This Week with Wicked Grounds – New Year’s Edition! (1/1 – 1/12/25)

Hello kinksters –

I am very delighted to launch into this new year with you. Here in coastal northern California, I’m up well before the sunrise. It’s a big day: we launch our first live meeting of our second annual Month of Mindfulness today, I have a three-hour workshop that I’m attending as a student later today, and there’s a sense of budding energy all around.

We’re also headed into the last two days of our big Boxing Day & New Year’s sale – and this will be the last big sale until we get to Pride season, so it’s a great time to lock in discounts on things like ​coaching​, courses, video classes, digital downloads, and even ​annual class passes​. Now through tomorrow at midnight, get 20% off all products and services at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.com​ and 20% off all January classes at ​Forbidden Tickets​ with code BOXING at checkout.

We already have exciting classes planned throughout the last winter and spring for you, so let’s dive in and take a look at next week!

Upcoming multi-week workshops to plan for!

If you’d like to go deeply into the intersection of magick and power, join us in February and early March for Pentacles of Power: A Sex-Magick Intensive for Kinky People. ​Find more information and registration here.​If you need a scholarship seat, please reach out soon! We have three discounted tickets still available. Also, book before January 2 to use code BOXING for 20% off any ticket price at checkout.

This week!

Wednesday 1/1

It’s the first day of our Month of Mindfulness and we’ll have a live session and kickoff at 11am Pacific. ​Learn more and sign up here.​

Thursday 1/2

Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at noon Pacific. ​Learn more and sign up here.​

Friday 1/3

Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at 9am Pacific. ​Learn more and sign up here.​

Saturday 1/4

Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at 9am Pacific. ​Learn more and sign up here.​

Want to learn more about how to get involved in your own local kink scene? Join us for Welcome to the Scene at 11am Pacific online. Get your tickets from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​.

Sunday 1/5

Our Month of Mindfulness continues with our first weekly wrap-up meeting at 6pm Pacific. ​Learn more and sign up here.​

Monday 1/6

Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at 4pm Pacific. ​Learn more and sign up here.​

Join us in San Francisco at 7pm Pacific for a rare Monday session of SpankLab with impossiblepain. Learn the basics of impact play, or take your skills much further in this collaborative playshop from Wicked Grounds. We’ll start with a consent discussion and demo, then provide hands-on instruction and guidance throughout the evening. Get your advance tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​.

Tuesday 1/7

Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at 12pm Pacific. ​Learn more and sign up here.​ Today is the last day for regular late registration pricing. Final registration will be available for one more week.

Join us online tonight at 6pm Pacific for Advanced BDSM Negotiations for Dynamics and Relationships with Miriam Green. This class builds on what we know about negotiating for BDSM scenes and gets us thinking about how to mindfully and intentionally co-create D/s and other power exchange dynamics that really work. Advanced ticketing required. Get yours on ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​.

Wednesday 1/8

Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at 7:30 am Pacific. ​Learn more and sign up here.​

In San Francisco? Want to meet more friends, allies, potential play partners and general rabble-rousers to hang out with this year? Join us in downtown San Francisco tonight at 7pm for Wicked Grounds + Plura Present: Kinky Speed Friending & Dating. Advanced ticketing available exclusively through Plura. ​Get yours here!​

Thursday 1/9

Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at noon Pacific. ​Learn more and sign up here.​

What is drop and why does it suck so hard?!!?! Join us online tonight at 6pm Pacific for Dealing with Drop with Miriam Green. We’ll get to understand the emotional and neurochemical dimensions of sub-drop, top-drop, and all the other flavors of drop and how to make them suck a little less. Advanced ticketing is required – get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​.

Friday 1/10

Our Month of Mindfulness continues with a live session at 7:30am Pacific. ​Learn more and sign up here.​

Saturday 1/11

Our Month of Mindfulness continues, however we will not have a live sit today. Please make use of the pre-recorded session or one of the live recorded sessions from earlier in the week.

Join Jamie Joy online at 2pm Pacific for Living the Fantasy: A Guide to Erotic Role Play. Learn all the roles that might spicy up your year (and get a handle on the ones that aren’t right for you, too!) Advanced ticketing required. Get yours at ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​.

If you’re in San Francisco and curious about SF’s Leather Cultural District, they’ll be hosting one of their twice-yearly Town Halls at the Folsom Street Community Center from 2-5 Pacific today. If you attend the meeting, Mir will see you there! ​More details on the LCD site here.​

Sunday 1/12

Join Lady V online today at 11am Pacific for Get This Party Started! – Event Hosting & Community Organizing. This 201-level class will help you create the events, parties, and community-building you want in your own local communities. Advanced ticketing required. Get yours here on ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​.

Are you in the San Francisco Bay Area? Join us at noon Pacific at Mukunda Studio in SOMA for Stripping 201 with Alexandria from Click Your Heels. We all have to take our clothes off – why not take your taking-off skills to the next level? Advanced ticketing available through ​Forbidden Tickets​ and ​Plura​. Previous experience not strictly required.

Our Month of Mindfulness continues. Tonight we’re planning for a 6:30 pm Pacific start, since Mir will be hosting after a drive back from San Francisco. ​Learn more and sign up here.​

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Warmly, Mir & The Wicked Grounds Team

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