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Happy April! Whether you’re washing away dirt from starting a spring garden or trying to get off all the glitter from Easter with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in Delores Park, we are here for you! Several interesting things are going on in the kink world this week — no fooling! San Francisco has a literal Stopgap dungeon operating in the SOMA area. We’ll be conducting some classes there starting this week, but you need to get tickets to get the address! If you’ve been to any of our other SF classes recently, we promise it won’t be more than a few blocks out of the way. 😉 The app formerly known as Bloom has changed its name to Plura, but continues to provide some of the best ways to connect with fellow freaks throughout the US. And KinkBNB is looking to grow with community funding, and a local celebrity staking a lead position. Trying to decide if you’re (k)enough in your queer identity? In a world where queer folks face cultural oppression and internalized shame on the one side, and rainbow capitalism and community expectations on the other, how do we figure out how to just be . . . well, ourselves? What does authenticity look like? If you’ve ever felt too loud (or not loud enough), too kinky (or not kinky enough), too slutty (or not slutty enough), too queer (or not queer enough), our June intensive is for you. Join us for Stepping Into Pride, a six-week online workshop June 1st – July 8th. Details & ticketing here. Want to keep everything we do sustainable? We’d love your small (or large!) contribution toward retiring our old cafe debt. Read on for an update on this week’s events! Events Roundup! Tuesday, April 2 You know how to negotiate for scenes and playdates, but now you’re looking for something deeper: strategies to negotiate for longer-term dynamics, rituals, protocols and relationship agreements. We’ve got you. Join Miriam Green online at 7pm Pacific for Advanced BDSM Negotiations – Relationships, Dynamics & Contracts. Details & ticketing here for this online class. Wednesday, April 3 Asexuality is having a moment, but whether you’re ace or are trying to make room for ace friends and partners, there’s still a lot to learn. Join Nyx Lunaea to go over the whole spectrum, its many shades of grey, and how it can exist in a kinky context in Demystifying Asexuality, tonight at 6pm Pacific. Details & ticketing for this online class here. Thursday, April 4 Got rope? Let’s get tying! If you’re in the SF Bay Area, join us at Folsom Street Community Center at 7pm for the monthly Wicked Rope Jam. Advance ticketing recommended for this in person SF workshop — get yours here! Saturday, April 6 New to kink? New to the SF Bay Area scene? Just want to check out San Francisco’s latest playspace? Join us this Saturday at noon for Welcome to the SF Bay Area Kink Scene with Miriam Green. We’ll be meeting at Stopgap for two hours to explore all you need to know about the culture, etiquette, resources and spaces that make SF so special. Whether you want to make friends, meet potential play partners, go to classes, or check out play parties, this Noon – 2pm class will give you the information you need to be safe and have fun! Advance ticketing required to get the address for this in person class — get yours here! Need to warm up your vocal chords and courage for BDSM Negotiation? Join Wiley Elote from 2:30 – 4:30pm at Stopgap for Negotiation Improv. Negotiation Improv is designed to help you workshop and refine how you approach negotiation. No actual play is being negotiated, and this is an opportunity to practice core negotiation skills in a safe and low-pressure environment. Advance ticketing required to get the address for this in person class — get yours here! Sunday, April 7 Calling all submissives, bottoms, and switches who want to talk bottoming in all its joys and frustrations. Join us from 11:30am – 1:30pm at the beautiful Mukunda Studio for the first monthly meeting of Submissives in Solidarity. Details & advance ticketing here for this in person discussion group, or you may get tickets at the door from 11:15 – 11:30. Whether you’re moving to entice a lover or for your own pleasure, it’s time to get some new moves in Lap Dancing 101 with Click Your Heels. ALL bodies, ALL genders, all orientations, all ages, all ethnicities! YOU are welcome as you are. We’ll meet at Mukunda Studio at 2pm. Space is limited, and advance ticketing recommended. Get yours here! 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)

Read on below for a wide variety of classes and educational resources from Wicked Grounds! Now through March 24th, we’re offering 35% off all purchases at WickedGrounds.com, and that includes our monthly, quarterly, and annual event passes! If you see lots of classes you like, consider getting a pass to get all-you-can-kink access! Use code bettafish at checkout for the discount. If you love what we do, we could use your support right now. We are continuing to fundraise to retire the old cafe debt and get a fresh start this year. Find out more and contribute here, if you’re able. Any amount helps!!! Need personal coaching & guidance for those sticky issues around sex, kink and relationships? You can always reach out for one-time or ongoing coaching sessions at WickedGroundsAnnex.com The Roundup! Multi-week Intensives May 2024: Kink Class Incubator June 2024: Stepping into Pride: Owning Your Kink Power for Queer Folks (ticket link in next update!) July – August 2024: Wisdom & Understanding: A Tarot Journey (ticket link in next update!) October – November 2024: Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires (ticket link in next update!) Self-Directed Digital Downloads Diving Deep (video class) Private Joy: Sadomasochism for Solo & Distance Play (video class) Kink Self-Discovery Workbook (self-directed template) S/m & the physical side of play 3/25 6pm PDT: Needle Play 101: Easy with Those Pricks w/ Miss Mackenzee (ONLINE) 4/9 7pm PDT: FlogLab w/ Reika Minxie (SF) NEW: 4/11 6pm PDT: Solo Round: Planning your Self-Scenes with Electro and Beyond with Carmen Pandiego (ONLINE) 4/10 7pm PST: Wicked Grounds Presents: SpankLab (SF) Bondage & Fetish 4/4 7pm PDT: Wicked Rope Jam (SF) 5/27 6pm PDT: Quick Bondage for Subduing your Play Partner with Miss Mackenzee (ONLINE) Sexy times 4/7 2pm PDT: Lap Dancing 101 w/ Click Your Heels (SF) 4/21 2pm PDT: Lap Dancing 201 w/ Click Your Heels (SF) NEW: 5/1 6pm PDT: Wait for It – the Art of Orgasm Denial with Anton Fulmen (ONLINE) NEW: 5/5 2pm PDT: Erotic Movement with Click Your Heels (SF) 5/12 1pm PDT: Fisting for Femmes, Faggots, and Freaks with Jamie Joy (SF) 5/12 4pm PDT: The More the Merrier: Group Sex 101 with Jamie Joy (SF) D/s & the mental side of play 3/21 6pm PDT: CTRL: Online Submission with d20domme (ONLINE) 3/27 6pm PDT: Creating Containers for Kink w/ HG Wyndell (ONLINE) 4/2 6pm PDT: Advanced BDSM Negotiations – Relationships, Dynamics & Contracts w/ Miriam Green (ONLINE) 4/7 11:30am PDT: Submissives in Solidary: A Submissives Discussion & Support Group (SF) 4/9 6pm PDT: Sir! No, Sir! Saying No In D/s Dynamics with Ev Evnen (ONLINE) 4/16 6:30pm PDT: Setting the Scene with Psychokitty Ryan (SF) 4/22 6pm PDT: The Art of Tease and Denial with Miss Mackenzee (ONLINE) NEW 4/29 6pm PDT: Be Legen-dairy! Intro to Hucow & Bovine Play with Lady V (ONLINE) NEW: 5/1 6pm PDT: Wait for It – the Art of Orgasm Denial with Anton Fulmen (ONLINE) NEW 5/5 11:30am PDT: Submissives in Solidary: A Submissives Discussion & Support Group (SF) 5/28 6pm PDT: Art of Ownership with Sinclair Sexsmith (ONLINE) 5/29 6pm PDT: Polyamory and Power Exchange with Laura Boyle (ONLINE) NEW: 6/4 6pm PDT: Switchinatrix: Harnessing Your Power as a Switch w/ Lady V (ONLINE) Erotic Hypnosis 4/17 6pm PDT: Drop “For Me”- Dominance, Submission and Hypnosis with HypnoStory and PandaPet (ONLINE) Polyamory & ethical non-monogamy 4/9 6pm PDT: Polyamory 101 w/ Laura Boyle of Ready for Polyamory (ONLINE) 5/6 6pm PDT: Relationship Anarchy Applied with Laura Boyle of Ready for Polyamory (ONLINE) 5/16 6pm PDT: Love Languages for Alternative Sexuality Communities with Lee Harrington (ONLINE) 5/23 6pm PDT: Unfuck Your Relationship Escalator: (Re)Building Healthy Relationship Foundations with Lilith Foxx (ONLINE) 5/29 6pm PDT: Polyamory and Power Exchange with Laura Boyle (ONLINE) Self-knowledge, negotiation & consent 3/18 6pm PDT: Kink 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics w/ Miriam Green (ONLINE) 3/23 2pm PDT: From Gender Dysphoria to Gender Euphoria with Lee Harrington (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings!) 3/26 6pm PDT: Writing Spicy with Sinclair Sexsmith (ONLINE) 4/3 6pm PDT: Demystifying Asexuality with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) 4/6 2:30pm PDT: Negotiation Improv with Wiley (SF) 4/15 6pm PDT: Kink 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics w/ Miriam Green (ONLINE) 4/24 6pm PDT: Ritual to Explore and Honor Our Boundaries with HG Wyndell (ONLINE) 5/4 2:30pm PDT: Negotiation Improv with Wiley (SF) 5/16 6pm PDT: Love Languages for Alternative Sexuality Communities with Lee Harrington (ONLINE) 5/20 6pm PDT: Kink 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics with Miriam Green (ONLINE) 5/23 6pm PDT: Unfuck Your Relationship Escalator: (Re)Building Healthy Relationship Foundations with Lilith Foxx (ONLINE) NEW: 6/4 6pm PDT: Switchinatrix: Harnessing Your Power as a Switch w/ Lady V (ONLINE) NEW: 6/5 6pm PDT: Self-Love is Not Enough: Building Relationships with Yourself with Lee Harrington (ONLINE) NEW: 6/19 6pm PDT: Bottoming Safety 201 with Laura Boyle (ONLINE) Community: Friends, dating, relationships & kink culture! 4/3 6pm PDT: Demystifying Asexuality with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) 4/6 Noon PDT: Welcome to the SF Bay Area Scene with Miriam Green (SF) NEW: 4/18 6pm PDT: Teaching From the Bottom: Skill Building for New And Practiced Demo Bottoms with Gwyndolyn (ONLINE) 4/23 6pm PDT: The Sexual Politics of Kink with Sinclair Sexsmith (ONLINE) 5/4 Noon PDT: Welcome to the SF Bay Area Scene with Miriam Green (SF) Life Stuff, wellness & adulting for kinksters 3/19 7pm PDT: The Dapper Guide for the New Gentleman with Psychokitty Ryan (SF & ONLINE) 4/7 2pm PDT: Lap Dancing 101 w/ Click Your Heels (SF) 4/14 11am – 5pm PDT: Adult First Aid/CPR/AED plus Bloodborne Pathogens Certification with Puppy Dog (SF) 4/21 2pm PDT: Lap Dancing 201 w/ Click Your Heels (SF) NEW: 5/5 2pm PDT: Erotic Movement with Click Your Heels (SF) NEW: 5/13 6pm PDT: So Fresh & So Clean: Bootblacking & Leathercare 101 w/ Lady V (ONLINE) NEW: 6/5 6pm PDT: Self-Love is Not Enough: Building Relationships with Yourself with Lee Harrington (ONLINE) Magick & Occult (with Magickal Crossroads) 3/24 2pm PDT: Sex Magick for Kinksters

Hello Kinksters! This week is jam-packed with excitement. Exciting news! Our new website is now live! Finally! As we continue to expand, this revamped site will offer improved support for our classes and intensives, along with robust features for online sales. But here’s where you come in: we need YOUR help to test out the new site. Assist us and enjoy a fantastic 35% discount on any order! This offer is valid for this week only: Go to WickedGrounds.com (pardon our dust!) Buy anything from our updated shop Get 35% off your entire order with code bettafish at checkout! While you might stumble upon a few overlooked images, if you encounter any dead links or peculiar issues, please don’t hesitate to email OrderFulfillment@WickedGrounds.com to notify us. Your feedback is invaluable in making this site exceptional. Your support, both financially and through feedback, is crucial this week. We sincerely hope you’ll take full advantage of this opportunity. It’s been far too long since our last sale. Feeling generous but don’t require any gear? We have some vital fundraising targets to meet this weekend, and every contribution counts. See our Go Fund Me for details. Attention educators and aspiring teachers! Registration for the new Kink Class Incubator has been open for a few days now. Learn more here. Mark your calendars! Mir will be presenting at the virtual Dom/sub Dynamics conference on April 8th. For registration details for this free conference featuring Sunny Megatron, Midori, and more, click here. Read on for an update on this week’s events! Events Roundup! Saturday, March 16 Interested in exploring erotic hypnosis? Join us online at 2pm this Saturday for This Mind Intentionally Left Blank with HypnoStory & PandaPet. In this combination of lecture and demo, HypnoStory and PandaPet share how to create the state of blankness and the fun (and hot) ways they can be manipulated. Details & ticketing here. Monday, March 18 Join us online for our monthly BDSM Negotiation Basics with Miriam Green. This class is a critical first step for new kinksters, and a great refresher and diagnostic tool for anyone who wants to improve their negotiation skills. Class starts at 6pm Pacific. Details & ticketing here. Tuesday, March 19 Want to spiff up your styling? All masc of center folks are warmly welcomed to join Psychokitty Ryan for The Dapper Guide for the New Gentleman at 6:30 pm Pacific. Join us in person at Trellis to see Ryan’s sartorial stylings in all their glory, or join us anywhere from online. Details & ticketing here. Saturday, March 23 In today’s 2pm Pacific online discussion & class with Lee Harrington, we will look at the diverse types of dysphoria before diving into the power and beauty possible when we are seen in our gender or can find the power possible in the journeys we are on. Join us for From Gender Dysphoria to Gender Euphoria. Details & ticketing here. Sunday, March 24 Whether you believe in magick, want to believe in magick, or think this is all just a fun metaphor for how the mind works, you are sure to gain new tools and perspectives on BDSM play by attending Miriam Green’s Sex Magick for Kinksters this Sunday at 2pm Pacific. Details & ticketing here. Support. Follow. Share. We could really use your help with our fundraiser to retire the old cafe debt. Learn more and contribute here. 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)

Hello Kinksters – I had the great pleasure of begin interviewed a couple of weeks back by Greg, a delightful member of our local community. We talked about navigating the kink scene, my own long journey in kink, and why the heck I’m so into woo. Want to listen? You can find the interview on Spotify here. This week has been filled with deep explorations for me, personally and professionally. My deepest thanks to the folks who participated in last week’s class on older kinksters in the scene and to our new Diving Deep cohort. Your questions keep me thinking and exploring, and it’s that spirit of beginner’s mind that I think is the most important thing in kink. Late registration for Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Erotic Desires closes today, and our first live interactive session meets this Sunday. It’s not too late to join us! Get your spot for this six-week workshop here. As you may have seen, we released a new digital download this week! Private Joy: Sadomasochism for Solo & Distance Play is now available for download at WickedGroundsAnnex.com Speaking of websites, we’re in the last phases of a major update to WickedGrounds.com to better serve our community and provide a better experience for online shopping. Please pardon our dust if you encounter any minor disruptions to access next week. Read on for an update on 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! Saturday, February 24 Join us in San Francisco for the return of Caning: From Sensual to Sadistic with Miriam Green and impossiblepain. (This was the last class Wicked Grounds offered before lockdown in 2020, and we haven’t had it since!) In this fun, interactive class you’ll learn all about caning: how to select your tools, what they feel like, how to construct a scene, and all the basic techniques around how to wield these unique impact toys. Join us at the Folsom Street Community Center at 2pm PDT. Advance ticketing strongly encouraged. Get yours here! Sunday, February 25 Join us online at 11am PDT for Autism & Kink with UK kink instructor John Pendal. If you’re neurodivergent, love someone who is, or just want to create better and more inclusive kink spaces for neurotypical and neurospicy folks alike, please join us for this online class. Details & ticketing here. Erotic hypnosis offers tools for a wide variety of BDSM styles. Join **Hypnostory and Pandapet ** at 2pm PDT to learn all about them in Erotic Hypnosis: Fun Games and Dirty Tricks. Advance ticketing required. Get yours here! Monday, February 26 It’s time to shift the focus from the person getting their cock sucked to the person putting in the work, the giver! Tonight’s class with Miss Mackenzee — Love What You Do: Oral Pleasure for Cocks — gives all the tips and tricks to give and receive pleasure from fellatio. Join us at 6pm Pacific for this online class. Details & ticketing here. Tuesday, February 27 The best way to get the most out of your next year in kink is to review the last one. Join Sinclair Sexsmith online tonight for Your Year in Kink to do just that. This online class starts at 6pm Pacific. Details & ticketing here. Wednesday, February 28 If you’re interested in the intersection of kink and woo like I am, you’ll want to make time for Wednesday evening’s class with HG Wyndell. In Invisible Toybox, we will learn techniques for manipulating energy, and briefly discuss the ethics of energy play, and ways to incorporate energy into BDSM, for connection, play, and intimacy. Join us online at 6pm Pacific! Details & ticketing here. Thursday, February 29 Kink as an embodied skill requires us to include all of our bodies and their abilities. Join us tonight for an important discussion on Disability, Chronic Pain, and BDSM with Nyx Lunaea. This class meets online at 6pm via Zoom. Details & ticketing here. Support. Follow. Share. We could really use your help with our fundraiser to retire the old cafe debt. Learn more and contribute here. 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)

Hi there!  Are you on Submit.gg, the new social network for the BDSM, Fetish, & Kinky community?  If you are, take a moment to join the brand new Wicked Grounds group, which we launched today. I’ve started putting a few posts there, but there’s a big ole’ echo because the group is empty.  https://submit.gg/groups/wicked-grounds And heck, if you haven’t done it already you can find our groups on some other social networks:  – FetLife: https://fetlife.com/groups/6892 – Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wickedgrounds We’d love to see you over there!  xoxo Mir 

Hello Kinksters – Spring is in the air, and here at WG headquarters, we’re hard at work creating new classes, events, and fun for you both in San Francisco and online. The theme of our week is integrating our kink identities into everything we do, and using our life and wellness tools to improve our kink lives. We’re offering a flexibility and stretching class for kinksters in San Francisco, an online tarot class to help negotiate your scenes, and several classes to integrate kink techniques. Read on for more! I’m thinking a lot this week about mastery. It’s one thing to know intellectually what to do, but that doesn’t build our skills. We need practice, we need to get creative, and we need to measure what works and what doesn’t. I’m particularly excited about our suite of San Francisco playshops — like last night’s Wicked Rope Jam or this week’s SpankLab — as laboratories in which we can safely build our skills, experiment, get feedback, and continually improve our skills in a supportive and fun environment. Look for us to bring more of these types of experimental skills labs to kinksters everywhere online this summer! We can only continue to build everything we do with your active and ongoing support. Wicked Grounds VIP members get free and discounted classes, significant discounts on multi-week courses, discounts and free shipping on gear, and much more. Take a moment to join — or review your membership — today! Read on for an update on this week’s events! Events Roundup! Sunday, March 10 Flexibility is critical to top & bottom effectively. What if you had a stretching & movement class where you could really talk about YOUR specific needs? Now you can! THIS Sunday at 2pm, join us in SF for Flexibility 4 Life. Details & ticketing here. Wednesday, March 13 Looking for more inspiration for kink scenes? New ways to co-create and communicate when negotiating? Maybe what you need is an unexpected new tool. Join kink-aware witch Diana Rajchel as she explores Tarot for Kinky Folks in our online class this Wednesday at 6pm Pacific. Whether you’re an experienced tarot reader or new to the cards, you’ll learn practical tips and tricks for using these as a creative-thinking tool for negotiations. Details & ticketing here. In San Francisco? Want to get hands-on experience topping or bottoming for impact play? Join us for SpankLab — a monthly impact play laboratory where you can learn the basics of impact play, and refine your skills over time with practice, experimentation, feedback and continual improvement. Our monthly group includes everyone from complete newbies to experienced players, coming together with one goal: to build mastery of impact play techniques through experimentation, feedback, and continual improvement. Join us at 7pm in San Francisco! Details & ticketing here. Thursday, March 14 Interested in electro play? Want to get more out of your violet wand? Join us online Thursday at 6pm Pacific for First Contact: Electro with Body Contact Cables with Carmen Pandiego. We’ll talk about Carmen’s favorite violet wand attachment – the body contact cable – and how it can be used for delicate, sensual play; cruel, sadistic play; medical; sexual; and almost everything in between. Details & ticketing here. Saturday, March 16 Interested in exploring erotic hypnosis? Join us online at 2pm this Saturday for This Mind Intentionally Left Blank with HypnoStory & PandaPet. In this combination of lecture and demo, HypnoStory and PandaPet share how to create the state of blankness and the fun (and hot) ways they can be manipulated. Details & ticketing here. Support. Follow. Share. We could really use your help with our fundraiser to retire the old cafe debt. Learn more and contribute here. 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)

Hello Kinksters – Our latest six-week intensive of Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Erotic Desires begins on Saturday, Feb 17th. It’s not too late to join us! Get your spot for this six-week workshop here. I’m delighted to announce that Wicked Grounds has released our latest video class for digital download. Private Joy is an exploration of sadomasochistic play for solo kinksters and folks in long-distance relationships. Get your copy of this new online class here. And a reminder for polyamorous and non-monogamous folks: Feb. 28th is Metamour Day! Get a pack of these cute Metamour Postcards from Bloom Community to send to your metas or any poly folks in your life who would appreciate them! All of the proceeds go to non-monogamy advocacy (for OPEN-love.org) and you can use the code WICKED for 20% off! #MetamourDay2024 Finally, a reminder that our journey toward financial sustainability is a marathon, not a sprint. We truly appreciate the emergency help many of you extended last month, but we’ve got a long road ahead to finish paying off all the cafe debt. If you can this week, please make a one-time contribution to help Wicked Grounds retire this debt for good. Please do so here! Read on for an update on 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, February 15 Stretching our limits is a great way to have more fun, stay creative, and get into the flow states kinksters crave. While it’s important to know how gentle we can make electro play for newcomers, we also need ways to consensually push advanced players — ourselves or our partners — to greater depth. Join Carmen PanDiego online at 6pm Pacific for Taking Electro Play to Your Limits and learn to safely keep electro play stimulating and exciting. Details & ticketing here. Saturday, February 17 Judging by the historically white face of the polyamorous community you would assume only those people partake in plural relationships – but that isn’t the case. With over 18+ years as a poly-practicing Woman of Color, d20domme will use The POC Polyamorist to explore and touch on why BIPOC are not represented well in the poly world, how to unlearn mono-minded bonds keeping you from romantic freedom, safety tips to approach consensual non-monogamy as a BIPOC, and where to start setting your sights on multi-partner dynamics. Join us online at 11am Pacific. Details & ticketing here. Also today, we launch the next cohort of our six-week intensive Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires with Miriam Green. This class will help you confront and challenge shame, people-pleasing, and other internal and cultural barriers that get between us and claiming our desire. This course includes two live sessions, six weeks of self-directed weekly content, and one or more individual coaching sessions. Details & ticketing here. Sunday, February 18 Kinksters of middle age and beyond start to face some questions that younger kinksters haven’t yet had to grapple with. Whether you’ve been practicing BDSM for decades, or are just finding your path as a kinkster later in life, you probably have distinct questions & needs that just aren’t addressed in general BDSM classes. Miriam Green has you covered in Cellaring: Refining Your Skills as an Older Kinkster. Join us at 2pm Pacific either in downtown San Francisco or online. Details & ticketing here. Monday, February 19 Negotiation for BDSM is a core skill, but it doesn’t always come easy. Learn how to figure out what you want, how to talk about it, and how to keep communication going before, during and after your BDSM scenes in Kink 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics w/ Miriam Green. Advance ticketing required for this online class at 6pm PST. Get yours here. Tuesday, February 20 I don’t like to play favorites, but Improv for Naughty Play with PsychoKitty Ryan is honestly one of my favorite classes. Over the years, I’ve heard some of the most interesting ideas for interactive role-play scenes emerge from this class, which teaches you how to use “yes, and” and other techniques from improvisational theater to think on your feet to co-create fun, engaging and consent-forward scenes. This in-person class will start at 6:30pm at the Folsom Street Community Center. Please get advance tickets now so we know that you’re coming! Wednesday, February 21 We don’t have any live classes today, but why not check out Private Joy — Miriam Green’s exploration of sadomasochistic play for solo kinksters and folks in long-distance relationships. Get your copy of this new online class here. Saturday, February 24 Join us in San Francisco for the return of Caning: From Sensual to Sadistic with Miriam Green and impossiblepain. (This was the last class Wicked Grounds offered before lockdown in 2020, and we haven’t had it since!) In this fun, interactive class you’ll learn all about caning: how to select your tools, what they feel like, how to construct a scene, and all the basic techniques around how to wield these unique impact toys. Join us at the Folsom Street Community Center at 2pm PDT. Advance ticketing strongly encouraged. Get yours here! Sunday, February 25 Join us online at 11am PDT for Autism & Kink with UK kink instructor John Pendal. If you’re neurodivergent, love someone who is, or just want to create better and more inclusive kink spaces for neurotypical and neurospicy folks alike, please join us for this online class. Details & ticketing here. Erotic hypnosis offers tools for a wide variety of BDSM styles. Join **Hypnostory and Pandapet ** at 2pm PDT to learn all about them in Erotic Hypnosis: Fun Games and Dirty Tricks. 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! Support. Follow. Share.

Yes, we’re already updating the roster. That’s how many new classes we’re bringing on board for this spring! Our Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires six-week intensive launches this weekend. Your course includes weekly self-directed lessons and homework, two live group sessions, and one or more individual coaching sessions with Miriam Green. If you’re interested, sign up now — we start on Saturday, Feb 17th! Wicked Grounds released a new video class for digital download this week! Private Joy: Sadomasochism for Solo & Distance Play can now be purchased and downloaded here for you to take any time at your own convenience. Need personal coaching & guidance? You can always reach out for consulting at WickedGroundsAnnex.com The Roundup! Multi-week Intensives 2/17 – 3/30/24: Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires [a six-week intensive with coaching] (ONLINE SIX WEEKS) Tentative June: Kink Class Incubator Summer 2024 Cohort Tentative October: Diving Deep Fall 2024 Cohort Ongoing Ongoing daily: Wicked Grounds’ Adventures in Daily Kink Journaling (ONLINE – via email) Join at any time! Private consulting & coaching with Miriam Green. Book Mir’s brain by the hour. Ongoing monthly: Group Consulting: Daily Practice Accountability Group Join at any time! Self-Directed Digital Downloads Diving Deep (video class) Private Joy: Sadomasochism for Solo & Distance Play (video class) Kink Self-Discovery Workbook (self-directed template) S/m & the physical side of play 2/20 2pm PST: Caning: From Sensual to Sadistic w/ Miriam Green and impossiblepain (SF) NEW: 3/13 7pm PDT: Wicked Grounds Presents: SpankLab (SF) NEW: 3/14 6pm PDT: First Contact: Electro With Body Contact Cables w/ Carmen PanDiego (ONLINE) 3/25 6pm PDT: Needle Play 101: Easy with Those Pricks w/ Miss Mackenzee (ONLINE) NEW: 4/9 7pm PDT: FlogLab w/ Reika Minxie (SF) NEW: 4/10 7pm PST: Wicked Grounds Presents: SpankLab (SF) Bondage & Fetish 3/6 7pm PST: SF Rope Bite (SF) 3/7 7pm PST: Wicked Rope Jam (SF) Sexy times 2/26 6pm PST: Love What You Do: Oral Pleasure for Cocks w/ Miss Mackenzee (ONLINE) D/s & the mental side of play 2/20 6:30pm PST: Improv for Naughty Play with Psychokitty Ryan (SF) 2/28 6pm PST: Invisible Toolbox with HG Wyndell (ONLINE) 3/7 6pm PST: Petplay Primer with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) 3/21 6pm PDT: CTRL: Online Submission with d20domme (ONLINE) 3/27 6pm PDT: Creating Containers for Kink w/ HG Wyndell (ONLINE) NEW: 4/2 6pm PDT: Advanced BDSM Negotiations – Relationships, Dynamics & Contracts w/ Miriam Green (ONLINE) 4/9 6pm PDT: Sir! No, Sir! Saying No In D/s Dynamics with Ev Evnen (ONLINE) NEW: 4/16 6:30pm PDT: Setting the Scene with Psychokitty Ryan (SF) 4/22 6pm PDT: The Art of Tease and Denial with Miss Mackenzee (ONLINE) Erotic Hypnosis 2/25 2pm PST: Erotic Hypnosis- Fun Games and Dirty Tricks with HypnoStory and PandaPet (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings!) 3/16 2pm PDT: This Mind Intentionally Left Blank with HypnoStory & PandaPet (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings!) 4/17 6pm PDT: Drop “For Me”- Dominance, Submission and Hypnosis with HypnoStory and PandaPet (ONLINE) Polyamory & ethical non-monogamy 2/17 2pm PST: The POC Polyamorist w/ d20domme (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings) NEW: 4/9 6pm PDT: Polyamory 101 w/ Laura Boyle of Ready for Polyamory (ONLINE) NEW: 5/6 6pm PDT: Relationship Anarchy Applied with Laura Boyle of Ready for Polyamory (ONLINE) Self-knowledge, negotiation & consent 2/18 2pm PST: Cellaring: Refining Your Skills as an Older Kinkster with Miriam Green (SF & ONLINE – EMEA Friendly Timings) 2/19 7pm PST: Kink 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics w/ Miriam Green (SF & ONLINE) 2/25 11am PST: Autism & Kink w/ John Pendal (ONLINE. This class tends to sell out – we recommend getting tickets early.) 2/27 6pm PST: Your Year in Kink with Sinclair Sexsmith (ONLINE) 2/29 6pm PST: Disability, Chronic Pain, and BDSM with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) 3/2 2:30pm PST: Negotiation Improv with Wiley (SF) 3/5 6pm PST: Looking Over the Cliff with Ev Evnen and Lauren DeRusha (ONLINE) 3/18 6pm PDT: Kink 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics w/ Miriam Green (ONLINE) 3/23 2pm PDT: From Gender Dysphoria to Gender Euphoria with Lee Harrington (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings!) 3/26 6pm PDT: Writing Spicy with Sinclair Sexsmith (ONLINE) 4/3 6pm PDT: Demystifying Asexuality with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) 4/6 2:30pm PDT: Negotiation Improv with Wiley (SF) NEW: 4/15 6pm PDT: Kink 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics w/ Miriam Green (ONLINE) 4/24 6pm PDT: Ritual to Explore and Honor Our Boundaries with HG Wyndell (ONLINE) Community: Friends, dating, relationships & kink culture! 3/2 Noon PST: Welcome to the SF Bay Area Scene with Miriam Green (SF) 4/3 6pm PDT: Demystifying Asexuality with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) 4/6 Noon PDT: Welcome to the SF Bay Area Scene with Miriam Green (SF) 4/23 6pm PDT: The Sexual Politics of Kink with Sinclair Sexsmith (ONLINE) Polyamory & Ethical Non-Monogamy 2/17 2pm PST: The POC Polyamorist w/ d20domme (ONLINE – EMEA Friendly Timings!) 4/12 6pm PDT: MonoPoly: Passing Go with d20domme (ONLINE) Life Stuff, wellness & adulting for kinksters 2/29 6pm PST: Disability, Chronic Pain, and BDSM with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) 3/10 2pm PDT: Flexibility 4 Life with Click Your Heels (SF) 3/19 7pm PDT: The Dapper Guide for the New Gentleman with Psychokitty Ryan (SF & ONLINE) 4/14 11am – 5pm PDT: Adult First Aid/CPR/AED plus Bloodborne Pathogens Certification with Puppy Dog (SF) Magick & Occult (with Magickal Crossroads) 2/28 6pm PST: Invisible Toolbox (ONLINE) 3/13 6pm PDT: Tarot for Kinky Folks – Using Cards to Negotiate Scenes with Diana Rajchel (ONLINE) 3/24 2pm PDT: Sex Magick for Kinksters w/ Miriam BatAsherah Green (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings!) 4/10 6pm PDT: Inner Spring Cleaning with Energy Work with Diana Rajchel (ONLINE) 5/22 6pm PDT: Spicy Tarot with HG Wyndell (ONLINE) 4/24 6pm PDT: Ritual to Explore and Honor Our Boundaries with HG Wyndell (ONLINE) July – August 2024: All the Kabbalah You Really Need to Know (ONLINE SIX WEEKS)

Kink is not a one size fits all. There’s no template. One of the hardest journeys in kink is finding our own desires and voice. It takes strength to push past shame, self-doubt and others’ requests of us to find something uniquely ours and worth cultivating. It’s lifelong work; the people who have the most satisfaction in kink make time to do it regularly. Despite many years teaching and consulting, I don’t have the answers for you. But I do have a set of questions that will help you think deeply about desire and connection, and find your own answers. In two weeks, we launch our next Diving Deep six-week course. This online intensive mirrors the work I’ve done in my own life and consulting to help kinksters unearth their own personal desires, find agency and authenticity, and begin to create the lives that they truly want in kink. If this is work you feel called to, please take a moment to reserve your spot. (If cost is a barrier, please reach out to me by email. I may be able to work out a couple of work-trade spots for folks who can help me with actively moderating the comments and live sessions.) Diving Deep: Discovering and Voicing Erotic Desires A six-week BDSM intensive with Wicked Grounds’ Miriam Green Online: February 17 – March 30, 2024 ​ Please note: our last Diving Deep sold out well in advance, and space is limited. To ensure your seat, please sign up as soon as you feel committed to this work. ​Details & ticketing here! ​ ​And RSVP on FetLife to let friends know you’re coming.​ This six-week online intensive is designed to help kinksters and other erotic adventurers get un-stuck around our evolving desires and how to ask for them. This work is perfect for anyone launching a new phase in their erotic journeys (or feeling stuck in an old phase). Is this course for you?​​ Do you get stuck when asked “what do you want in intimate relationships?” Are you uncomfortable telling partners about your desires and kinks? Have you been doing the same thing for a long time and want to find new routes to eroticism? Do you want a deep understanding of the physical and psychological responses you have to kink? Do you want to connect deeply with others? ​ Then yes: this course is for you! Together, we’ll explore: Discovering and honoring what turns you on Safely exploring kink and other edgy forms of eroticism Trying new skills in the bedroom and beyond Deepening your insights into your own desires Disentangling from others’ erotic projections Finding your voice and speaking freely Sharing the desires you’re afraid to voice ​ How we’ll engage ​ The six week course will run live from Feb 17 – March 30, 2024 This class will include six total weeks of content and homework, two 90-minute live online group sessions (recorded for later participation if needed), and at least one half-hour individual consult with instructor Miriam Green. (Our class tiers include the option to add more consults for your own journey.) Our two live sessions will be offered via Zoom on Saturday, February 24th 4pm-5:30pm Pacific (7pm-8:30pm Eastern) and Saturday, March 23rd 4pm-5:30pm Pacific (7pm-8:30pm Eastern). Both sessions will be recorded for later viewing or for those who cannot attend the sessions live. Ticketed participants will have access to the course materials weekly as they are provided and will have the ability to participate at their own pace, attending the live sessions in real time or online at their convenience. ​Tickets are available here, and space is limited. ​ Pricing plans are available for additional accessibility. Are you a VIP member? Check your discount codes or reach out for assistance to use your discount!