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Wicked Grounds Full Class Roster (last updated 12/16/24)

February 25, 2025 By Miriam Green

Howdy kinksters! If your new years resolution is to go a lot deeper with kink, we’ve got you covered! Want to take a lot of classes? ​Get a monthly or annual event pass!​ Our December and December – February quarterly passes have just been loaded! 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​ 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. The Roundup! Multi-week Intensives ​Wicked Grounds’ Month of Mindfulness​ (ONLINE all of January 2025) ​Pentacles of Power: A Six-Week Sex Magick Intensive​ (ONLINE Feb 2 – March 16, 2025) S/m & the physical side of play NEW 1/6 7pm PST: ​Wicked Grounds Presents: SpankLab! with impossiblepain​ (San Francisco, CA) 1/25 6pm PST: ​Beginner Sharps Play: Staples Edition with Miss Mackenzee​ (ONLINE) NEW 2/18 6:30 PST: ​Fetish Games with Psychokitty​ (San Francisco, CA) NEW 2/23 11am PST: ​Bootblacking 101 with Lady V​ (ONLINE) NEW 2/24 6pm PST: ​Flogging With Style: From Basics to Brilliance with Miss Mackenzee​ (ONLINE) NEW 2/27 6pm PST: ​Featherlight: Neurodivergent-Friendly Sensation Play with Lillith Foxx​ (ONLINE) Bondage More to come soon! Stay tuned! D/s, role play & the mental side of play 12/16 6pm PST: ​Exploring Little Space: A Caregiver’s Guide with Miss Mackenzee​ (ONLINE) 1/7 6pm PST: ​KINK 201: Advanced BDSM Negotiations – Relationships & Dynamics with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) NEW 1/11 2pm PST: ​Living the Fantasy: A Guide to Erotic Role Play with Jamie Joy​ (ONLINE) NEW 1/13 6pm PST: ​When No Means Yes: Exploring Consensual Non-Consent with Jamie Joy​ (ONLINE) 1/18 2pm PST: ​Daddy 101 with Sinclair Sexsmith​ (ONLINE) NEW 1/28 6pm PST: ​Playing with Fear: Empowered Navigation of Thrills and RIsks with vahavta​ (ONLINE) NEW 1/30 6pm PST: ​Bratting Beyond Make Me: Navigating Misconceptions and Embracing the Brat with Princess Rara​ (ONLINE) NEW 2/9 11am PST: ​Age Play through the Lens of Compassion with Draven​ (ONLINE) NEW 2/23 11am PDT: ​Age Play through the Lens of Consent with Draven​ (ONLINE) NEW 3/6 6pm PST: ​Bottom, Why?! A Conscious Discussion of Why We Bottoms Do the Things We Do with BearJew​ (ONLINE) NEW 3/9 11am PST: ​Age Play through the Lens of Care and Caution with Draven​ (ONLINE) Movement workshops NEW 2/2 2pm PST: ​Lap Dancing 101 Alexandria​ (San Francisco, CA) Sexy Times 12/19 6pm PST: ​Pleasure Mapping for Couples: Discovering New Pathways to Intimacy with Lilith Foxx​ (ONLINE) NEW 1/11 2pm PST: ​Living the Fantasy: A Guide to Erotic Role Play with Jamie Joy​ (ONLINE) NEW 2/2 2pm PST: ​Lap Dancing 101 Alexandria​ (San Francisco, CA) NEW 2/6 and 2/13 6pm PST: ​Writing Spicy: A Two-Part Workshop with Sinclair Sexsmith​ (ONLINE) Polyamory & ethical non-monogamy NEW 2/25 6pm PST: ​Polyamory and Power Exchange Relationships with Laura Boyle​ (ONLINE) Self-knowledge, negotiation & consent 12/18 6pm PST: ​Close the Doors You Open: Rituals for Endings and Transitions with HG Wyndell​ (ONLINE) 1/7 6pm PST: ​KINK 201: Advanced BDSM Negotiations – Relationships & Dynamics with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) 1/9 6pm PST: ​Dealing with Drop with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) NEW 1/13 6pm PST: ​When No Means Yes: Exploring Consensual Non-Consent with Jamie Joy​ (ONLINE) 1/15 & 1/16 6pm PST: ​Kink & Trauma: a two-part workshop with BearJew​ (ONLINE) 1/20 6pm PST: ​KINK 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) NEW 1/23 6pm PST: ​What Do I Really Want? Taking an Intimacy Inventory With Lilith Foxx​ (ONLINE) NEW 1/25 11am PST: ​Consent, Accountability, and Neurodivergence: Pt 1​ (ONLINE) NEW 1/26 11am PST: ​Consent, Accountability, and Neurodivergence: Pt 2​ (ONLINE) NEW 2/1 2:30pm PST: ​Negotiation Improv with Wiley Elote​ (San Francisco, CA) NEW 2/2 11:30am PST: ​Submissives in Solidarity​ (San Francisco, CA) NEW 2/4 6pm PST: ​Cellaring: Refining Your Skills as an Older Kinkster with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) NEW 2/8 11am PST: ​From Harm to Healing: A Guide to Community Accountability with Adam and Ash of Consent Academy​ (ONLINE) NEW 2/16 11am PST: ​Autism & Kink with John Pendal​ (ONLINE) NEW 3/17 6pm PST: ​KINK 101: Negotiation Basics with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) Community: Friends, dating, relationships & kink culture! 1/4 11am PST: ​Welcome to the Public Kink Scene! with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) 1/8 7pm PST: ​Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty​ (SF) NEW 1/12 11am PST: ​Get This Party Started! – Event Hosting & Community Organizing with Lady V​ (ONLINE) 2/1 Noon PST: ​Welcome to the SF Bay Area Scene​ (ONLINE) NEW 2/8 11am PST: ​From Harm to Healing: A Guide to Community Accountability with Adam and Ash of Consent Academy​ (ONLINE) NEW 2/12 7pm PST: ​Wicked Grounds + Plura Present: Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty​ (San Francisco, CA) NEW 3/12 7pm PST: ​Wicked Grounds + Plura Present: Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty​ (San Francisco, CA) Spirituality, Magick, and Occult (with Magickal Crossroads) 12/18 6pm PST: ​Close the Doors You Open: Rituals for Endings and Transitions with HG Wyndell​ (ONLINE) 12/22 2pm PST: ​Sex Magick for Kinksters with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) 1/22 6pm PST: ​Making Magical Marks: Sigils and Bindrunes with HG Wyndell​ (ONLINE) NEW 2/26 6pm PST: ​Spicy Tarot with HG Wyndell​ (ONLINE) ​Wicked Grounds’ Month of Mindfulness​ (ONLINE all of January 2025) ​Pentacles of Power: A Six-Week Sex Magick Intensive​ (ONLINE Feb 2 – March 16, 2025) 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

This week with Wicked Grounds (12/5 – 12/15)

February 25, 2025 By Miriam Green

Hello kinksters – We’re excited to be heading into the first weekend of the month! If you’re in San Francisco, check out some of our many in-person classes over the weekend. I’m also personally excited because our friends at Twisted Windows have a show this weekend in Oakland! You’ve probably heard me recommend their work before — they do high-end performance art related to bondage and kink. Twisted Windows features a signature blend of exquisitely erotic, sensually subversive, and distinctly daring queer performance art. I’ve often said it’s like going to the ballet, but for kinksters! If you’d like to check out their Saturday show Till Death Do Us Part, use this link for tickets and use promo code CHURCH for a $10 discount on your ticket. Mir will see you there! It is extremely rare to be able to get last-minute tickets to a show like this, so jump on it! Upcoming multi-week workshops to plan for! Join us in January for a full Month of Mindfulness with daily meditation sessions, journaling, habit-building and more with a focus on making more space for kinky, queer, and other sex-positive folks. Learn more and sign up with our sliding scale here, at rates starting at low as $1/day.​ If you’d like to go deeply into the intersection of magick and power, join us in February and early March for Pentacles of Power: A Sex-Magick Intensive for Kinky People. Find more information and registration here.​ This week! Saturday 12/7 In the San Francisco Bay Area? Want to learn more about how to get involved in the many aspects of our own unique public scene! Join Miriam Green at noon to learn more in Welcome to the SF Bay Area Kink Scene, at our offices near 5th & Mission in San Francisco. Advance ticketing strongly recommended! Get yours at Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Not in San Francisco? Wish you had something like this for your own part of the world? We are here to help! On Saturday, January 4th at 11am Pacific you can join Mir from anywhere online to learn the basics of getting involved and even creating parts of a local scene anywhere. Get tickets at Forbidden Tickets. Join us in San Francisco at 2:30 pm for the most fun you can have learning negotiation skills. Join Wiley Elote for Negotiation Improv! It’s part speed friending, part negotiation workshop, and part improv skills for learning more confidence in communicating your needs. There’s nothing else quite like it. Ticketing: Forbidden Tickets or Plura. And we hope to see you tonight in Oakland for Twisted Windows: Till Death Do Us Part! If you’d like to get tickets, use this link and apply promo code CHURCH for a $10 discount. Sunday 12/8 In San Francisco? Identify as a bottom, submissive, or other s-type? Join us at Mukunda Studio near Folsom and 8th Street for Submissives in Solidarity, a submissive-centered discussion group hosted by Wicked Grounds’ Miriam Green. Ticketing: Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Want to get in your body and learn some sexy moves? Join Alexandria from Click Your Heels for Stripping 101! Learn everything you need to know to make taking off your clothes sexy and fun. While you’re at it, be sure to ask Alexandria about body confidence coaching! Ticketing: Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Monday 12/9 Wearing a strap-on is one thing. Embodying it is another! Join us at 6pm Pacific for Make It Yours: Embodying Your Strap On with Sinclair Sexsmith to learn everything you truly need to know to take your toys to the next level. Advance ticketing is available through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Wednesday 12/11 If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, join us at 7pm downtown for Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty and make some new friends! Advance ticketing is available exclusively through Plura. Saturday 12/14 It’s time to learn the ropes, and this time you don’t need to be in the Bay Area to do it! Join Jamie Joy online at 2pm Pacific for Entangled Desires: Exploring Rope for Sex and Intimacy. Advance ticketing is required. Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday 12/15 Want to learn something new and fun for pet play? Just like getting your farmer on? Well, then! Get a moooooooove on and get your tickets for Holy Cow! – Intro to Hucow & Bovine Play w/ Lady V! This online class meets at 2pm Pacific today. Get those tickets at 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

This week with Wicked Grounds (12/12 – 12/22)

February 25, 2025 By Miriam Green

Hello kinksters – As we come into the last few weeks of the year, it’s a great time to think a bit about resolutions. What do you want to explore in the coming year? How do you want to take care of yourself? What new play do you have to look forward to? As always, we’ll be here to help. From ​coaching​ to ​classes​, from hands-on playshops to multi-week intensives, we’re delighted to be part of your journey. Upcoming multi-week workshops to plan for! Join us in January for a full Month of Mindfulness with daily meditation sessions, journaling, habit-building and more with a focus on making more space for kinky, queer, and other sex-positive folks. ​Learn more and sign up with our sliding scale here, at rates starting at low as $1/day.​ If you’d like to go deeply into the intersection of magick and power, join us in February and early March for Pentacles of Power: A Sex-Magick Intensive for Kinky People. ​Find more information and registration here.​ This week! Saturday 12/14 It’s time to learn the ropes, and this time you don’t need to be in the Bay Area to do it! Join Jamie Joy online at 2pm Pacific for Entangled Desires: Exploring Rope for Sex and Intimacy. Advance ticketing required. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday 12/15 Want to learn something new and fun for pet play? Just like getting your farmer on? Well, then! Get a moooooooove on and get your tickets for Holy Cow! – Intro to Hucow & Bovine Play w/ Lady V! This online class meets at 2pm Pacific today. Get those tickets at ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Monday 12/16 Want to celebrate the joys of little’s play as a caregiver? Join Miss Mackenzee online at 6pm for Exploring Little Space: A Caregiver’s Guide! By the end of our time together, you’ll be well-equipped with the terminology and understanding necessary to flourish in this truly special partnership. Advanced ticketing is required. Get yours from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Wednesday 12/18 Ending come for all of is. Whether you’re interested for spiritual or relationship purposes, all who are interested in ritual are warmly welcomed to join HG Wynedell in an online class at 6pm from Wicked Grounds + Magickal Crossroads: Close the Doors You Open: Rituals for Endings and Transitions. We explore tools for energetic closure, and endings, of exploring our new normal. Advanced ticketing is required. Get yours from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Thursday 12/19 The first step to really negotiating is figuring out what you want! When you’re in a committed relationship that also means figuring out what fits with that relationship. Whether you’re looking to reignite the spark or explore uncharted territory, tonight’s class with Lilithfoxx offers practical tools and techniques to enhance your relationship and bring more joy and satisfaction into your intimate life. Join us online at 6pm Pacific for Pleasure Mapping for Couples: Discovering New Pathways to Intimacy. Advanced ticketing is required. Get yours from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Saturday 12/22 Curious about sex magick? Interested in potentially joining our ​spring intensive,​ but want to learn more first? Join Miriam BatAsherah Green at 2pm Pacific online for Sex Magick for Kinksters. We’ll explore some quick foundations of what sex magick means and why people do it, along with a few very specific techniques and ideas that kinksters can leverage to jump to the head of the class. Advanced ticketing is required. Get yours from ​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​)

This week and BLACK + BLUE FRIDAY with Wicked Grounds (11/29 – 12/8)

February 25, 2025 By Miriam Green

Hello kinksters – A very happy Black & Blue Friday from your friends at Wicked Grounds. We are headed into the first week of December, which is always a great time — particularly with a lot of in-person events in San Francisco for our friends there. I’m also delighted to announce that we’ve brought back Your Kink Year in Review for the season, and you’ll have access now through January. But before we dive into all that, let’s make sure you know about the phenomenal Black Friday sales we have for you this weekend. Now through Monday, 12/1, you may get 20% off everything at WickedGroundsAnnex.com with code BLACKFLAG at checkout. That’s all event passes, all coaching, all downloads, all multi-week courses! Here’s what I might use the code for … An initial coaching session with Mir, or even a full six-pack of sessions. Our January Month of MIndfulness or six week Pentacles of Power: A Six-Week Sex Magick Intensive An event pass for all-you-can-kink classes for a month, three months, or even a full year! One or more of our helpful digital downloads, including video classes, workbooks, and the seasonal return of Your Kink Year in Review (Hey! Are you a Wicked Grounds VIP on Patreon? Your discount is even better! Check your membership messages for your custom code. And if you’re not yet a VIP on Patreon, checkout memberships at Patreon.com/WickedGrounds. We rely on our members to make what we do possible, and appreciate your support! Upcoming multi-week workshops to plan for! Join us in January for a full Month of Mindfulness with daily meditation sessions, journaling, habit-building and more with a focus on making more space for kinky, queer, and other sex-positive folks. Learn more and sign up with our sliding scale here, at rates starting at low as $1/day. If you’d like to go deeply into the intersection of magick and power, join us in February and early March for Pentacles of Power: A Sex-Magick Intensive for Kinky People. You absolutely don’t need to be kinky to practice sex magick. But if you are kinky, that’s going to change the way you think about power, polarity, ritual, and more. There are only a few instructors teaching at this intersection, and this is the first time Miriam Green will share personal practices they’ve been developing for nearly twenty years. Find more information and registration here. This week! Monday 12/2 Want to get a little bit darker? Enjoy exploring the edge? Join Lee Harrington online tonight at 6pm Pacific for **Dark Roleplaying,” and find all of those delicious pairings for the darker side of creative play. Ticketing: Forbidden Tickets or Plura Tuesday 12/3 Let’s talk about some of the biggest issues that polyamorous folks with kids face, whether that’s people’s perceptions or day-to-day challenges! Laura Boyle from Ready for Polyamory is here to walk through it all online tonight at 6pm Pacific. Ticketing: Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Wednesday 12/4 Let’s warm things up with some creative and fun impact play! Join impossiblepain tonight for SpankLab! This hands-on playshop in San Francisco is a space to learn, explore and grow your impact play techniques, whether you’re an absolute beginner or perfecting your own style. Each session has a demo session and support for newbies as well as plenty of practice time. Ticketing: Forbidden Tickets or Plura. You can also take a chance on space-available ticketing at the door. Saturday 12/7 In the San Francisco Bay Area? Want to learn more about how to get involved in the many aspects of our own unique public scene! Join Miriam Green at noon to learn more, at our offices near 5th & Mission in San Francisco. Advance ticketing strongly recommended! Get yours at Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Not in San Francisco? Wish you had something like this for your own part of the world? We are here to help! On Saturday, January 4th at 11am Pacific you can join Mir from anywhere online to learn the basics of getting involved and even creating parts of a local scene anywhere. Get tickets at Forbidden Tickets. Join us in San Francisco at 2:30 pm for the most fun you can have learning negotiation skills. Join Wiley Elote for Negotiation Improv! It’s part speed friending, part negotiation workshop, and part improv skills for learning more confidence in communicating your needs. There’s nothing else quite like it. Ticketing: Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday 12/8 In San Francisco? Identify as a bottom, submissive, or other s-type? Join us at Mukunda Studio near Folsom and 8th Street for Submissives in Solidarity, a submissive-centered discussion group hosted by Wicked Grounds’ Miriam Green. Ticketing: Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Want to get in your body and learn some sexy moves? Join Alexandria from Click Your Heels for Stripping 101! Learn everything you need to know to make taking off your clothes sexy and fun. While you’re at it, be sure to ask Alexandria about body confidence coaching! Ticketing: Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Support. Follow. Share. 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. Book with us for coaching and consulting time with Mir. 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)

This week with Wicked Grounds (11/21 – 12/1)

February 25, 2025 By Miriam Green

Hello kinksters – Greetings from the stormy upper coast of California! I hope that everyone is doing well this week. We have several classes coming up for this last week of the month. And keep an eye out next week for some Black Friday specials on everything you need for your kink education journey! Read on for what we have coming up for you, including some upcoming longer workshops to get your new year off to the right start. Do you need help with something beyond our class lineup? Never hesitate to reach out for individual coaching and consulting. We are here to help! Upcoming multi-week workshops to plan for! Join us in January for a full Month of Mindfulness with daily meditation sessions, journaling, habit-building and more with a focus on making more space for kinky, queer, and other sex-positive folks. Learn more and sign up with our sliding scale here, at rates starting at low as $1/day. If you’d like to go deeply into the intersection of magick and power, join us in February and early March for Pentacles of Power: A Sex-Magick Intensive for Kinky People. You absolutely don’t need to be kinky to practice sex magick. But if you are kinky, that’s going to change the way you think about power, polarity, ritual, and more. There are only a few instructors teaching at this intersection, and this is the first time Miriam Green will share personal practices they’ve been developing for nearly twenty years. Find more information and registration here. This week! Thursday 11/21 Online tonight at 6pm Pacific, explore Voyeurism and Exhibitionism: Thrill of the Spotlight and Shadows with Lilith Foxx. This new skill requires no toys, but there is a lot to explore to make this kind of play fun, safe, and respectful for everyone involved. Let’s talk about it! Advance tickets required through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Monday 11/25 Whether you’re relatively new to BDSM or just want a refresher, building your consent toolbox is critical. Learn the core skills of BDSM negotiation and why they’re important online at 6pm Pacific with Miriam Green in BDSM Negotiation Basics. Advanced ticketing is required. Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Wednesday 11/27 Good negotiation for both relationships and communities starts with good boundaries. Join us tonight to become more accountable for both yourself and your impact on others. Get curious. Ask questions, and apply your sense of wonder to the ways you interact with and at your edge with HG Wyndell in Boundaries: Mapping the Self in Community. Advance ticketing is required. Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Saturday 11/30 Join us for a special workshop this afternoon at 2pm Pacific with Adam and Draven: Consent, Accountability, and Neurodivergence. Learn more about how to navigate consent, communication and negotiation — whether you are yourself neurodivergent, or just want to great better spaces for community members who are! Advance 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! Use our Venmo for one-time donations toward our sustainability, and to help specifically with scholarship tickets. Book with us for coaching and consulting time with Mir. 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)