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Howdy kinksters – It’s a big week for everyone in the greater Bay Area kink community, and we’re no exception. We’ve been spiffing up for Folsom week, and we’re excited to see some of your faces this weekend. If you are at Folsom, please swing by Wicked Grounds Booth at Folsom Street Fair — we will be between 10th and 11th on Folsom, at lucky space 77. Rough Cut Leather will have new goodies for you! This is also our big fundraising time for our scholarship fund. Wicked Grounds offers scholarships to every class to help our community have fun and play safe. We are only able to do this with the generosity of kinksters like YOU. We will contribute proceeds from this weekend’s booth sales to the fund, so get some great deals and help future kinksters get classes!!! Can’t join us in person? We welcome your small, sustainable gift through Venmo or regular contribution on Patreon. We are just starting to turn a corner on our sustainability plans, and every contribution will make an enormous difference to keeping our accessibility open and our instructors paid for their amazing contributions! Now is also the time to the fall cohort of our six-week intensive Diving Deep: Discovering and Voicing Your Erotic Desires. Read on for this week’s events, and plan ahead by checking out all our ticketed events. This week! Thursday 9/26 Breaking up is hard to do. While it’s difficult, it doesn’t need to be harmful or hurtful. It can be done with compassion and grace. Learn more tonight about some strategies and frameworks that might work for you and your relationships in The Breakup Blueprint: Compassionate Polyam Breakups with Lilith Foxx. This online class meets at 6pm Pacific, and you can get tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday 9/27 No live classes today, but check out our brand new digital downloads! We now have both our BDSM Negotiation Basics and our Advanced Negotiations class available for digital download: Kink 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics Kink 201: Advanced Negotiations for Relationships & Dynamics Sunday 9/29 We hope to see you at Folsom Street Fair this Sunday! RSVP for our FetLife event to spread the word! We will be in Booth 77, between 10th and 11th on Folsom (near Sextant Coffee). Come peruse the new gear from Rough Cut Leather, talk with us about classes, and get incredible discounts on what’s left of our retail books and gear. Monday, 9/30 Nope! Absolutely not! Nope! Get some sleep. Maybe take the day off. 😉 Tuesday, 10/1 Join us online at 6pm Pacific for a live session of Kink 201: Advanced Negotiations for Relationships & Dynamics with Miriam Green. Advance ticketing available through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. We will record this session for later watching if you can’t make it live. Wednesday 10/2 If you’re in the SF Bay Area, join us for the most fun you can have on a Wednesday night. It’s SpankLab with host impossiblepain. This hands-on playshop is a chance to meet new friends, learn basic impact play techniques, and spend a night of practice. If you’re having too much fun to go home, head up to PlayXLand after to dance and play the night away! This post-Folsom date is likely to sell out, so get your advance tickets on Forbidden Tickets or Plura now! Thursday 10/3 Polyam folks are often advised to cultivate compersion in relationships. But what is it, and how does it work, anyway? Join us only at 6pm Pacific for The Art & Science of Compersion with Marie Thouin. Marie will discuss her “compersion roadmap”, which will help every attendee understand what promotes and hinders compersion for them. She will also demystify some of the main myths you might have heard around compersion, and tackle some controversial questions regarding the topic. Get advance ticketing through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Saturday 10/5 It’s first Saturday! This month, we’ll be live in San Francisco at Noon for our Welcome to the SF Scene class live at our space in Trellis! If you just got curious about the SF kink scene at Folsom, now is the time to learn about all the spaces, organizations, events, and culture that make San Francisco extraordinary! This is a live class with Miriam Green. Get your advanced tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Door ticketing is available, but please arrive by 11:55am to ticket on site. Then stick around for Negotiation Improv with Wiley Elote at 2:30pm to learn the basics of Negotiation and how to find your voice in different realistic negotiation scenarios. This live workshop is the best way to develop confidence in negotiations — fast. Get advance tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday 10/6 Our Diving Deep: Discovering and Voicing Your Erotic Desires six-week workshop officially goes live today! If you’d like to go really, really deep in your kink journey, please commit to yourself and sign up for our fall cohort. If you’ve ever felt like you’re the only one experiencing what you feel in submission, we assure you — you are NOT alone. Often it’s helpful to talk with other folks on the same side of the slash to share experiences and ideas. Join us live in San Francisco at 11:30am for Submissives in Solidarity, a discussion group facilitated by Miriam Green. We’ll meet in the cozy Mukunda Studios in SOMA. Advance ticketing recommended. Get yours on Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Then join us at 2pm in San Francisco for Erotic Movement with Alexandria from Click Your Heels. ALL bodies, ALL genders, all orientations, all ages, all ethnicities! YOU are welcome as you are for this dance and movement class to express your own erotic identity. Advance ticketing strongly recommended, as space is limited. Get your tickets on 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

Howdy kinksters – It’s Leather Month! Yay! We hope to see you at our Wicked Grounds Booth at Folsom Street Fair — RSVP to let friends know you’re coming, and get the booth location details as soon as we have them. And we are just three weeks away from launching the fall cohort of our six-week intensive Diving Deep: Discovering and Voicing Your Erotic Desires. Space is limited, and with Folsom just weeks before our launch, our fall cohort always sells out. If you want to get the ticketing tier with four consult sessions, please book early! To appropriately manage our time, we usually close that tier early. Read on for this week’s events, and plan ahead by checking out all our ticketed events. This week! 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. Monday 9/16 Great scenes start with great negotiations! I don’t know about your sex education, but most of us didn’t learn how to have a great consent and negotiation discussion when growing up. There are some key skills we can build to cocreate great scenes and stay connected throughout them. Learn more in our monthly class Kink 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics with Miriam Green tonight at 6pm Pacific. Get your advance tickets via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Wednesday 9/18 Want to get out and start making more of playtime with others? Join Lee Harrington, who literally (co-) wrote the book on Playing Well With Others. Learn everything you need to know to make the most of your public BDSM, kink, and fetish scenes, wherever you are. Details & ticketing through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Thursday 9/19 Whether you’ve been in the scene for decades, or you’re brand new, it is vital to know about consent, and you can never explore too many perspectives! We’d love to see you tonight for Consent: The Ins and Outs with Nyx Lunaea. We’ll go over what consent looks like in vanilla and BDSM spaces, why it matters, and how you can implement it in your daily lives! All weeknight online classes launch at 6pm Pacific. Get your advance tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Saturday 9/21 This weekend, we are offering two critical perspectives on neurodivergence and kink. Join us Saturday at 2pm Pacific for Consent, Accountability, and Neurodivergence with Adam and Draven. How does neurodivergence affect consent mistakes, incidents, and violations? How does it affect boundaries, grappling with hurt and harm (and discerning between the two), and accountability at the personal, interpersonal, and community levels? You’ll learn all this and more in this critical online class! Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday 9/22 Join us at 11am Pacific for our extremely popular class Autism & Kink with London-based BDSM educator John Pendal. In this workshop we look at the overlap of autism and kink. This workshop isn’t just for autistic folk, it can help anyone who feels like an outsider or would like to create a more inclusive environment. Get your 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)

Happy Leather season, happy fall, and happy back-to-school season! We’re gearing up for a lot of great new classes, and look forward to seeing you either online or in one of our San Francisco workshops. Want to take a lot of classes? Get a monthly or annual event pass! Need personal coaching & guidance for those sticky issues around sex, kink and relationships? Reach out for one-time or ongoing coaching sessions at WickedGroundsAnnex.com Links below are to our primary ticketing via Forbidden Tickets. If you’re a Plura member, check the Plura app for ticketing there as well. The Roundup! Multi-week Intensives October – November 2024: Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires Self-Directed Digital Downloads Diving Deep (video class) Private Joy: Sadomasochism for Solo & Distance Play (video class) Kink Self-Discovery Workbook (self-directed template) Aftercare Kit Checklist S/m & the physical side of play NEW 9/4 7pm: SpankLab w/ impossiblepain (SF) 9/23 6pm PDT: Staples 101 with Miss Mackenzee (ONLINE) NEW: 11/17 11am PDT: Edge Play: Pushing Limits with John Pendal (ONLINE) D/s & the mental side of play 9/12 6pm PDT: Waking the Beast: Primal Play 101 with Wiley Wolfe (ONLINE) NEW 9/26 6pm PDT: Strategies for Switching with Lee Harrington (ONLINE) NEW 10/1 6pm PDT: Kink 201: Advanced BDSM Negotiations for Dynamics and Relationships with Miriam Green (ONLINE) NEW 10/6 11:30am PDT: Submissives in Solidarity: A Discussion Group facilitated by Miriam Green (SF) NEW 10/8 6pm PDT: How to Learn Protocols with HannahtheScribe (ONLINE) NEW 10/15 6:30pm PDT: Setting the Scene with Psychokitty (SF) NEW 11/9 2pm PDT: Productivity for Service with HannahtheScribe (ONLINE) NEW 11/17 2pm PDT: Dark Roleplaying with Lee Harrington (ONLINE) Erotic Hypnosis NEW 9/9 6pm PDT: Induction Sampler with HypnoStory and PandaPet (ONLINE) Movement workshops NEW 10/7 2pm PDT: Erotic Movement with Alexandria (SF) Sexy Times 9/15 2pm PDT: Erectile Artistry: Taking Delicious D*ck Pics with Lady V (ONLINE) NEW 9/30 6pm PDT: Booty Basics: Anal for Anyone with Jamie Joy (ONLINE) Polyamory & ethical non-monogamy NEW 9/10 6pm PDT: Monogamy? In this Economy? Polyamorous Cohabitation with Laura Boyle (ONLINE) 9/26 6pm PDT: The Breakup Blueprint: Compassionate Polyam Breakups w/ Lilith Foxx (ONLINE) NEW 10/3 6pm PDT: The Art & Science of Compersion with Marie Thouin (ONLINE) NEW 10/7 6pm PDT: Non-Escalator Relationships: Strategies and Challenges with Laura Boyle (ONLINE) NEW 11/6 6pm PDT: Anarchy! In Your Relationships with Laura Boyle (ONLINE) NEW 12/3 6pm PDT: Polyamory and Parenting with Laura Boyle (ONLINE) Self-knowledge, negotiation & consent 9/16 6pm PDT: Kink 101: Negotiation Basics with Miriam Green (ONLINE) 9/19 6pm PDT: Consent: The Ins and Outs with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) 9/21 2pm PDT: Consent, Accountability, and Neurodivergence with Adam and Draven (ONLINE) 9/22 11am PDT: Autism and Kink with John Pendal (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings) NEW 9/25 6pm PDT: Mobility, Disability, and Kink with HG Wyndell (ONLINE) NEW 10/10 6pm PDT: Dealing with Drop with Miriam Green (ONLINE) NEW 10/24 6pm PDT: Beyond Taboo: Embracing Hidden Desires and Shedding Kink Shame with Lilith Foxx (ONLINE) NEW: 11/17 11am PDT: Edge Play: Pushing Limits with John Pendal (ONLINE) Community: Friends, dating, relationships & kink culture! NEW 9/7 11am PDT: Welcome to the Kink Scene with Miriam Green (ONLINE) NEW 9/11 7pm PDT: Wicked Grounds + Plura Present: Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty Ryan (SF) 9/15 2pm PDT: Erectile Artistry: Taking Delicious D*ck Pics with Lady V (ONLINE) NEW 9/18 6pm PDT: Playing Well with Others with Lee Harrington (ONLINE) 9/26 6pm PDT: The Breakup Blueprint: Compassionate Polyam Breakups w/ Lilith Foxx (ONLINE) NEW 10/5 Noon PDT: Welcome to the SF Bay Area Scene with Miriam Green (SF) NEW 10/5 2:30pm PDT: Negotiation Improv with Wiley Elote (SF) NEW 10/7 6pm PDT: Non-Escalator Relationships: Strategies and Challenges with Laura Boyle (ONLINE) NEW 10/23 6pm PDT: Breathing for Connection with HG Wyndell (ONLINE) NEW 11/5 6pm PDT: Tips for House Topping with Miriam Green (ONLINE) Life Stuff, wellness & adulting for kinksters 9/21 2pm PDT: Consent, Accountability, and Neurodivergence with Adam and Draven (ONLINE) 9/22 11am PDT: Autism and Kink with John Pendal (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings) NEW 9/25 6pm PDT: Mobility, Disability, and Kink with HG Wyndell (ONLINE) Spirituality, Magick, and Occult (with Magickal Crossroads) 9/22 2pm PDT: Sex Magick for Kinksters with Miriam Green (ONLINE) NEW 10/23 6pm PDT: Breathing for Connection with HG Wyndell (ONLINE)

Howdy kinksters – Many folks are out at Burning Man this week, so it gets tranquil in the SF Bay Area this time of year. This week’s live class roster is seasonally quiet. However, back-to-school season is in full swing! We have two new video classes in the final stages of production and expect to have those for you this week. A fat new class roster will also go out for you this weekend – watch your posts! Want to go much deeper into your kink explorations? Join us 10/6 – 11/16 for Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires with Miriam Green [A 6-Week Online Intensive]. And, of course, we’re always available for one-on-one coaching and consulting. This week! Wednesday 9/4 In San Francisco? Join us at 7pm for the most fun you can have on a Wednesday night! Yep, it’s SpankLab with impossiblepain (and you’ll have Mir dropping in this week, too)! We meet at the Folsom Street Community Center. Get your advance tickets via Forbidden Tickets or Plura or take a chance on space-available tickets at the door. 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. 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. 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 feel very blessed to be on this kink journey with you. Whether it’s teaching, amplifying the voices of other educators, facilitating intensives, or offering one-on-one coaching, I learn so much about myself by doing this work. For several years now, we’ve offered scholarship seats to our classes with no questions asked. Many of our Patreon members have signed up at a level that automatically boosts our scholarship fund each month; other folks have generously contributed in other ways. It’s my birthday tomorrow. The best present you could give me is paying it forward to students we haven’t met yet, by keeping our scholarship fund well-resourced for the next few months. You can contribute through our website. Or, use our Venmo for one-time donations. Just note that they’re for the scholarship fund! Now, let’s look at what next week has in store! Events Roundup! Thursday, August 15 If you want to be mindful about how to address the trauma that kink can unearth, join us tonight for the first of a two-part series on Kink and Trauma with BearJew aka Ev Evnen. Advance ticketing required for the full two-part series to attend. Get yours via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, August 16 No classes scheduled tonight. If you’d like to give Mir the best ever present for their birthday, consider donating to the Wicked Grounds scholarship fund to keep our classes accessible for kinksters without means to attend on their own. You can contribute through our website. Or, use our Venmo for one-time donations. Just note that they’re for the scholarship fund! Sunday, August 18th We have two in-person classes for San Francisco folks today, both at the Folsom Street Community Center. At noon, please join Jamie Joy for a special rope class Let’s Get Knotty! You’ll learn all the basics of having fun with rope bondage. Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Then at 3pm, we offer Leading and Following: Non-verbal Communication for D/s with Alexandria. This embodied, movement-based class will deepen your D/s bonds and scenes in profound ways. Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Monday, August 19th Join us online at 6pm for an important discussion on Disability, Chronic Pain, and BDSM with Nyx Lunaea. Tickets available through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Tuesday, August 20th If you’re in the SF Bay Area, join us at 6:30 pm for one of my favorite classes. If you’ve ever been stuck wondering how to develop headspace, stay in headspace, or figure out what to say in a scene, join Psychokitty Ryan for Improv for Kinksters. Psychokitty brings a lifetime of improv training to the dungeon, helping you figure out how to stay in character during your scenes while staying connected. Fun stuff! Get your tickets via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Wednesday, August 21st Tonight is our third part of Self-Care as Spiritual Practice with H G Wyndell. Class registration is closed to those who’ve attended the previous two sessions. 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. 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 hope this late summer is treating you well! For many, it’s back-to-school season. I hope that amid the hustle and bustle, you take some time to go deeper with your kink adventures! Speaking of back to school, registration has officially opened for our six-week intensive Diving Deep: Discovering and Voicing Your Erotic Desires. This six-week online intensive comes with live group discussions, lots of weekly homework, and individual coaching and consulting. Both new and experienced kinksters have reported this workshop has had a profound impact on their way of approaching erotic life on their own terms. It’s a deep ride, and it usually sells out well in advance. If you’re interested in attending, we’d love to have you! If you’d like to give Mir the best ever present for their birthday next week, consider donating to the Wicked Grounds scholarship fund to keep our classes accessible for kinksters without means to attend on their own. You can contribute through our website. Or, use our Venmo for one-time donations. Just note that they’re for the scholarship fund! Now, let’s look at what next week has in store! Events Roundup! 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 Monday, August 12 If you’re balancing multiple dynamics, you know it can be a lot to juggle. Tonight’s 6pm online class has you covered. Join HypnoStory and PandaPet for The Littlest Sub: Balancing Multiple Dynamics. Advance ticketing required. Get yours via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Tuesday, August 13 Speaking of multiple dynamics, who says submissives can’t top? Join us tonight at 6pm online for At Your Service: Topping from Submission with HypnoStory and PandaPet. Advance ticketing required. Get yours via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Wednesday, August 14 Are you in the San Francisco Bay Area? Do you want to make a lot of new friends, fast? Join us tonight for Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty, a coproduction of Wicked Grounds and Plura. Ticketing for this one is only available through Plura. Get yours here! Thursday, August 15 If you want to be mindful about how to address the trauma that kink can unearth, join us tonight for the first of a two-part series on Kink and Trauma with BearJew aka Ev Evnen. Advance ticketing required for the full two-part series to attend. Get yours via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, August 16 No classes scheduled tonight. If you’d like to give Mir the best ever present for their birthday, consider donating to the Wicked Grounds scholarship fund to keep our classes accessible for kinksters without means to attend on their own. You can contribute through our website. Or, use our Venmo for one-time donations. Just note that they’re for the scholarship fund! Sunday, August 18th We have two in-person classes for San Francisco folks today, both at the Folsom Street Community Center. At noon, please join Jamie Joy for a special rope class Let’s Get Knotty! You’ll learn all the basics of having fun with rope bondage. Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Then at 3pm, we offer Leading and Following: Non-verbal Communication for D/s with Alexandria. This embodied, movement-based class will deepen your D/s bonds and scenes in profound ways. Get your 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)

Here’s the latest, and there are dozens of new classes for everyone, from complete beginners to advanced players. Want to take a lot of classes? Get a monthly or annual event pass! Need personal coaching & guidance for those sticky issues around sex, kink and relationships? Reach out for one-time or ongoing coaching sessions at WickedGroundsAnnex.com The Roundup! Multi-week Intensives October – November 2024: Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires Self-Directed Digital Downloads Diving Deep (video class) Private Joy: Sadomasochism for Solo & Distance Play (video class) Kink Self-Discovery Workbook (self-directed template) Aftercare Kit Checklist Bondage NEW 8/12 Noon PDT: Let’s Get Knotty with Jamie Joy (SF) S/m & the physical side of play 8/7 7pm PDT: Wicked Grounds Presents: Spanklab with impossiblepain (SF) 8/24 2pm PDT: Make Me a Masochist: Changing Your Relationship With Pain with vahavta (ONLINE) 8/26 6pm PDT: Spanking for Punishment or Reward with Miss Mackenzee (ONLINE) Save the Date! 9/4 7pm: SpankLab w/ impossiblepain (SF) 9/23 6pm PDT: Staples 101 with Miss Mackenzee (ONLINE) D/s & the mental side of play 8/7 6pm PDT: Exploring Gender and Sexuality Through Animal Role Play with Wiley Wolfe (ONLINE) NEW 8/13 6pm PDT: At Your Service: Topping from Submission with HypnoStory and PandaPet (ONLINE) NEW 8/18 3pm PDT: Leading and Following: Non-verbal Communication for D/s with Alexandria (SF) 8/20 6:30 pm PDT: Improv for Naughty Play w/ Psychokitty Ryan (ONLINE) 8/24 11am – 5pm PDT: The Heart of Dominance Daylong Intensive with Anton Fulmen (SF) 9/12 6pm PDT: Waking the Beast: Primal Play 101 with Wiley Wolfe (ONLINE) Erotic Hypnosis 8/8 6pm PDT: Hypnosis 201 with James Gordon and Rebecca Doll (ONLINE) Movement workshops NEW 8/18 3pm PDT: Leading and Following: Non-verbal Communication for D/s with Alexandria (SF) Sexy Times NEW 9/15 2pm PDT: Erectile Artistry: Taking Delicious D*ck Pics with Lady V (ONLINE) Polyamory & ethical non-monogamy 9/26 6pm PDT: The Breakup Blueprint: Compassionate Polyam Breakups w/ Lilith Foxx (ONLINE) Self-knowledge, negotiation & consent 8/15 and 8/29 6pm PDT: Kink and Trauma: A Two-Part Series w/ BearJew (ONLINE) 8/19 6pm PDT: Disability, Chronic Pain, and BDSM: A Discussion with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) ONLINE 8/31 2pm PDT: Conflict in Kink Mistress Solaris/ Ember (ONLINE) 9/16 6pm PDT: Kink 101: Negotiation Basics with Miriam Green (ONLINE) 9/19 6pm PDT: Consent: The Ins and Outs with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) NEW 9/21 2pm PDT: Consent, Accountability, and Neurodivergence with Adam and Draven (ONLINE) 9/22 11am PDT: Autism and Kink with John Pendal (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings) Community: Friends, dating, relationships & kink culture! 8/6 6pm PDT: Tips for House Topping w/ Miriam Green (ONLINE) NEW 8/14 7pm PDT: Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty (SF) 8/22 6pm PDT: “Kinktuitive” Dating with Lilith Foxx (ONLINE) Save the date! 9/11 7pm PDT: Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty Ryan (SF) NEW 9/15 2pm PDT: Erectile Artistry: Taking Delicious D*ck Pics with Lady V (ONLINE) 9/26 6pm PDT: The Breakup Blueprint: Compassionate Polyam Breakups w/ Lilith Foxx (ONLINE) Life Stuff, wellness & adulting for kinksters Keep checking back! Spirituality, Magick, and Occult (with Magickal Crossroads) NEW 9/22 2pm PDT: Sex Magick for Kinksters with Miriam Green (ONLINE)

Howdy kinksters – It’s nearly the end of July. Where does the time go?! If you’re interested in more substantive musings about kink education and culture, I’m in the process of finally launching a personal substack. It’s going to be 100% about issues, ideas and culture, and 0% about Wicked Grounds. (Ok, maybe 0.5%.) If you’re interested in seeing what I get up to over there, you can find out more and subscribe here. This Sunday is Up Your Alley in San Francisco, and many of San Francisco’s Leatherati will be out on the SOMA streets making it happen. We won’t personally have a booth this year, but several of our favorite vendors will be there. If you’re looking for two of them right in one place, you can find the Rough Cut Leather pop-up booth right with our friends at ByrdBeaks. If you’re looking for Rough Cut Leather and other Wicked Grounds gear, you can also find us vending at the AfterSHOCK party next Friday night to kick off Up Your Alley weekend. Use the link above to get a special discount courtesy of our friends at Kink Y Communidad! We are going into our last couple of weeks in our post-Pride, pre-Up Your Alley sale! Hit us up at both WickedGrounds.com (for class passes, rope, gear, and books) and WickedGroundsAnnex.com (for coaching, multi-week courses, and digital downloads). Use code onlinepride24 at either site to get 20% off anything on those sites! Events Roundup! Thursday, July 25 Interested in kink? Are you neurodivergent, or interested in improving your negotiations with neurodivergent partners? Join us Thursday, July 25 for Getting Freaky in the Spreadsheets: Negotiating With Neurodiversity with Lilith Foxx! This class will discuss ways to negotiate play and dynamics with neurodiversity in mind! Get your tickets for this 6pm Pacific online class through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, July 26 Wicked Grounds is pleased to vend tonight at AfterSHOCK — Emo & Metal Themed Play Party at Stopgap, hosted by Mooooo LLC in collaboration with @HuffleRough & @MariCherry — so come out and see all our floggers, slappers, restraints, rope and more! Space for this party is limited and tickets are selling fast, so get yours here! Using that link, you’ll get a special discount from our friends at Kink Y Communidad. Saturday, July 27 There are no live classes today, but we have video classes and digital downloads available for you at Wicked Grounds Annex! Learn more and take advantage of our 20% discount this month at WickedGroundsAnnex.com with code onlinepride24 Sunday, July 28 It’s Up Your Alley Sunday, so many of San Francisco’s leather folk will be out at the kinkiest street fair you’ve ever seen. Think Folsom Street Fair, but much smaller, and much more intense. Find out more here! Monday, July 29 Join Wicked Grounds and Jamie Joy online at 6pm for The More the Merrier: Group Sex 101. Whether you’re curious about group sex or just want to have more fun with it, you’ll learn everything you need to know right here! Find out more and get tickets via Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Tuesday, July 30 Two classes today! Join us online at 6pm Pacific for Consent in Hypnosis with James Gordon and Rebecca Doll. Find out more and get tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Or join us in San Francisco at 7pm for Part Two of Getting Started with Rope with Psychokitty Ryan. (Attendance in Part 1 is not required!) Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura, or take your chance at the door. Wednesday, July 31 Tonight, we run Writing Spicy, Part 2 with Sinclair Sexsmith. Admission is restricted to those who participated in Part 1. 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. 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. This month, coaching and consulting is 20% off with code onlinepride24 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 – Leather season is upon us! The last Sunday of the month is Up Your Alley in San Francisco, and many of San Francisco’s Leatherati will be out on the SOMA streets making it happen. We won’t personally have a booth this year, but several of our favorite vendors will be there. If you’re looking for two of them right in one place, you can find the Rough Cut Leather pop-up booth right with our friends at ByrdBeaks. If you’re looking for Rough Cut Leather and other Wicked Grounds gear, you can also find us vending at the AfterSHOCK party next Friday night to kick off Up Your Alley weekend. Use the link above to get a special discount courtesy of our friends at Kink Y Communidad! We are going into our last couple of weeks in our post-Pride, pre-Up Your Alley sale! Hit us up at both WickedGrounds.com (for class passes, rope, gear, and books) and WickedGroundsAnnex.com (for coaching, multi-week courses, and digital downloads). Use code onlinepride24 at either site to get 20% off anything on those sites! Events Roundup! Friday, July 19 There are no live classes today, but we have video classes and digital downloads available for you at Wicked Grounds Annex! Learn more and take advantage of our 20% discount this month at WickedGroundsAnnex.com with code onlinepride24 Saturday, July 20 Hey friends in EMEA! We have some classes this weekend that you can easily attend without staying up into the wee hours! Join us online at 2pm Pacific for Determining Your Risk Profile Workshop with renowned kink educator vahavta. In this workshop, we will use a framework based on how we want to leave our kink scenes to determine what our priorities should be, as well as discuss how we make sure our partners have thought about the same. Get your tickets on Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday, July 21 Join us online at 2pm Pacific for The Littlest Sub: Balancing Multiple Dynamics with HypnoStory and PandaPet. Daddy/little, Master/pet, Master/oblate, nesting partners, household management…these are all aspects of HypnoStory and panda’s relationship that coexist on a daily basis. Join them as they discuss their relationship journey and exploration of balancing their multiple facets in ways that fill both their cups. Then, they’ll share tools and techniques for developing and deepening your own combination of dynamics. Get your tickets on Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Monday, July 22 Join Wicked Grounds and Miss Mackenzee online at 6pm Pacific for Heavy Impact and Rough Body Play! If you want to learn more about how to be safe and have fun even (and especially!) when playing hard, this is your class! Get your advance tickets on Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Tuesday, July 23 Want to consider going much deeper? Have a very personal question or a niche topic to explore that you haven’t seen represented in our typical classes? Consider a personal consult! You can find out more and book here. Wednesday, July 24 We will host part two of our Self-Care as Spiritual Practice with HG Wyndell. This class is closed to new attendees, but we look forward to seeing those of you returning from Part 1! Thursday, July 25 Interested in kink? Are you neurodivergent, or interested in improving your negotiations with neurodivergent partners? Join us Thursday, July 25 for Getting Freaky in the Spreadsheets: Negotiating With Neurodiversity with Lilith Foxx! This class will discuss ways to negotiate play and dynamics with neurodiversity in mind! Get your tickets for this 6pm Pacific online class through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, July 26 Wicked Grounds is pleased to vend tonight at AfterSHOCK — Emo & Metal Themed Play Party at Stopgap, hosted by Mooooo LLC in collaboration with @HuffleRough & @MariCherry — so come out and see all our floggers, slappers, restraints, rope and more! Space for this party is limited and tickets are selling fast, so get yours here! Using that link, you’ll get a special discount from our friends at Kink Y Communidad. Saturday, July 27 There are no live classes today, but we have video classes and digital downloads available for you at Wicked Grounds Annex! Learn more and take advantage of our 20% discount this month at WickedGroundsAnnex.com with code onlinepride24 Sunday, July 28 It’s Up Your Alley Sunday, so many of San Francisco’s leather folk will be out at the kinkiest street fair you’ve ever seen. Think Folsom Street Fair, but much smaller, and much more intense. Find out more here! 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. This month, coaching and consulting is 20% off with code onlinepride24 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)