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Hello kinksters – Happy “oh so many holidays!” week. Passover! Hunky Jesus in the Park with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence! Earth Day! And 4/20! No matter what you celebrate (or don’t!), we wish you a very festive week. We have a few ways to make it even better. For those of you who will be out enjoying the weekend, don’t forget that (with very few – and noted – exceptions) our classes are recorded to watch within ten days of the class date. Just get your tickets in advance, and we’ll get the recording link out to your email about a day after the class happens. Easy! This week! Thursday 4/17 through Friday 4/18 We don’t have any live classes today, but you can get our digital downloads and video classes at ​Wicked Grounds Annex​. Saturday 4/19 Join us online at 11am Pacific for Crafting A Psycho-Emotive Ritual Scene with Keiden Bren. Learn what you need to make your scenes fully immersive and engaging in this online class. Can’t attend live? We’ll record this class to watch on demand throughout the week. Advanced ticketing is required. Get yours on ​Plura​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​. Sunday 4/20 We heard today was the high holidays, and we booked three classes for the season, all online. All three classes can be attended live or watched later in the week on demand, but you must get your tickets before the class time to get the recording. Join us at 11am Pacific for The High Life: Cannabis, Intimacy, and Kink with Miss Mackenzee. With many people using cannabis for recreation or medicine, it’s important to think about how this impacts our intimacy, sexuality, and play. Let’s be more safe and have more fun! Get your advanced tickets on ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ and you can watch this class live or later in the week on demand. Then at 2pm Pacific, join Lilithfoxx for Blunt Talk: Boundaries and Consent While Using Cannabis. Good boundaries and good consent are critical for all kinds of play, not just because they keep us safe but also because they actually allow us to be more present and have more fun when we are playing. Get your advanced tickets on ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. And finally at 4:20pm Pacific: you’ve heard of cigar service, but why not apply that to blunts and cannabis? Join us for a unique look at service play in Canna Service with Auntie Vice. Advanced tickets are required. Get yours on ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Monday 4/21 Great negotiation makes for scenes that are safer, more connective, and frankly much hotter. When we negotiate well, we can fully immerse ourselves in play. So let’s build the skills and background to understand how negotiation works best! Join Miriam Green online tonight at 6pm Pacific for Kink 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics. You’ll need advanced tickets, so get those through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Tuesday 4/22 Want to explore Daddy play but not sure where to start (or how to put all those taboos at bay)? Join Sinclair Sexsmith online tonight at 6pm Pacific for Daddy 101: Building the Foundation, and learn the allure and best practices for this kind of play. Please note that this class will not be recorded, and will be live-attendance only! Get your advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Wednesday 4/23 You’ve planned hot role play, you have the scene all mapped out, you even made a playlist. What about the costuming?! The more immersive elements we can build into our play, the deeper we’ll go. Explore some great ways to elevate how to use clothing (or the lack of it!) in your scenes in tonight’s online class Dressed & UnDressed: Playing With Wardrobe with HG Wyndell. You’ll need advanced ticketing for this one. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Thursday 4/24 Curious about threesomes? Want to make them better, more fun, and less complicated? Join Lilithfoxx tonight online for Finding the Unicorn: Navigating the World of Threesomes and expand your horizons! Advanced tickets required for this 6pm Pacific class. Hunt for yours on ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday 4/25 through Sunday 4/27 We don’t have any live classes this weekend, but you can get our digital downloads and video classes at ​Wicked Grounds Annex​. Support. Follow. Share. Join our ​Patreon​ for personal benefits and to stabilize our long-term trajectory. Annual memberships now available! Book ​with us​ for coaching and consulting time with Mir. Use our ​Venmo​ for one-time donations toward our sustainability, and to help specifically with scholarship tickets. 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​)

Howdy kinksters! A huge thank-you to our Patreon supporters!!! We <3 you and salute your efforts to keep us going and growing. If you value what we do, please make a ​monthly membership contribution​. (VIPs get some particularly sweet benefits, like discounts and even some free classes!) Links below are to our primary ticketing via ​Forbidden Tickets​. If you’re a Plura member, check the ​Plura​ app for ticketing there as well. We usually have Plura ticketing available 2-4 weeks before each event. Need personal coaching & guidance for those sticky issues 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 now offer ​10-15 minute exploration sessions​ to learn more or answer the quickest of questions. The Roundup! Multi-week Intensives ​Wicked Grounds’ Kink Class Incubator – May 2025​ ​Stepping into Pride: A five week workshop to discover your own pride in your LGBTQ+ identity – July 2025​ NEW 8/10 – 9/20: ​The Pentacle Path: A Six-Week Online Tarot Intensive with Miriam Batasherah Green​ ​Diving Deep: Discovering and Voicing Erotic Desires – November – December 2025​ ​Month of Mindfulness for Kinksters 2026​ Special April 20th Deep Dive: Cannabis & Kink! 4/20 11am PDT: ​The High Life: Cannabis, Intimacy, and Kink with Miss Mackenzee​ (ONLINE) 4/20 2pm PDT: ​Blunt Talk: Boundaries and Consent While Using Cannabis with Lilith Foxx​ (ONLINE) 4/20 4:20 PDT: ​Canna Service with Auntie Vice​ (ONLINE) S/m & the physical side of play 4/19 2pm PDT: ​Exploring Pleasure Through Pervertibles with Princess Rara​ (ONLINE) 5/7 7pm PDT: ​Wicked Grounds Presents: SpankLab!​ (San Francisco, CA) 6/18 6pm PDT: ​Pedi Pain: Impact and Pressure Points for Feet with HG Wyndell​ (ONLINE) Fetish 4/23 6pm PDT: ​Dressed & UnDressed: Playing With Wardrobe with HG Wyndell​ (ONLINE) Bondage NEW 5/22 7pm PDT: ​Getting Started with Rope Part 1 with Psychokitty Ryan​ (San Francisco, CA) 5/26 6pm PDT: ​Boundless Creativity: Innovative Ways to Use Rope in Play with Miss Mackenzee​ (ONLINE) D/s, role play & the mental side of play 4/15 7pm PDT: ​Improv for Naughty Play with Psychokitty​ (San Francisco, CA) 4/19 11am PDT: ​Crafting A Psycho-Emotive Ritual Scene with Keiden Bren​ (ONLINE) 4/20 4:20 PDT: ​Canna Service with Auntie Vice​ (ONLINE) 4/22 6pm PDT: ​Daddy 101: Build the Foundation with Sinclair Sexsmith​ (ONLINE) 4/28 6pm PDT: ​Unlocking Euphoria: Navigating Subspace Together with Miss Mackenzee​ (ONLINE) NEW 5/10 11am PDT: ​An Introduction to Submission with Sarah Butcher​ (ONLINE) NEW 5/11 11am PDT: ​Domination 101 with Sarah Butcher​ (ONLINE) 6/8 12pm PDT: ​Leading and Following: Nonverbal D/s with Alexandria​ (San Francisco, CA) NEW 6/23 6pm PST: ​Blurring the Lines: Consensual Non-Consent with Miss Mackenzee​ (ONLINE) Movement workshops NEW 5/4 11:30 am – 6:30pm PDT: ​The Embodied Feminine: A Daylong Somatic Intensive with Alexandria​ (San Francisco, CA) 6/8 12pm PDT: ​Leading and Following: Nonverbal D/s with Alexandria​ (San Francisco, CA) Sexy Times 4/20 11am PDT: ​The High Life: Cannabis, Intimacy, and Kink with Miss Mackenzee​ (ONLINE) 4/24 6pm PDT: ​Finding the Unicorn: Navigating the World of Threesomes with Lilith Foxx​ (ONLINE) 5/27 6pm PDT: ​Cock Confidence with Sinclair Sexsmith​ (ONLINE) 6/17 & 6/24 6pm PDT: ​Writing Spicy: A Two-Part Workshop with Sinclair Sexsmith​ (ONLINE) 6/26 6pm PDT: ​Safe(r) Play: Navigating STI/STD Safety in BDSM with Lillith Foxx​ (ONLINE) Polyamory & ethical non-monogamy 4/24 6pm PDT: ​Finding the Unicorn: Navigating the World of Threesomes with Lilith Foxx​ (ONLINE) NEW 5/1 6pm PDT: ​Compersion in Non-Monogamy: Myths, Realities, and Possibilities with Marie Thouin​ (ONLINE) 5/22 6pm PDT: ​Unf*ck Your Relationship Escalator: (Re)Building Healthy Relationship Foundations with Lilithfoxx​ (ONLINE) 5/28 6pm PDT: ​Long Distance Polyamory with HG Wyndell​ (ONLINE) Self-knowledge, negotiation & consent 4/20 2pm PDT: ​Blunt Talk: Boundaries and Consent While Using Cannabis with Lilithfoxx​ (ONLINE) 4/21 6pm PDT: ​Kink 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) 5/22 6pm PDT: ​Unf*ck Your Relationship Escalator: (Re)Building Healthy Relationship Foundations with Lilithfoxx​ (ONLINE) NEW 5/31 11am PDT: ​Consent, Accountability, and Neurodivergence: Pt 1 with Adam and Draven​ (ONLINE) NEW 6/1 11am PDT: ​Consent, Accountability, and Neurodivergence: Pt 1 with Adam and Draven​ (ONLINE) 6/26 6pm PDT: ​Safe(r) Play: Navigating STI/STD Safety in BDSM with Lillith Foxx​ (ONLINE) Community: Friends, dating, relationships & kink culture! 5/3 11am PDT: ​Welcome to the Public Kink Scene with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) 5/14 7pm PDT: ​Wicked Grounds + Plura Present: Kinky Speed Friending​ (San Francisco, CA) Spirituality, Magick, and Occult (with Magickal Crossroads) 4/19 11am PDT: ​Crafting A Psycho-Emotive Ritual Scene with Keiden Bren​ (ONLINE) 8/10 – 9/20: ​The Pentacle Path: A Six-Week Online Tarot Intensive with Miriam Batasherah Green​ Self-Directed Digital Downloads ​Diving Deep (video class)​ ​KINK 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics (video class)​ ​KINK 202: Advanced Negotiation for Dynamics & Relationships (video class)​ ​Private Joy: Sadomasochism for Solo & Distance Play (video class)​ ​Kink Self-Discovery Workbook (self-directed template)​ ​Aftercare Kit Checklist

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Hello kinksters – First, a quick note! We are having some really annoying issues with our ​Wicked Grounds Annex​ site this week relating to how your browser finds the page. (Note to our many technical friends – we already have Teachable, Cloudflare and GoDaddy looking at it – but if you work for one of those companies, feel free to ping me!) tl;dr: the site is working, but your computer will have a hard time finding it without the archaic “www” in front of the address. If you have been trying to book coaching or get a digital download over there and can’t get the page to pull up, try that! Or, you can find the full site at this address: ​https://wickedgroundsannex.teachable.com/​. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to resolve this soon! I’ve changed any links in the section below to fix this. 🙂 We have some very fun things lined up for your this week! On Sunday, we’re offering a unique daylong intensive in SF focused on non-verbal communication skills for D/s scenes and relationships. These are critical skills that I haven’t seen taught in this way elsewhere. ​Check it out!​. My advice? Start the day with the SF Fetish Flea at Stopgap to get some great toys, and then come on over to our all-day class. For the very verbal side of D/s, we’ll also offer ​Improv for Naughty Play​ in SF on Tuesday! The week ends with 4/20, and we have your classes for the day fully baked. We are offering three online classes on cannabis and kink on Sunday 4/20, and you won’t want to miss these. This week! Thursday 4/10 Feeling down. A case of the Mondays. The dreaded “drop.” What is this malaise we get in the days after a scene and what can we do about it? Let’s explore this tonight in Dealing with Drop with Miriam Green! Advanced ticketing required. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday 4/11 and Saturday 4/12 We don’t have any live classes these days, but you can get our digital downloads and video classes at ​Wicked Grounds Annex​. Sunday 4/13 If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, be sure to check out the San Francisco Fetish Flea up at Stopgap! This is a great way to get handcrafted kink gear and meet new friends. You can find details on FetLife and Erobay. And join us online from anywhere for a look at hair pulling play! At 11am Pacific it’s Fatal Follicles: Hair Pulling for Harlots! with Lady V. Advanced ticketing required, so get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. In San Francisco, join Wicked Grounds and Click Your Heels for a unique daylong D/s intensive, Leading & Following: A Daylong Dominance & Submission Intensive. You’ll learn all about nonverbal communication for excellent D/s dynamics and BDSM scenes in this 1:30 – 7:30 pm class. Get your advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Monday 4/14 We don’t have any live classes today, but you can get our digital downloads and video classes at ​Wicked Grounds Annex​. Tuesday 4/15 If you’ve done a lot of roleplay or other verbal play, you know how hard it can be to both center consent and think on your feet about how to stay in your role and keep the scene immersive. We’ve done a lot of thinking about this and are delighted to offer you Improv for Naughty Play with Psychokitty, in which we’ll explore some basic improv techniques that will help you co-create interesting scenes with your partners in real time. This class is only taught live in SF, and space is very limited. We’ll meet tonight at 7pm at Trellis near 5th and Mission. Get your advanced tickets at ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Wednesday 4/16 through Friday 4/18 We don’t have any live classes today, but you can get our digital downloads and video classes at ​Wicked Grounds Annex​. Saturday 4/19 Join us online at 11am Pacific for Crafting A Psycho-Emotive Ritual Scene with Keiden Bren. Learn what you need to make your scenes fully immersive and engaging in this online class. Can’t attend live? We’ll record this class to watch on demand throughout the week. Advanced ticketing is required. Get yours on ​Plura​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​. Don’t want to spend a bazillion dollars on building out your toybag? Just like begin creative with your tools? Join Princess Rara at 2pm Pacific online for Exploring Pleasure with Pervertables! Advanced ticketing required, whether you plan to watch live or catch the recording later in the week. Get your tickets on ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday 4/20 We heard today was the high holidays, and we booked three classes for the season, all online. All three classes can be attended live or watched later in the week on demand, but you must get your tickets before the class time to get the recording. Join us at 11am Pacific for The High Life: Cannabis, Intimacy, and Kink with Miss Mackenzee. With many people using cannabis for recreation or medicine, it’s important to think about how this impacts our intimacy, sexuality, and play. Let’s be more safe and have more fun! Get your advanced tickets on ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ and you can watch this class live or later in the week on demand. Then at 2pm Pacific, join Lilithfoxx for Blunt Talk: Boundaries and Consent While Using Cannabis. Good boundaries and good consent are critical for all kinds of play, not just because they keep us safe but also because they actually allow us to be more present and have more fun when we are playing. Get your advanced tickets on ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. And finally at 4:20pm Pacific: you’ve heard of cigar service, but why not apply that to blunts and cannabis? Join us for a unique look at service play in Canna Service with Auntie Vice. Advanced tickets are required. 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Hello kinksters – It’s the first weekend of the month, and that means we have some excellent programming in the San Francisco Bay Area over the weekend as well as lots of great online classes for kinksters everywhere throughout the week. Let’s take a look! This week! Thursday 4/3 Tonight in San Francisco, join visiting instructor Jamie Joy for The Edge of Desire: Knife Play 101. We strongly recommend advanced ticketing, and we will require waivers for admittance. Get your advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Saturday 4/5 It’s first Saturday! That means we have some great in-person classes for you in San Francisco. Join us at noon near 5th & Mission for Welcome to the SF Bay Area Kink Scene with Miriam Green. You’ll learn all about the culture, groups, organizations, venues and parties that make the SF kink scene so memorable, and how to navigate this world safely. Get advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (Not in SF? Don’t sweat it! We do an ​online version of this class​ for kinksters everywhere on alternating months.) Then at 2:30 pm, stick around for Negotiation Improv with Wiley Elote. Something like a cross between a negotiation class, an improv session and kinky speed friending, this unique format gives you the opportunity to practice negotiating in your out-loud voice. Get your advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday 4/6 Consent collisions happen. It’s what we do to avoid and recover from them that makes all the difference. Join us online at 11am Pacific for From Harm to Healing: A Guide to Community Accountability with Adam and Ash of Consent Academy to navigate all the ways to keep relationships and communities strong. Get your advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Are you in SF? Want to get much better connected with your body? Join us from noon – 3pm for Erotic Movement with Click Your Heels in SOMA. Advanced ticketing strongly recommended. This class can and often does sell out! Get your spot through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Monday 4/7 Want to explore lots of potential paradigms for D/s play? Join us online at 6pm Pacific tonight for Sir! Yes Sir!: Exploring Protocol in Power Exchange Dynamics with Lee Harrington! Advanced ticketing is required. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Wednesday 4/9 Want to meet a lot of new friends, allies, and potential play partners – fast? Join us at 7pm in San Francisco for Wicked Grounds + Plura Present: Kinky Speed Friending! Advanced ticketing is required. Get yours ​here​. Then make a night of it and check out PlayXLand at the ​SF Cat Club​. Thursday 4/10 Feeling down. A case of the Mondays. The dreaded “drop.” What is this malaise we get in the days after a scene and what can we do about it? Let’s explore this tonight in Dealing with Drop with Miriam Green! Advanced ticketing required. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday 4/13 If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, be sure to check out the San Francisco Fetish Flea up at Stopgap! This is a great way to get handcrafted kink gear and meet new friends. You can find details on FetLife and Erobay. And join us online from anywhere for a look at hair pulling play! At 11am Pacific it’s Fatal Follicles: Hair Pulling for Harlots! with Lady V. Advanced ticketing required, so get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. In San Francisco, join Wicked Grounds and Click Your Heels for a unique daylong D/s intensive, Leading & Following: A Daylong Dominance & Submission Intensive. You’ll learn all about nonverbal communication for excellent D/s dynamics and BDSM scenes in this 1:30 – 7:30 pm class. Get your advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Support. Follow. Share. Join our ​Patreon​ for personal benefits and to stabilize our long-term trajectory. Annual memberships now available! Book ​with us​ for coaching and consulting time with Mir. Use our ​Venmo​ for one-time donations toward our sustainability, and to help specifically with scholarship tickets. 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​)

Howdy kinksters – We have a lot of great classes coming up this and next week, including lots both online and in San Francisco! Also, the ​Dom/ sub Dynamics Virtual Summit​ March 31 – April 3. The summit is packed with live online classes from our favorite instructors, and upgrading to a VIP pass gives you access to the full summit and many other resources throughout the year. It’s a great way to learn a lot about D/s. Finally, our annual ​membership​ and ​scholarship fundraising drive​ continues this week. We are very grateful for those who’ve been able to offer support! We continue to have serious concerns about the state of the scholarship fund. We are committed to keep offering scholarships, but we may need to make some minor adjustments to the program once we get through the week, depending on how much people are able to support. I’ll keep everyone posted once we have a chance to do the numbers. If you’d like us to be able to keep scholarships going on a no-questions-asked basis, and you’re in a position to do so, we would love your contributions either through ​the scholarship options on Patreon​ or a ​one-time contribution​. Speaking of going into the week, let’s look at that calendar! This week! Thursday 3/27 Join us online at 6pm Pacific for Getting Freaky in the Spreadsheets: Consent, Negotiations, & Neurodiversity with Lilith Foxx. Get your advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday 3/28 No live classes today, but check out our digital downloads and video classes at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.com​. Saturday 3/29 Our fundraising period is winding down for the year. ​Have you signed up for our Patreon yet?​ Sunday 3/30 Join us online at noon Pacific for Wax, Fire, & Ice Play with Jamie Joy! Advanced ticketing required. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Monday 3/31 Whether you believe in magick, want to believe in magick, or think this is all a great metaphor for how the mind works, we’d love you to join us online tonight at 6pm Pacific for Sex Magick for Kinksters with Miriam BatAsherah Green. Get your advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Tuesday 4/1 Looking to expand your negotiation skills well beyond the basics? Join us at 6pm Pacific online for KINK 201: Advanced BDSM Negotiation Basics for Relationship & Dynamics with Miriam Green. Advanced ticketing required. Get yours on ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Wednesday 4/2 If you’re in San Francisco, join us for the most fun you can have on a Wednesday night! Start out with us at SpankLab! in SOMA, then head over to the Cat Club for PlayXLand, a Wednesday night fetish themed dance party. Get your SpankLab tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Thursday 4/3 Tonight in San Francisco, join visiting instructor Jamie Joy for The Edge of Desire: Knife Play 101. We strongly recommend advanced ticketing, and we will require waivers for admittance. Get your advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday 4/4 No live classes today, but check out our digital downloads and video classes at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.com​. Saturday 4/5 It’s first Saturday! That means we have some great in-person classes for you in San Francisco. Join us at noon near 5th & Mission for Welcome to the SF Bay Area Kink Scene with Miriam Green. You’ll learn all about the culture, groups, organizations, venues and parties that make the SF kink scene so memorable, and how to navigate this world safely. Get advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (Not in SF? Don’t sweat it! We do an ​online version of this class​ for kinksters everywhere on alternating months.) Then at 2:30 pm, stick around for Negotiation Improv with Wiley Elote. Something like a cross between a negotiation class, an improv session and kinky speed friending, this unique format gives you the opportunity to practice negotiating in your out-loud voice. Get your advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday 4/6 Consent collisions happen. It’s what we do to avoid and recover from them that makes all the difference. Join us online at 11am Pacific for From Harm to Healing: A Guide to Community Accountability with Adam and Ash of Consent Academy to navigate all the ways to keep relationships and communities strong. Get your advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Are you in SF? Want to get much better connected with your body? Join us from noon – 3pm for Erotic Movement with Click Your Heels in SOMA. Advanced ticketing strongly recommended. This class can and often does sell out! Get your spot through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Support. Follow. Share. Join our ​Patreon​ for personal benefits and to stabilize our long-term trajectory. Annual memberships now available! Book ​with us​ for coaching and consulting time with Mir. Use our ​Venmo​ for one-time donations toward our sustainability, and to help specifically with scholarship tickets. 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​)

“Ok, Mir. I see that you really want me to become a member this week. Tell me more about what the VIP membership means.” I’m so glad you asked! VIP members are the core of making Wicked Grounds’ operations possible, and their memberships benefit both themselves and the community at large. ​You might want to become a VIP. If so, click here!​ What do VIPs get? VIP membership has some pretty cool privileges! Miriam Green teaches for Wicked Grounds 4-6 times per month. With VIP membership, you get every single one of their classes for free. Love our other in-person and online classes? Binge! With VIP membership, you get all the classes you want for $10 each, significantly lower than our usual sliding scale. Love our digital downloads? Get them for 10% off. Want personalized coaching and consulting? That’s also 10% off for VIPs. Best of all, get a whopping 30% discount on our multi-week classes like Diving Deep or Stepping Into Pride. What does the community get because Wicked Grounds has VIPs? Because VIPs allow us some flexibility in budgeting, we can take a step back from the hustle periodically to stay sharp and give back. VIPs allow us to invest in: Professional development for kink educators not just at Wicked Grounds but beyond through our accessibility-focused yearly Kink Class Incubator Community moderation services on FetLife. Our staff help moderate many of your favorite SF- and education-based FetLife groups pro bono to maintain a more pleasant FetLife experience. Vetting, community-building, and networking. Maybe you’re one of the hundreds of folks that rely on us to help with basic vetting and community management. We’re able to budget for spending whatever time this takes in part because we have a membership-provided administrative budget. New class development. We like to keep it fresh around here! Your faith in us allows us time for creative development on new classes, and periodically reviewing everything we offer. Taking chances. Whether it’s taking a chance on a new instructor, a new topic, or a very niche course, having a bit of slack allows us to focus on what’s right for education over time, not just on the classes that are guaranteed “sexy topics” that will sell out. But don’t take our word for it. I reached out recently to ask a few VIPs what they thought you should know. Here are some of the things they shared: I love being a Wicked Grounds VIP! It makes it super low-barrier to drop into many of the online classes every month, and I’ve received great discounts on the 6-week Diving Deep course and on highly impactful 1:1 coaching with Mir. Having Wicked Grounds as a resource has made a huge positive impact on my kink journey! – I Ever since I first attended a Wicked Grounds event over a decade ago, it has been important to both my kink and gender journey. One of the munches they used to host was critical as I first started discovering my non-binary identity! The classes they now host are high-quality staples for both local and online kink education, a powerful keystone for community members to safely expand their interests. – Anonymous Wicked Grounds is the best source of eduction opportunities I’ve seen for everyone on the BDSM path. They consistently have standout teachers who come prepared with quality content, relevant experience, and infectious enthusiasm. I know every time I sign up for a class I’m guaranteed to learn something in community with other great kinksters. – AHP In my almost-decade of being around the Bay Area scene, with all its highs and lows, I’ve never seen anyone as dedicated and driven as Mir is in making sure that community isn’t just a word, but a real place of learning and improvement. Their 101s helped me start, but it’s everything they did to build and foster initiatives and loci of learning that helped me flourish. If one of Mir’s classes sounds interesting to you… do not wait! Take the chance!”– Aura V. ​If you are able, please join. It makes an enormous difference.​

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Howdy kinksters – A very happy Spring Equinox to you! A few big things are on the horizon! First, we’ll be hosting Jamie Joy for a series of live classes in San Francisco this weekend – two rope classes Saturday and two D/s classes on Sunday. I’d love to see our local folks there for some or all of the weekend! Speaking of D/s, one of my very favorite live D/s classes is coming back next month as a daylong intensive. Get your tickets now for Leading and Following: Nonverbal Communication for D/s for the full afternoon and early evening of Sunday, April 13. ​Space is very limited, so don’t wait to get tickets.​ We also recommend looking into the ​Dom/ sub Dynamics Virtual Summit​ March 31 – April 3. The summit is packed with live online classes from our favorite instructors, and upgrading to a VIP pass gives you access to the full summit and many other resources throughout the year. It’s a great way to learn a lot about D/s. Finally, our annual ​membership​ and ​scholarship fundraising drive​ officially launches tomorrow, but there’s no need to wait! You can sign up to ​support us with a monthly or annual pledge​ at any time, and doing it now will allow us to go into the week with a strong start! Speaking of going into the week, let’s look at that calendar! This week! Thursday 3/20 Join us online tonight at 6pm Pacific to explore the thrill of the hunt with author and educator Lee Harrington, in Primal Play: Hunter, Hunted, Predator, Prey. Whether you’re curious about primal play or want new ways to explore this embodied and powerful kink, this is your class! Join us through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday 3/21 Today we launch our Patreon membership drive! Patreon members at every level make literally make everything we do possible, and our VIP program comes with some very nice benefits. If you’d like to make a regular contribution toward building top-quality kink education for yourself and your community, please ​join us at Patreon.com/WickedGrounds​ and help us spread the word about this crucial membership drive! Rumor has it there might be some prizes for new members! Some folks prefer to give directly without using Patreon, so we’ve also set up a ​GoFundMe​ for direct contributions to the scholarship fund. ​We also have an event listing on FetLife that we’ll keep updated with information.​ Saturday 3/22 We have TWO live rope bondage classes in San Francisco today! Just getting started? Need a refresher? Join us at noon for Let’s Get Knotty: Rope Bondage for Beginners with Jamie Joy to learn all the basic ties you’ll need to create truly excellent rope scenes. Tickets available at ​Forbidden Tickets​ and ​Plura​. Interested in combining rope play with other forms or impact or sensation play? Whether you’re a beginner at rope or an advanced rigger or rope bottom curious about adding more to your scenes, please join us at 4pm for Bound to Thrill: The Art of Rope and Sensation Play with Jamie Joy. Get your tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. We’ve added a generous amount of time between the two classes so that folks who want to can step out for a break or late lunch – but Miriam Green will be on site at the Folsom Street Community Center between the classes, and you are welcome to just hang out (or bring a bag lunch)! Sunday 3/23 Join us online today for Pigs in Blanket: Intro to Piggy Play with Lady V. Whether you’re experienced human animal or handler looking to expand your horizons, or brand new to the world of human animals, we invite you to learn more in this online class at 11am Pacific! Get your tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, we have two exciting D/s classes today with traveling instructor Jamie Joy. Attend one or both! (Personally, I am a HUGE fan of people taking classes not just targeted to their own side of the D/s slash but both.) We’ve added a generous amount of time between the two classes so that folks who want to can step out for a break or late lunch – but Miriam Green will be on site at the Folsom Street Community Center between the classes, and you are welcome to just hang out (or bring a bag lunch)! At noon, join us for Command and Control: The Art of Domination with Jamie Joy. We’ll explore everything that thrills and excited about the D side of the slash! Get your advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​, or take your chance on getting on-site tickets at the door. Then at 4pm, join us for Serve and Surrender: The Art of Submission with Jamie Joy and learn the fine arts of letting go and exploring your own submissive style. Get your advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Monday 3/24 If you love exploring pain and sensation, processing skills are critical! Join us online at 6pm Pacific for Pain Processing: Learning to Endure and Suffer with Miss Mackenzee. Advanced ticketing available through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Tuesday 3/25 Join us online at 6pm Pacific for Negotiating and Communicating for Emotional S/M with the legendary vahavta. Advanced ticketing available through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Wednesday 3/26 No live classes today, but check out our digital downloads and video classes at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.com​. Thursday 3/27 Join us online at 6pm Pacific for Getting Freaky in the Spreadsheets: Consent, Negotiations, & Neurodiversity with Lilith Foxx. Get your advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday 3/28 No live classes today, but check out our digital downloads and video classes at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.com​. Saturday 3/29 Our fundraising period is winding down for the year. ​Have you signed up for our Patreon yet?​ Sunday 3/30 Join us online at noon Pacific for Wax, Fire, & Ice Play with Jamie Joy! Advanced ticketing required. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Support. Follow. Share. Join our ​Patreon​ for personal benefits and to stabilize our long-term trajectory. Annual memberships now available! Book ​with us​ for coaching and consulting time with Mir. Use our ​Venmo​ for one-time

The Dom/ sub Dynamics Virtual Summit A free (or upgraded) Virtual Summit from Dom/sub Dynamics A virtual ticket with free live-only access or a small upgrade gets you unlimited access March 31 – April 3, 2025 ​Get your tickets here!​ The Dom/ sub Dynamics Virtual Event is back this year, and we’re very excited about this. Imagine your favorite kink conference. Now imagine all of that education and community building available to you right from the comfort of your home with worldwide and world-class kink instructors. We were delighted to partner with the virtual summit last year, and are delighted to recommend it again this year. ​You may get a free ticket right here!​ When you sign up, you’ll also have the opportunity to upgrade your ticket to a VIP ticket – and when you do that it benefits the instructors, the summit, and even Wicked Grounds as a promoter. We think it’s a great deal. The VIP tickets are only $97 (and potentially discounted further), and give you full access to $2,700 (that’s not a typo) of BDSM educational resources on an ongoing basis. Whether you get a ​free ticket​ or sign up for the full shebang, we think you’ll get a lot out of this!