Month: April 2026

Howdy kinksters – We have some fun stuff coming up this week in San Francisco and online! I’ve also added a special section to this week’s newsletter: Wicked Grounds on the Road. If you’re in the Los Angeles, Phoenix, or Tucson area – or have friends there! – take a look at what we have planned next month. (If you have friends in those areas, do them a favor and send them a copy of this newsletter!) Interested in diving deep into your kink education? As we head into a new month, it’s the perfect time to invest in a Wicked Grounds events pass! These passes give you full access to all regular Wicked Grounds classes, and significant discounts on half-day, full-day and multi-week intensives. Interested? You can choose from a ​Quarterly Event Pass: May – July 2026​ or our ​Annual Event Pass: May 2026 – April 2027​. Now, let’s take a look at this week’s events. Wicked Grounds on the Road! Los Angeles, CA: Join us in DTLA 5/15 for Wicked Grounds Play Lab: Rope & Restraint! More information and advanced ticketing is available through ​Luma​, ​Forbidden Tickets​, or ​Plura​. Tucson, AZ: Join us at Desert Dominion on 5/28 for Sex Magick for Kinksters with Miriam Green. This event is door ticketed only. Find out more at ​DesertDominion.org​. Phoenix, AZ: We will be offering a full weekend of classes 5/30 – 6/1 with our friends at Arizona Power Exchange. Join Miriam Green for Dating While Kinky,Advanced BDSM Negotiations for Relationships & Dynamics, and our Kink Self-Exploration Deep Dive Intensive on Saturday and Sunday. (​Tickets here through Forbidden Tickets​.)* Then on Monday evening we’ll offer *Dealing With Drop because we might need it by then! 😉 Tickets available soon for the Monday class. Los Angeles, CA: Our monthly Play Lab is back with Pets! Join us in DTLA 6/5 for a fun exploration of all things human animal and handler with guest host Madam Rosie Rose! More information and advanced ticketing is available through ​Luma​, ​Forbidden Tickets​, and ​Plura​. This Week! Thursday, April 30 Online: We at Wicked Grounds honestly believe the single best way to improve your play, have more fun and be safer it to bet involved in the public kink scene. Curious about the world of kinky play parties but not sure how to get started? Let Princess Rara show you how in tonight’s Dungeons Demystified: Navigating Etiquette, Attire, and Atmosphere in BDSM Spaces. Attend live or through the recording with your advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday, May 1 No live classes today, but you can check our all our ​digital downloads on Teachable​. Saturday, May 2 We have an online class and two San Francisco classes today! Online: Join Faun online today for Negotiation Skills for subs and Bottoms and let’s get those skills to the next level! We always recommend attending live if you can, but we’ll record this session for those who can’t make it today, as long as you have advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. San Francisco, CA: Curious about getting involved with the public kink scene in San Francisco? Whether you want to connect with classes, social events, or play parties, there is a rich world in the SF Bay Area to explore. Our own Miriam Green has been teaching orientations to the local scene for over ten years, and is ready to help you find your ideal places to learn, grow, and play! Join them in downtown San Francisco at noon today for Welcome to the SF Bay Area Kink Scene to learn all the ins and outs! Advanced ticketing is strongly recommended. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. San Francisco, CA: Dating is already hard enough. Add being kinky to the mix and it seems exponentially harder – but we can help! Join Miriam Green live in San Francisco today for our live class Dating While Kinky. We’ll talk about strategies, resources, and considerations for getting the most out of dating as a kinky person. This class is for people of all genders, orientations, and relationship styles who identify as kinky or want to successfully date kinky people. Join us at 3pm! Advanced tickets are recommended through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. And bonus: if you’re hanging out between the noon and 3pm classes, you’ll have plenty of time to pick Mir’s brain between classes! Sunday, May 3 No live classes today, but you can check our all our ​digital downloads on Teachable​. Monday, May 4 Online: Ready to take your oral skills to the next level? Join Jamie Joy online tonight for Blown Away: Oral Sex for Every Body. From licking and sucking to kissing and teasing, discover how to use your mouth, lips, and tongue to deliver truly satisfying pleasure. You can attend live or through the recording with your advanced tickets from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Tuesday, May 5 Online: Have you been considering starting a munch or discussion group, but you’re not quite sure where to start? Perhaps you’re in an area without an active scene and you’d like to find your people, or you want to form community around a specific kink of kink or identity. Our Miriam Green has created dozens of their own munches over the past dozen years, and hosted literally thousands of munches. Join them tonight for So, You Want to Start a Munch and get all your questions answered to host your own – almost anywhere! Attend live or through the recording with your advanced tickets from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Wednesday, May 6 Online: If you want more structure, ritual, and etiquette for your dynamics, join Sinclair Sexsmith online tonight for High Protocol for D/s. This class will only be offered live, so mark your calendars! Get your advanced tickets from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. San Francisco, CA: Whether you’re brand new to impact play or want a space to take your skills to the next level, join impossiblepain tonight in San Francisco

We have a lot of new classes ready for you for this May and June! And expect another update soon – there are a few classes still in the works for May & June! In particular, we have a few classes in Arizona in the works for May 27 – June 2, but don’t have all the ticket links yet. We’ve put these in as a “save the date” for now, and we’ll get the ticket links out as soon as we can! If you love what we do and want to help us expand our access, please contribute to our annual ​Scholarship Fund Drive​ or ​become a supporting member of Wicked Grounds​. Both of these programs help us provide classes with the greatest access as well as provide more specialty and niche education that you won’t find anywhere else! Need personal coaching & guidance for questions around sex, kink, and relationships? Reach out for one-time or ongoing coaching sessions at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.com​. Not sure if coaching is the right fit for you? We offer ​10-15 minute exploration sessions​ to learn more and ensure we’re a good fit. The Roundup! Daylong & Multi-week Intensives Launching 4/27, with registration closing 5/4: ​Kink Class Incubator​ (ONLINE) 5/3 10am – 5pm PDT: The Embodied Feminine Daylong Intensive with Alexandria from Click Your Heels​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (San Francisco, CA) 5/31 10am – 5pm MST: Kink Self-Discovery Daylong Intensive with Miriam Green (Phoenix, AZ) Tickets coming soon from ​Arizona Power Exchange​ on Forbidden Tickets. November – December 2026. ​Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires​ (ONLINE) S/m & the physical side of play 4/27 6pm PDT: Handling Their Precious Bits: CBT for Beginners and Beyond with Miss Mackenzee​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/6 6pm PDT: Wicked Grounds Presents: Spanklab! Hosted by impossiblepain.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (San Francisco, CA) 5/9 3pm PDT: Private Joy: Sadomasochism for Solo & Distance Play with Miriam Green​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/19 6pm PDT: Simplest Toybag: Creative Uses for One Rope with Lee Harrington.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/20 6pm PDT: Blood, Sweat, & Fears: The Art and Thrill of Blood Play with Jamie Joy​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/3 7pm PDT: Wicked Grounds Presents: Spanklab! Hosted by impossiblepain.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (San Francisco, CA) 6/8 6pm PDT: Cruising for a Bruising: Impact Play 101 with Jamie Joy​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/15 6pm PDT: Heavy Hitter: Advanced Impact Play with Jamie Joy​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) Bondage 5/15 7pm PDT: Wicked Grounds Play Lab: Rope! with Day Dream.​Luma​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (Los Angeles, CA) 5/18 6pm PDT: Channeling the Energy: Tantra and Rope with Miss Mackenzee​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/19 6pm PDT: Simplest Toybag: Creative Uses for One Rope with Lee Harrington.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/2 6pm PDT: Clothing Bondage Made Easy: Encase, Rip, Wrap, and Transform with Lee Harrington​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) D/s, role play & the mental side of play 4/29 6pm PDT: Holy Cow! Intro to Hucow Play with Lady V​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/6 6pm PDT: High Protocol for D/s with Sinclair Sexsmith​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/7 6pm PDT: Seducing Your sub: How to Create Erotic Tension & Keep Your sub Coming Back For More with Marla Renee Stewart​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/14 6pm PDT: Crafting A Psycho-Emotive Ritual Scene with Keiden Bren​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/16 2pm PDT: Stealth D/s Protocols with Marilyn and Rio​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/23 2pm PDT: Intro to Verbal Humiliation: Off the Cuff, On Your Knees with Dolly Diatima​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/26 6pm PDT: The Protocol Game with Sinclair Sexsmith​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/27 6pm PDT: Creating Energetic Containers for Kink with HG Wyndell​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/10 6pm PDT: Tease and Denial with Mel and Memi​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/17 6pm PDT: Intro to Dominance/submission (D/s) 3 Hour Class with Mel and Memi​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/21 11am PDT: Daddy Issues: Daddy Dynamics & You with Lady V​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 8/11 2:30 PDT: Improv for Kinksters with Psychokitty Ryan​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (San Francisco, CA) Primal & Animal Play 4/29 6pm PDT: Holy Cow! Intro to Hucow Play with Lady V​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) Sexy Times 5/4 6pm PDT: Blown Away: Oral Sex for Every Body with Jamie Joy​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/17 11am PDT: Strangers in the Night: Fray Sexuality, Relationships & YOU! with Lady V​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/11 6pm PDT: Building Confidence in the Bedroom: Own Your Energy with Dolly Diatima​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) Hypnosis 5/16 11am PDT: Mindful Brainwashing with Aidan​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/1 6pm PDT: Trance Work 101 with Keiden Bren​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) Polyamory and Nonmonogamy 5/21 6pm PDT: The Art & Science of Compersion with Marie Thouin PhD​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/28 6pm PDT: Unfuck Your Relationship Escalator: (Re)Building Healthy Relationship Foundations with Lilith Foxx​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/4 6pm PDT: The Art & Science of Compersion with Marie Thouin PhD​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) Creativity and Movement 8/11 2:30pm PDT: Improv for Kinksters with Psychokitty Ryan​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (San Francisco, CA) Self-knowledge, negotiation & consent 5/2 2pm PDT: Negotiation Skills for subs and Bottoms with Faun​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/9 11am PDT: Cellaring: Refining Your Skills as an Older Kinkster with Miriam Green​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/12 6pm PDT: BDSM Negotiation Basics with Miriam Green​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/24 11am PDT: Creating Your Risk Profile with Mel & Memi​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/31 10am – 5pm MST: Kink Self-Discovery Daylong Intensive with Miriam Green (Phoenix, AZ) Tickets coming soon from ​Arizona Power Exchange​ on Forbidden Tickets. 6/1 7:15pm MST: Dealing with Drop with Miriam Green. (Phoenix, AZ) Tickets coming soon from ​Arizona Power Exchange​ on Forbidden Tickets. 6/9 6pm PDT: BDSM Negotiation Basics with Miriam Green​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) Community: Friends, dating, relationships & kink culture! 4/30 6pm PDT: Dungeons Demystified: Navigating Etiquette, Attire, and

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Howdy kinksters – I recently got to take part in an interesting interview to help build new mental health resources for kinksters in the Bay Area, and promised the researcher I’d let y’all know about it too. If you are in the SF Bay Area, qualify for the research, and take part in the online interview, you’ll receive a token honorarium of a $10 gift certificate to thank you for your time and more importantly you’ll have a say in helping create better resources for kinksters. Here’s the information: Val Garcia (Social Justice Fellow at The Wright Institute) is conducting exploratory research about the intersection of group therapy and kink or alternative relationship structures. If you would be interested in doing a one hour anonymous remote interview to support this research please fill out ​this short 6 question multiple choice intake form​. Interview participants will be compensated with a $10 gift card to their choice of Safeway, Trader Joe’s, or Amazon. We have some great classes for you this week both online and live in the San Francisco Bay Area. (And, speaking of getting out there: Are you a neighbor in Arizona? Mark your calendars! I’ll be teaching live in Tucson 5/28 and in Phoenix 5/30 – 6/1, and we’ll have ticketing information available for you very soon!) As we close out April, we’d also like to close out our annual ​scholarship fundraiser​ and ​membership drive​. If you haven’t yet made your contribution, please take a look! Every single contributor and member makes a big difference our our ability to develop new kink education and keep it accessible to the widest possible audience. Now, let’s take a look at this week’s events. This Week! Thursday, April 23 Online: If you enjoy cannabis and love kinky play, you’ll want to keep consent and communication at the forefront to be safe and have more connection and fun. Tonight, we hope you’ll join Lilithfoxx online for Blunt Talk: Boundaries and Consent While Using Cannabis. Attend live or through the recording with you advanced tickets from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday, April 24 No live classes today, but you can check our all our ​digital downloads on Teachable​. Saturday, April 25 Online: Join Mel & Memi online today for a special three-hour workshop on Erotic Humiliation! You’ll need advanced tickets to attend this class either live or through the recording. Don’t be too embarrassed to get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Mendocino, CA: Are you in northern coastal California? Looking to find your people? Our own Miriam Green hosts a monthly Mendocino Munch, usually in Mendocino or Fort Bragg, CA. This month we’ll meet from 1-3pm on the back deck of The Waiting Room in Mendocino (with a slight possibility of relocation if the weather forecast changes to rain – so far so good!). ​Find out more and RSVP here​! Online: Good boundaries are key to excellent negotiation and consent, but we’re not always brought up knowing ours. Join Buzz Stingyear online this afternoon to explore yours in Badass Boundaries: The Discipline of Power: The Zero-Defect Protocol for Interpersonal Leadership. This class is particularly geared toward the guys in the room, but all are welcome to attend. Learn more about the class and sign up to attend live or through the recording with your advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday, April 26 Online: Whether you are autistic, love someone who is autistic, or just want to create better kink communities, we invite you to join us today for Autism & Kink, a popular online class with UK educator John Pendal. Please note that this popular class is never recorded, so you’ll need to mark your calendars and plan to attend live. Get your advanced tickets for the class through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ and we’ll see you there! Online: Curious about position training as another way to enhance D/s play and relationships? Join Hannah The Scribe online this afternoon for Creating Practical Slave Positions. Whether you already use position training or you’re simply curious about what these can do to enhance your play, we’d love to see you there. You can join live or through the recording with your advanced ticketing from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Monday, April 27 Online: Our annual Kink Class Incubator launches today and it’s our first live session tonight. All brand-new instructors need to be registered by today! (Experienced instructors have the option to skip the first live session and can register through 5/4). If you’re curious about the incubator and whether it’s right for you, ​learn more and register here​. Online: Interested in learning more about the fun, thrills, and safety behind CBT? Join Miss Mackenzee online tonight for Handling Their Precious Bits: CBT for Beginners and Beyond. You may attend live or through the recording with your advanced tickets from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Tuesday, April 28 No live classes today, but you can check our all our ​digital downloads on Teachable​. Wednesday, April 29 Online: Cowprint & cows have become all the rage in fashion & even in the bedroom in recent years. Let’s learn about how to bring it all into the dungeon in tonight’s Holy Cow! Intro to Hucow Play with Lady V. Whether you’re an experienced hucow player looking for new ideas or curious about what all the fuss is about, join us live online tonight or through the recording all week with your advanced tickets from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Thursday, April 30 Online: We at Wicked Grounds honestly believe the single best way to improve your play, have more fun and be safer it to bet involved in the public kink scene. Curious about the world of kinky play parties but not sure how to get started? Let Princess Rara show you how in tonight’s Dungeons Demystified: Navigating Etiquette, Attire, and Atmosphere in BDSM Spaces. Attend live or through the recording with your advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday, May 1 No live classes today,

Howdy kinksters – We have some great classes for you this week all over the place – in the SF Bay Area, in downtown Los Angeles, and online. We’re midway through April, and that means we’re also midway through our annual ​scholarship fundraiser​ and ​membership drive​. If you haven’t yet made your contribution, please take a look! Every single contributor and member makes a big difference our our ability to develop new kink education and keep it accessible to the widest possible audience. Now, let’s take a look at this week! This Week! Thursday, April 16 Online: Calling all brats, aspiring brats, brat tamers and brat lovers! Join Princess Rara online tonight for Bratting Beyond Make Me: Navigating Misconceptions and Embracing the Brat! Let’s explore this exciting archetype and dynamic together. Attend live if you can. If you can’t, we’ll record it for you! Just be sure to get your advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday, April 17 No live classes today, but you can check our all our ​digital downloads on Teachable​. Saturday, April 18 There is a LOT going on today! Online: Join Aiden Sunassee online early today for Kink, Trauma Play, and Healing: A Research-Informed Deep Dive. We always recommend attending live if you can to make the most of Q&A, but we’ll record it for you to watch within one week if that is better for you. Get your advanced tickets through ​Plura​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​. San Francisco, CA: Ready to build your basic skills and confidence for rope bondage? Join us in San Francisco from noon – 4pm today for a workshop to learn all the basics: safety, single and double-column ties, and basic floorwork patterns. You’ll walk away with everything you need to do basic floorwork and bedroom ties, as well as the muscle memory to quickly pick up more complex patterns. Bring your own rope and safety shears if you have them, and we’ll have some loaner rope available. Advanced ticketing is strongly recommended! Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Online or Los Angeles, CA: Interested in or curious about primal play? Want to take yours to the next level? Join us either live in downtown Los Angeles or online from anywhere for Primal Perversions: Primal Play with Lady V and Killmeat Nick. Can’t attend live? We’ll record it for you with your advance tickets from ​Plura​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​. Or, get tickets to attend live in DTLA from ​Luma​ then stick around for our primal playshop after! Los Angeles, CA: Join Lady V tonight in downtown Los Angeles for a very special edition of our monthly play lab as we host Bite Club: a Pet & Primal Play Immersive Experience. Calling all pets, primals, fur-esque, & creepy cryptids….get four on the floor for the world’s highest-energy pet play & wrestling-inspired primal fetish night! We’ll go from 8pm to midnight. Get advanced ticketing through ​Luma​ (preferred), ​Forbidden Tickets​, or ​Plura​. Sunday, April 19 Online: Join us online today for Service With Purpose, a live and recorded online class with 2024 International Master Master Retro Bella. In this class, you’ll learn how to guide your submissive toward a deeper understanding of their role, fostering a sense of purpose in their service that aligns with your authority. Attend live or through the recording with your advance tickets from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Monday, April 20 Online: Want to get into Emotional S/M? You’re going to need a partner you can really trust, no matter your side of the slash. We can help you figure this out! Join SuspendDisbelief online today for Monster Matchmaking: Assessing Compatibility for Emotional Sadomasochism. Please note that this class will not be recorded, so mark your calendars and get your advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ to attend live online. Tuesday, April 21 No live classes today, but you can check our all our ​digital downloads on Teachable​ or maybe take a moment to contribute to our ​April scholarship fundraiser​! Wednesday, April 22 Online: We talk a lot about the metaphor of a scene in BDSM play, but we don’t always talk about the ways we can use theater production to enhance our scenes. Everything from our set and setting, our music, our positioning, and even our costuming can make a huge difference in enhancing our play. Tonight, explore all of the ways getting dressed up – and getting undressed – can enhance our play with H G Wyndell in Dressed & Undressed: Playing With Wardrobe. Whether you’re a fashionista or just like more immersive scenes and play, you’ll walk away inspired and ready to take your play to the next level! Attend live or through the recording with advanced ticketing through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (PS: If you’re interested in the positioning piece, read on for Sunday!) Thursday, April 23 Online: If you enjoy cannabis and love kinky play, you’ll want to keep consent and communication at the forefront to be safe and have more connection and fun. Tonight, we hope you’ll join Lilithfoxx online for Blunt Talk: Boundaries and Consent While Using Cannabis. Attend live or through the recording with you advanced tickets from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday, April 24 No live classes today, but you can check our all our ​digital downloads on Teachable​. Saturday, April 25 Online: Join Mel & Memi online today for a special three-hour workshop on Erotic Humiliation! You’ll need advanced tickets to attend this class either live or through the recording. Don’t be too embarrassed to get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Mendocino, CA: Are you in northern coastal California? Looking to find your people? Our own Miriam Green hosts a monthly Mendocino Munch, usually in Mendocino or Fort Bragg, CA. This month we’ll meet from 1-3pm on the back deck of The Waiting Room in Mendocino (with a slight possibility of relocation if the weather forecast changes to rain – so far so good!). ​Find out more and RSVP here​! Online: Good boundaries are key

Howdy kinksters – Here on the California coast, we’re really enjoying the longer days and sense of connection that spring brings. Outdoor munches! Fun play parties! And, of course, lots of great kink education and community building. Part of building community is keeping it accessible for as many folks as we can. Our scholarship and membership drive continues this month, and we could really use your help and support! Here are some ways to support us and pay it forward to keep classes accessible to other kinksters: ​Contribute to our scholarship fund​! and/ or ​Become a member​ and get some awesome benefits We have some great classes for you this week all over the place – in the SF Bay Area, in downtown Los Angeles, and online. Let’s take a look! This Week! Thursday, April 9 and Friday, April 10 No live classes today, but you can check our all our ​digital downloads on Teachable​, or perhaps even plan ahead for our fall intensives or coaching. Saturday, April 11 San Francisco, CA: Join us at the Folsom Street Community Center for Leading and Following: D/s Body Language Daylong from 10am to 5pm with Alexandria. Explore the arts of D/s communication from an embodied, somatic perspective. You are welcome to come with a partner or solo; no partner is required. Space is limited and advanced ticketing is recommended through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ Online: Not in San Francisco? We have an intensive for you today, as well! Join Miss Mackenzee online for a four hour As You Wish: Exploring Service in Your Relationship Intensive. Advanced ticketing required, and while we will be recording this, we recommend attending live for the best experience. Get those advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday, April 12 Online: One relationship, many dynamics? Explore how to balance it all today with HypnoStory and PandaPet in The Littlest Sub: Balancing Multiple Dynamics. Advanced ticketing required to attend either live or through the recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Online: Ready to take your violet wand play to the next level? Join Electro Girly online today for Violet Wands 102: Beyond the First Spark. Attend live or through the recording with your tickets from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Monday, April 13 No live classes today, but you can check our all our ​digital downloads on Teachable​. Tuesday, April 14 Online: New to kink? Facing challenges with negotiation and consent? Join us tonight for a fundamental skills class, BDSM Negotiation Basics with our own Miriam Green. You’ll learn the basics of consent, scene negotiation, and how to navigate communication at each stage of planning, enacting, and recovering from play. Advanced tickets are required to attend either live or through the recording. Get yours through ​Plura​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​. Wednesday, April 15 No live classes today, but you can check our all our ​digital downloads on Teachable​. Thursday, April 16 Online: Calling all brats, aspiring brats, brat tamers and brat lovers! Join Princess Rara online tonight for Bratting Beyond Make Me: Navigating Misconceptions and Embracing the Brat! Let’s explore this exciting archetype and dynamic together. Attend live if you can. If you can’t, we’ll record it for you! Just be sure to get your advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday, April 17 No live classes today, but you can check our all our ​digital downloads on Teachable​. Saturday, April 18 There is a LOT going on today! Online: Join Aiden Sunassee online early today for Kink, Trauma Play, and Healing: A Research-Informed Deep Dive. We always recommend attending live if you can to make the most of Q&A, but we’ll record it for you to watch within one week if that is better for you. Get your advanced tickets through ​Plura​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​. San Francisco, CA: Ready to build your basic skills and confidence for rope bondage? Join us in San Francisco from noon – 4pm today for a workshop to learn all the basics: safety, single and double-column ties, and basic floorwork patterns. You’ll walk away with everything you need to do basic floorwork and bedroom ties, as well as the muscle memory to quickly pick up more complex patterns. Bring your own rope and safety shears if you have them, and we’ll have some loaner rope available. Advanced ticketing is strongly recommended! Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Online or Los Angeles, CA: Interested in or curious about primal play? Want to take yours to the next level? Join us either live in downtown Los Angeles or online from anywhere for Primal Perversions: Primal Play with Lady V and Killmeat Nick. Can’t attend live? We’ll record it for you with your advance tickets from ​Plura​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​. Or, get tickets to attend live in DTLA from ​Luma​ then stick around for our primal playshop after! Los Angeles, CA: Join Lady V tonight in downtown Los Angeles for a very special edition of our monthly play lab as we host Bite Club: a Pet & Primal Play Immersive Experience. Calling all pets, primals, fur-esque, & creepy cryptids….get four on the floor for the world’s highest-energy pet play & wrestling-inspired primal fetish night! We’ll go from 8pm to midnight. Get advanced ticketing through ​Luma​ (preferred), ​Forbidden Tickets​, or ​Plura​. Sunday, April 19 Online: Join us online today for Service With Purpose, a live and recorded online class with 2024 International Master Master Retro Bella. In this class, you’ll learn how to guide your submissive toward a deeper understanding of their role, fostering a sense of purpose in their service that aligns with your authority. Attend live or through the recording with your advance tickets from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Intensives! We offer several intensives throughout the year, both in person and ​online​. Leading and Following: D/s Body Language Daylong with Alexandria: 10am – 5pm, April 11. (San Francisco, CA) Tickets: ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. As You Wish: Exploring Service in Your Relationship Half Day Intensive with Miss Mackenzee: 11am – 3pm

Spring is in the air and we are blooming with lots of new classes & events already! If you love what we do and want to help us expand our access, please contribute to our annual ​Scholarship Fund Drive​ or ​become a supporting member of Wicked Grounds​. Both of these programs help us provide classes with the greatest access as well as provide more specialty and niche education that you won’t find anywhere else! Need personal coaching & guidance for questions around sex, kink, and relationships? Reach out for one-time or ongoing coaching sessions at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.com​. Not sure if coaching is the right fit for you? We offer ​10-15 minute exploration sessions​ to learn more and ensure we’re a good fit. The Roundup! Daylong & Multi-week Intensives 4/11 10am – 5pm PDT: Leading and Following: A D/s Body Language Daylong Intensive with Alexandria from Click Your Heels​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (San Francisco, CA) 4/11 11am PDT: As You Wish: Exploring Service in Your Relationship Intensive with Miss Mackenzee​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/3 10am – 5pm PDT: The Embodied Feminine Daylong Intensive with Alexandria from Click Your Heels​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (San Francisco, CA) May 2026: ​Kink Class Incubator​ (ONLINE) November – December 2026. ​Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires​ (ONLINE) S/m & the physical side of play 4/12 2pm PDT: Violet Wands 102: Beyond the First Spark with Electro Girly​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 4/27 6pm PDT: Handling Their Precious Bits: CBT for Beginners and Beyond with Miss Mackenzee​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/9 3pm PDT: Private Joy: Sadomasochism for Solo & Distance Play with Miriam Green​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/20 6pm PDT: Blood, Sweat, & Fears: The Art and Thrill of Blood Play with Jamie Joy​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) Bondage 4/18 Noon-4pm PDT: Getting Started with Rope Intensive with Psychokitty​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (San Francisco, CA) 5/18 6pm PDT: Channeling the Energy: Tantra and Rope with Miss Mackenzee​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) D/s, role play & the mental side of play 4/11 10am – 5pm PDT: Leading and Following: A D/s Body Language Daylong Intensive with Alexandria from Click Your Heels​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (San Francisco, CA) 4/11 11am PDT: As You Wish: Exploring Service in Your Relationship Intensive with Miss Mackenzee​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 4/12 11am PDT: The Littlest Sub: Balancing Multiple Dynamics with HypnoStory and Pandapet​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 4/16 6pm PDT: Bratting Beyond Make Me: Navigating Misconceptions and Embracing the Brat with Princess Rara​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 4/19 2pm PDT: Service With Purpose with Master Retro Bella​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 4/20 6pm PDT: Monster Matchmaking: Assessing Compatibility for Emotional Sadomasochism with SuspendDisbelief​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 4/25 11am PDT: Erotic Humiliation with Mel & Memi​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 4/26 2pm PDT: Creating Practical Slave Positions with Hannah the Scribe​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 4/28 6pm PDT: High Protocol for D/s with Sinclair Sexsmith​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 4/29 6pm PDT: Holy Cow! Intro to Hucow Play with Lady V​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/7 6pm PDT: Seducing Your sub: How to Create Erotic Tension & Keep Your sub Coming Back For More with Marla Renee Stewart​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/14 6pm PDT: Crafting A Psycho-Emotive Ritual Scene with Keiden Bren​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/16 2pm PDT: Stealth D/s Protocols with Marilyn and Rio​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/23 2pm PDT: Intro to Verbal Humiliation: Off the Cuff, On Your Knees with Dolly Diatima​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/26 6pm PDT: The Protocol Game with Sinclair Sexsmith​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/27 6pm PDT: Creating Energetic Containers for Kink with HG Wyndell​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 8/1 2:30 PDT: Improv for Kinksters with Psychokitty Ryan​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (San Francisco, CA) Primal Play 4/18 6pm PDT: Primal Communication with Lady V​Luma​ (Los Angeles ticketing only) ​Forbidden Tickets​ (online ticketing only) ​Plura​ (online ticketing only) (Hybrid: ONLINE + Los Angeles, CA) 4/18 8pm PDT: Wicked Grounds Play Lab: Bite Club! with Lady V​​Luma​​ (Los Angeles, CA) Sexy Times 5/4 6pm PDT: Blown Away: Oral Sex for Every Body with Jamie Joy​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) Hypnosis 5/16 11am PDT: Mindful Brainwashing with Aidan​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) Polyamory and Nonmonogamy 5/21 6pm PDT: The Art & Science of Compersion with Marie Thouin PhD​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/28 6pm PDT: Unfuck Your Relationship Escalator: (Re)Building Healthy Relationship Foundations with Lilith Foxx​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) Creativity and Movement 4/11 10am – 5pm PDT: Leading and Following: A D/s Body Language Daylong Intensive with Alexandria from Click Your Heels​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (San Francisco, CA) 4/22 6pm PDT: Dressed & Undressed: Playing With Wardrobe with HG Wyndell​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 4/26 2pm PDT: Creating Practical Slave Positions with Hannah the Scribe​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 8/1 2:30pm PDT: Improv for Kinksters with Psychokitty Ryan​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (San Francisco, CA) Self-knowledge, negotiation & consent 4/7 6pm PDT: Dealing with Drop with Miriam Green​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 4/14 6pm PDT: BDSM Negotiation Basics with Miriam Green​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 4/15 6pm PDT: Light my Fire – Kinky Cannabis Play with Lady V​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 4/18 11am PDT: Kink, Trauma Play, and Healing: A Research-Informed Deep Dive with Aidan​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 4/23 6pm PDT: Blunt Talk: Boundaries and Consent in Cannabis with Lilith Foxx​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 4/25 3pm PDT: Badass Boundaries: The Discipline of Power: The Zero-Defect Protocol for Interpersonal Leadership with Buzz Stingyear​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 4/26 11am PDT: Autism and Kink with John Pendal​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/2 2pm PDT: Negotiation Skills for subs and Bottoms with Faun​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/9 11am PDT: Cellaring: Refining Your Skills as an Older Kinkster with Miriam Green​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/12 6pm PDT: BDSM Negotiation Basics with Miriam Green​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/24 11am PDT: Creating Your Risk Profile with Mel & Memi​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) Community: Friends, dating, relationships & kink culture!

Howdy kinksters – It’s April, and that means it’s time for our annual Scholarship Fundraising Drive and Membership Drive. We are strongly committed to keeping our education as accessible as possible, including offering sliding scale and scholarship seats for our classes. If you’d like to help us keep offering scholarships while taking care of our instructors, you may contribute to the scholarship fund ​here​. We also offer a membership program, and offer significant discounts to our VIP members! You may find out more about membership on our ​Patreon​. It is no overstatement to say we literally would not exist without the continued support of our Patreon members at all levels. To review: ​Contribute to our scholarship fund​! and/ or ​Become a member​ and get some awesome benefits Keep us thriving and growing! And now, let’s look at the events for this week! This Week! Thursday, April 2 and Friday, April 3 No live classes today, but you can check our all our ​digital downloads on Teachable​, or perhaps even plan ahead for our fall intensives or coaching. Saturday, April 4 Online: Ready to learn some practical sex magick? Join Miriam BatAsherah Green online today for Put a Sigil On It! In just two hours, you’ll walk away having constructed a basic magickal sigil that you can charge in your own rituals, and you’ll know some basic sex magick techniques to apply in your everyday life. No previous knowledge required, but you might particularly like this workshop if you’ve taken part in our Sex Magick for Kinksters class! Attend live or through the recording with your advanced tickets from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday, April 5 and Monday, April 6 No live classes today since we heard you’d all be out at the Hunky Jesus contest or something, but you can check our all our ​digital downloads on Teachable​. Tuesday, April 7 Online: The blahs. Crash. A “case of the Mondays.” However it manifests for you, drop can really suck. But there are strategies we can use to make it suck less, and knowledge is power! Learn all about why drop happens and what you can do about it in tonight’s online class Dealing with Drop with Miriam Green. Advanced ticketing required to attend live or through the recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden TIckets​ or ​Plura​. Wednesday, April 8 Online: Want to explore the deep creativity of needle play? Join Miss Mackenzee online tonight for From Concept to Canvas: Creative Needle Play. Advanced ticketing required to attend either live or through the recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. San Francisco, CA: Want to meet a lot of new friends and potential play partners – fast? Join us tonight in downtown San Francisco for Wicked Grounds + Plura Present: Kinky Speed Friending hosted by Psychokitty Ryan. Space is limited – and we will not be able to host this event in May, so we definitely recommend coming next week! Get your advanced ticketing ​exclusively on Plura​. Thursday, April 9 and Friday, April 10 No live classes today, but you can check our all our ​digital downloads on Teachable​, or perhaps even plan ahead for our fall intensives or coaching. Saturday, April 11 San Francisco, CA: Join us at the Folsom Street Community Center for Leading and Following: D/s Body Language Daylong from 10am to 5pm with Alexandria. Explore the arts of D/s communication from an embodied, somatic perspective. You are welcome to come with a partner or solo; no partner is required. Space is limited and advanced ticketing is recommended through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ Online: Not in San Francisco? We have an intensive for you today, as well! Join Miss Mackenzee online for a four hour As You Wish: Exploring Service in Your Relationship Intensive. Advanced ticketing required, and while we will be recording this, we recommend attending live for the best experience. Get those advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday, April 12 Online: One relationship, many dynamics? Explore how to balance it all today with HypnoStory and PandaPet in The Littlest Sub: Balancing Multiple Dynamics. Advanced ticketing required to attend either live or through the recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Online: Ready to take your violet wand play to the next level? Join Electro Girly online today for Violet Wands 102: Beyond the First Spark. Attend live or through the recording with your tickets from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Intensives! We offer several intensives throughout the year, both in person and ​online​. Leading and Following: D/s Body Language Daylong with Alexandria: 10am – 5pm, April 11. (San Francisco, CA) Tickets: ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. As You Wish: Exploring Service in Your Relationship Half Day Intensive with Miss Mackenzee: 11am – 3pm PDT, April 11. (ONLINE) Tickets: ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Getting Started with Rope Halfday Intensive with Psychokitty (San Francisco, CA). Tickets: ​Plura​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​. ​Kink Class Incubator​ Registration now open for April 27 – May 26. (ONLINE) The Embodied Feminine Daylong Intensive with Alexandria (San Francisco, CA). Tickets: ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. ​Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires​. Registration now open for November 2 – December 14. (ONLINE) Warmly, Mir & The Wicked Grounds Team Support. Follow. Share. Join our ​Patreon​ for personal benefits and to stabilize our long-term trajectory. Book ​with us​ for coaching and consulting time with Mir. 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​)