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at noon Pacific. Late registration is available. ​Learn more and sign up here.​ Wednesday 1/15 Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at 8am Pacific. Late registration is available. ​Learn more and sign up here.​ Join us tonight online at 6pm Pacific for part one of Kink & Trauma with BearJew. This is a two-part series that will continue tomorrow night. Ticketing for the two-part workshop is available through ​Forbidden Tickets​ and ​Plura​. Thursday 1/16 Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at noon Pacific. Late registration is available. ​Learn more and sign up here.​ Join us tonight online at 6pm Pacific for part two of Kink & Trauma with BearJew. Ticketing for the two-part workshop is available through ​Forbidden Tickets​ and ​Plura​. Friday 1/17 Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at 8am Pacific. Late registration is available. ​Learn more and sign up here.​ Saturday 1/18 Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at 9am Pacific. Today is the final day of late registration. ​Learn more and sign up here.​ Sunday 1/19 Join us online at 2pm Pacific for Daddy 101 with Sinclair Sexsmith! Details & ticketing through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at 6pm Pacific. Support. Follow. Share. Join our ​Patreon​ for personal benefits and to stabilize our long-term trajectory. Annual memberships now available! Book ​with us​ for coaching and consulting time with Mir. Use our ​Venmo​ for one-time donations toward our sustainability, and to help specifically with scholarship tickets. Warmly, Mir & The Wicked

Hello kinksters – Brightest blessings on your new year! It’s a little bit quiet this weekend, but we have a wide range of classes for you in the new year. This week, get 20% off all products and services at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.com​ and 20% off all January classes at ​Forbidden Tickets​ with code BOXING at checkout! You can use the sale for discounts on ​coaching​, courses, video classes, digital downloads, and even ​annual class passes​! Whee! And don’t forget to join us next week or a full Month of Mindfulness with daily meditation sessions, journaling, habit-building and more with a focus on making more space for kinky, queer, and other sex-positive folks. ​Learn more and sign up with our sliding scale here​ and don’t forget to use code BOXING at checkout for your discount. Upcoming multi-week workshops to plan for! If you’d like to go deeply into the intersection of magick and power, join us in February and early March for Pentacles of Power: A Sex-Magick Intensive for Kinky People. ​Find more information and registration here.​ This week! We won’t have any live classes till the new year, but you may find several digital download classes at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.com​, including Diving Deep, Private Joy, BDSM Negotiation Basics, and Advanced Negotiations for Relationships & Dynamics. You can get 20% off all of these downloads this week with code BOXING at checkout. Wednesday 1/1 It’s the first day of our Month of Mindfulness and we’ll have a live session and kickoff at 11am Pacific. ​Learn more and sign up here.​ Thursday 1/2 Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at noon Pacific. ​Learn more and sign up here.​ Friday 1/3 Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at 9am Pacific. ​Learn more and sign up here.​ Saturday 1/4 Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at 9am Pacific. ​Learn more and sign up here.​ Want to learn more about how to get involved in your own local kink scene? Join us for Welcome to the Scene at 11am Pacific online. Get your tickets from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday 1/5 Our Month of Mindfulness continues with our first weekly wrap-up meeting at 6pm Pacific. ​Learn more and sign up here.​ Monday 1/6 Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at 4pm Pacific. ​Learn more and sign up here.​ Join us in San Francisco at 7pm Pacific for a rare Monday session of SpankLab with impossiblepain. Learn the basics of impact play, or take your skills much further in this collaborative playshop from Wicked Grounds. We’ll start with a consent discussion and demo, then provide hands-on instruction and guidance throughout the evening. 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! Book ​with us​ for coaching and consulting time with Mir. Use our ​Venmo​ for one-time donations toward our sustainability, and to help specifically with scholarship tickets. Happy New Year!!! 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​)

Hello kinksters – We are rapidly approaching the closing of the year! The longest night of the year is tomorrow night, and I hope you’ll spend it in a way that feels special. We’re down to just one workshop this year – my sex magick intro class on Sunday, 12/22. If you’re looking for a great last-minute gift for a treasured someone, consider the gift that’s both naughty and nice: a Wicked Grounds class pass! We have passes available for ​January​, ​January – March​ and even the ​full year of 2025​! I love to use this time of year to look back and look forward. I’m delighted to bring back our ​Kink Year in Review Journal​ to help you do the same. This is a limited-time digital download, and we’ll offer it through January. I also want to encourage you to help keep your favorite kink education business sustainable in the new year by helping us help others! At this time of year, it’s critical that we fill the coffers for our no-questions-asked workshop scholarships. Our scholarship program has helped kinksters get critical access to information on safe, consensual, and respectful play – and that helps all of us. Investing in our scholarships is an investment in creating the kind of community you want. If you have a few dollars to spare, it would make a HUGE difference to us closing out the year strong. Here’s how to help: Join our ​Patreon​ for either scholarship donations or personal benefits and to stabilize our long-term trajectory. Annual memberships now available! Make one-time contributions using Zelle (Mir@WickedGrounds), ​PayPal​, or ​Venmo​. Upcoming multi-week workshops to plan for! Join us in January for a full Month of Mindfulness with daily meditation sessions, journaling, habit-building and more with a focus on making more space for kinky, queer, and other sex-positive folks. ​Learn more and sign up with our sliding scale here, at rates starting at low as $1/day.​ If you’d like to go deeply into the intersection of magick and power, join us in February and early March for Pentacles of Power: A Sex-Magick Intensive for Kinky People. ​Find more information and registration here.​ This week! Saturday 12/22 Curious about sex magick? Interested in potentially joining our ​spring intensive,​ but want to learn more first? Join Miriam BatAsherah Green at 2pm Pacific online for Sex Magick for Kinksters. We’ll explore some quick foundations of what sex magick means and why people do it, along with a few very specific techniques and ideas that kinksters can leverage to jump to the head of the class. Advanced ticketing is required. Get yours from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Support. Follow. Share. Join our ​Patreon​ for personal benefits and to stabilize our long-term trajectory. Annual memberships now available! Book ​with us​ for coaching and consulting time with Mir. Use our ​Venmo​ for one-time donations toward our sustainability, and to help specifically with scholarship tickets. 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! If your new years resolution is to go a lot deeper with kink, we’ve got you covered! Want to take a lot of classes? ​Get a monthly or annual event pass!​ Our December and December – February quarterly passes have just been loaded! 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 ​Wicked Grounds’ Month of Mindfulness​ (ONLINE all of January 2025) ​Pentacles of Power: A Six-Week Sex Magick Intensive​ (ONLINE Feb 2 – March 16, 2025) S/m & the physical side of play NEW 1/6 7pm PST: ​Wicked Grounds Presents: SpankLab! with impossiblepain​ (San Francisco, CA) 1/25 6pm PST: ​Beginner Sharps Play: Staples Edition with Miss Mackenzee​ (ONLINE) NEW 2/18 6:30 PST: ​Fetish Games with Psychokitty​ (San Francisco, CA) NEW 2/23 11am PST: ​Bootblacking 101 with Lady V​ (ONLINE) NEW 2/24 6pm PST: ​Flogging With Style: From Basics to Brilliance with Miss Mackenzee​ (ONLINE) NEW 2/27 6pm PST: ​Featherlight: Neurodivergent-Friendly Sensation Play with Lillith Foxx​ (ONLINE) Bondage More to come soon! Stay tuned! D/s, role play & the mental side of play 12/16 6pm PST: ​Exploring Little Space: A Caregiver’s Guide with Miss Mackenzee​ (ONLINE) 1/7 6pm PST: ​KINK 201: Advanced BDSM Negotiations – Relationships & Dynamics with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) NEW 1/11 2pm PST: ​Living the Fantasy: A Guide to Erotic Role Play with Jamie Joy​ (ONLINE) NEW 1/13 6pm PST: ​When No Means Yes: Exploring Consensual Non-Consent with Jamie Joy​ (ONLINE) 1/18 2pm PST: ​Daddy 101 with Sinclair Sexsmith​ (ONLINE) NEW 1/28 6pm PST: ​Playing with Fear: Empowered Navigation of Thrills and RIsks with vahavta​ (ONLINE) NEW 1/30 6pm PST: ​Bratting Beyond Make Me: Navigating Misconceptions and Embracing the Brat with Princess Rara​ (ONLINE) NEW 2/9 11am PST: ​Age Play through the Lens of Compassion with Draven​ (ONLINE) NEW 2/23 11am PDT: ​Age Play through the Lens of Consent with Draven​ (ONLINE) NEW 3/6 6pm PST: ​Bottom, Why?! A Conscious Discussion of Why We Bottoms Do the Things We Do with BearJew​ (ONLINE) NEW 3/9 11am PST: ​Age Play through the Lens of Care and Caution with Draven​ (ONLINE) Movement workshops NEW 2/2 2pm PST: ​Lap Dancing 101 Alexandria​ (San Francisco, CA) Sexy Times 12/19 6pm PST: ​Pleasure Mapping for Couples: Discovering New Pathways to Intimacy with Lilith Foxx​ (ONLINE) NEW 1/11 2pm PST: ​Living the Fantasy: A Guide to Erotic Role Play with Jamie Joy​ (ONLINE) NEW 2/2 2pm PST: ​Lap Dancing 101 Alexandria​ (San Francisco, CA) NEW 2/6 and 2/13 6pm PST: ​Writing Spicy: A Two-Part Workshop with Sinclair Sexsmith​ (ONLINE) Polyamory & ethical non-monogamy NEW 2/25 6pm PST: ​Polyamory and Power Exchange Relationships with Laura Boyle​ (ONLINE) Self-knowledge, negotiation & consent 12/18 6pm PST: ​Close the Doors You Open: Rituals for Endings and Transitions with HG Wyndell​ (ONLINE) 1/7 6pm PST: ​KINK 201: Advanced BDSM Negotiations – Relationships & Dynamics with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) 1/9 6pm PST: ​Dealing with Drop with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) NEW 1/13 6pm PST: ​When No Means Yes: Exploring Consensual Non-Consent with Jamie Joy​ (ONLINE) 1/15 & 1/16 6pm PST: ​Kink & Trauma: a two-part workshop with BearJew​ (ONLINE) 1/20 6pm PST: ​KINK 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) NEW 1/23 6pm PST: ​What Do I Really Want? Taking an Intimacy Inventory With Lilith Foxx​ (ONLINE) NEW 1/25 11am PST: ​Consent, Accountability, and Neurodivergence: Pt 1​ (ONLINE) NEW 1/26 11am PST: ​Consent, Accountability, and Neurodivergence: Pt 2​ (ONLINE) NEW 2/1 2:30pm PST: ​Negotiation Improv with Wiley Elote​ (San Francisco, CA) NEW 2/2 11:30am PST: ​Submissives in Solidarity​ (San Francisco, CA) NEW 2/4 6pm PST: ​Cellaring: Refining Your Skills as an Older Kinkster with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) NEW 2/8 11am PST: ​From Harm to Healing: A Guide to Community Accountability with Adam and Ash of Consent Academy​ (ONLINE) NEW 2/16 11am PST: ​Autism & Kink with John Pendal​ (ONLINE) NEW 3/17 6pm PST: ​KINK 101: Negotiation Basics with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) Community: Friends, dating, relationships & kink culture! 1/4 11am PST: ​Welcome to the Public Kink Scene! with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) 1/8 7pm PST: ​Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty​ (SF) NEW 1/12 11am PST: ​Get This Party Started! – Event Hosting & Community Organizing with Lady V​ (ONLINE) 2/1 Noon PST: ​Welcome to the SF Bay Area Scene​ (ONLINE) NEW 2/8 11am PST: ​From Harm to Healing: A Guide to Community Accountability with Adam and Ash of Consent Academy​ (ONLINE) NEW 2/12 7pm PST: ​Wicked Grounds + Plura Present: Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty​ (San Francisco, CA) NEW 3/12 7pm PST: ​Wicked Grounds + Plura Present: Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty​ (San Francisco, CA) Spirituality, Magick, and Occult (with Magickal Crossroads) 12/18 6pm PST: ​Close the Doors You Open: Rituals for Endings and Transitions with HG Wyndell​ (ONLINE) 12/22 2pm PST: ​Sex Magick for Kinksters with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) 1/22 6pm PST: ​Making Magical Marks: Sigils and Bindrunes with HG Wyndell​ (ONLINE) NEW 2/26 6pm PST: ​Spicy Tarot with HG Wyndell​ (ONLINE) ​Wicked Grounds’ Month of Mindfulness​ (ONLINE all of January 2025) ​Pentacles of Power: A Six-Week Sex Magick Intensive​ (ONLINE Feb 2 – March 16, 2025) 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)​ ​Kink Self-Discovery Workbook (self-directed template)​ ​Aftercare Kit Checklist

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Hello kinksters – We’re excited to be heading into the first weekend of the month! If you’re in San Francisco, check out some of our many in-person classes over the weekend. I’m also personally excited because our friends at Twisted Windows have a show this weekend in Oakland! You’ve probably heard me recommend their work before — they do high-end performance art related to bondage and kink. Twisted Windows features a signature blend of exquisitely erotic, sensually subversive, and distinctly daring queer performance art. I’ve often said it’s like going to the ballet, but for kinksters! If you’d like to check out their Saturday show Till Death Do Us Part, use this link for tickets and use promo code CHURCH for a $10 discount on your ticket. Mir will see you there! It is extremely rare to be able to get last-minute tickets to a show like this, so jump on it! Upcoming multi-week workshops to plan for! Join us in January for a full Month of Mindfulness with daily meditation sessions, journaling, habit-building and more with a focus on making more space for kinky, queer, and other sex-positive folks. Learn more and sign up with our sliding scale here, at rates starting at low as $1/day.​ If you’d like to go deeply into the intersection of magick and power, join us in February and early March for Pentacles of Power: A Sex-Magick Intensive for Kinky People. Find more information and registration here.​ This week! Saturday 12/7 In the San Francisco Bay Area? Want to learn more about how to get involved in the many aspects of our own unique public scene! Join Miriam Green at noon to learn more in Welcome to the SF Bay Area Kink Scene, at our offices near 5th & Mission in San Francisco. Advance ticketing strongly recommended! Get yours at Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Not in San Francisco? Wish you had something like this for your own part of the world? We are here to help! On Saturday, January 4th at 11am Pacific you can join Mir from anywhere online to learn the basics of getting involved and even creating parts of a local scene anywhere. Get tickets at Forbidden Tickets. Join us in San Francisco at 2:30 pm for the most fun you can have learning negotiation skills. Join Wiley Elote for Negotiation Improv! It’s part speed friending, part negotiation workshop, and part improv skills for learning more confidence in communicating your needs. There’s nothing else quite like it. Ticketing: Forbidden Tickets or Plura. And we hope to see you tonight in Oakland for Twisted Windows: Till Death Do Us Part! If you’d like to get tickets, use this link and apply promo code CHURCH for a $10 discount. Sunday 12/8 In San Francisco? Identify as a bottom, submissive, or other s-type? Join us at Mukunda Studio near Folsom and 8th Street for Submissives in Solidarity, a submissive-centered discussion group hosted by Wicked Grounds’ Miriam Green. Ticketing: Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Want to get in your body and learn some sexy moves? Join Alexandria from Click Your Heels for Stripping 101! Learn everything you need to know to make taking off your clothes sexy and fun. While you’re at it, be sure to ask Alexandria about body confidence coaching! Ticketing: Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Monday 12/9 Wearing a strap-on is one thing. Embodying it is another! Join us at 6pm Pacific for Make It Yours: Embodying Your Strap On with Sinclair Sexsmith to learn everything you truly need to know to take your toys to the next level. Advance ticketing is available through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Wednesday 12/11 If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, join us at 7pm downtown for Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty and make some new friends! Advance ticketing is available exclusively through Plura. Saturday 12/14 It’s time to learn the ropes, and this time you don’t need to be in the Bay Area to do it! Join Jamie Joy online at 2pm Pacific for Entangled Desires: Exploring Rope for Sex and Intimacy. Advance ticketing is required. Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday 12/15 Want to learn something new and fun for pet play? Just like getting your farmer on? Well, then! Get a moooooooove on and get your tickets for Holy Cow! – Intro to Hucow & Bovine Play w/ Lady V! This online class meets at 2pm Pacific today. Get those tickets at Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Support. Follow. Share. Join our Patreon for personal benefits and to stabilize our long-term trajectory. Annual memberships now available! Book with us for coaching and consulting time with Mir. Use our Venmo for one-time donations toward our sustainability, and to help specifically with scholarship tickets. ​ Warmly,Mir & The Wicked Grounds Team

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Hello kinksters – As we come into the last few weeks of the year, it’s a great time to think a bit about resolutions. What do you want to explore in the coming year? How do you want to take care of yourself? What new play do you have to look forward to? As always, we’ll be here to help. From ​coaching​ to ​classes​, from hands-on playshops to multi-week intensives, we’re delighted to be part of your journey. Upcoming multi-week workshops to plan for! Join us in January for a full Month of Mindfulness with daily meditation sessions, journaling, habit-building and more with a focus on making more space for kinky, queer, and other sex-positive folks. ​Learn more and sign up with our sliding scale here, at rates starting at low as $1/day.​ If you’d like to go deeply into the intersection of magick and power, join us in February and early March for Pentacles of Power: A Sex-Magick Intensive for Kinky People. ​Find more information and registration here.​ This week! Saturday 12/14 It’s time to learn the ropes, and this time you don’t need to be in the Bay Area to do it! Join Jamie Joy online at 2pm Pacific for Entangled Desires: Exploring Rope for Sex and Intimacy. Advance ticketing required. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday 12/15 Want to learn something new and fun for pet play? Just like getting your farmer on? Well, then! Get a moooooooove on and get your tickets for Holy Cow! – Intro to Hucow & Bovine Play w/ Lady V! This online class meets at 2pm Pacific today. Get those tickets at ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Monday 12/16 Want to celebrate the joys of little’s play as a caregiver? Join Miss Mackenzee online at 6pm for Exploring Little Space: A Caregiver’s Guide! By the end of our time together, you’ll be well-equipped with the terminology and understanding necessary to flourish in this truly special partnership. Advanced ticketing is required. Get yours from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Wednesday 12/18 Ending come for all of is. Whether you’re interested for spiritual or relationship purposes, all who are interested in ritual are warmly welcomed to join HG Wynedell in an online class at 6pm from Wicked Grounds + Magickal Crossroads: Close the Doors You Open: Rituals for Endings and Transitions. We explore tools for energetic closure, and endings, of exploring our new normal. Advanced ticketing is required. Get yours from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Thursday 12/19 The first step to really negotiating is figuring out what you want! When you’re in a committed relationship that also means figuring out what fits with that relationship. Whether you’re looking to reignite the spark or explore uncharted territory, tonight’s class with Lilithfoxx offers practical tools and techniques to enhance your relationship and bring more joy and satisfaction into your intimate life. Join us online at 6pm Pacific for Pleasure Mapping for Couples: Discovering New Pathways to Intimacy. Advanced ticketing is required. Get yours from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Saturday 12/22 Curious about sex magick? Interested in potentially joining our ​spring intensive,​ but want to learn more first? Join Miriam BatAsherah Green at 2pm Pacific online for Sex Magick for Kinksters. We’ll explore some quick foundations of what sex magick means and why people do it, along with a few very specific techniques and ideas that kinksters can leverage to jump to the head of the class. Advanced ticketing is required. Get yours from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Support. Follow. Share. Join our ​Patreon​ for personal benefits and to stabilize our long-term trajectory. Annual memberships now available! Book ​with us​ for coaching and consulting time with Mir. Use our ​Venmo​ for one-time donations toward our sustainability, and to help specifically with scholarship tickets. 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​)