We are a queer-centered educational and community building space for sex-positive adult education, including relationships, dating, BDSM, kinky, polyamory and more. Posts mostly written by Mir (that dude in the chair) on behalf of the Wicked Grounds team. Welcome aboard!
This Week with Wicked Grounds (10/30 - 11/9)
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Hello kinksters - Tomorrow is Halloween! We hope you have a great time, however you spend it! I (Mir) spent last weekend at Dark Odyssey: Surrender in San Jose. The event had record attendance this year, and I dove right into several events I was leading or co-leading as well as my own personal adventures in learning. (I’m recommitting to my rope explorations this year!) I am returning very grateful for deep conversations, cuddle with old friends, long scenes, lots of magick, and reconnecting with creative kinksters from our other Bay Area kink organizations. If you get a chance to do one of the Dark Odyssey events in California or the Baltimore/ DC area, don’t miss it! This is truly a life-changing and kink-deepening event. Speaking of deepening: our yearly cohort of Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires launches this weekend, with our first live session on Monday, November 3. If you’re planning to join us for this six-week adventure into building your own erotic roadmap, now is the time. This intensive is perfect for anyone who is at a new stage of their own kink journey. While we sometimes get complete newbies, the folks that seem to get the most out of it are in some process of reinventing or reigniting their kink journeys. Let’s get into it . . . This Week!Thursday, October 30Online: Want to get started learning the ropes? Join SuspendDisbelief online tonight for Tied and True: Introduction to Rope Bondage. Please note that this workshop is offered only to live attendees; it will not be recorded, so mark your calendars! Advanced ticketing is available through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, October 31Online: No live classes today. Check out our on-demand video classes and digital downloads at WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com. Saturday, November 1Online: Interested in getting involved in your own local kink scene, but not sure what to expect or how to get started? Join our own Miriam Green online today for Welcome to the Public Kink Scene!. This is an online, national (even international) version of what started as a local kink scene orientation, and focuses on the culture, etiquette, types of events, and ways to feel safe and have fun while exploring your own local scene. Advanced ticketing required to either attend live or through the recording. Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Online: Want to make the most out of your scenes, dating, and generally interacting in kink? You’re going to want Badass Boundaries for BDSM! Where do you get those? Get started thinking about it this afternoon with Buzz Stingyear! Advanced ticketing needed to either attend live or through the recording. Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday, November 2Online: Today is the day! Join us online for a six-week journey of kink & erotic self-discovery in this year’s Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Kink Desires with our own Miriam Green. Through three online group sessions, one or more individual coaching sessions, and lots of at-your-own-pace coursework, you’ll build your own personal template for getting what you want in your intimate play and relationships. Online: Join us online for our three-hour workshop Consent, Accountability, and Neurodivergence with Adam from Consent Academy. This three hour workshop is well worth the time to develop self-knowledge and better skills for the entirety of our community. Attend live if you can to make the most of it, but we’ll also have a recording available for one week after the workshop. Advanced ticketing is available through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Monday, November 3Online: Today is the final day of late registration for Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Kink Desires with our own Miriam Green, and we will have our first live (and recorded) online session tonight at 6pm Pacific for registered attendees. Online: Want to warm things up a bit? Join Jamie Joy online tonight for Burn Baby Burn: Sensual and Sadistic Fire Play to explore all the ways to integrate fire into your kink scenes. Advanced ticketing required, whether you plan to attend live or through the recording. Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Tuesday, November 4Online: Interested in getting involved in community through house topping/ bottoming, demo topping/ bottoming, or offering house topping at parties you host? Join Miriam Green online tonight for our advanced class Tips for House Topping to explore the logistics, boundaries, ethics, and more behind having and providing a great experience! Advanced ticketing required to either attend live or through the recording. Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Wednesday, November 5Online: Join us online tonight for Empowered/ Responsible Dominance: Building Trust, Holding Power with Integrity with Sir Scott. Whether you’re new to power exchange or refining your existing skills, Empowered/Responsible Dominance offers a guided path toward authentic leadership, emotional intelligence, and ethical authority. Advanced ticketing required to either attend live or through the recording. Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. San Francisco, CA: If you’re in the Bay Area, join us for the most fun you can have on a Wednesday night at SpankLab, hosted by impossiblepain. We’ll start with a short demo, have some consent discussions, then spend about ninety minutes in a peer skillshare for impact play skills. Come on your own or with a partner, and you’re welcome to play hands-on or just observe. (Watching is participation!) This event often sells out in advance, so be sure to get advance tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Thursday, November 6Online: The moon is getting full. Ready for some magic? Join Madam Rose online tonight for the first of two full moon classes, Elemental Magic in BDSM. Explore all the ways to bring the classical magical elements into your kink play! Advanced ticketing required, whether you plan to attend live or through the recording. Get yours from Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, November 7Online: No live classes today. Check out our on-demand video classes and digital downloads at WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com. Saturday, November 8Online: Join us today for Tease and Denial with Mel and Memi. In this workshop we will go over the psychological impacts of teasing, discuss how to find your tease, give examples of how to use these components in scenes and demo some examples. Advanced ticketing required to attend live or through the recording. Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday, November 9Online: Stepping into our full selves as kinksters doesn’t always come easy. Sometimes we need to first release some shame or early conditioning. But it can be done! Join Dolly Diatima online today for Forbidden Fruit: Stepping into Kink Positivity to explore ways to embrace your desires and your full capacity as a kinkster! Advanced ticketing required to attend either live or through the recording. Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Online: Energy Persona Mastery with Sir Scott is a 2-part online series that teaches you how to consciously shift your energetic presence for play, ritual, or everyday life. Across two live sessions, you’ll learn practical tools, practice exercises, and leave with a personal Energy Persona Map you can use immediately. We’ll meet today and again on 11/15. Both sessions will be recorded for later viewing if you can’t attend live. Get advanced ticketing through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Online: Have you ever been curious about trance work or trance states but didn’t know where to start? If you have ever been curious about different pathways into altered states of consciousness, join us today for Trance Work 101 with Keiden Bren! Advanced ticketing required to either attend live or through the recording. Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Intensives!We offer several intensives throughout the year, both in person and online.
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We are a queer-centered educational and community building space for sex-positive adult education, including relationships, dating, BDSM, kinky, polyamory and more. Posts mostly written by Mir (that dude in the chair) on behalf of the Wicked Grounds team. Welcome aboard!
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Hello kinksters - Happy nearly Halloween! Several of the events you’ll see this weekend are at Dark Odyssey: Surrender in San Jose! Registration for the conference is the only way to attend this weekend’s events Friday through Sunday, and registration is expected to close today (Wednesday, 10/22). If you’ve been waiting to get tickets, now is the time. Like, right now! Not at DO? Don’t worry! We have lots of online classes before and after the conference. Also, our yearly cohort of Diving...
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