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 (7/9 - 7/19)
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Hello kinksters - It is that time of the week again, when we slide into your inbox with a new set of great classes and events to check out. Summer kinky camping season is in full swing. As I write this, I’m surrounded by a lot of half-packed boxes and bags getting ready for this year’s Boundless Retreat in northern California. It’s too late to get tickets for this year’s retreat, but if you’re interested in kinky campouts, there are lot of other great ones out there. Our friends at Dark Odyssey have two coming up on each US coast: Camp Thornwood near the Sierra Foothills in California is July 29 - August 3, and there’s also Summer Camp Labor Day weekend in northern Maryland. (Rumor has it there might be some Wicked Grounds themed shenanigans planned for Thornwood . . . Cold brew, anyone?! ) If you’ve never attended an event like this, I encourage you to consider it! These are wonderful immersive ways to learn, play, and connect with other folks (and nature!) in a safe, private setting. Before I get into this week’s events, I want to highlight some specially upcoming programming. I’ll be in Los Angeles July 17-19 for a set of weekend classes focused on sacred and magickal sexuality. And I’m bringing my Kink Self-Exploration Deep Dive to San Francisco on Saturday, July 25th. This is a special daylong workshop to help you unearth the desires you might be holding back due to fear, shame, people-pleasing, or otherwise feeling stuck. Let’s unstick it! Space is limited and we have only 10 spaces left, so if you’re interested, grab your space on Forbidden Tickets or Plura! Now, let’s dive into this week’s events: This Week!Thursday, July 9Online: Ready to connect with your darker side? Join Lila Hades online tonight for Reclaiming Your Inner Villain: A Fantasy Roleplaying Workshop. Attend live or by recording with your advanced tickets from Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, July 10 and Saturday, July 11Hopland, CA: Wicked Grounds’ Miriam Green will be teaching (and playing!) at the Boundless Retreat this weekend! Join us for a special Friday night talk on kink innovation and evolution, a caning class Saturday morning, and two morning meditation sessions on Saturday and Sunday! Ticketing is closed for this year, but if you have your tickets, we’ll see you there! Sunday, July 12Online: Want to expand your set of ways to prepare for anal play? Join Lady V online today for Booty Bomb! Anal Prep Without Enemas. Can’t attend live? No worries! We’ll record it for viewing within seven days. Get your advanced tickets through Plura or Forbidden Tickets. Online: Age play can be delightful, and it can also bring up a lot of our real-life stuff. Want to navigate this better? Join us today for Trauma Informed Caregiver/Little Dynamic, Age Play & Dark Age Play with Kare Bear. Advanced tickets are required to attend live or through the recording later. Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Monday, July 13Online: Bottoming is a skill. For kinksters creating great edge play scenes, bottoming skills are just as critical as topping skills. Whether you’re new to edge play, or want to keep improving skills you already have, please join Laura Boyle online tonight for Bottoming Safety 201: Negotiating Edgeplay Safely as a Bottom or Submissive. Advanced tickets will allow you to attend live or through the recording. Get yours from Plura or Forbidden Tickets. Tuesday, July 14Online: New to kink? You’ll need to learn to negotiate. But if you’re like most people, talking about desire and planning scenes isn’t a skill you were brought up with. Thankfully, we’ve got you. Join Miriam Green online tonight for BDSM Negotiation: From Awkward to Awesome. We’ll help you build up all the basics you’ll need to have great scenes and build trust and confidence in your play. Advanced tickets are required to attend live or through the recording. Get yours from Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Wednesday, July 15Online: Topping. Dominating. Bottoming. Submitting. Some kinksters only want one role, and that’s okay! But increasingly many if not most of my class attendees are switches. We don’t always see this reflected in classes, which is why I’m so glad that Lee Harrington is joining us online tonight to discuss Strategies for Switching. You are welcome to attend online or watch the recording within seven days with your advanced tickets from Plura or Forbidden Tickets. Thursday, July 16Online: Even if our technical skills are excellent, what we say during scenes or role play might feel awkward at first. Thankfully, dirty talk is a skill like any other, and it can be learned! Join Marla Renee Stewart with us online tonight for The Art of Dirty Talk and learn all about it! Attend live or by recording with your advanced tickets from Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, July 17Los Angeles, CA: Join us for our monthly Play Lab in downtown Los Angeles! This is a monthly learning-by-doing skill share that encourages exploration, experimentation and learning in a collaborative environment. This month, we’ll explore the world of sacred sexuality and sex magick with Miriam BatAsherah Green! Learn some basic techniques of how to work with the energetic body and direct energy for sex and kinky play! Space is limited, and advanced ticketing is required. Get yours through Luma, Forbidden Tickets, or Plura. Saturday, July 18We offer two back-to-back sex magick classes in downtown Los Angeles today. The first focuses on sex magick theory, and the second on practical techniques for sex magick. Coming for both? Hang out between the two classes for more conversation and Q&A on all things magick! Los Angeles, CA: Join us at noon for Sex Magick for Kinksters with Miriam BatAsherah Green. We’ll cover a short history of modern sex magick, the basic theoretical underpinnings sex magick, and talk about how to effectively use sex magick to fuel the art and science of getting the fuck out of our own way in life to accomplish more of our goals. No previous magickal experience required; we’ll leverage the skills you already have but don’t know it yet! Advanced ticketing available through Luma, Forbidden Tickets, or Plura. Los Angeles, CA: At 3pm, we’ll talk about a tool for practical, straightforward sex magick in Put a Sigil On It! You will leave the session having already created a spell that you can charge in your own sex magick rituals at home, and having learned the techniques to create this kind of spell on your own anytime! Advanced ticketing is available through Luma, Forbidden Tickets, or Plura. Sunday, July 19We offer two half-day intensives today – one online and one in Los Angeles! (Want to do both? We’re recording the online session.) Los Angeles, CA: Curious about tarot? Already read and want to learn some new skills with a bunch of sex-positive and kinky folks? Join us in downtown Los Angeles for our Halfday Tarot Intensive with Miriam Green! You’ll learn the basics of tarot as a system so that you can go beyond memorizing a lot of meanings and start thinking about tarot as its own coherent system. No experience required, but advanced readers will still gain a lot of new information! Ticketing available through Luma, Forbidden Tickets, or Plura. Online: Join us online today for Out for Blood: a Sharps Play Intensive with Miss Mackenzee. We’ll spend five and a half hours going through all of it for you. Whether you’re interested in the first poke or a seasoned enthusiast seeking to refine and expand your skills, this intensive is for you! Advanced ticketing allow you to attend live or through the recording. Get yours through Plura or Forbidden Tickets. 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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