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Howdy kinksters – It’s Leather Month! Yay! Will you be in San Francisco for Folsom Street Fair? We’d love to see you! We’ve just created our FetLife listing for Wicked Grounds at Folsom Street Fair — RSVP to let friends know you’re coming, and get the booth location details as soon as we have them. We are winding down our retail operations so that we can fully focus on education, so we’ll be running a Wicked Grounds Garage Sale at Folsom and Dark Odyssey: Surrender this year. Swing by the booth for some exceptional deals on what’s left of our books and gear, and go learn all about our increasing educational resources. Speaking of which, we have lots of great events for you this week and this fall! If you’re interested in joining the fall cohort of our six-week intensive Diving Deep: Discovering and Voicing Your Erotic Desires please don’t wait too long. Space is limited, and with Folsom just weeks before our launch, our fall cohort always sells out. This week! Saturday 9/7 Want to get involved in your local kink scene, but not sure where to start? We can help! Join Miriam Green online at 11am Pacific for Welcome to the Kink Scene. We’ll cover etiquette, culture, vetting, and what to expect for quality classes, munches, play parties and more! Get your advance tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Monday 9/9 Interested in erotic hypnosis? Need some help with your hypnosis inductions? Join Hypnostory and PandaPet tonight at 6pm Pacific for an Induction Sampler. This online workshop will not be recorded, so you’ll only be able to catch it live. Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Tuesday 9/10 There are a lot of emotional and social reasons to be polyamorous. But there are some practical reasons too! Let’s explore them tonight in Monogamy? In this Economy? Polyamorous Cohabitation with Laura Boyle. Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Wednesday 9/11 In the San Francisco Bay Area? Want to meet a lot of potential new friends, play partners and possibly even romantic connections — fast? Join us for Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty. This collaboration between Wicked Grounds and Plura will get you meeting lots of potential new connections, which is always the best way to get involved in the local community for collaboration, connection and fun! Tickets available exclusively through Plura. Thursday 9/12 Curious about primal and animal play? Already love playing primally, and want to pick up some new tricks? Join us online tonight at 6pm Pacific for Waking the Beast: Primal Play 101 with Wiley Wolfe! Learn more and get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday 9/15 D!ck pics can be a lot of things. Artistic? Maybe! Join Lady V to learn about Erectile Artistry: Taking Delicious D!ck Pics online today at 2pm Pacific. (Or, get a ticket and watch the recording later.) Get your tickets in advance via 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)

Howdy kinksters – I am so excited! I’ll be in San Francisco this Sunday to host author and educator Anton Fulmen for a full-day workshop on The Heart of Dominance. Many of you already know that Anton is the author whose work on D/s I recommend most. I truly cannot wait to see what we all get up to. Now, let’s look at what next week has in store! Thursday, August 22nd Dating can be frustrating, but it doesn’t have to be! Join sex therapist and educator Lilith Foxx for “Kinktuitive” Dating tonight at 6pm Pacific to learn a different approach! Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, August 23rd No classes today, but check out our pre-recorded classes at Wicked Grounds Annex Saturday, August 24th Join us at 11am Pacific for The More the Merrier: Group Sex 101 with Jamie Joy. Whether you’re curious about group play or want ways to make it even more fun, join us! Get your tickets via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Want to change how you approach S/m? Join us at 2pm Pacific for Make Me a Masochist: Changing Your Relationship With Pain with vahavta. Get tickets via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday, August 25th If you’re in San Francisco, join us for The Heart of Dominance Daylong Intensive with author and educator Anton Fulmen. This is a full day of instruction, that gets to the heart of what it takes to be great at consensual dominance. Get your tickets via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Monday, August 26th There are a lot of ways to enjoy consensual sadomasochism! Join us online at 6pm Pacific for Spanking for Punishment or Reward with Miss Mackenzee. You’ll learn everything you need to know to make the most out of spanking scenes. Get your tickets via Forbidden Tickets or [Plura(https://plra.io/m/online-spanking-for-punishment-or-reward). Thursday, August 29th Tonight we host the second part of Kink and Trauma with BearJew, however registration is restricted to those who attended part one. Saturday, August 31st Some conflict in kink is to be expected. Rather than avoiding or minimizing it, learn to deal with inevitable conflict productively and proactively. Join us at 2pm Pacific for Conflict in Kink with Mistress Solaris for strategies, tips and tricks. You may get advance 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! 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)

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Howdy kinksters – In San Francisco and along the West Coast, it’s a weirdly foggy season. As we transition into the absolute middle of summer, this part of the coast embodies a paradox. (We’ll warm up again in the fall, usually just in time for Folsom Street Fair!) If you’re pondering your own version of “back to school,” we have you covered with a bevy of classes both online and in person. If you’re coming to classes in San Francisco, don’t forget to bring a hoodie! The start of a new month is also a great time to explore our August or annual class passes! Let’s look at what this week has in store. Events Roundup! Thursday, August 1 Join us online at 6pm Pacific for Hypnosis 101 with James Gordon and Rebecca Doll. Find out more and get tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Saturday, August 3 It’s first Saturday! Join us in San Francisco for Welcome to the SF Bay Area Kink Scene! This introduction to local kink culture, venues and organizations will give you everything you need to feel confident exploring the rich resources of the San Francisco kink scene. Starting this month, our local version of this class will happen only every other month, so be sure to get on it! Get your advance tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday, August 4 Join us online at 2pm Pacific for Gender Affirming Intimacy with Lady V & Jamie Love. Find out more and get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Tuesday, August 6 Are you a current house top who wants to improve your skills? Interested in house topping but not sure how to start? Perhaps you offer parties, and you’d like to offer house tops in a way that’s safe and fun for everyone! Join Miriam Green online tonight at 6pm Pacific for Tips for House Topping! We only offer this class about once per year, so get your tickets now! You can get those via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Wednesday, August 7 Animal Role Play can be a vehicle for stress relief, structure, joy, and more – but it can also be a powerful form of exploration and validation! Join us for Exploring Gender and Sexuality Through Animal Role Play with Wiley Wolfe at 6pm online to discover how to harness your inner creature through the lens of gender and sexuality. Advance ticketing required. Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. In San Francisco? Want to have the most fun you can have on a Wednesday night? Join impossiblepain for Wicked Grounds Presents: SpankLab! at the Folsom Street Community Center at 7pm. This hands-on playshop will start off with some basics of impact play, and then offers time for you to explore your own techniques in a safe, collaborative and exploratory environment. Let more and get your advance tickets via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Thursday, August 8 Want to dive into the deeper possibilities of erotic hypnosis? Join us online at 6pm Pacific for Erotic Hypnosis 201 with James Gordon and Rebecca Doll. Some experience with hypnosis is helpful, but not required. Find out more and sign up at Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, August 9 We don’t have any scheduled classes over the weekend, but you can check out all our digital downloads, pre-recorded classes and coaching at WickedGroundsAnnex.com 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)

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Hello lovely Patreon members – First, THANK YOU for being here. Paid Patreon members at all levels continue to keep our continued operations viable, and many of you directly contribute to our Scholarship tickets, which are deeply appreciated by all the students who use them and the teachers whose classes can provide these seats. Many of you know that our Patreon VIP+ level members get significant discounts on our classes for their support. They my classes for free, and classes from our other instructors for only $10, half off the lowest end of the sliding scale. If you’d like to increase your support and take advantage of these benefits and many others, now is a great time! If you bump up your support (or become a paid member at the VIP+ level), you’ll auto-magickally set the post with those discounts. xoxoxoxoxo Mir and the Wicked Grounds team

Happy Pride!!! It’s very early Sunday morning. I’m sunburned and sleepy from two weekends in a row of Pride, first a very rural Pride weekend in my new home and yesterday at our booth in Leather Alley. Wherever you are, I hope you’ll take pride in yourself, and in your home for kink and sex-positive education. Here are a few ways to connect with us today (and make the most of our 20% off Pride sale!) Find us today at Leather Alley There are two major sections to the adults-only area at Pride. We are in Leather Alley, the educational section run by San Francisco’s Leather Alliance. You’ll see demos and be able to engage with house tops all day. Folsom Street Events also runs a great shopping row along Golden Gate, with a bondage performance state at the other side of the promenade. Three Wicked Grounds managers (events, boutique, and whatever the heck it is I do!) will be on hand to answer your questions about all things WG! Make the most of our 20% off sale! You can use code onlinepride24 to get 20% off literally anything we sell at WickedGrounds.com or WickedGroundsAnnex.com. Here’s what I would spend it on, if I were in your fabulous shoes: Hand-crafted hemp and jute bondage rope. This beautiful rainbow colored flogger from Rough Cut Leather A July class pass, so I could take every single class WG offers in July at one low cost.. Or maybe for 20% off, I’d splurge and get the next 12 months! A consulting package to create my own, personal multi-week exploration with Miriam Green. Sign up for one of our classes! You can find the full list on Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Or, you can check out a growing number of pre-recorded classes at WickedGroundsAnnex.com, and use that onlinepride24 discount. I recommend starting with Diving Deep. Donate to our scholarship fund! We had dozens of young kinksters wistfully ask about classes yesterday, certain they couldn’t afford to engage in kink education and community. Their reaction when they heard we offer scholarships? Pure delight! But that’s where you come in. We can only offer scholarship seats through the generosity of our community. Do you want to make that magic happen? Contribute to the scholarship fund on Venmo (@wickedgroundsi) Contribute to the scholarship fund on Zelle (Mir@WickedGrounds.com) Contribute to the scholarship fund on PayPal Join us on Patreon Memberships remain the single biggest reason we’re able to stay in business and offer dozens of classes each month, and membership comes with significant benefits. Learn more at Patreon. Already a member? Just signed up? If you’re at Pride, ask us for our members-only sticker!!! Whether you’re in SF or anywhere in the world, please take a moment to be proud of yourself in all your parts. With your love and support, Wicked Grounds will continue to be a force for self-discovery and a queer safe space forever. Also, we love you, ok? Happy Pride! Mir & the Wicked Grounds team

Happy Pride, y’all! If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area today or tomorrow, please come say hello! You’ll find Wicked Grounds at Leather Alley, as part of The Root of Pride 18+ area. The shenanigans happen on Golden Gate between Hyde and McAllister. We can’t wait to see you! (Can’t make it to Pride? We have a special online sale for you this weekend! Code onlinepride24 gets you 20% off any purchase at WickedGrounds.com or WickedGroundsAnnex.com this weekend, on everything from digital downloads, books and gear to class passes and personal consulting sessions. Check it out! Happy Pride, y’all! xoxo Mir  

Howdy kinksters – It’s summer time and many of us are considering our travel adventures. I’ve got a crate of camping gear getting prepped just to the right of my desk as I write this! In the spirit of preparing for adventures, we’ve created a new packing list for you. Check out Wicked Grounds’ Aftercare Kit Checklist, available as a new digital download. Download once, print as many copies as you need, and take your aftercare to the next level by always having what you want right at hand! Now, let’s dive into everything we have for you online and in person this week! Events Roundup! Thinking ahead Join our fall Diving Deep cohort, and early ticketing is open now. Find out more here. Thursday, June 13 Join Sinclair Sexsmith tonight for Art of Ownership. Explore the full spectrum of owner/property fantasies, from scene-only dirty talk to collared pups to 24/7 Dominant/submissive ownership relationships, and find a style that works for you! Advance ticketing available through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Miriam Green is presenting an online class with Plura tonight at 6pm Pacific! About once per year, we offer a version of our class on connecting with the local kink scene to help kinksters anywhere connect with their own local scenes, and that’s what’s happening tonight! Join us for Dive In! Exploring Your Own Local Kink Scene w/ Miriam Green. Ticketing is only available through Plura and you can get yours here. Saturday, June 15 Everyone has to take their clothes off sometimes. Why not make it hot? Join Alexandria from Click Your Heels for Stripping 101, live in San Francisco today at 2pm. Advance ticketing is highly recommended. Get yours here! Monday, June 17 Don’t forget to join us at 6pm Pacific tonight for Remembering to Forget: Exploring Memory Play with HypnoStory & PandaPet. Advance ticketing available through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Tuesday, June 18 Join us in person at Stopgap in San Francisco tonight for part two of Getting Started with Rope with Psychokitty Ryan. You do not need to have attended Part One to take part in tonight’s workshop, although familiarity with single and double column ties would be helpful! This workshop starts at 7pm. To get the address, you’ll need advance tickets from Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Wednesday, June 19 Join us at 6pm Pacific online tonight for Bottoming Safety 201: Negotiating Edgeplay Safely as a Bottom or Submissive with Laura Boyle. This class will address generally asserting boundaries with a top or dominant from a bottoming or submissive role; but also include safety issues to be aware of some of the most popular “edgy” play. Get your advance tickets via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Thursday, June 20 Join us at 6pm Pacific online tonight for When No Doesn’t Mean No: Negotiation and Communication for Consensual Nonconsent with vahavta. When you start to play on the edges of consent, everything becomes a little bit trickier. Let’s figure out how to navigate that! Get your advance tickets on Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Saturday, June 22 Join us for a special afternoon of classes in San Francisco with BDSM & polyamory expert Janet Hardy, teaching Ethical Slut ideas for the next generation. At 1pm, join us for Ethical Sluthood, which is appropriate to introduce beginners, the curious and more advanced nonmonogamists to the ideas behind The Ethical Slut. Details and ticketing here through Forbidden Tickets and Plura. Then stick around to take things to the next level at 4pm with the Sluthood Practicum. Janet Hardy will lead a group brainstorming session about ways to move forward toward an abundant polyamorous life. Details and ticketing here through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday, June 23 Join us at Folsom Street Community Center in San Francisco for High Heels 201 with Click Your Heels. You do not need to have attended the 101 class to attend — anyone who can already walk in high heels is welcome. Let’s take your skills to the next level! Advance ticketing available through Forbidden Tickets or Plura, or get your tickets at the door! 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. 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)

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