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 sneak preview.

It will be a relatively quiet next week on the live-classes front, freeing up time for some end of year reflection.

Last minute gifts for the kinkster in your life -- or yourself!

• A Wicked Grounds events pass provides unlimited access to all regular classes & events each month -- classes, workshops, playshops & special events. (Everything except multi-week courses and consulting.) Most months, this works out to 15-20 events! For the first time in ten years, our class pricing will slightly increase in 2024 -- making these even more valuable!
• Our video on-demand class Diving Deep explores how to get in touch with your own needs, wants and desires before you negotiate. (This is the original version of our class which has evolved into a six-week workshop.)
• Our Kink Year in Review journal is a 26-page comprehensive look back at the past year, to help you celebrate successes and learn from challenges, preparing for a your best kink year ahead!

Read on for this week's events!

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Events Roundup!

Thursday 12/21

Celebrate the Solstice with a magick class! Join us at 6pm Pacific for Magick for Impossible People with Urban Magick author Diana Rajchel. Make some tea, bring your notebook, and take notes on magickal ideas to take to the trenches or the dinner table. Details & ticketing here for this Wicked Grounds + Magickal Crossroads class.

Thursday 12/28

From being awareness of spacing and distance to setting up a play space and write advertisements for events, all kinksters can use trauma-informed mindfulness to create safer spaces. Join Ember online at 6pm Pacific for Trauma-Informed Kink For All to learn what trauma is (and what it isn't), how it happens, about trauma dumping, trauma reactions, post-traumatic growth, secondary trauma, intergenerational/racial trauma, trauma from violence, trauma experienced by BIPOC/LGBTQIA+/minority individuals, and more. Most importantly, you'll learn about how to create trauma aware environments for personal and community use. Details & ticketing here.

Friday 12/29

Join us for a rare Friday evening class on the delights of electro play! In Sadistic or Sensual?: Developing Electro Play Scenes with Carmen Pandiego, we'll explore how to use settings, toys, body, and pacing to set the tone for your scene, and that both creativity and intensity can come into play to develop delightful electro play scenes that will fit whatever mood or flavor of play you want. Details & ticketing here.

Ongoing or upcoming events

• Daily: Sign up for Wicked Grounds’ Adventures in Daily Kink Journaling to receive prompts on all kink topics with bonus insights from Mir!
• January 2024: A daily practice can help you deepen your self-connection in general, and your ability to dive deeply into kink specifically. Join us this January to create yours in Creating and Cultivating a Daily Practice with Miriam Green. Details & ticketing here.
• January 29-March 15, 2024. Miriam BatAsherah Green is offering their "only every other year . . . maybe" massive class on All the Kabbalah You Really Need, this time in a six-week format. This class will almost certainly not be offered again until 2026! Details & ticketing here.
• February 17-March 30, 2024. Our six-week Diving Deep Intensive returns February - March 2024 dates. Our fall intensive sold out well before launch, so please don't wait to get your space-available tickets.

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Warmly,
Mir & The Wicked Grounds Team

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