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 (4/25 - 5/5)
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Howdy kinksters - One of the things I love most about my role at Wicked Grounds is watching new kinds of play and hearing new voices emerge over time, while watching others deepen and extend their work over time. Looking forward to the summer, we're welcoming new voices like Lady V and Jamie Joy, while also showcasing some folks like Janet Hardy who were essential to my own early kink and polyamory journey. New kinks, too! Lady V is bringing the whole farm into animal play this week, and hay! We're here for it! Speaking of new classes, our own Kink Class Incubator launches next Wednesday for a full month of self-directed and live group work to either get you started teaching or take what you already do well to the next level. I encourage you to sign up here! And as we go into the first week of May, a reminder that the best way to get a lot of classes is to get a monthly event pass. Read on for an update on this week's events! Events Roundup! Thinking aheadEver struggled with feelings of being "too" much this or "not enough" that as you explore your queer identity? Believe it or not, this is very common and most of us have been there! Join us in June for Stepping Into Pride a six-week online workshop to develop our own personal values, goals and identities within the LGBTQ+ community. We've also just set the dates for our fall Diving Deep cohort, and early ticketing is open now. Find out more here. Thursday, April 25You've cleaned your house. You've gotten your garden ready. How about your energy? Our energetic bodies also need a little spring cleaning to change speeds for the summer. Learn more in this class in partnership with Magickal Crossroads, Inner Spring Cleaning with Energy Work with Diana Rajchel. Advance ticketing required. Get yours here! Friday, April 26Curious about our BDSM & kink coaching, but not sure if it's right for you? Today, I'll offer a series of free 10-minute calls to talk through your questions and see if it makes sense for us to collaborate on a longer coaching session or series. Book ten minutes with me at no cost, right here! Saturday, April 27No live classes today, but if you'd like to catch a prerecorded class with us, I'd love to recommend our short version class of Diving Deep: Discovering and Voicing Your Kink Desires, which is the perfect companion to our Kink Self-Discovery Workbook. Sunday, April 28Curious about our BDSM & kink coaching, but not sure if it's right for you? Today, I'll offer a series of free 10-minute calls to talk through your questions and see if it makes sense for us to collaborate on a longer coaching session or series. Book ten minutes with me at no cost, right here! Monday, April 29New instructor to Wicked Grounds! Want to explore a new and different kind of animal role play? Come check out Be Legen-dairy! Intro to Hucow & Bovine Play online today at 6pm Pacific with Lady V. Moo-ve get out the hay! Discover ways to create a unique headspace, explore multiple roles, implement many forms of play, & learn about multiple milking methods to fill you with udder pleasure! Cowboys/girls & cows have become all the rage in fashion & even in the bedroom. This class gives ideas on how to rocket into udder space. Advance ticketing required. Get yours here! Tuesday, April 30What goes up must come down. But coming down doesn't always feel great. Let's take some time to learn about drop: what is it, why does it happen, why does it suck so much, and what can we do about it? Armed with these tools, you'll be prepared to have more fun in your future BDSM scenes and other deep play, knowing that you have the tools to take care of yourself and your partner in the days to follow. Join us at 6pm Pacific online for Dealing with Drop, with Wicked Grounds' own Miriam Green. Advance ticketing required. Get yours here! Wednesday, May 1Delaying or denying orgasm can build the most delicious tension. Controlling when your partner gets to orgasm can inspire desperate devotion. But to realize orgasm denial’s full erotic potential, there’s a lot more to it than just saying “no.” In tonight's online class with Anton Fulmen, learn how to drive your partner into a frustrated frenzy with the right combination of teasing, edging and firm control. Join us tonight for Wait for It - the Art of Orgasm Denial. Advance ticketing required - don't deny yourself, get yours now! Calling all kink instructors, and would-be kink instructors. Join us for a five-week journey to develop or improve one class while learning new strategies that will help you with understanding your audience, developing your voice, and improving your reach. Details & ticketing for our five-week Kink Class Incubator here. Thursday, May 2D/s relationships or dynamics are inherently based on difference. Though we intentionally seek out differences in power and role, how do we navigate differences in religion and spirituality? In Interfaith D/s, we’ll first look at principles of interfaith work. Next we’ll think about how this work shows up in our D/s relationships and dynamics, including how to be allies to those of other faiths. Last, we’ll explore “cross over” moments when we can all show up in the fullness of our faith (or lack thereof.) Join us tonight online at 6pm Pacific for Interfaith D/s with Ev Evnen. Both individuals and partner groups and D-types and S-types are welcome to attend. Advance ticketing required. Get yours here! Friday, May 3No classes today, but you can always check out our video class Private Joy: Sadomasochism for Solo and Distance Play on your own time! Saturday, May 4If you're interested in exploring the public BDSM scene in San Francisco, today is your day! Join us at our space in downtown San Francisco for Welcome to the Scene from noon - 2pm. Miriam Green will give you all the information you need to explore, understand and navigate San Francisco's kink scene, including information about culture, etiquette, reputable groups, specific subcultures, and even how to navigate a play party. Advance ticketing strongly recommended. Get yours here! And to navigate the scene effectively, you'll need excellent negotiation skills. To develop those, stick around for Negotiation Improv with Wiley Elote from 2:30 - 4pm. Details & ticketing here. And it looks like our friends at AfterDark in San Francisco are bringing back the Taboo party tonight at Stopgap, so you might want to check that out! Details & ticketing here. Sunday, May 5Sometimes feel like you're the only one facing your joys and challenges as a submissive Wicked Grounds invites you to a monthly discussion group just for submissives and switches who would like to discuss submission. This is a dominant-free zone to connect with, support, and build solidarity with fellow submissives in the scene. Join us today at 11:30am in San Francisco for Submissives in Solidarity, a submissives' discussion and support group from Wicked Grounds. Advance ticketing recommended; get yours here. At this moment, we offer the submissives' discussion group just in San Francisco, but if there's interest in having one available online, please email me and we'll give it a look! Back by popular demand, please join us for Erotic Movement with Alexandria from Click Your Heels at 2pm Pacific at Mukunda Studios in SOMA, San Francisco. If you've ever thought sensual dancing looked fun and you want to try, this is your chance! You don't have to be skinny or feminine to have fun and feel sexy! No experience needed! Erotic Movement is all the amazing sensuous movement used by pole dancers between tricks, burlesque/boylesque performers, pop stars, and go-go dancers everywhere! It is easily adapted to express your personal style, your mood, any type of music, and any body. These classes tend to sell out, so we recommend getting tickets in advance. Support. Follow. Share.
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Wicked Grounds: Kink Community. Everywhere.
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!
Hey San Francisco folks - Want to see more of us in person? There are a few great opportunities this weekend! (And don't forget, we have a very good chance to pull off our audacious fundraiser this weekend, if you're willing to help!) Play! If you're in town this weekend, come out and have fun at Play on the Plaza with San Francisco's LGBTQ & Leather Cultural District this Saturday from noon - 5pm. Ms. Eagle Leather Nunca Sola will host the play area, and there will be spanking benches,...
Many of you have already seen that we're fundraising in an outrageous attempt to retire the next big chunk of our cafe debt and get beyond our periodic budget panics. (Some of you may not have seen it yet; you can find my first email here.) As of this morning, I have two updates! For the first: we're past the $12k mark, which is phenomenal. For the second: our attorney isn't sure about pulling off a $9k offer to get this huge chunk settled, but thinks they might be able to get an agreement...
Howdy kinksters - It's been quite a week! First, an enormous thanks to everyone who's contributed to our fundraising this week. Your help is appreciated! We know some of you are holding off till the end of the week. When you're ready, you can find the link here! It's impossible to overstate how important it is that we hit our goal and get some of this settled, so thank you. Sincerely. We have a lot of fun things coming up this weekend! If you're in the SF Bay Area, we have two Saturday events...