Month: February 2025

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Hi all – I’m delighted to advise that we’ve added two new core classes to our suite of video classes for digital download at [WickedGroundsAnnex.com](https://wickedgroundsannex.com/). When we talk about the things your memberships make possible? These are the kinds of things we’re talking about. Having a regular budget to work toward for key software subscriptions, staffing and all the other things it takes to create new content? It’s a huge blessing and we truly couldn’t do it without you. If you’re a VIP member, these classes are available to do at no charge. Hang tight, and I’ll have discount codes viewable to folks at the VIP + level within the hour. **[Kink 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics](https://wickedgroundsannex.com/p/kink-101-bdsm-negotiation-basics-662766)** is the core soft skills class I’ve offered monthly for over ten years! This is where it all started. You’ll learn the basics of consent and negotiation, key negotiation questions for scenes, and even what’s going on in your brain that makes communicating during a scene more complex. **[Kink 201: Advanced Negotiation for Dynamics and Relationships](https://wickedgroundsannex.com/p/kink-201-advanced-negotiations-video-class)** builds on the basic negotiation skills and applies them to co-creating D/s and other kinky relationships that work. This class is designed for kinksters with a bit of experience, but will help anyone that wants to create and improve relationship dynamics. Do you prefer your classes live? **We’ve just added monthly, quarterly, and annual event passes to our [digital downloads](https://wickedgroundsannex.com/courses/)**! Those get you all-you-can-kink access to all ticketed Wicked Grounds events for a full calendar month (or more), and provide critical support to Wicked Grounds as we build out our future educational offerings. xoxo Mir & the Wicked Grounds team PS: Thanks again to every single member here for believing in us and making this type of production possible.

Howdy kinksters – If you are neurodivergent, love friends and partners who are, or just want to create more inclusive community, I hope you’ll join us for two special classes on neurodivergence and kink this weekend. Today, we host Consent, Accountability, and Neurodivergence with Adam and Draven and tomorrow we host Autism & Kink with London-based BDSM educator John Pendal. Oh, and if you’re in far northern California, make a trek out to Mendocino today! I’m hosting a coastal Mendocino county munch in the beautiful town of Mendocino today. You can find out more here. The rest of the week brings classes on sex magick, staples (!!!), switching, disabilities, and compassionate breakups. Whew! And then, it’s the biggest Leather weekend of the year. We hope to see you next Sunday at Wicked Grounds Booth at Folsom Street Fair — RSVP to let friends know you’re coming and get updates about what’s happening! As you may have already heard, we are going to have an epic sale of remaining books and gear in stock, as well as mystery bags to get the gear rehomed. Starting this winter, we’ll focus our sales on digital downloads and other educational products, so everything else must go! We will also have new gear from our friends at Rough Cut Leather on hand. Come check it all out and get some great bargains! We are now two 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 by Monday, 9/23! 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! 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. Our own Miriam Green will be hosting a Mendocino Munch today at noon. This isn’t a Wicked Grounds event, but you can definitely connect with information about the Ground there. Details here. 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. Monday 9/23 Want to learn an S/m technique that’s anything but run of the mill? Join Miss Mackenzee at 6pm Pacific for Staples 101. This beginner’s class is designed to introduce you to the safety precautions necessary when it comes to playing with piercing someone’s skin using medical staples. Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Tuesday 9/24 Why stick to one side of the slash when you can have both? Join Lee Harrington tonight at 6pm Pacific to learn about Strategies for Switching. Let’s look at switching, and see what notions we are ready to embrace, and which need to be switched around. Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Wednesday 9/25 Kink is for everyone! But whether it’s due to aging, injury, or disability, sometimes it can be a challenge to find the best strategies for all of our individual bodies. Join HG Wyndell to get some strategies at 6pm Pacific tonight in Mobility, Disability, and Kink. Let’s get together to talk about how we can continue to enjoy our best kinky lives when presented with mobility issues. Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. 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. Sunday 9/29 We hope to see you at Folsom Street Fair this Sunday! RSVP for our FetLife event to get any updates about where to find us! 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)

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Howdy kinksters – It’s Leather Month! Yay! Will you be in San Francisco for Folsom Street Fair? We’d love to see you! We’ve just created our FetLife listing for Wicked Grounds at Folsom Street Fair — RSVP to let friends know you’re coming, and get the booth location details as soon as we have them. We are winding down our retail operations so that we can fully focus on education, so we’ll be running a Wicked Grounds Garage Sale at Folsom and Dark Odyssey: Surrender this year. Swing by the booth for some exceptional deals on what’s left of our books and gear, and go learn all about our increasing educational resources. Speaking of which, we have lots of great events for you this week and this fall! If you’re interested in joining the fall cohort of our six-week intensive Diving Deep: Discovering and Voicing Your Erotic Desires please don’t wait too long. Space is limited, and with Folsom just weeks before our launch, our fall cohort always sells out. This week! 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. Monday 9/9 Interested in erotic hypnosis? Need some help with your hypnosis inductions? Join Hypnostory and PandaPet tonight at 6pm Pacific for an Induction Sampler. This online workshop will not be recorded, so you’ll only be able to catch it live. Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Tuesday 9/10 There are a lot of emotional and social reasons to be polyamorous. But there are some practical reasons too! Let’s explore them tonight in Monogamy? In this Economy? Polyamorous Cohabitation with Laura Boyle. Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Wednesday 9/11 In the San Francisco Bay Area? Want to meet a lot of potential new friends, play partners and possibly even romantic connections — fast? Join us for Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty. This collaboration between Wicked Grounds and Plura will get you meeting lots of potential new connections, which is always the best way to get involved in the local community for collaboration, connection and fun! Tickets available exclusively through Plura. 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. 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 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. 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)

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Howdy kinksters – In San Francisco and along the West Coast, it’s a weirdly foggy season. As we transition into the absolute middle of summer, this part of the coast embodies a paradox. (We’ll warm up again in the fall, usually just in time for Folsom Street Fair!) If you’re pondering your own version of “back to school,” we have you covered with a bevy of classes both online and in person. If you’re coming to classes in San Francisco, don’t forget to bring a hoodie! The start of a new month is also a great time to explore our August or annual class passes! Let’s look at what this week has in store. Events Roundup! Thursday, August 1 Join us online at 6pm Pacific for Hypnosis 101 with James Gordon and Rebecca Doll. Find out more and get tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Saturday, August 3 It’s first Saturday! Join us in San Francisco for Welcome to the SF Bay Area Kink Scene! This introduction to local kink culture, venues and organizations will give you everything you need to feel confident exploring the rich resources of the San Francisco kink scene. Starting this month, our local version of this class will happen only every other month, so be sure to get on it! Get your advance tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday, August 4 Join us online at 2pm Pacific for Gender Affirming Intimacy with Lady V & Jamie Love. Find out more and get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Tuesday, August 6 Are you a current house top who wants to improve your skills? Interested in house topping but not sure how to start? Perhaps you offer parties, and you’d like to offer house tops in a way that’s safe and fun for everyone! Join Miriam Green online tonight at 6pm Pacific for Tips for House Topping! We only offer this class about once per year, so get your tickets now! You can get those via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Wednesday, August 7 Animal Role Play can be a vehicle for stress relief, structure, joy, and more – but it can also be a powerful form of exploration and validation! Join us for Exploring Gender and Sexuality Through Animal Role Play with Wiley Wolfe at 6pm online to discover how to harness your inner creature through the lens of gender and sexuality. Advance ticketing required. Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. In San Francisco? Want to have the most fun you can have on a Wednesday night? Join impossiblepain for Wicked Grounds Presents: SpankLab! at the Folsom Street Community Center at 7pm. This hands-on playshop will start off with some basics of impact play, and then offers time for you to explore your own techniques in a safe, collaborative and exploratory environment. Let more and get your advance tickets via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. 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 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)

Hello lovely Patreon members – First, THANK YOU for being here. Paid Patreon members at all levels continue to keep our continued operations viable, and many of you directly contribute to our Scholarship tickets, which are deeply appreciated by all the students who use them and the teachers whose classes can provide these seats. Many of you know that our Patreon VIP+ level members get significant discounts on our classes for their support. They my classes for free, and classes from our other instructors for only $10, half off the lowest end of the sliding scale. If you’d like to increase your support and take advantage of these benefits and many others, now is a great time! If you bump up your support (or become a paid member at the VIP+ level), you’ll auto-magickally set the post with those discounts. xoxoxoxoxo Mir and the Wicked Grounds team