Month: February 2025

Happy new year, kinksters. I just saw a meme in which someone says — against all fear — “I think 2024 will bring flowers.” The other creature in the panel says, “Yes? Why?” and our little hero says: “Because I am planting flowers.” It won’t be a surprise to you: that resonated with me. I am a strong believer in the power of intention. It’s why Wicked Grounds puts self-awareness and intention at the heart of kink education. It’s been a heck of a year at Wicked Grounds, but because of you we are still here and still building community. While we’ve closed the brick and mortar (for now), we are offering more classes than ever to a widening Bay Area and global audience. Looking forward, we’re preparing for a community with more play spaces, more classes, more events, and more fun! These things take time, and difficult decisions. They also take us not bouncing the rent check. 😉 So: the ask. Please, commit to our future. Don’t wait: do it today. Quickest & easiest! Contributing seats to our scholarship fund is always the way to get your money helping us and others most quickly. Thanks to you we gave out over 300 (!) scholarship seats in 2023! Scholarship fund: Contribute directly by Zelle to this address Scholarship fund: Contibute via Venmo or PayPal​ ​ You can also use those means and earmark your funds however you want. (aka, “Use this to pay off cafe debt.”). We take orders! If you’re one of our community who has significant privilege and resources, please reach out if you’d like to brainstorm. Sticky & fun! Join or increase your membership contribution at Patreon​ Shop for upcoming courses or consulting at WickedGroundsAnnex.com and use code EFFINBIZ at checkout for 20% off. Shop for magick books or tarot decks at MagickalCrossroads.com Shop for rope, impact toys, books and more at WickedGrounds.com and get 20% off with code EFFINBIZ (or 25% off with code EFFINBIZINSTA with Zelle, Venmo or PayPal) Book a class with us at ForbiddenTickets​ ​ We remain at a critical juncture, and it is honestly going to be a very challenging year to finish paying off the old cafe debt. It would be irresponsible of me to let us fail because I’m too embarrassed to ask. Not when our community has already lost so many things we value. I believe in 2024 we will have flowers. Because we are all planting flowers. With true gratitude – Mir

Hey, it’s Mir. It’s early (early, early!) on the first business day of the year, and I’m sitting in the home office on my second cup of coffee already, trying to catch up. I traditionally spend the last week of each year camping. Even in tight times, I find camping is a great way to find restoration and expansiveness. This year, I was delighted to find a spot out in the southern California desert with a truly exceptional starry sky and — get this! — enormous pools filled with hot spring water. (All this for less than my local NorCal campgrounds! Amazing!) Getting away isn’t the challenge during the quiet of the end of year. Heck, coming back isn’t the challenge. (I truly love my work, even in hard times.) The challenge is holding on to that sense of expansiveness as the new week, month, and year arrive. Perhaps you’re feeling the same way. My recommendations today: Take a moment to breathe. There’s nothing that can’t wait for 90 seconds while you have a moment to be present. Most things will even be better if you can come back to them more present. Remember who you are. Most of us can’t be fully “out” at work, whether that’s about our full queer selves, our poly families, or our kink resolutions. It’s okay to make strategic decisions about what we disclose and where. But we don’t need to lose our sense of self to do that. Make a promise to yourself for time to be yourself. Make a commitment. Is there a class you really want to take? A part of your city or countryside you’ve wanted to explore? A practice you want to take up? Schedule some time for it. Just setting aside 15 minutes a day for a personal practice or a time of reflection on days off can be a way to keep a sense of expansiveness in the hustle and bustle. If part of your commitment to yourself this year is expanding kink knowledge, I hope that we can be of service to you. Never hesitate to reach out for help connecting with community! (Usually you can email me but . . . maybe not this week! Our FetLife messages might be quicker till I pile through my own backlog.) Happy new year, and hang in there today – Mir PS: If you need a little structure to stay true to yourself this week, I’ll be allowing late registration to our Creating & Cultivating a Daily Practice for Kinksters course throughout this week. It’s not too late to join us for a month of daily meditation, journaling and habit-building practice!

It’s the end of the year. A great time to make those resolutions! Our resolution is to keep offering you the best in BDSM & kink education in the coming year. Perhaps one of yours is to expand your kink palette! Now through the end of year, we’re offering a 10% discount on regular event passes when you use Venmo, PayPal or Zelle for payment and use code CLASSY at checkout. Event passes get you discount codes for absolutely free admission to all our regular classes, playshops and other ticketed events offered through Forbidden Tickets, as well as substantial discounts on multi-week courses and consulting during your pass period. With 15-20 classes offered each month, our passes are already an excellent deal. With this additional discount, they’re really too good to pass up! Find your monthly, quarterly or annual pass here, use code CLASSY where you’re prompted to click to enter discount codes, and then pay way Venmo, PayPal or Zelle at checkout to get this offer while it lasts! Happy new year from your friends at Wicked Grounds! Mir PS: If you’d prefer to pay it forward, our scholarship fund is always happy for contributions! We’ve given away over 300 scholarships in 2023! Links below: Via our website Venmo PayPal or Zelle to Mir@WickedGrounds.com

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Hello Kinksters – A very bright and merry Solstice to those who celebrate it, and warm wishes on the holiday week ahead! This is a great time to sign up for our monthlong mindfulness & habit building challenge in January — I already have the most of the first week’s lesson plan uploaded for a sneak preview. It will be a relatively quiet next week on the live-classes front, freeing up time for some end of year reflection. Last minute gifts for the kinkster in your life — or yourself! A Wicked Grounds events pass provides unlimited access to all regular classes & events each month — classes, workshops, playshops & special events. (Everything except multi-week courses and consulting.) Most months, this works out to 15-20 events! For the first time in ten years, our class pricing will slightly increase in 2024 — making these even more valuable! Our video on-demand class Diving Deep explores how to get in touch with your own needs, wants and desires before you negotiate. (This is the original version of our class which has evolved into a six-week workshop.) Our Kink Year in Review journal is a 26-page comprehensive look back at the past year, to help you celebrate successes and learn from challenges, preparing for a your best kink year ahead! Read on for 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 12/21 Celebrate the Solstice with a magick class! Join us at 6pm Pacific for Magick for Impossible People with Urban Magick author Diana Rajchel. Make some tea, bring your notebook, and take notes on magickal ideas to take to the trenches or the dinner table. Details & ticketing here for this Wicked Grounds + Magickal Crossroads class. Thursday 12/28 From being awareness of spacing and distance to setting up a play space and write advertisements for events, all kinksters can use trauma-informed mindfulness to create safer spaces. Join Ember online at 6pm Pacific for Trauma-Informed Kink For All to learn what trauma is (and what it isn’t), how it happens, about trauma dumping, trauma reactions, post-traumatic growth, secondary trauma, intergenerational/racial trauma, trauma from violence, trauma experienced by BIPOC/LGBTQIA+/minority individuals, and more. Most importantly, you’ll learn about how to create trauma aware environments for personal and community use. Details & ticketing here. Friday 12/29 Join us for a rare Friday evening class on the delights of electro play! In Sadistic or Sensual?: Developing Electro Play Scenes with Carmen Pandiego, we’ll explore how to use settings, toys, body, and pacing to set the tone for your scene, and that both creativity and intensity can come into play to develop delightful electro play scenes that will fit whatever mood or flavor of play you want. 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! January 2024: A daily practice can help you deepen your self-connection in general, and your ability to dive deeply into kink specifically. Join us this January to create yours in Creating and Cultivating a Daily Practice with Miriam Green. Details & ticketing here. January 29-March 15, 2024. Miriam BatAsherah Green is offering their “only every other year . . . maybe” massive class on All the Kabbalah You Really Need, this time in a six-week format. This class will almost certainly not be offered again until 2026! Details & ticketing here. February 17-March 30, 2024. Our six-week Diving Deep Intensive returns February – March 2024 dates. Our fall intensive sold out well before launch, so please don’t wait to get your space-available tickets. Support. Follow. Share. 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)

Our monthly Salon is a key member benefit of VIP+ ($30/month or higher) memberships. These sessions are a great way to ask me anything, get some quick & free consulting, get to meet your fellow VIP members, and just get closer to community. You bring the beverage, we’ll make the space!  I’m posting this to “everyone” to make sure all Patreon members know about it, and I’ll post the link in a moment to just the VIP+ folks.  Cheers Mir 

Wicked Grounds needs your support this week. (It’s going to keep being tight for a while. Don’t panic! We will get through this, with your continued support!) We are already running a flash sale for 20% off with code FLASH and 25% off for code FLASHIER if folks pay with Venmo/ PayPal/ Zelle. And if you’re a VIP+ member, you have an extra 10% to thank you for your support. But I’m going to add another super-duper tier for those who can offer us the strongest support this week: All orders at WickedGrounds.com over $350 (before discount, tax & shipping) – 45% off – Must be paid with Zelle, Venmo or PayPal at checkout – A whopping 45% discount with code FLASHIEST at checkout – Warning: These might not be shipped in time for the holidays!!! All courses at WickedGroundsAnnex.com over $350 (before discount, tax & shipping) – 45% off – A 45% discount with code FLASHIEST at checkout on Diving Deep (Feb 17 – March 30) and / or All the Kabbalah You Really Need (Jan 29 – March 15)  All consulting six-packs valued at $350 or more – A 45% discount with code FLASHIEST at checkout when you purchase a consulting six-session pack  If you’re in a position to be a hero this week, get some great rewards! xoxo Mir PS: We also strongly welcome contributions to the scholarship fund this week, of any amount. Find the payment links below. Venmo.com/WickedGroundsI  PayPal.Me/RBWickedGrounds Zelle to: Mir@WickedGrounds.com

We’ve just done an end-of-year review on our scholarship seats awarded. Financial accessibility is important to us, and it’s clearly important to all of you. From the beginning, we’ve made every event available on a sliding scale. Since launching scholarship seats in early 2022, we’ve been able to award just over four hundred scholarship seats to kinksters who wanted to take our classes and longer courses, but otherwise couldn’t afford it. On average, we offer 2-5 scholarship seats per class. You did that. You should be proud of it. You’re building kink communities with safer and happier players, and that benefits us all. We want to continue offering scholarships long into the future, and with your help we will! But as you know, times are very tight and we can only keep offering this service — and, quite honestly, everything else we do — with your active and engaged support. If you have the means, pay it forward now: ​Contribute to our scholarship fund via Venmo​ ​Contribute to our scholarship fund via PayPal​ Contribute to our scholarship fund via Zelle to Mir@WickedGrounds.com ​Buy scholarship seats via our website​ ​Sign up for our Patreon at one of the scholarship contribution levels to give regular, ongoing support Thank you so much for your generous support. It means the world to us, and to the many people who use this program. Cheers Mir ​