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Hello Kinksters – Happy almost Valentine’s Day! Whether you’re celebrating with one or more loved ones, or reclaiming the power of radical self-love, we wish you happiness. We’re Reclaiming Valentine’s Day by celebrating all kinds of love and all kinds of connection! Did you know that 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 If your approach is something like “screw the roses, give me the thorns,” you’re warmly invited to join House of Meow for SpankLab on Wednesday. 😉 Want to give us a present? We’d just love to see more of you this week. Please read on for this week’s events! Fundraising updates Thanks to several contributions and one generous community member extending a low-interest loan, we have been able to meet this week’s target to get a second high-interest loan paid off and save a lot in fees. We continue to ask our community’s help in getting the full cafe debts paid off. Learn more and contribute here. 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! Sunday, February 11 If you find the mind the most sexually attractive feature we will discuss, the why, where to focus your efforts, and how your brain can be the ultimate kinky toy. Tap into your sapiosexual side in Nymphobrainiac: Big Brain Sex online with d20domme at 11am Pacific. Details & ticketing here. Monday, February 12 Dating can be challenging for almost anyone. Add being kinky to the mix, and the challenge becomes exponentially harder. But don’t despair! Join us for Dating While Kinky with Miriam Green at 7pm Pacific and get some strategies. In this Kink 101 session, we’ll talk about a variety of strategies for navigating the dating world as a kinkster. You may join us in person in San Francisco, or online. Details & ticketing here. Tuesday, February 13 Want to pick up flogging, but not sure how to start? Maybe you want to take your flogging to the next level? If you’re in San Francisco, you’re in luck! Join Reika Minxie at the Folsom Street Community Center at 7pm for our new playshop FlogLab! Details & ticketing here. Wednesday, February 14 If you’re interested in a wide range of impact play, SpankLab is the San Francisco playshop for you! We start each month at 7pm with a short demo, then create a space for safe, friendly exploration with a variety of impact toys (or your own body as an impact tool). House of Meow (Miriam Green and impossiblepain) will show you everything you need to know to take your impact play skills to the next level, make new friends and play safe! Details & ticketing here. 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.}(https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/62f88a9b7b) 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. 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. 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,

Lots of new classes and ways to engage with kink here! 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! Ongoing monthly: Group Consulting: Daily Practice Accountability Group Join at any time! Private consulting & coaching with Miriam Green. Book Mir’s brain by the hour. Self-Directed Digital Downloads Diving Deep (video class) NEW Private Joy: Sadomasochism for Solo & Distance Play (video class) Kink Self-Discovery Workbook (self-directed template) S/m & the physical side of play 2/13 7pm PDT: FlogLab with Reika Minxie (SF) 2/14 7pm PDT: Wicked Grounds Present: SpankLab (SF) 2/15 6pm PDT: Taking Electro Play to Your Limits w/ Carmen PanDiego (ONLINE) 2/20 2pm PDT: Caning: From Sensual to Sadistic w/ Miriam Green and impossiblepain (SF) 3/25 6pm PST: Needle Play 101: Easy with Those Pricks w/ Miss Mackenzee (ONLINE) 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 PST: CTRL: Online Submission with d20domme (ONLINE) 3/27 6pm PST: Creating Containers for Kink w/ HG Wyndell (ONLINE) 4/9 6pm PST: Sir! No, Sir! Saying No In D/s Dynamics with Ev Evnen (ONLINE) NEW 4/22 6pm PST: 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 PST: This Mind Intentionally Left Blank with HypnoStory & PandaPet (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings!) 4/17 6pm PST: 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) 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 PST: Kink 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics w/ Miriam Green (ONLINE) 3/23 2pm PST: From Gender Dysphoria to Gender Euphoria with Lee Harrington (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings!) 3/26 6pm PST: Writing Spicy with Sinclair Sexsmith (ONLINE) 4/3 6pm PST: Demystifying Asexuality with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) 4/6 2:30pm PST: Negotiation Improv with Wiley (SF) NEW 4/11 7:30pm PST: Dealing with Drop with Miriam Green (ONLINE) NEW 4/24 6pm PST: 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 PST: Demystifying Asexuality with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) NEW: 4/6 Noon PST: Welcome to the SF Bay Area Scene with Miriam Green (SF) NEW: 4/23 6pm PST: 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 PST: 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) NEW 3/10 2pm PST: Flexibility 4 Life with Click Your Heels (SF) 3/19 7pm PST: The Dapper Guide for the New Gentleman with Psychokitty Ryan (SF & ONLINE) Magick & Occult (with Magickal Crossroads) 2/28 6pm PST: Invisible Toolbox (ONLINE) 3/13 6pm PST: Tarot for Kinky Folks – Using Cards to Negotiate Scenes with Diana Rajchel (ONLINE) 3/24 2pm PST: Sex Magick for Kinksters w/ Miriam BatAsherah Green (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings!) 4/10 6pm PST: Inner Spring Cleaning with Energy Work with Diana Rajchel (ONLINE) NEW 5/22 6pm PST: Spicy Tarot with HG Wyndell (ONLINE) NEW 4/24 6pm PST: 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)

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Hello Kinksters – We did it! We all collectively got through the darkest twelve weeks of the year. Congratulations! What is germinating in you this early spring? What are you excited about? I go into this season feeling grateful for last month’s daily practice cohort. I’ve recommitted to personal journaling, and am scheduling time to finish drafting and revising my two book projects. Our next six-week Diving Deep session launches this month to help kinksters delve into personal desire, all the hopes and fears that come with desire, and finding a voice to create the kink scenes and relationships we really want. This intensive is great for new kinksters, but even better for experienced players who feel stuck and want to chart out the next phase of their evolution. You can learn more about this course and sign up here. I’m also excited about the next few months, when several new Bay Area kink venues open their doors. In addition to our growing roster of online and hybrid classes, we’ll have a lot more in person events and playshops returning to San Francisco this year. (And perhaps the return of our play party Wicked Grounds Playground? That’s the rumor!) We really can’t do this without you Kinky debt-slayers have vast power! If you were waiting for the start of the month to help with our ongoing debt-retirement fundraising, now is a great time. Read more here, and please contribute if you can. Any amount helps. Thanks to generous community support, we’ve managed to get one payoff letter in hand, get a lien removed that was really causing problems for us an our instructors, and get some — not yet all — of our operations back on track. Our next concrete goal: if we can raise about $3,400 by the end of the weekend, we can pay off another chunk early that would save us a whopping $1,300 in usury-level fees. That means only $10-$20 each from the folks reading this. Will you help us make it happen? VIP members gain new benefits this month! Given how important Patreon and particularly VIP memberships are to our continued operations, I’m always looking for ways to keep the program fresh and valuable. Thanks to a great suggestion from our of our participants in last month’s daily practice sessions, I’ve increased our ongoing Group Accountability Consulting for daily practice to 10+ sessions per month, and membership in this group is no available at no additional cost to Wicked Grounds VIPs — you just need to teach to this link and use your class discount code to sign up. (And of course you can always sign up for a VIP membership here.) We’d love to see more of you this week. Please read on for this week’s events! Events Roundup! Like planning even further ahead? Find our latest full class roster here! Friday, February 2nd We don’t have a scheduled class tonight, but this might be a nice time to check out some of our digital downloads for a video class or self-directed exploration, such as the original video class for Diving Deep, or our Kink Self Discovery Workbook. Saturday, February 3rd There is a lot of change happening in the San Francisco Bay Area scene, from new venues and playspaces to a rapidly evolving culture. If you want to make the most of the culture, vast diversity and deep resources the SF scene has too offer, join Miriam Green in downtown San Francisco from Noon – 2pm for Welcome to the SF Bay Area Scene. This class is offered in person only, and advance ticketing is recommended. And then stick around! At 2:30 we’ll bring you a brand new negotiation resource: Negotiation Improv with Wiley Coyote. You’ll learn to think through different negotiation scenarios by practicing them with others, leading to stronger negotiations when it matters. Advance ticketing recommended! Get yours here. Monday, February 5th Legendary rope artist Lee Harrington joins us online at 6pm Pacific for Crotch Ropes and Butt Bondage. This was some of the first work of Lee’s that I personally put to use, and I’m delighted to have him teaching this material for Wicked Grounds. Advance ticketing is required — get yours here. Tuesday, February 6th Many play parties and sampler parties add value by making house tops available for their attendees — but what is house topping and how do we practice it well? Whether you’re an experienced community member hoping to give back, an educator who loves delivering hands-on experience, or a party host thinking about ways to make parties more fun, you’re warmly invited to Tips for House Topping with Miriam Green at 7pm Pacific. Advance ticketing required — get yours here! Wednesday, February 7th These are . . . weird times . . . and sometimes we need a bit more resilience. In partnership with Magickal Crossroads and Diana Rajchel, we’re pleased to offer Urban Magick: Community Building in Times of Social Collapse online at 6pm Pacific. Advance ticketing required. Get yours here! If you’re in San Francisco and want more time to practice your rope skills, join us at the Folsom Street Community Center at 7pm Pacific for Rope Bite SF. Bring your rope if you have it, and your curiosity and creativity are a must! You may get tickets at the door or in advance. Thursday, February 8th Join us tonight for Part 2 of our two-part series with Ev Evnen for Kink & Trauma. Advance ticketing required — get yours here. Sunday, Feburary 11th If you like big brains (and you cannot lie), join d20domme at 11am Pacific for our online class Nymphobrainiac: Big Brain Sex. Love or hate the s- word, it remains a powerful attractor for many. Explore why — and how — in this online class. 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!

Hello Kinksters – If you haven’t already seen it, we have an urgent call out for your support right now, to retire the worst of the old cafe debt so we can get on with building the future. The need is urgent, but community support is a strong force — we are already halfway toward meeting our most urgent need. Read more here, and please contibute if you can. Any amount helps. Because we believe in our huge well of community support, we’re continuing to book new classes and events well into the future. Find our latest full class roster here! We’d love to see more of you this week. Please read on for this week’s events! Memberships keep Wicked Grounds going. Join our Patreon VIP program for excellent benefits, from free and discounted classes to discounts and free shipping on gear all year round! Annual memberships now available! Events Roundup! Thursday, January 18 Is it the sensation? Subspace? Submission? Pain? Yes. In tonight’s guided conversation Bottom, Why!? A Conscious Discussion of Why We Bottoms Do the Things We Dowith Ev Evnen, we’ll explore as bottoms why we are drawn to this side of play. As we dive deeper into our “whys” we’ll find ways to better communicate with our tops and doms, in addition to better understanding ourselves. Both individuals and partner groups and D-types and S-types are welcome to attend. Details & ticketing here. As we delve deeper into kink and forming D/s relationships, our tools for negotiation and consent also deepen and evolve. In KINK 201: Advanced BDSM Negotiations – Relationships & Dynamics, Wicked Grounds owner Miriam Green will explore setting your own must-haves and red flags, negotiating for play partner relationships, building D/s contracts that really work, how to maintain kink relationships over time, and much more. Details & ticketing here. Saturday, January 20 A service submissive can be useful in a variety of ways. Why not travel services? In Checked Baggage: Submissive Travel Services, d20domme will explore how to serve while doing so by train, plane, or automobile and how to make any Airbnb, hotel, or shared space reflect your D/s dynamic. This online class starts at 11am Pacific. Details & ticketing here. In collaboration with Magickal Crossroads . . . 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 Sex Magick for Kinksters with Wicked Grounds’ Miriam Green, who has been teaching in the world of magick even longer than in the world of kink! This online class embarks at 2pm Pacific. Details & ticketing here. Heading to the Aura party from AfterDark Events? Keep an eye out for Wicked Grounds! We’ll have a small table of gear available from 8-11pm, and then Mir will put in an hour of house topping from 11pm – midnight! Sunday, January 21 On Sunday at 11am Pacific, John Pendal offers Dungeon Disasters: a workshop about “all the mistakes I’ve made so that you don’t copy them”! No matter how skilled you are as a BDSM player things can and will always go wrong. This class examines both emotional and physical pitfalls of kinky scenes with tips for warning signs you should look out for, ways to avoid a disaster, and coping strategies when the worst situations seem to occur. We also look at some great questions to improve negotiation before a scene, and ideal aftercare for everyone involved. Details & ticketing here. Monday, January 22 Join Miss Mackenzee online at 6pm Pacific for Playing Creatively from the Neck Up. We’re talking cheeks, scalp and hair, ears, tongue, nose and lips! Join this dynamic workshop for a closer look on the delightful ways to focus your attention from the neck up to really toy with your partner. Details & ticketing here. Tuesday, January 23 Tuesday evening at 6pm Pacific, let’s talk about the great (and challenging) things that make a daddy dynamic possible, so you can show up and claim whatever daddy space feels right for you. Join us for Daddy 101 with Sinclair Sexsmith. Details & ticketing here. Wednesday, January 24 In collaboration with Magickal Crossroads. Ugh, some people are just impossible! Whether it’s a sigil to block the ooze of the new guests at the dinner table or a ritual to help you surf the trauma triggers, this time of year usually challenges our feelings of humanity towards the pesky humans. Make some tea, bring your notebook, and take notes on magickal ideas to take to the trenches or the dinner table in Magick for Impossible People with Diana Rajchel. Details & ticketing here. Thursday, January 25 Partnered at a distance? Between partners? Just like rocking it solo? There are a lot of reasons we might want to engage in S/m play on our own! But there are some special considerations for solo and distance play, ranging from safety to creative ideas on what’s most effective in a solo context. Join Miriam Green at 6pm online for Private Joy: Sadomasochism for Solo & Distance Play to expand your toolkit for solo and distance play! Details & ticketing here. Friday, January 26 We don’t have a scheduled class tonight, but if you’re hankering for one check out our digital download for the original 90 minute version of Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Kink Desires with Miriam Green. Purchase and download this video class here! Saturday, January 27 In collaboration with Magickal Crossroads. Join Miriam BatAsherah Green online or in person for a special halfday workshop Tarot for Kabbalists, Kabbalah for Tarot Readers. We’ll explore the links between kabbalistic models and the tarot in ways that will help experienced tarot readers better understand kabbalah, and also significantly enhance tarot reading skills. You may join us at our San Francisco offices on online for this one. Details & ticketing here. Ongoing or upcoming events Daily: Sign up for Wicked

Good morning! I know some of you are following this closely since I first reached out yesterday, and others are just catching up. If this is your first time seeing this, you might want to read yesterday’s post! Since this time yesterday morning, 59 kinksters like you have helped Wicked Grounds raise over $8,500 toward retiring the worst and scariest of our old cafe debt. As you can learn more below this update, this particular creditor is threatening our continued operations (despite our honoring every part of our agreements with them), and we just need to get this one off our back. Contribute to our GoFundMe to retire this debt! As I write this, we have about $3K more to go to get this particular debt retired. Then, we’ll be applying the next $6K or so toward un-fucking several payments that are currently delayed or otherwise screwed up due to this ongoing mess over the last month. Anything we collect beyond that will go toward paying down the overall remaining cafe debt (which is substantial, but not an existential threat). ​Literally anything you can do will help. Have $5 bucks? $500? We’ll put it to work keeping our operations going long into the future. Some people have also been contributing outside the platform, which is just fine and gets the funds in our pocket much sooner. Here’s how you can do that. Book a seat for one of our classes on Forbidden Tickets or Bloom to keep our regular cash flow flowing Send contributions via Zelle to Mir@WickedGrounds.com Send contributions via Venmo to Venmo.com/WickedGroundsI​ Send contributions via PayPal to paypal.me/RBWickedGrounds ​ Once we hit our first goal of $11,681 for this creditor and stretch goal of $17,681 for the great unfucking, I do plan to keep the GoFundMe open and apply anything else straight to paying down the substantial debts we incurred in the last year keeping the cafe open. I appreciate anything and everything that y’all are doing. I went into yesterday morning truly wondering if we’d lose the Grounds over this. I know now — once again — that there’s no way y’all would let that happen. Thank you. With true love and gratitude, Mir ORIGINAL POST IF YOU MISSED IT  I’m Mir and I’m the owner of Wicked Grounds, a leader in adult education around consent, boundaries, relationships and adult play. As you may know, we started out as Wicked Grounds Cafe & Boutique: a physical home for the queer & leather community to gather, rabble-rouse, connect and play. For nearly ten years, the cafe was our home. While the pandemic lockdown had us physically closed for 18 months, we built up our educational programming to become a well known leader nationally and even internationally. Unfortunately, our attempts to reopen the cafe & boutique post pandemic were extremely difficult, and we were unable to operate at a profit from the time COVID resurged in early 2022 until we made the sad decision to close the space in June 2023. During that time, we incurred nearly $80k in total debts just to meet payroll, pay the rent, and keep serving milkshakes. In June 2023, we made the sad decision to move entirely to education and let that beloved community space go. Contribute to our GoFundMe to retire this debt! Over the past six months, we’ve been reinventing ourselves as a force for adult education. We offer 25-30 events per month. And I’ve been working in good faith with most of our creditors to get our old debt paid down and get onto a new footing. Well, except one. I have one creditor who is 1/3 paid off, but is threatening to wreck the whole business over the $11,679 they are still owed. These folks are putting liens against our receivables, causing significant challenges to our cashflow (and making it nearly impossible to get our other commitments met in a timely manner). Everyone else is working with us but . . . these guys? They have got to go. I don’t have that kind of money sitting around. What I have is a drive for community education, a desire to move forward into what we’re becoming, and faith in my community. Contribute to our GoFundMe to retire this debt! Your contributions in any amount will allow us to get this monkey off our back, restore our day to day cash flow, and keep the Grounds strong for the long term. If we are able to collect anything above the $11,679 goal, that will be put toward first paying down educators in our community whose payments have been slowed by this situation, and then toward the remaining cafe debt. It would be lovely to get this retired entirely so that we can move on toward the future. Any amount helps. Your faith in us helps. And thank you. With gratitude, Mir PS: Hate GoFundMe? That’s fine. Here are other ways to be helpful: Book a seat for one of our classes on Forbidden Tickets or Bloom to keep our regular cash flow flowing Send contributions via Zelle to Mir@WickedGrounds.com Send contributions via Venmo to Venmo.com/WickedGroundsI​ Send contributions via PayPal to paypal.me/RBWickedGrounds ​

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Hello Kinksters – That start of a new year energy is in the air! This and last week’s playshops have had great attendance and enthusiasm, and our cohort of mindfulness practitioners have been meditating and journaling up a storm. It’s kind of like the energy you get at the gym or a yoga studio in January, and it’s a lot of fun to be around! Just like at the gym, sometimes it helps to have a personal coach. My own schedule has opened up a bit in the new year, so don’t hesitate to reach out if you’d like to book some time together. I offer half-hour, one-hour and ongoing consults for everything from how to get out of a kink rut to how to launch kink community spaces in your neck of the woods. Whatever your resolutions are (or aren’t!) we hope you’re having a great new year. Read on for this week’s events! Memberships keep Wicked Grounds going. Join our Patreon VIP program for excellent benefits, from free and discounted classes to discounts and free shipping on gear all year round! Annual memberships now available! Events Roundup! Thursday, Jan 11 Electro play has a different toolkit from other types of BDSM play, and that includes particular skills to cultivate as an electro play bottom. Join Carmen Pandiego and Nick -Illuminaughty- at 6pm Pacific online for SubSpice: Bottoming for Electro Play. This class will discuss preparing yourself mentally, physically, and making sure you have the right information to be an empowered bottom. Advance ticketing required – get yours here! Monday, Jan 15 Negotiating is a critical skill for building BDSM scenes, dynamics and relationships that work. But negotiating doesn’t necessarily come naturally — especially for those of us who are just entering the kink scene. Join Miriam Green at 7pm Pacific online for BDSM Negotiation Basics. We’ll cover the basics of negotiation and consent, pre-scene negotiations, how to keep in close communication throughout a scene, and even the neuropsychology of how scenes get tricky (and what to do about it). Details & ticketing here. Tuesday, Jan 16 Sometimes the best way to shake up our nervousness around kink is to literally make a game of is. Playing games is a way to enhance our creativity, our sense of adventure, and our ability to connect and have fun — so why not extend that to Fetish Games? Join us at 6:30 in San Francisco, where Psychokitty Ryan will demonstrate several “naughty” games and inspire your own. There will be multi-person party games, similar to People Ping Pong and the Three Legged Lace, explained and demonstrated as well as some more intimate challenges for those at home players. Class participation is highly encouraged. Details & ticketing here! In collaboration with Magickal Crossroads . . . Kabbalah doesn’t need to be obscure, pedantic, or boring. It can be fun, experiential – and maybe even a little dishy. Anyone can master the basics in only a few hours – and the rest, as they say, is commentary. Join Miriam BatAsherah Green at 7pm Pacific online for All the Kabbalah You Really Need to Know in 72 Minutes or Less. Beginners will quickly become acquainted with the fundamentals of Kabbalah, while more experienced practitioners will gain deeper perspectives into the origins of Kabbalah and its continuing relevance to witches, pagans and magickians. Details & ticketing here. Wednesday, January 17 Looking back at this past year in your kink life can point you toward what you want to change or focus on for this next year. Join Sinclair Sexsmith online at 6pm Pacific for Your Year in Kink for a great structure for doing so! We’ll use our reflections to make some goals, ideas, bucket list, or bingo card for next year. Details & ticketing here. Thursday, January 18 Is it the sensation? Subspace? Submission? Pain? Yes. In tonight’s guided conversation Bottom, Why!? A Conscious Discussion of Why We Bottoms Do the Things We Dowith Ev Evnen, we’ll explore as bottoms why we are drawn to this side of play. As we dive deeper into our “whys” we’ll find ways to better communicate with our tops and doms, in addition to better understanding ourselves. Both individuals and partner groups and D-types and S-types are welcome to attend. Details & ticketing here. As we delve deeper into kink and forming D/s relationships, our tools for negotiation and consent also deepen and evolve. In KINK 201: Advanced BDSM Negotiations – Relationships & Dynamics, Wicked Grounds owner Miriam Green will explore setting your own must-haves and red flags, negotiating for play partner relationships, building D/s contracts that really work, how to maintain kink relationships over time, and much more. Details & ticketing here. Saturday, January 20 A service submissive can be useful in a variety of ways. Why not travel services? In Checked Baggage: Submissive Travel Services, d20domme will explore how to serve while doing so by train, plane, or automobile and how to make any Airbnb, hotel, or shared space reflect your D/s dynamic. This online class starts at 11am Pacific. Details & ticketing here. In collaboration with Magickal Crossroads . . . 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 Sex Magick for Kinksters with Wicked Grounds’ Miriam Green, who has been teaching in the world of magick even longer than in the world of kink! This online class embarks at 2pm Pacific. Details & ticketing here. Sunday, January 21 On Sunday at 11am Pacific, John Pendal offers Dungeon Disasters: a workshop about “all the mistakes I’ve made so that you don’t copy them”! No matter how skilled you are as a BDSM player things can and will always go wrong. This class examines both emotional and physical pitfalls of kinky scenes with tips for warning signs you should look out for, ways to avoid

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Lots of new classes and ways to engage with kink here! 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! Ongoing monthly: Group Consulting: Daily Practice Accountability Group Join at any time! Private consulting & coaching with Miriam Green. Book Mir’s brain by the hour. Self-Directed Digital Downloads Diving Deep (video class) Kink Self-Discovery Workbook (self-directed template) S/m & the physical side of play 1/21 11am PST: Dungeon Disasters w/ John Pendal (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings) 1/22 6pm PST: Playing Creatively From the Neck Up w/ Miss Mackenzee (ONLINE) 1/25 6pm PST: Private Joy: Sadomasochism for Solo & Distance Play with Miriam Green (ONLINE) NEW 2/13 7pm PDT: FlogLab with Reika Minxie (SF) NEW 2/14 7pm PDT: Wicked Grounds Present: SpankLab (SF) NEW 2/20 2pm PDT: Caning: From Sensual to Sadistic w/ Miriam Green and impossiblepain (SF) NEW 3/25 6pm PST: Needle Play 101: Easy with Those Pricks w/ Miss Mackenzee (ONLINE) Bondage & Fetish 2/1 7pm PST: Wicked Rope Jam (SF) 2/5 6pm PST: Crotch Ropes & Butt Bondage w/ Lee Harrington (ONLINE) 2/7 7pm PST: SF Rope Bite (SF) NEW 3/6 7pm PST: SF Rope Bite (SF) NEW 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 1/20 11am PST: Checked Baggage: Submissive Travel Services with d20domme (ONLINE – EMEA Friendly Timings!) 1/23 6pm PST: Daddy 101 w/ Sinclair Sexsmith (ONLINE) 2/10 2pm PST: Catholicism Play w/ Danarama (SF & ONLINE – EMEA FRIENDLY TIMING!) 2/11 11am PST: Nymphobrainiac: Big Brain Sex with d20domme (ONLINE – EMEA FRIENDLY TIMING!) 2/20 6:30pm PST: Improv for Naughty Play with Psychokitty Ryan (SF) NEW 3/7 6pm PST: Petplay Primer with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) 3/9 2pm PST: Dollification for New Dolls, Makers & Owners w/ Danarama (SF & ONLINE) NEW: 3/21 6pm PST: CTRL: Online Submission with d20domme (ONLINE) NEW: 4/9 6pm PST: Sir! No, Sir! Saying No In D/s Dynamics with Ev Evnen (ONLINE) Erotic Hypnosis NEW: 2/25 2pm PST: Erotic Hypnosis- Fun Games and Dirty Tricks with HypnoStory and PandaPet (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings!) NEW: 3/16 2pm PST: This Mind Intentionally Left Blank with HypnoStory & PandaPet (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings!) NEW: 4/17 6pm PST: Drop “For Me”- Dominance, Submission and Hypnosis with HypnoStory and PandaPet (ONLINE) Polyamory & ethical non-monogamy NEW: 2/17 2pm PST: The POC Polyamorist w/ d20domme (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings) Self-knowledge, negotiation & consent 1/18 6pm PST: Bottom, Why!? A Conscious Discussion of Why We bottoms Do the Things We Do with Ev Evnen (ONLINE) 1/18 7pm PST: Kink 201: Advanced BDSM Negotiations for Relationships and Dynamics w/ Miriam Green (SF & ONLINE) 1/21 11am PST: Dungeon Disasters w/ John Pendal (ONLINE – EMEA Friendly Timings!) 1/31 6pm PST: Boundaries That Get You Off: How to Pleasure-Focus BDSM Negotiations with Lilith Foxx (ONLINE) 2/1 6pm PST: Kink and Trauma (Pt. 1) with Ev Evnen (ONLINE – Part one of two) 2/3 2:30 PST: Negotiation Improv with Wiley (San Francisco) 2/8 6pm PST: Kink and Trauma (Pt. 2) with Ev Evnen (ONLINE – Part two of two) 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) NEW: 3/2 2:30pm PST: Negotiation Improv with Wiley (SF) NEW: 3/5 6pm PST: Looking Over the Cliff with Ev Evnen and Lauren DeRusha (ONLINE) NEW: 3/18 6pm PST: Kink 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics w/ Miriam Green (ONLINE) NEW: 3/23 2pm PST: From Gender Dysphoria to Gender Euphoria with Lee Harrington (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings!) NEW: 3/26 6pm PST: Writing Spicy with Sinclair Sexsmith (ONLINE) NEW: 4/3 6pm PST: Demystifying Asexuality with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) Community: Friends, dating, relationships & kink culture! 2/3 Noon PST: Welcome to the SF Bay Area Scene with Miriam Green (San Francisco) 2/3 2:30 PST: Negotiation Improv with Wiley (San Francisco) 2/6 7pm PST: Tips for House Topping with Miriam Green (SF & ONLINE) 2/12 7pm PST: Dating While Kinky with Miriam Green (SF & ONLINE) NEW 3/2 Noon PST: Welcome to the SF Bay Area Scene with Miriam Green (SF) NEW: 4/3 6pm PST: Demystifying Asexuality with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) Polyamory & Ethical Non-Monogamy 2/17 2pm PST: The POC Polyamorist w/ d20domme (ONLINE – EMEA Friendly Timings!) NEW: 4/12 6pm PST: MonoPoly: Passing Go with d20domme (ONLINE) Life Stuff, wellness & adulting for kinksters 2/1 6pm PST: Kink and Trauma (Pt. 1) with Ev Evnen (ONLINE – Part one of two) 2/8 6pm PST: Kink and Trauma (Pt. 2) with Ev Evnen (ONLINE – Part two of two) 2/29 6pm PST: Disability, Chronic Pain, and BDSM with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) Magick & Occult (with Magickal Crossroads) 1/20 2pm PST: Sex Magick for Kinksters w/ Miriam BatAsherah Green (ONLINE – EMEA Friendly Timings!) 1/24 6pm PST: Magick for Impossible People w/ Diana Rajchel (ONLINE) 1/27 11am PST: Kabbalah for Tarot, Tarot for Kabbalists with Miriam BatAsherah Green (SF & ONLINE – EMEA Friendly Timings!) 2/7 6pm PST: Urban Magick: Community Building in Times of Social Collapse with Diana Rajchel (ONLINE) 2/22 7pm PST: Put a Sigil On It! w/ Miriam BatAsherah Green (SF & ONLINE) NEW 3/13 6pm PST: Tarot for Kinky Folks – Using Cards to Negotiate