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Wicked Grounds Full Event Roster (last updated 3/8/24)
Read on below for a wide variety of classes and educational resources from Wicked Grounds!Need personal coaching & guidance for those sticky issues around sex, kink and relationships? You can always reach out for one-time or ongoing coaching sessions at WickedGroundsAnnex.comThe Roundup!Multi-week I...
This week at Wicked Grounds: News, Events, Shenanigans! (3/8 - 3/17/24)
Hello Kinksters -Spring is in the air, and here at WG headquarters, we're hard at work creating new classes, events, and fun for you both in San Francisco and online.The theme of our week is integrating our kink identities into everything we do, and using our life and wellness tools to improve o...
On Submit? Help us build the new Wicked Grounds group
Hi there!Are you on Submit.gg, the new social network for the BDSM, Fetish, & Kinky community?If you are, take a moment to join the brand new Wicked Grounds group, which we launched today. I've started putting a few posts there, but there's a big ole' echo because the group is empty.http...
Wicked Grounds News & Events (2/23 - 3/3/24)
Hello Kinksters -I had the great pleasure of begin interviewed a couple of weeks back by Greg, a delightful member of our local community. We talked about navigating the kink scene, my own long journey in kink, and why the heck I'm so into woo. Want to listen? You can find the interview on Spoti...
Wicked Grounds Full Class Roster (last updated 2/16/24)
Yes, we're already updating the roster. That's how many new classes we're bringing on board for this spring!Our Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires six-week intensive launches this weekend. Your course includes weekly self-directed lessons and homework, two live group ...
Wicked Grounds News & Events (2/15 - 2/25/24)
Hello Kinksters -Our latest six-week intensive of Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Erotic Desires begins on Saturday, Feb 17th. It's not too late to join us! Get your spot for this six-week workshop here.I'm delighted to announce that Wicked Grounds has released our latest video class for ...
Wicked Grounds Full Class Roster (updated 2/13/24)
Lots of new classes and ways to engage with kink here!Wicked Grounds released a new video class for digital download this week! Private Joy: Sadomasochism for Solo & Distance Play can now be purchased and downloaded here for you to take any time at your own convenience.Need personal coaching & guida...
Wicked Grounds News & Events (2/9 - 2/18/24)
Hello Kinksters -Happy almost Valentine's Day! Whether you're celebrating with one or more loved ones, or reclaiming the power of radical self-love, we wish you happiness.We’re Reclaiming Valentine’s Day by celebrating all kinds of love and all kinds of connection! Did you know that Feb....
Discover your kinks. Get unstuck. Find your voice. Dive deep.
Kink is not a one size fits all. There's no template.One of the hardest journeys in kink is finding our own desires and voice. It takes strength to push past shame, self-doubt and others' requests of us to find something uniquely ours and worth cultivating. It's lifelong work; the people...
Wicked Grounds Weekly Updates & Events! (2/1 - 2/11/24)
Hello Kinksters -We did it! We all collectively got through the darkest twelve weeks of the year. Congratulations!What is germinating in you this early spring? What are you excited about?I go into this season feeling grateful for last month's daily practice cohort. I've recommitted to person...
An update and WOW on our emergency fundraiser
Good morning!I know some of you are following this closely since I first reached out yesterday, and others are just catching up. If this is your first time seeing this, you might want to read yesterday's post!Since this time yesterday morning, 59 kinksters like you have helped Wicked Grounds rai...
Wicked Grounds News & Events (January 18 - 28)
Hello Kinksters -If you haven't already seen it, we have an urgent call out for your support right now, to retire the worst of the old cafe debt so we can get on with building the future. The need is urgent, but community support is a strong force -- we are already halfway toward meeting our mos...
Wicked Grounds needs your help to rebuild! Please read & share!
We've been on a long journey together, growing and changing over time as the wider world changes. You've put faith and trust in us, and we try to give it right back.I've been hoping to avoid another ask for help, but it's become unavoidable. So I'm coming to you with a full heart...
Wicked Grounds Full Class Roster (last updated 1/17/2024)
Lots of new classes and ways to engage with kink here!Need personal coaching & guidance? You can always reach out for consulting at WickedGroundsAnnex.comThe Roundup!Multi-week Intensives 2/17 - 3/30/24: Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires [a six-week intensive with coaching] (ONL...
Wicked Grounds News & Events (Jan 11 - Jan 21)
Hello Kinksters -That start of a new year energy is in the air! This and last week's playshops have had great attendance and enthusiasm, and our cohort of mindfulness practitioners have been meditating and journaling up a storm. It's kind of like the energy you get at the gym or a yoga studi...
Community, fast and slow
As I write this, I'm sitting at the plant- and crystal-laden registration desk Mukunda Studio -- a warm, welcoming, queer yoga space in the Leather and LGBTW Cultural District. Outside, you can hear Folsom Street traffic. Indoors, we're surrounded by fabrics, wood, plants and shells, huge Qu...
Launching January 29th: a multi-week intensive from the other side of Mir's teaching brain
Some of you know that I've been teaching in witchy woo-woo, magick and occult topics for even longer than I've been teaching in kink -- about twenty years as an instructor, and closer to thirty as a public ritualist in my primary traditions.Often in the cooler months -- when I'm not as b...
Connecting with my local scene took me forever. I'm so glad I finally did it.
As a young adult, I struggled with developing my sex positivity. Many of us do. Let's face it: most of us grow up with terrible support around sex, pleasure, consent and communication.I grew up queer, and realized I was non-monogamous in high school. (Kink came soon after.) Trying to figure this...
Wicked Grounds News & Events (Jan 4 - Jan 14)
Hello Kinksters -Happy new year! I hope that this week back to work is gentle, and that all your resolutions are staying resolute!If one of your goals for this year is to go deeper in BDSM & sexuality, we have you covered. Check out our full (and growing) set of classes here. If you'd like to ge...
In the hustle and bustle of the new year, remember to commit to yourself
Hey, it's Mir.It's early (early, early!) on the first business day of the year, and I'm sitting in the home office on my second cup of coffee already, trying to catch up.I traditionally spend the last week of each year camping. Even in tight times, I find camping is a great way to find r...
PLEASE READ: What will 2024 bring? It's up to you. (I think there will be flowers.)
Happy new year, kinksters.I just saw a meme in which someone says -- against all fear -- "I think 2024 will bring flowers." The other creature in the panel says, "Yes? Why?" and our little hero says: "Because I am planting flowers."It won't be a surprise to you: that reso...
Sale on Wicked Grounds Class Passes - now through end of year
It's the end of the year.A great time to make those resolutions!Our resolution is to keep offering you the best in BDSM & kink education in the coming year. Perhaps one of yours is to expand your kink palette!Now through the end of year, we're offering a 10% discount on regular event passes ...
Wicked Grounds News & Events (12/21 - 12/31)
Hello Kinksters -A very bright and merry Solstice to those who celebrate it, and warm wishes on the holiday week ahead!This is a great time to sign up for our monthlong mindfulness & habit building challenge in January -- I already have the most of the first week's lesson plan uploaded for a sne...
Patreon VIP Member salon is tomorrow!
Our monthly Salon is a key member benefit of VIP+ ($30/month or higher) memberships. These sessions are a great way to ask me anything, get some quick & free consulting, get to meet your fellow VIP members, and just get closer to community. You bring the beverage, we'll make the space!I'm po...
Look what you went and made us do! Over 400 scholarship seats awarded!!!
We've just done an end-of-year review on our scholarship seats awarded.Financial accessibility is important to us, and it's clearly important to all of you. From the beginning, we've made every event available on a sliding scale.Since launching scholarship seats in early 2022, we've ...
Adding a special premium tier to our flash sale for those who want to be heroes!
Wicked Grounds needs your support this week. (It's going to keep being tight for a while. Don't panic! We will get through this, with your continued support!)We are already running a flash sale for 20% off with code FLASH and 25% off for code FLASHIER if folks pay with Venmo/ PayPal/ Zelle. ...
Light it Up! Flash Sale now through Thursday, 12/14
Hello everyone!We are running a flash sale this week that includes all rope, all KinkLab, all Tantus, and a few other goodies at WickedGrounds.com and MagickalCrossroads.com as well as digital downloads, consulting & multi-week courses at WickedGroundsAnnex.com.We would love your support, but please...
This #givingtuesday - give yourself the gift of a stronger kink community
When you gift other humans scholarship seats, you're doing more than delighting folks who couldn't otherwise afford our classes.You're also building a stronger community from which you benefit.When folks learn what consent is really about, and how it works, we all do better. Our parties ...
Cyber Monday: Showcasing our digital downloads & online information sources!
Howdy kinksters -As an early online adopter, I think Cyber Monday is mildly hilarious: a relic of a time not long ago when buying online was still a wonder.And yet: this is the first year I feel truly proud of our online services. So I'm delighted to showcase our digital downloads and courses.Co...
Black Friday sale ends today!
If you care about such things, it’s the last day of the Black Friday sale at wickedgrounds.com - code BLACK gets you 30% off or BLACKER is 35% off for instant payment methods. xoMir