This Week with Wicked Grounds (5/30 – 6/8)

Hello kinksters –

As I write this, I’m sitting in my favorite “office away from home,” a little coffee zone in a tourist spot on the Sonoma coast about a half-hour from my home. While it’s not that far from me, it offers a completely different vantage point: a vast expanse of tranquil ocean stretching far past the horizon. I sit here, sip on tropical flavored tea, and let my world open up a bit.

Finding small ways to add novelty to everyday experience is good for us! It allows us to slow down, rewire the ways we think, and engage with the world in more creative ways. This is particularly important for me right now, as I develop our summer and fall intensives for Wicked Grounds (and finish collaborating with some kick-ass instructors in our yearly Kink Class Incubator). Setting aside time to go deeper has immediate benefits; we can slow down and unfurl a bit. But it has significant long-term benefits. While kink is no substitute for therapy, there is emerging evidence that, when approached mindfully, peak experiences like kink can have profound emotional and cognitive benefits. Pretty cool for going out to a Saturday night party!

At Wicked Grounds, we’re all about going deeper. That means providing easy entry points into kink for complete beginners, places to regularly refine skills and comfort for regular players, and even spaces to go really deep into the work of self-exploration and advanced play through our intensives and multi-week programs. I hope that we can help you dive in and find your own unique path.

(I’m trying to go deeper, too, and am back to working on regular kink writing. If you’d like to keep up with some of my personal thoughts, you can sign up for my blog ​Diving Deep​!)

Our class passes have been updated for June! Yay!

Do you want to do a LOT of kink classes? Sign up for a ​monthly​, ​quarterly​, or even ​annual​ event pass! Event passes include access to all our regular two-hour classes and events, and significant discounts to daylong classes and multi-week intensives. We just loaded the new class passes with codes for all our June classes and events.

Upcoming Intensives!

We offer several intensives throughout the year, both in person and ​online​. Here are a few that have just been opened for registration that you might want to check out.

• ​Stepping Into Pride​: A five week workshop to discover your own pride in your LGBTQ+ identity. Live and self-directed coursework from July 1 – August 5, 2025.

• ​Increasing Your Impact! A Daylong Impact Play Intensive with Miriam Green and impossiblepain​: Saturday, July 12 10am – 6pm.

• ​Erotic Movement Daylong Intensive with Alexandria​: Sunday, July 13 10:30 am – 5pm.

• ​The Pentacle Path: A Six-Week Intensive Tarot Training​: August 10 – September 20, 2025.

This Week!

Friday, May 30

It’s a great night to watch an online class with Wicked Grounds! Are you curious about solo and distance play? Check out our class Wicked Grounds: Sadomasochism for Solo & Distance Play, which is available as a digital download through our ​Wicked Grounds Annex site on Teachable​!

Saturday, May 31 and Sunday, June 1

Both days this weekend, we’ll be offering a three-hour long workshop on some of the most critical questions in building kink relationships and community. It’s never the same discussion twice, so you can attend one or both! Our friends at Consent Academy will offer Consent, Accountability, and Neurodivergence each day starting at 11am Pacific time.

For Saturday, May 31, you may find tickets here for ​Forbidden Tickets​ and ​Plura​.

For Sunday, June 1, you may find tickets here for ​Forbidden Tickets​ and ​Plura​.

Monday, June 2

What a great night to explore an online class! Why not check out our ​Diving Deep: Exploring & Voicing Your Kink Desires​?

Tuesday, June 3

Join Lilithfoxx online tonight for Thoughtful Threesomes, a live and recorded online class? Learn how to explore threesomes in ways that help everyone feel great about the experience! Advanced ticketing required, whether you plan to watch live at 6pm Pacific or get the recording later. Get your tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​.

Wednesday, June 4

Are you in the SF Bay Area? Whether you love impact play, are curious about impact play, or just want to get up to shenanigans and community-building on a Wednesday night, you are warmly invited to join us for Wicked Grounds Presents: SpankLab! – our monthly hands-on playshop to learn about and explore impact play hands-on. Space is limited, and we recommend advanced ticketing. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​.

Thursday, June 5 through Saturday, June 7

We’re moving our typical first Saturday programming to next week so that Mir can attend their local Pride celebrations!

Looking for an online class? Check out our ​BDSM Negotiation Basics​!

Sunday, June 8

Join us in San Francisco for a unique live movement workshop today: Leading and Following: Nonverbal D/s Communication with Alexandria from Click Your Heels. Learn how to enhance the embodied and somatic elements of consent and negotiation for BDSM play! Space is very limited and advanced ticketing is required. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​.

Support. Follow. Share.

• Join our ​Patreon​ for personal benefits and to stabilize our long-term trajectory. Annual memberships now available!

• Book ​with us​ for coaching and consulting time with Mir.

• Use our ​Venmo​ for one-time donations toward our sustainability, and to help specifically with scholarship tickets.

Warmly, Mir & The Wicked Grounds Team

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