Month: February 2025

Hello Kinksters – Spring is in the air, and here at WG headquarters, we’re hard at work creating new classes, events, and fun for you both in San Francisco and online. The theme of our week is integrating our kink identities into everything we do, and using our life and wellness tools to improve our kink lives. We’re offering a flexibility and stretching class for kinksters in San Francisco, an online tarot class to help negotiate your scenes, and several classes to integrate kink techniques. Read on for more! I’m thinking a lot this week about mastery. It’s one thing to know intellectually what to do, but that doesn’t build our skills. We need practice, we need to get creative, and we need to measure what works and what doesn’t. I’m particularly excited about our suite of San Francisco playshops — like last night’s Wicked Rope Jam or this week’s SpankLab — as laboratories in which we can safely build our skills, experiment, get feedback, and continually improve our skills in a supportive and fun environment. Look for us to bring more of these types of experimental skills labs to kinksters everywhere online this summer! We can only continue to build everything we do with your active and ongoing support. Wicked Grounds VIP members get free and discounted classes, significant discounts on multi-week courses, discounts and free shipping on gear, and much more. Take a moment to join — or review your membership — today! Read on for an update on this week’s events! Events Roundup! Sunday, March 10 Flexibility is critical to top & bottom effectively. What if you had a stretching & movement class where you could really talk about YOUR specific needs? Now you can! THIS Sunday at 2pm, join us in SF for Flexibility 4 Life. Details & ticketing here. Wednesday, March 13 Looking for more inspiration for kink scenes? New ways to co-create and communicate when negotiating? Maybe what you need is an unexpected new tool. Join kink-aware witch Diana Rajchel as she explores Tarot for Kinky Folks in our online class this Wednesday at 6pm Pacific. Whether you’re an experienced tarot reader or new to the cards, you’ll learn practical tips and tricks for using these as a creative-thinking tool for negotiations. Details & ticketing here. In San Francisco? Want to get hands-on experience topping or bottoming for impact play? Join us for SpankLab — a monthly impact play laboratory where you can learn the basics of impact play, and refine your skills over time with practice, experimentation, feedback and continual improvement. Our monthly group includes everyone from complete newbies to experienced players, coming together with one goal: to build mastery of impact play techniques through experimentation, feedback, and continual improvement. Join us at 7pm in San Francisco! Details & ticketing here. Thursday, March 14 Interested in electro play? Want to get more out of your violet wand? Join us online Thursday at 6pm Pacific for First Contact: Electro with Body Contact Cables with Carmen Pandiego. We’ll talk about Carmen’s favorite violet wand attachment – the body contact cable – and how it can be used for delicate, sensual play; cruel, sadistic play; medical; sexual; and almost everything in between. Details & ticketing here. Saturday, March 16 Interested in exploring erotic hypnosis? Join us online at 2pm this Saturday for This Mind Intentionally Left Blank with HypnoStory & PandaPet. In this combination of lecture and demo, HypnoStory and PandaPet share how to create the state of blankness and the fun (and hot) ways they can be manipulated. Details & ticketing here. Support. Follow. Share. We could really use your help with our fundraiser to retire the old cafe debt. Learn more and contribute here. Want to invest in your kink education? Join our new class pass program here! 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. Follow us on Bloom – the social app by sex positive folks for sex positive folks. Book with us for coaching and consulting time with Mir or to explore our new multi session courses! 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)

Hi there!  Are you on Submit.gg, the new social network for the BDSM, Fetish, & Kinky community?  If you are, take a moment to join the brand new Wicked Grounds group, which we launched today. I’ve started putting a few posts there, but there’s a big ole’ echo because the group is empty.  https://submit.gg/groups/wicked-grounds And heck, if you haven’t done it already you can find our groups on some other social networks:  – FetLife: https://fetlife.com/groups/6892 – Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wickedgrounds We’d love to see you over there!  xoxo Mir 

Yes, we’re already updating the roster. That’s how many new classes we’re bringing on board for this spring! Our Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires six-week intensive launches this weekend. Your course includes weekly self-directed lessons and homework, two live group sessions, and one or more individual coaching sessions with Miriam Green. If you’re interested, sign up now — we start on Saturday, Feb 17th! Wicked Grounds released a new video class for digital download this week! Private Joy: Sadomasochism for Solo & Distance Play can now be purchased and downloaded here for you to take any time at your own convenience. Need personal coaching & guidance? You can always reach out for consulting at WickedGroundsAnnex.com The Roundup! Multi-week Intensives 2/17 – 3/30/24: Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires [a six-week intensive with coaching] (ONLINE SIX WEEKS) Tentative June: Kink Class Incubator Summer 2024 Cohort Tentative October: Diving Deep Fall 2024 Cohort Ongoing Ongoing daily: Wicked Grounds’ Adventures in Daily Kink Journaling (ONLINE – via email) Join at any time! Private consulting & coaching with Miriam Green. Book Mir’s brain by the hour. Ongoing monthly: Group Consulting: Daily Practice Accountability Group Join at any time! Self-Directed Digital Downloads Diving Deep (video class) Private Joy: Sadomasochism for Solo & Distance Play (video class) Kink Self-Discovery Workbook (self-directed template) S/m & the physical side of play 2/20 2pm PST: Caning: From Sensual to Sadistic w/ Miriam Green and impossiblepain (SF) NEW: 3/13 7pm PDT: Wicked Grounds Presents: SpankLab (SF) NEW: 3/14 6pm PDT: First Contact: Electro With Body Contact Cables w/ Carmen PanDiego (ONLINE) 3/25 6pm PDT: Needle Play 101: Easy with Those Pricks w/ Miss Mackenzee (ONLINE) NEW: 4/9 7pm PDT: FlogLab w/ Reika Minxie (SF) NEW: 4/10 7pm PST: Wicked Grounds Presents: SpankLab (SF) Bondage & Fetish 3/6 7pm PST: SF Rope Bite (SF) 3/7 7pm PST: Wicked Rope Jam (SF) Sexy times 2/26 6pm PST: Love What You Do: Oral Pleasure for Cocks w/ Miss Mackenzee (ONLINE) D/s & the mental side of play 2/20 6:30pm PST: Improv for Naughty Play with Psychokitty Ryan (SF) 2/28 6pm PST: Invisible Toolbox with HG Wyndell (ONLINE) 3/7 6pm PST: Petplay Primer with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) 3/21 6pm PDT: CTRL: Online Submission with d20domme (ONLINE) 3/27 6pm PDT: Creating Containers for Kink w/ HG Wyndell (ONLINE) NEW: 4/2 6pm PDT: Advanced BDSM Negotiations – Relationships, Dynamics & Contracts w/ Miriam Green (ONLINE) 4/9 6pm PDT: Sir! No, Sir! Saying No In D/s Dynamics with Ev Evnen (ONLINE) NEW: 4/16 6:30pm PDT: Setting the Scene with Psychokitty Ryan (SF) 4/22 6pm PDT: The Art of Tease and Denial with Miss Mackenzee (ONLINE) Erotic Hypnosis 2/25 2pm PST: Erotic Hypnosis- Fun Games and Dirty Tricks with HypnoStory and PandaPet (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings!) 3/16 2pm PDT: This Mind Intentionally Left Blank with HypnoStory & PandaPet (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings!) 4/17 6pm PDT: Drop “For Me”- Dominance, Submission and Hypnosis with HypnoStory and PandaPet (ONLINE) Polyamory & ethical non-monogamy 2/17 2pm PST: The POC Polyamorist w/ d20domme (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings) NEW: 4/9 6pm PDT: Polyamory 101 w/ Laura Boyle of Ready for Polyamory (ONLINE) NEW: 5/6 6pm PDT: Relationship Anarchy Applied with Laura Boyle of Ready for Polyamory (ONLINE) Self-knowledge, negotiation & consent 2/18 2pm PST: Cellaring: Refining Your Skills as an Older Kinkster with Miriam Green (SF & ONLINE – EMEA Friendly Timings) 2/19 7pm PST: Kink 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics w/ Miriam Green (SF & ONLINE) 2/25 11am PST: Autism & Kink w/ John Pendal (ONLINE. This class tends to sell out – we recommend getting tickets early.) 2/27 6pm PST: Your Year in Kink with Sinclair Sexsmith (ONLINE) 2/29 6pm PST: Disability, Chronic Pain, and BDSM with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) 3/2 2:30pm PST: Negotiation Improv with Wiley (SF) 3/5 6pm PST: Looking Over the Cliff with Ev Evnen and Lauren DeRusha (ONLINE) 3/18 6pm PDT: Kink 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics w/ Miriam Green (ONLINE) 3/23 2pm PDT: From Gender Dysphoria to Gender Euphoria with Lee Harrington (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings!) 3/26 6pm PDT: Writing Spicy with Sinclair Sexsmith (ONLINE) 4/3 6pm PDT: Demystifying Asexuality with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) 4/6 2:30pm PDT: Negotiation Improv with Wiley (SF) NEW: 4/15 6pm PDT: Kink 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics w/ Miriam Green (ONLINE) 4/24 6pm PDT: Ritual to Explore and Honor Our Boundaries with HG Wyndell (ONLINE) Community: Friends, dating, relationships & kink culture! 3/2 Noon PST: Welcome to the SF Bay Area Scene with Miriam Green (SF) 4/3 6pm PDT: Demystifying Asexuality with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) 4/6 Noon PDT: Welcome to the SF Bay Area Scene with Miriam Green (SF) 4/23 6pm PDT: The Sexual Politics of Kink with Sinclair Sexsmith (ONLINE) Polyamory & Ethical Non-Monogamy 2/17 2pm PST: The POC Polyamorist w/ d20domme (ONLINE – EMEA Friendly Timings!) 4/12 6pm PDT: MonoPoly: Passing Go with d20domme (ONLINE) Life Stuff, wellness & adulting for kinksters 2/29 6pm PST: Disability, Chronic Pain, and BDSM with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) 3/10 2pm PDT: Flexibility 4 Life with Click Your Heels (SF) 3/19 7pm PDT: The Dapper Guide for the New Gentleman with Psychokitty Ryan (SF & ONLINE) 4/14 11am – 5pm PDT: Adult First Aid/CPR/AED plus Bloodborne Pathogens Certification with Puppy Dog (SF) Magick & Occult (with Magickal Crossroads) 2/28 6pm PST: Invisible Toolbox (ONLINE) 3/13 6pm PDT: Tarot for Kinky Folks – Using Cards to Negotiate Scenes with Diana Rajchel (ONLINE) 3/24 2pm PDT: Sex Magick for Kinksters w/ Miriam BatAsherah Green (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings!) 4/10 6pm PDT: Inner Spring Cleaning with Energy Work with Diana Rajchel (ONLINE) 5/22 6pm PDT: Spicy Tarot with HG Wyndell (ONLINE) 4/24 6pm PDT: Ritual to Explore and Honor Our Boundaries with HG Wyndell (ONLINE) July – August 2024: All the Kabbalah You Really Need to Know (ONLINE SIX WEEKS)

Hello Kinksters – Our latest six-week intensive of Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Erotic Desires begins on Saturday, Feb 17th. It’s not too late to join us! Get your spot for this six-week workshop here. I’m delighted to announce that Wicked Grounds has released our latest video class for digital download. Private Joy is an exploration of sadomasochistic play for solo kinksters and folks in long-distance relationships. Get your copy of this new online class here. And a reminder for polyamorous and non-monogamous folks: Feb. 28th is Metamour Day! Get a pack of these cute Metamour Postcards from Bloom Community to send to your metas or any poly folks in your life who would appreciate them! All of the proceeds go to non-monogamy advocacy (for OPEN-love.org) and you can use the code WICKED for 20% off! #MetamourDay2024 Finally, a reminder that our journey toward financial sustainability is a marathon, not a sprint. We truly appreciate the emergency help many of you extended last month, but we’ve got a long road ahead to finish paying off all the cafe debt. If you can this week, please make a one-time contribution to help Wicked Grounds retire this debt for good. Please do so here! Read on for an update on this week’s events! Memberships keep Wicked Grounds going. Join our Patreon VIP program for excellent benefits, from free and discounted classes to discounts and free shipping on gear all year round! Annual memberships now available! Events Roundup! Thursday, February 15 Stretching our limits is a great way to have more fun, stay creative, and get into the flow states kinksters crave. While it’s important to know how gentle we can make electro play for newcomers, we also need ways to consensually push advanced players — ourselves or our partners — to greater depth. Join Carmen PanDiego online at 6pm Pacific for Taking Electro Play to Your Limits and learn to safely keep electro play stimulating and exciting. Details & ticketing here. Saturday, February 17 Judging by the historically white face of the polyamorous community you would assume only those people partake in plural relationships – but that isn’t the case. With over 18+ years as a poly-practicing Woman of Color, d20domme will use The POC Polyamorist to explore and touch on why BIPOC are not represented well in the poly world, how to unlearn mono-minded bonds keeping you from romantic freedom, safety tips to approach consensual non-monogamy as a BIPOC, and where to start setting your sights on multi-partner dynamics. Join us online at 11am Pacific. Details & ticketing here. Also today, we launch the next cohort of our six-week intensive Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires with Miriam Green. This class will help you confront and challenge shame, people-pleasing, and other internal and cultural barriers that get between us and claiming our desire. This course includes two live sessions, six weeks of self-directed weekly content, and one or more individual coaching sessions. Details & ticketing here. Sunday, February 18 Kinksters of middle age and beyond start to face some questions that younger kinksters haven’t yet had to grapple with. Whether you’ve been practicing BDSM for decades, or are just finding your path as a kinkster later in life, you probably have distinct questions & needs that just aren’t addressed in general BDSM classes. Miriam Green has you covered in Cellaring: Refining Your Skills as an Older Kinkster. Join us at 2pm Pacific either in downtown San Francisco or online. Details & ticketing here. Monday, February 19 Negotiation for BDSM is a core skill, but it doesn’t always come easy. Learn how to figure out what you want, how to talk about it, and how to keep communication going before, during and after your BDSM scenes in Kink 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics w/ Miriam Green. Advance ticketing required for this online class at 6pm PST. Get yours here. Tuesday, February 20 I don’t like to play favorites, but Improv for Naughty Play with PsychoKitty Ryan is honestly one of my favorite classes. Over the years, I’ve heard some of the most interesting ideas for interactive role-play scenes emerge from this class, which teaches you how to use “yes, and” and other techniques from improvisational theater to think on your feet to co-create fun, engaging and consent-forward scenes. This in-person class will start at 6:30pm at the Folsom Street Community Center. Please get advance tickets now so we know that you’re coming! Wednesday, February 21 We don’t have any live classes today, but why not check out Private Joy — Miriam Green’s exploration of sadomasochistic play for solo kinksters and folks in long-distance relationships. Get your copy of this new online class here. Saturday, February 24 Join us in San Francisco for the return of Caning: From Sensual to Sadistic with Miriam Green and impossiblepain. (This was the last class Wicked Grounds offered before lockdown in 2020, and we haven’t had it since!) In this fun, interactive class you’ll learn all about caning: how to select your tools, what they feel like, how to construct a scene, and all the basic techniques around how to wield these unique impact toys. Join us at the Folsom Street Community Center at 2pm PDT. Advance ticketing strongly encouraged. Get yours here! Sunday, February 25 Join us online at 11am PDT for Autism & Kink with UK kink instructor John Pendal. If you’re neurodivergent, love someone who is, or just want to create better and more inclusive kink spaces for neurotypical and neurospicy folks alike, please join us for this online class. Details & ticketing here. Erotic hypnosis offers tools for a wide variety of BDSM styles. Join **Hypnostory and Pandapet ** at 2pm PDT to learn all about them in Erotic Hypnosis: Fun Games and Dirty Tricks. Advance ticketing required. Get yours here! Ongoing or upcoming events Daily: Sign up for Wicked Grounds’ Adventures in Daily Kink Journaling to receive prompts on all kink topics with bonus insights from Mir! Support. Follow. Share.

Kink is not a one size fits all. There’s no template. One of the hardest journeys in kink is finding our own desires and voice. It takes strength to push past shame, self-doubt and others’ requests of us to find something uniquely ours and worth cultivating. It’s lifelong work; the people who have the most satisfaction in kink make time to do it regularly. Despite many years teaching and consulting, I don’t have the answers for you. But I do have a set of questions that will help you think deeply about desire and connection, and find your own answers. In two weeks, we launch our next Diving Deep six-week course. This online intensive mirrors the work I’ve done in my own life and consulting to help kinksters unearth their own personal desires, find agency and authenticity, and begin to create the lives that they truly want in kink. If this is work you feel called to, please take a moment to reserve your spot. (If cost is a barrier, please reach out to me by email. I may be able to work out a couple of work-trade spots for folks who can help me with actively moderating the comments and live sessions.) Diving Deep: Discovering and Voicing Erotic Desires A six-week BDSM intensive with Wicked Grounds’ Miriam Green Online: February 17 – March 30, 2024 ​ Please note: our last Diving Deep sold out well in advance, and space is limited. To ensure your seat, please sign up as soon as you feel committed to this work. ​Details & ticketing here! ​ ​And RSVP on FetLife to let friends know you’re coming.​ This six-week online intensive is designed to help kinksters and other erotic adventurers get un-stuck around our evolving desires and how to ask for them. This work is perfect for anyone launching a new phase in their erotic journeys (or feeling stuck in an old phase). Is this course for you?​​ Do you get stuck when asked “what do you want in intimate relationships?” Are you uncomfortable telling partners about your desires and kinks? Have you been doing the same thing for a long time and want to find new routes to eroticism? Do you want a deep understanding of the physical and psychological responses you have to kink? Do you want to connect deeply with others? ​ Then yes: this course is for you! Together, we’ll explore: Discovering and honoring what turns you on Safely exploring kink and other edgy forms of eroticism Trying new skills in the bedroom and beyond Deepening your insights into your own desires Disentangling from others’ erotic projections Finding your voice and speaking freely Sharing the desires you’re afraid to voice ​ How we’ll engage ​ The six week course will run live from Feb 17 – March 30, 2024 This class will include six total weeks of content and homework, two 90-minute live online group sessions (recorded for later participation if needed), and at least one half-hour individual consult with instructor Miriam Green. (Our class tiers include the option to add more consults for your own journey.) Our two live sessions will be offered via Zoom on Saturday, February 24th 4pm-5:30pm Pacific (7pm-8:30pm Eastern) and Saturday, March 23rd 4pm-5:30pm Pacific (7pm-8:30pm Eastern). Both sessions will be recorded for later viewing or for those who cannot attend the sessions live. Ticketed participants will have access to the course materials weekly as they are provided and will have the ability to participate at their own pace, attending the live sessions in real time or online at their convenience. ​Tickets are available here, and space is limited. ​ Pricing plans are available for additional accessibility. Are you a VIP member? Check your discount codes or reach out for assistance to use your discount! 

Lots of new classes and ways to engage with kink here! Wicked Grounds released a new video class for digital download this week! Private Joy: Sadomasochism for Solo & Distance Play can now be purchased and downloaded here for you to take any time at your own convenience. Need personal coaching & guidance? You can always reach out for consulting at WickedGroundsAnnex.com The Roundup! Multi-week Intensives 2/17 – 3/30/24: Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires [a six-week intensive with coaching] (ONLINE SIX WEEKS) Tentative June: Kink Class Incubator Summer 2024 Cohort Tentative October: Diving Deep Fall 2024 Cohort Ongoing Ongoing daily: Wicked Grounds’ Adventures in Daily Kink Journaling (ONLINE – via email) Join at any time! Ongoing monthly: Group Consulting: Daily Practice Accountability Group Join at any time! Private consulting & coaching with Miriam Green. Book Mir’s brain by the hour. Self-Directed Digital Downloads Diving Deep (video class) NEW Private Joy: Sadomasochism for Solo & Distance Play (video class) Kink Self-Discovery Workbook (self-directed template) S/m & the physical side of play 2/13 7pm PDT: FlogLab with Reika Minxie (SF) 2/14 7pm PDT: Wicked Grounds Present: SpankLab (SF) 2/15 6pm PDT: Taking Electro Play to Your Limits w/ Carmen PanDiego (ONLINE) 2/20 2pm PDT: Caning: From Sensual to Sadistic w/ Miriam Green and impossiblepain (SF) 3/25 6pm PST: Needle Play 101: Easy with Those Pricks w/ Miss Mackenzee (ONLINE) Bondage & Fetish 3/6 7pm PST: SF Rope Bite (SF) 3/7 7pm PST: Wicked Rope Jam (SF) Sexy times 2/26 6pm PST: Love What You Do: Oral Pleasure for Cocks w/ Miss Mackenzee (ONLINE) D/s & the mental side of play 2/20 6:30pm PST: Improv for Naughty Play with Psychokitty Ryan (SF) 2/28 6pm PST: Invisible Toolbox with HG Wyndell (ONLINE) 3/7 6pm PST: Petplay Primer with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) 3/21 6pm PST: CTRL: Online Submission with d20domme (ONLINE) 3/27 6pm PST: Creating Containers for Kink w/ HG Wyndell (ONLINE) 4/9 6pm PST: Sir! No, Sir! Saying No In D/s Dynamics with Ev Evnen (ONLINE) NEW 4/22 6pm PST: The Art of Tease and Denial with Miss Mackenzee (ONLINE) Erotic Hypnosis 2/25 2pm PST: Erotic Hypnosis- Fun Games and Dirty Tricks with HypnoStory and PandaPet (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings!) 3/16 2pm PST: This Mind Intentionally Left Blank with HypnoStory & PandaPet (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings!) 4/17 6pm PST: Drop “For Me”- Dominance, Submission and Hypnosis with HypnoStory and PandaPet (ONLINE) Polyamory & ethical non-monogamy 2/17 2pm PST: The POC Polyamorist w/ d20domme (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings) Self-knowledge, negotiation & consent 2/18 2pm PST: Cellaring: Refining Your Skills as an Older Kinkster with Miriam Green (SF & ONLINE – EMEA Friendly Timings) 2/19 7pm PST: Kink 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics w/ Miriam Green (SF & ONLINE) 2/25 11am PST: Autism & Kink w/ John Pendal (ONLINE. This class tends to sell out – we recommend getting tickets early.) 2/27 6pm PST: Your Year in Kink with Sinclair Sexsmith (ONLINE) 2/29 6pm PST: Disability, Chronic Pain, and BDSM with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) 3/2 2:30pm PST: Negotiation Improv with Wiley (SF) 3/5 6pm PST: Looking Over the Cliff with Ev Evnen and Lauren DeRusha (ONLINE) 3/18 6pm PST: Kink 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics w/ Miriam Green (ONLINE) 3/23 2pm PST: From Gender Dysphoria to Gender Euphoria with Lee Harrington (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings!) 3/26 6pm PST: Writing Spicy with Sinclair Sexsmith (ONLINE) 4/3 6pm PST: Demystifying Asexuality with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) 4/6 2:30pm PST: Negotiation Improv with Wiley (SF) NEW 4/11 7:30pm PST: Dealing with Drop with Miriam Green (ONLINE) NEW 4/24 6pm PST: Ritual to Explore and Honor Our Boundaries with HG Wyndell (ONLINE) Community: Friends, dating, relationships & kink culture! 3/2 Noon PST: Welcome to the SF Bay Area Scene with Miriam Green (SF) 4/3 6pm PST: Demystifying Asexuality with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) NEW: 4/6 Noon PST: Welcome to the SF Bay Area Scene with Miriam Green (SF) NEW: 4/23 6pm PST: The Sexual Politics of Kink with Sinclair Sexsmith (ONLINE) Polyamory & Ethical Non-Monogamy 2/17 2pm PST: The POC Polyamorist w/ d20domme (ONLINE – EMEA Friendly Timings!) 4/12 6pm PST: MonoPoly: Passing Go with d20domme (ONLINE) Life Stuff, wellness & adulting for kinksters 2/29 6pm PST: Disability, Chronic Pain, and BDSM with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) NEW 3/10 2pm PST: Flexibility 4 Life with Click Your Heels (SF) 3/19 7pm PST: The Dapper Guide for the New Gentleman with Psychokitty Ryan (SF & ONLINE) Magick & Occult (with Magickal Crossroads) 2/28 6pm PST: Invisible Toolbox (ONLINE) 3/13 6pm PST: Tarot for Kinky Folks – Using Cards to Negotiate Scenes with Diana Rajchel (ONLINE) 3/24 2pm PST: Sex Magick for Kinksters w/ Miriam BatAsherah Green (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings!) 4/10 6pm PST: Inner Spring Cleaning with Energy Work with Diana Rajchel (ONLINE) NEW 5/22 6pm PST: Spicy Tarot with HG Wyndell (ONLINE) NEW 4/24 6pm PST: Ritual to Explore and Honor Our Boundaries with HG Wyndell (ONLINE) July – August 2024: All the Kabbalah You Really Need to Know (ONLINE SIX WEEKS)

Hello Kinksters – Happy almost Valentine’s Day! Whether you’re celebrating with one or more loved ones, or reclaiming the power of radical self-love, we wish you happiness. We’re Reclaiming Valentine’s Day by celebrating all kinds of love and all kinds of connection! Did you know that Feb. 28th is Metamour Day? Get a pack of these cute Metamour Postcards from Bloom Community to send to your metas or any poly folks in your life who would appreciate them! All of the proceeds go to non-monogamy advocacy (for OPEN-love.org) and you can use the code WICKED for 20% off! #MetamourDay2024 If your approach is something like “screw the roses, give me the thorns,” you’re warmly invited to join House of Meow for SpankLab on Wednesday. 😉 Want to give us a present? We’d just love to see more of you this week. Please read on for this week’s events! Fundraising updates Thanks to several contributions and one generous community member extending a low-interest loan, we have been able to meet this week’s target to get a second high-interest loan paid off and save a lot in fees. We continue to ask our community’s help in getting the full cafe debts paid off. Learn more and contribute here. Memberships keep Wicked Grounds going. Join our Patreon VIP program for excellent benefits, from free and discounted classes to discounts and free shipping on gear all year round! Annual memberships now available! Events Roundup! Sunday, February 11 If you find the mind the most sexually attractive feature we will discuss, the why, where to focus your efforts, and how your brain can be the ultimate kinky toy. Tap into your sapiosexual side in Nymphobrainiac: Big Brain Sex online with d20domme at 11am Pacific. Details & ticketing here. Monday, February 12 Dating can be challenging for almost anyone. Add being kinky to the mix, and the challenge becomes exponentially harder. But don’t despair! Join us for Dating While Kinky with Miriam Green at 7pm Pacific and get some strategies. In this Kink 101 session, we’ll talk about a variety of strategies for navigating the dating world as a kinkster. You may join us in person in San Francisco, or online. Details & ticketing here. Tuesday, February 13 Want to pick up flogging, but not sure how to start? Maybe you want to take your flogging to the next level? If you’re in San Francisco, you’re in luck! Join Reika Minxie at the Folsom Street Community Center at 7pm for our new playshop FlogLab! Details & ticketing here. Wednesday, February 14 If you’re interested in a wide range of impact play, SpankLab is the San Francisco playshop for you! We start each month at 7pm with a short demo, then create a space for safe, friendly exploration with a variety of impact toys (or your own body as an impact tool). House of Meow (Miriam Green and impossiblepain) will show you everything you need to know to take your impact play skills to the next level, make new friends and play safe! Details & ticketing here. Thursday, February 15 Stretching our limits is a great way to have more fun, stay creative, and get into the flow states kinksters crave. While it’s important to know how gentle we can make electro play for newcomers, we also need ways to consensually push advanced players — ourselves or our partners — to greater depth. Join Carmen PanDiego online at 6pm Pacific for Taking Electro Play to Your Limits and learn to safely keep electro play stimulating and exciting. Details & ticketing here. Saturday, February 17 Judging by the historically white face of the polyamorous community you would assume only those people partake in plural relationships – but that isn’t the case. With over 18+ years as a poly-practicing Woman of Color, d20domme will use The POC Polyamorist to explore and touch on why BIPOC are not represented well in the poly world, how to unlearn mono-minded bonds keeping you from romantic freedom, safety tips to approach consensual non-monogamy as a BIPOC, and where to start setting your sights on multi-partner dynamics. Join us online at 11am Pacific. [Details & ticketing here.}(https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/62f88a9b7b) Also today, we launch the next cohort of our six-week intensive Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires with Miriam Green. This class will help you confront and challenge shame, people-pleasing, and other internal and cultural barriers that get between us and claiming our desire. This course includes two live sessions, six weeks of self-directed weekly content, and one or more individual coaching sessions. Details & ticketing here. Sunday, February 18 Kinksters of middle age and beyond start to face some questions that younger kinksters haven’t yet had to grapple with. Whether you’ve been practicing BDSM for decades, or are just finding your path as a kinkster later in life, you probably have distinct questions & needs that just aren’t addressed in general BDSM classes. Miriam Green has you covered in Cellaring: Refining Your Skills as an Older Kinkster. Join us at 2pm Pacific either in downtown San Francisco or online. Details & ticketing here. Ongoing or upcoming events Daily: Sign up for Wicked Grounds’ Adventures in Daily Kink Journaling to receive prompts on all kink topics with bonus insights from Mir! Support. Follow. Share. We could really use your help with our fundraiser to retire the old cafe debt. Learn more and contribute here. Want to invest in your kink education? Join our new class pass program here! 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. Follow us on Bloom – the social app by sex positive folks for sex positive folks. Book with us for coaching and consulting time with Mir or to explore our new multi session courses! Warmly,Mir & The Wicked Grounds Team (Do you find this weekly roundup helpful? If this newsletter has saved you time,

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Hello Kinksters – We did it! We all collectively got through the darkest twelve weeks of the year. Congratulations! What is germinating in you this early spring? What are you excited about? I go into this season feeling grateful for last month’s daily practice cohort. I’ve recommitted to personal journaling, and am scheduling time to finish drafting and revising my two book projects. Our next six-week Diving Deep session launches this month to help kinksters delve into personal desire, all the hopes and fears that come with desire, and finding a voice to create the kink scenes and relationships we really want. This intensive is great for new kinksters, but even better for experienced players who feel stuck and want to chart out the next phase of their evolution. You can learn more about this course and sign up here. I’m also excited about the next few months, when several new Bay Area kink venues open their doors. In addition to our growing roster of online and hybrid classes, we’ll have a lot more in person events and playshops returning to San Francisco this year. (And perhaps the return of our play party Wicked Grounds Playground? That’s the rumor!) We really can’t do this without you Kinky debt-slayers have vast power! If you were waiting for the start of the month to help with our ongoing debt-retirement fundraising, now is a great time. Read more here, and please contribute if you can. Any amount helps. Thanks to generous community support, we’ve managed to get one payoff letter in hand, get a lien removed that was really causing problems for us an our instructors, and get some — not yet all — of our operations back on track. Our next concrete goal: if we can raise about $3,400 by the end of the weekend, we can pay off another chunk early that would save us a whopping $1,300 in usury-level fees. That means only $10-$20 each from the folks reading this. Will you help us make it happen? VIP members gain new benefits this month! Given how important Patreon and particularly VIP memberships are to our continued operations, I’m always looking for ways to keep the program fresh and valuable. Thanks to a great suggestion from our of our participants in last month’s daily practice sessions, I’ve increased our ongoing Group Accountability Consulting for daily practice to 10+ sessions per month, and membership in this group is no available at no additional cost to Wicked Grounds VIPs — you just need to teach to this link and use your class discount code to sign up. (And of course you can always sign up for a VIP membership here.) We’d love to see more of you this week. Please read on for this week’s events! Events Roundup! Like planning even further ahead? Find our latest full class roster here! Friday, February 2nd We don’t have a scheduled class tonight, but this might be a nice time to check out some of our digital downloads for a video class or self-directed exploration, such as the original video class for Diving Deep, or our Kink Self Discovery Workbook. Saturday, February 3rd There is a lot of change happening in the San Francisco Bay Area scene, from new venues and playspaces to a rapidly evolving culture. If you want to make the most of the culture, vast diversity and deep resources the SF scene has too offer, join Miriam Green in downtown San Francisco from Noon – 2pm for Welcome to the SF Bay Area Scene. This class is offered in person only, and advance ticketing is recommended. And then stick around! At 2:30 we’ll bring you a brand new negotiation resource: Negotiation Improv with Wiley Coyote. You’ll learn to think through different negotiation scenarios by practicing them with others, leading to stronger negotiations when it matters. Advance ticketing recommended! Get yours here. Monday, February 5th Legendary rope artist Lee Harrington joins us online at 6pm Pacific for Crotch Ropes and Butt Bondage. This was some of the first work of Lee’s that I personally put to use, and I’m delighted to have him teaching this material for Wicked Grounds. Advance ticketing is required — get yours here. Tuesday, February 6th Many play parties and sampler parties add value by making house tops available for their attendees — but what is house topping and how do we practice it well? Whether you’re an experienced community member hoping to give back, an educator who loves delivering hands-on experience, or a party host thinking about ways to make parties more fun, you’re warmly invited to Tips for House Topping with Miriam Green at 7pm Pacific. Advance ticketing required — get yours here! Wednesday, February 7th These are . . . weird times . . . and sometimes we need a bit more resilience. In partnership with Magickal Crossroads and Diana Rajchel, we’re pleased to offer Urban Magick: Community Building in Times of Social Collapse online at 6pm Pacific. Advance ticketing required. Get yours here! If you’re in San Francisco and want more time to practice your rope skills, join us at the Folsom Street Community Center at 7pm Pacific for Rope Bite SF. Bring your rope if you have it, and your curiosity and creativity are a must! You may get tickets at the door or in advance. Thursday, February 8th Join us tonight for Part 2 of our two-part series with Ev Evnen for Kink & Trauma. Advance ticketing required — get yours here. Sunday, Feburary 11th If you like big brains (and you cannot lie), join d20domme at 11am Pacific for our online class Nymphobrainiac: Big Brain Sex. Love or hate the s- word, it remains a powerful attractor for many. Explore why — and how — in this online class. Advance ticketing required. Get yours here! Ongoing or upcoming events Daily: Sign up for Wicked Grounds’ Adventures in Daily Kink Journaling to receive prompts on all kink topics with bonus insights from Mir!

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