This Week with Wicked Grounds (1/9 – 1/18)

Howdy kinksters –

I hope that this week is finding you as much as possible in your full power: resilient, fierce, and fully here for yourself and those you love.

I have a firmly held life-long belief that being true to our creative and erotic selves brings power and presence to everything we do, and I’m committed to keep showing up for the ways that Wicked Grounds and I can help in your own erotic and creative journeys.

We have a large and growing calendar of events. I’ll get out a new full roster of classes in the next few days, but let’s start by taking a look at the week ahead.

This Week!

Friday, Jan 9

Online: Our ​Month of Mindfulness for Kinksters​ continues, and is our only live programming today. Late registration will be available all month.

Saturday, Jan 10

Online: Curious about the old leather guard and its impact on how we connect with Leather, kink, and BDSM today? You should hear all about it from one of the original OG: Hardy Haberman. Join Hardy online tonight for Old Guard Protocols and Why You Don’t Need Them. We’ll hear about the history of the D/s subculture and demystify some ideas about The One True Way of kink. Whether or not you identify as Leather, you’re certain to get some great new perspectives in a warm and engaging session. Get your tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ and you can attend live (recommended!) or through the recording within one week.

Online: Open wide! Mel & Memi are back with a class on Vaginal Fisting! You don’t want to miss this. Get your advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​.

Sunday, Jan 11

Online: Interested in integrating punishments into your BDSM dynamics? Join Sarah Butcher online today for Discipline and Punishment! You’ll need advanced tickets to attend live or through the recording, so get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​.

Online: Join the amazing vahavta online this afternoon for Make Me a Masochist: Changing Your Relationship With Pain. All the ins and outs of basic pain management and mindset shift from a truly excellent bottoms-skills educator. Join us online – and this one is live only, so mark your calendars! Ticketing through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​.

Monday, Jan 12

Online: Think rope always needs to be quiet, artful, meditative? Think again! Join professional pervert Jamie Joy online tonight to learn all about Twisted Ties: Sadistic Rope Play. Advanced ticketing required whether you plan to attend live or catch up later with the recording. Get your tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​.

Tuesday, Jan 13

Online: The best way to improve your play is to improve your planning and communication. Negotiation and consent are skills we can learn, and they’re just as important as how to tie bondage knots or throw a flogger. Join Miriam Green online tonight for BDSM Negotiation Basics to learn best practices for awesome scenes. Advanced ticketing will allow you to attend live or through the recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​.

Wednesday, Jan 14

Online: A tarot class from an excellent kink educator? Yes, please! Join Lee Harrington online tonight as he shares his other love with you in Choosing and Connecting with Tarot and Oracle Decks. Find a great new deck for the new year! Advanced ticketing allows you to attend live or at your convenience all week. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​.

Thursday, Jan 15

Online: Nonmonogamy has several different styles, and they’re not one size fits all. Perhaps you’ve heard of relationship anarchy but don’t know that much about it. Perhaps someone you’re flirting with or friends with practices relationship anarchy and you’d like to understand more. Let’s sort it all out tonight in WTF is Relationship Anarchy? with Laura Boyle of Ready For Polyamory. What’s not anarchic? Ticketing! Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ and you can watch live or anytime in the next week through the recording.

Friday, Jan 16

Online: Our ​Month of Mindfulness for Kinksters​ continues, and is our only live programming today. Late registration will be available all month.

Saturday, Jan 17

Online: Looking for some new protocols for D/s? Maybe it’s time for some new year/ new you? Join us today to explore Ass to Grass: Fitness as a Tool of Domination with MF Dom. You can watch live or through the recording all week with your advanced tickets. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​.

Online: There are a lot of ways to explore energetic polarity, but sometimes we need to get beyond conventional models. Join us online today for Busting the Binary In Your Energy Play with Keiden Bren to explore other modes! Advanced ticketing required to attend live or through the recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​.

Sunday, Jan 18

Online: Join UK kink educator Sarah Butcher online today to explore Rules and Rituals for Power Play. Advanced ticketing required to attend live or through the recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​.

Online: Want to go really deep into understanding your own and others’ motivations and styles in kink? Join Sir Scott online today for the first in a two-part series The Archetypes of Power & Surrender. We’ll meet both this afternoon and again on Thursday, Jan 29th, and both sessions will be recorded if you can’t attend live. Get your advanced tickets before the first session through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​.

Intensives!

We offer several intensives throughout the year, both in person and ​online​.

• ​Month of Mindfulness for Kinksters 2026​: Late registration now open for this group continuing through January 31, 2026. (ONLINE)

• ​Movement Day with Click Your Heels​: Sunday, Jan 4th in Oakland, CA!

• ​All the Kabbalah You Really Need to Know​ Registration now open for February 1 – March 14. (ONLINE)

• ​Kink Class Incubator​ Registration now open for April 27 – May 26. (ONLINE)

• ​Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires​. Registration now open for November 2 – December 14. (ONLINE)

Warmly, Mir & The Wicked Grounds Team

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