Author: Miriam Green

Hello Kinksters – Happy new year! I hope that this week back to work is gentle, and that all your resolutions are staying resolute! If one of your goals for this year is to go deeper in BDSM & sexuality, we have you covered. Check out our full (and growing) set of classes here. If you’d like to get in a lot of classes, a Wicked Grounds events pass offers substantial discounts over regular per class pricing. This week we launched our monthlong mindfulness & habit building challenge, and several of us have been journaling and sitting ever since, which has been really helpful for me to create a bit more mental space. If you’d like to join us, it’s not too late — we’re allowing late registration through Sunday, and offer a bit of supplemental orientation in our Monday evening session. Sunday will also be the last day to purchase Your (Kink) Year in Review: 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, Jan 4 Join Lee Harrington online at 6pm Pacific for an exploration of D/s in Sir! Yes Sir!: Exploring Protocol in Power Exchange Dynamics. Tickets will be on sale until tonight’s start time of 6pm Pacific/ 9pm Eastern. If you’d like to attend, please take command of the situation and get your tickets here. Need more rope in your life? Join us at 7pm for the Wicked Rope Jam at Folsom Street Community Center. Get your advance tickets here!. We will also have tickets available at the door (and possibly limited rope for sale on site.) Saturday, Jan 6 Want to get the most out of the San Francisco Bay Area Kink Scene? The very best way to get oriented, connect with resources, and find your community is in Wicked Grounds’ Welcome to the SF Kink Scene, offered live once per month on first Saturdays at noon. This class is only offered live, and we’ll be at Trellis in downtown SF (near 5th & Mission). Miriam Green will be teaching this month. Advance ticketing strongly recommended. Get yours here! Sunday, Jan 7 Getting more movement in your new year doesn’t need to feel like so much . . . well, work. Why not explore getting back into and honoring your body in a way where you don’t have to leave so much of yourself at the door? Join Alexandria of Click Your Heels for Erotic Movement at Mukunda Studios in SOMA at 2pm. Space is limited, and we recommend advance ticketing. Get yours here! Monday, Jan 8 Navigating consent in BDSM dynamics is a nuanced conversation, and cannabis use adds an additional layer of complexity. If you consume cannabis, but also want to keep super clear about its role in your kink life, Blunt Talk with Lilith Foxx (6pm Pacific, online) is the class for you. Participants will learn strategies for discussing preferences and consent beforehand, mitigating risks, recognizing how cannabis might affect consent communication, and staying aware of nonverbal cues and intoxication levels. The insights and tools provided will foster healthy, consensual connections in scenarios where cannabis is part of the equation. Advance ticketing required – get yours here! Tuesday, Jan 9 What is the link between BDSM/ kink and leather (the object, and the frame of mind)? Explore this link in our 6pm Pacific online class, What’s Leather Got to Do With It? Leather Identity, Fetish, Sex, and Soul. From tools of pain and pleasure to the wide varieties that wrap around our form and conform to our shape, tonight’s class with Lee Harrington will examine our tough exteriors to find how leather fetish has inspired leather sex, and in turn, leather soul, identity, and spirit. Advance ticketing required – get yours here! Join us in San Francisco tonight for a great hands-on intro to flogging! This month, our new FlogLab instructor Reika Minxie will guest host on our regular SpankLab date to introduce you to her new playshop! This hands-on playshop in San Francisco will be taking over second Tuesdays each month (and we’ll be back with a new day and time for SpankLab starting in February). Whether you’re an experienced flogger who wants to learn more, or brand new to using these tools, you are welcome here! We’ll start at 7pm in SOMA, San Francisco. Details & ticketing here. Wednesday, Jan 10 The sacred is everywhere if we know what to look for! In our class partnership with Magickal Crossroads, we bring you Urban Magick: Sacred Sites in Your City with Diana Rajchel. This online class starts at 6pm Pacific/ 9pm Eastern. Get advance tickets here! Thursday, Jan 11 Electro play has a different toolkit from other types of BDSM play, and that includes particular skills to cultivate as an electro play bottom. Join Carmen Pandiego and Nick -Illuminaughty- at 6pm Pacific online for SubSpice: Bottoming for Electro Play. This class will discuss preparing yourself mentally, physically, and making sure you have the right information to be an empowered bottom. Advance ticketing required – get yours here! Saturday, Jan 13 Dollification is the process of evolving yourself–or someone else–into a “living doll” using consensual modification of mental/behavioral and physical/clothing traits. Learn the secrets of this dynamic fetish in our hybrid workshop Dollification for New Dolls, Makers & Owners with Danarama Saturday, Jan 13th at 2pm Pacific – either online or in person with us in San Francisco! 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! January 29-March 15, 2024. Miriam BatAsherah Green is offering their “only

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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