Classes and Roundtables for Homecoming 2025
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Alixzander
Build-a-Fear Workshop: Fear Play 101
This class explores how a player can effectively create situations and environments that elicit a fear response from their partner. Fear can be used independently as its own scene, or used as a tool within a scene to enhance the experience. In this interactive learning experience, participants will explore fear through the five senses. Throughout, participants will both learn tools to better utilize fear, as well as develop their own personal methods in producing a fear response. This class is hands-on, encouraging participants to dive into what makes them (or their partners) shudder with fear.
Genderfuckery – Gender that Fucks!
We express our genders (or lack thereof) in many ways. However, it can feel dysphoric when our inner vision of our gender expression feels incongruous with our outer physical execution. This class is intended to help you get in touch with your body, and explore ways to bring your physicality more in line with the way you want to express your gender. We will be discussing how society’s expectations of gender expression play a role in how one’s physicality is perceived, and how someone can use these often restrictive expectations to their advantage when trying to match their physicality to their gender presentation. This class is a combination of discussion and accessible exercises, and designed to be a safer space to explore and have fun with your body and gender expression.
High Protocol English Tea
The upper echelons of British aristocracy are defined by their etiquette. This rigid, unquestionable set of rules, expectations, and standards governs everything from simple everyday social interactions to the grandest of balls. However, one event in particular holds special status within these groups as the clearest way to demonstrate one’s wealth, pedigree, and adherence to etiquette: High Tea. This class is a deep dive into High Tea Service, and is perfect for either side of the slash. We will discuss how to properly set a tea service (as well as potential variations), the proper way to plate and serve both food and tea, and expectations of staff presence during the tea. We will also discuss the expectations of guests, including how to prepare one’s cup, proper tea drinking etiquette, and conversational guidelines. Finally, we will discuss the role of the host, covering everything from the invites to the parting of ways. This class is part lecture, part hands on demonstration.
Auntie Vice
Ouch! Aging, Illness & BDSM
We age or we die. Hopefully most of us will experiencing aging first! As we age, our bodies and brains change a lot. These changes impact the way we enjoy BDSM, what we can do, and what we need. This class covers the aging process with break-out segments focusing on the physical and mental changes that occur, how hormones changes, and how sexual needs change. It then provides participants tools to adapt the important aspects of the BDSM and power exchange to their changing bodies. Finally, participants are giving references for books and materials to help adapt their kinks at home.
Power Exchange and Mental Illness
One in five adults live with a mental illness and one in four will experience a mental health issue in their lifetime. Living with mental illness presents some unique challenges to creating and maintaining a successful relationship. This class covers key aspects of relationship needs for people living with non-normative brains. Participants are given an overview of what mental illness is, what neuroatypicality is, and how someone can have multiple, intersecting diagnoses. We then cover how to translate non-visible symptoms of mental illness into language which works for you and your partners. The class covers how to discover your communication style and needs and how these change as your illness flares or relents. Participants are provided with several tools to help them create effective communication plans. Finally, the class covers specific considerations for common conditions, including depression, anxiety, PTSD/trauma, BPD, autism, and ADD/ADHD.
Practical Bondage
Love bondage but don’t want to master intricate ties? All thumbs but still want to tie up someone? This class is for you! This class provides practical, quick, and easy ways to tie up someone. It starts by reviewing basic safety for any form of bondage and familiarize participants with what to watch out for. It then covers different ways to incorporate bondage into your play. The class covers uses of duct tape, saran wrap, rope, cuff-based, and chair ties. It then presents predicament bondage options. Class participants will learn at least five quick and easy way to tie up their partners.
BDSM Research Team
Rethinking Compatibility in BDSM Relationships
What makes a BDSM relationship truly work? New research from our lab (conducted at KK Spring Break!) challenges the popular idea that shared kinks are the key to satisfaction. Instead, our findings show that erotic gift giving—a person’s willingness to indulge their partner’s desires—is more strongly linked to relationship satisfaction than compatibility alone. In this session, we’ll explore our recent study alongside broader relationship research on adaptability, partner responsiveness, effective communication, and shared experiences—all shown to support long-term relational success. We’ll examine how these principles play out in BDSM relationships, where the question of “compatibility” often looks very different than in vanilla partnerships.
The Wettest Deep Dive: What Squirters and Their Lovers Want You to Know
You’ve seen it, you’ve heard the myths, and maybe you’ve even been in the splash zone! But what is really going on when someone squirts? Is it rare? Is it learnable? Is it always an orgasmic fountain of bliss, or does it sometimes arrive like an uninvited houseguest at the worst moment? Our research gives voice (and data!) to real-life squirters and the partners who help make the magic happen. What does it feel like? How does it change relationships, play, and community? Are there secret techniques? (Yes. And no. And also, maybe.) Whether you’re looking to get wetter, understand your body’s surprises, or just confirm that, yes, you’re normal! – this talk is your all-access backstage pass to one of the sexiest, most misunderstood experiences in human sexuality. Come for the science, stay for the stories, and leave with a few new ideas to try in your own bed (or someone else’s).
Subspace, Topspace, and the Brain: A Deep Dive into Altered States
Ever wonder what’s really happening in your brain during a BDSM scene? This session explores the science behind altered states of consciousness—transient hypofrontality and flow—and how they map onto the kink community’s concepts of subspace and topspace. We’ll journey through the latest research from our lab and others, discuss the neuropsychology of these immersive experiences, and consider their practical implications: Can subspace affect your ability to safeword? Is it safe to negotiate a scene when you’re still flying high? Featuring a live EEG demo of a volunteer’s brain during a scene, this session offers a rare, real-time look into the erotic mind at play.
Ask A Scientist!
Ask all the burning science questions.
Catieosaurus
Intimacy & Sensory Issues
This hands-on workshop explores strategies and techniques for effective communication, negotiation, and intimacy-building when living with sensory issues common, but certainly not exclusive to, neurodivergencies like ADHD & Autism. We will address issues specific to the neurodivergent community, such as Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, time blindness, and learning/communication challenges, and their effects on kinky play. This workshop is ideal to attend with a partner but is also welcoming to solo participants. Our goal is to create an inclusive discussion for everyone. This panel will center on the lived experience of sensory issues in neurodivergent individuals. We invite everyone to participate and value the unique perspectives you bring to the conversation.
Masking and Authenticity in Kink Spaces
Many neurodivergent individuals rely on masking to navigate social situations, but how does this impact kink dynamics? This workshop explores the challenges of balancing authenticity with social expectations in kink spaces, how to communicate boundaries when masking, and how to create safer environments for unmasking during play.
Building Confidence in Scene Negotiation
Feeling confident in scene negotiation can be tough, especially for neurodivergent individuals. This interactive session provides tools and techniques to navigate consent conversations with clarity, advocate for your needs, and build trust with partners. Learn to turn awkward or nerve-wracking conversations into empowering moments. This experience is designed to actively build communication skills through practice.
Participants will be invited to step into the role of top or bottom and role-play conversations and ask questions, take suggestions and empower themselves to better communicate as their most authentic selves.
Neurodivergent Meet and Greet
A space for ADHD, autistic, and otherwise neurodivergent folks to gather, eat, and be in community together. Whatever your personal flavor of brain weirdness, this is a casual space to connect, share experiences, and be around people who get it. Hosted by Cate Osborn (Catieosaurus), we’ll chat about self-advocacy and consent through a neurodivergent lens, but really this is just about connecting with people who get it. Come as you are, stim freely, and find your people.
CoolCat
Getting into Pet Headspace: An Interactive Class
You think you’re a pet—but how do you find that headspace? This fully interactive class helps you explore your unique pet identity: your voice, your movements, and how you want to connect with others. Whether you play in a scene, a mosh, with a handler, or on your own, you’ll learn practical ways to embody your inner pet and feel more confident expressing it. We’ll start with a short group discussion before moving into playful solo, paired, and group exercises that explore body language, communication, and interaction. All activities emphasize negotiation, consent, and boundaries. Expect to crawl, play, and discover new ways to drop into your pet self in a fun, safe, and supportive environment. Knee pads are strongly encouraged!
Imagination in Age Play: An Interactive Class
When we were children, imagination came naturally—a log was a canoe, a box, a rocketship, a stuffie had a whole personality. As adults, it can feel harder to tap into that playful headspace. This class creates a guided, structured space to give yourself permission to play again. Bring your favorite stuffie (or borrow one in class!) and bring it to life with a voice, personality, and backstory. You’ll team up with other littles to send your characters on adventures: creating worlds, overcoming challenges, and helping each other along the way. Together, we’ll practice empathetic listening and playful “yes, and…” energy to keep your imagination flowing. Boundaries around touch and interaction will be clearly negotiated, with a room safe word in place.
Pet Play 101
Animal play is more than crawling on all fours! It’s a diverse spectrum of kink headspaces that can range from anthropomorphic to instinctively feral, submissive to primally dominant, subhuman to spiritually sublime. Loyal pups, curious cats, sly foxes, and proud ponies all express obedience, defiance, and playfulness in distinctive ways. We’ll break down how pets interact with handlers and with each other, suggest specific scene ideas, and learn how to maintain consent when communication becomes nonverbal. This class will equip you with the knowledge to explore animal headspace on your own, with partners, or within your kink community. Bring your curiosity and questions and expect a lively discussion!
Feral_trashpanda
Returning the Reigns: Transitions in Power Exchange
Returning the Reigns: Transitions in Power Exchange
All relationships come to an end. As difficult as that is, additional complications arise when you practice a Power Exchange relationship. We will try to discuss everything from remaining in a “vanilla” relationship when PE no longer works, amicable separation, or hard separation. We
will also talk about when relationships don’t end because of a breakup and the nitty gritty of end of life planning. This class offers insights into returning self-agency, self-control, and personal empowerment.
There is no such thing as safe sex.
This class offers up to date information about pest practices that can help you engage in safer sex because safe sex is not a real thing. We discuss everything from barriers, to testing, to PREP. We go over talking with your health care provider. Additionally we cover safety for all body fluids and the activities that go along with them. Cum enjoy wild raunchy crazy “safer” fucking.
Don’t be a METAMONSTER
This is a class designed to explore the complexities of the often-nuanced relationship of the metamour (your partner’s partner) and you. Drawing on over a decade of personal experience and observation, I can safely say that no one is a perfect metamour and that learning is necessary and growth is painful. The class will tackle topics SUCH AS structure, how to be close (or not) with your metamour, how to navigate conflict, and how to respect boundaries while offering support. It focuses heavily on self-reflection and encourages participants to explore how they want to approach this unique relationship. For this KK, I get to have the inspiration behind the class join me to prove I follow what I teach and am only a monster when asked to be.
Kinkmedic
Opioids & Overdoses
Opioids & Overdoses is an in-depth look into the complex problems surrounding overdoses and how we can both recognize & manage them in real time. We will talk about how certain drugs depress the nervous system and how our actions will directly affect survivability following an accidental overdose. We will then discuss how Naloxone (Narcan) works, indications for use and best practices for administration. If you want to be more comfortable with responding to and managing possible overdoses, whether as an individual or as part of a medical support team, this class might be worth your time.
Drop
Let’s talk about Drop. What is it? What causes it? How do I recognize it? What are the best ways to manage it when it does come along? This is going to be an interactive conversation about Drop and what we can all do to help ourselves and others when the time comes.
Laura Boyle aka RoseOfSalt
Fun with Wax: The basics of wax play!
In this class we cover: Wax play-specific safety and negotiations. Which questions to ask and what to keep in mind when creating your wax play scene. The difference between candles and flameless wax, temperatures and type of safe wax for play, a demonstration of both candle and flameless wax on a bottom on various body parts as different sensations created are discussed. Ways to combine wax with other types of play, cleanup, and aftercare included.
Relationship Anarchy Applied
Lots of monogamous or monogamish people in the kink community allow for play with folks who aren’t their partner and then run into emotional turmoil as a result. Applying the theory of relationship anarchy and considering these play partnerships as relationships connected by the Greek “ludus” playful love, we can give people tools to work through conflicts, negativity, & concerns they may have as they and their partners explore play with others. This class will engage in activities as a group and in handouts for folks to take home to reframe negative thinking about moments in partners’ play with others and focus on joy points rather than pain points in these relationships, as well as contain some lecture on polyamorous theory.
Bottoming Safety 201: Negotiating Edgeplay Safely as a Bottom or Submissive Description
Most folks, when they enter a local scene or join a dungeon space, are required to take a basic negotiation class. These classes seldom touch on how to negotiate more intense scenes – or assume that one will automatically have gained the confidence and communication skills to express boundaries while negotiating a scene near the edge of one’s comfort level. This class will address generally asserting boundaries with a top or dominant from a bottoming or submissive role; but also include safety issues to be aware of with some of the most popular “edgy” play – understanding that one person’s edge is another’s bread and butter so there is no way for the class to be comprehensive for everyone in that. This class explicitly covers information on negotiation for knifeplay, breathplay, a variety of fear play, fire, sadistic floor rope, suspension, and wax; and sometimes more by discussion within the class group.
Master So’N’So
Arm Ties
Five ways to get your partner’s arms out of the way, whether your intent be sinister or seductive. (Shibari, Introductory, Hands On)
Hojojitsu with Dental Floss
Hojōjitsu is a traditional Japanese martial art, used beginning in the 17th Century Edo period and remained in practice by Japanese police and military until the WWII era, to capture criminals and transport prisoners of war. Hojojitsu is fast, brutal, and prioritizes security over prisoner safety. Originally, practitioners used a 15ft nawa of 4mm thickness. Through careful material selection, we decrease safety risks while increasing perceived risk. By switching to a 100 yd spool of 0.002 nylon (ie, dental floss), we develop a system perfect for brutal takedowns, asymmetric wrestling play, humiliation, and dozens of other delightful games. Dental floss is not suitable for most kinds of suspension play, and hojojitsu is not safe for suspension. Therefore, it would not be accurate to include hojoitsu in the category of “shibari.” It is an adjacent art from the same culture and era. (Hojojitsu, Introductory, Hands On)
Kama Sutra Kink
Widely known in America as the Hindu Sex Manual, the Kama Sutra covers far more than weird sex positions. Learn pick up lines invented thousands of years ago, examine the ancient debate over the existence of the female orgasm, and discuss historic protocols of devotion and submission suitable for modern relationships. (Philosophy of Sex, All Levels, Lecture and Audience improv Games)
Miss Mackenzee
Sinking Your Teeth In: Erotic Biting
Discover the sensual art of erotic biting in this engaging workshop. Learn to transform what can seem aggressive into a way to express intimacy, exploring everything from playful nibbles to passionate bites that drive your partner wild. We’ll cover techniques to balance pressure, placement, and intention to maximize pleasure or pain safely. Understand the psychological and physical responses, including endorphin release and arousal. You can use your mouth to create all sorts of sensations that will cause your partner’s eyes to roll back in their head, eliciting pure ecstasy. We will also discuss safety guidelines, best areas to bite, harnessing primal instincts, aftercare, and how to use your jaw strength for power exchanges, punishments, or rewards. Live demonstrations will provide practical skills, tips on tools, creating marks, and building anticipation. This workshop offers insights to elevate your sensual connection and explore your animalistic side with confidence.
Taking the Breath Away: Erotic Asphyxiation
Experience the thrill and vulnerability of breath play in this captivating workshop. We will explore the psychological and physiological aspects that make this kind of control both exhilarating and intense. Whether you’re giving or receiving, learn essential techniques to ensure safety and transform your nervousness into confidence. The class covers important considerations, proper methods for choking, smothering, and suffocation, as well as responsible use of toys and props. Live demonstrations provide practical, visual insights into techniques that range from playful to more extreme scenarios. Discover how this dangerous form of edge play can heighten pleasure, deepen trust, and unlock new levels of intimacy with your partner. We’ll discuss limits, health concerns, and ways to incorporate creativity for a truly explosive experience. This workshop aims to empower you to confidently explore breath restriction as part of your erotic journey, grounded in intention and mutual satisfaction.
Embracing Duality: Mixing Empathy and Sadism
This class is designed for those drawn to the thrill of hearing their partner’s cries and finding pleasure in tears, blending cruelty with care and authority. Learn to master the delicate art of sadism while maintaining a sense of gentleness, ensuring your presence feels both powerful and reassuring. We’ll explore how to balance dominance with warmth, emphasizing compassion and rituals that affirm connection outside of sexy time. Participants will navigate the complex emotions that come with embracing this role throughout our time. Topics include developing a play style that meets emotional and physical needs, creative ideas for intense yet caring scenes, and attunement to non-verbal cues. Techniques for expressing empathy within your role, reflecting on experiences for growth, and safeguarding your partner will also be covered, fostering a deeper understanding of yourself and your dynamics. Being cruel in a scene doesn’t mean you have to stop being considerate!
Professor Grey
Hooked on Impact
Yup – you guessed it! Professor Grey will focus on utilizing flesh hooks as predicament bondage for impact play. While these activities may seem like strange partners, you CAN create unique, combined edgy scenes. In this section we will explore hooks/equipment, anatomy, safety, creating predicament, as well as aftercare. The demo portion will combine predicament flesh hooks with impact play and how to safely navigate both activities. And Yes, this bottom will get Hooked!
Yes! It Fists!
Don’t be fooled – this is not your typical fisting course. If you enjoy anal play and want to “punch it” up a notch, come join Professor Grey as she discusses anatomy, logistics, preparation, and training for anal fisting. Stay for the demo and watch Grey Fist It IN!
Oh the Torture!
This class is not for the faint of heart. With the assistance of a true masochist Professor Grey will take you through the aspects of Breast and Cunt Torture. First and foremost, we will discuss the value of communication and trust building to maintain scene safety and boundaries. Then you will get a front row seat to observe ways to torture these amazing body parts. Be forewarned – the demo portion may contain blood!
Rhiannon aka ANecessaryEvil
Coming Back to Kink
People step away from kink and sexuality for many reasons, and getting back into the swing of things (pun intended!) can be a struggle. Sometimes sex and kink need to take a backseat to mental and/or physical health, and this discussion-based class will walk through a journey that is rarely ever linear. We’ll discuss the nuances around returning to the Community, as well as the inter-personal conversations that can be far more difficult. Bring your stories to share with the class on what’s working and what’s not, and let’s help each other navigate being wallflowers or reluctant returnees in spaces that used to feel like home.
Just a little Little…
Are you reluctant to identify as Little? Same. Learning to be comfortable being Little can come with a lot of big feelings, and if you’re in the same boat, let’s share — long-time Littles and new explorers are all welcome! This class is intended as opportunity to learn about using Little space as an opportunity for self-care and engaging your inner child and how to start dipping your toes in the water. Warning: We will be discussing Bluey, Squishmallows, and emotional safety, but NOT dark age play (mixing sex with Little headspace.) There will be snacks!
The Fine Art of Scene-Crafting
A beginner’s guide to scene-ing, this class will teach you the basics of planning a scene, including choosing the appropriate environment, how to build intensity, and how to check in with your bottom in ways that are useful without killing the mood. Come with your ideas, and leave with ways to enact them…a small-group worksheet and meeting other people are a portion of the class, but as always, participation is encouraged but not required!
Finding Success in Failures
This guided discussion is all about lessons learned. Come learn and share from our collective scene mishaps, unexpected interruptions, and kinky crisis situations. What choices were made in the moment that led to unexpected outcomes or feelings? How could things have been done differently? How do we move forward and recover?
this play.
ruby
Recovery in the Lifestyle meeting (1)
ruby will be chairing a Recovery in the Lifestyle meeting at Kinky College this year, for the benefit of any who identifies as “In Recovery” of any kind, to come and connect their kink and recovery selves all in one place!
SabreHyde
Moods in Rope
Have you ever wanted your rope scene to make you feel melancholic? Adversarial? Wistful? Arrogant? Exuberant? How about giving mad hatter energy? If you have ever thought, even for a second, that the same old scenes are a little boring, this class is for you! In this all-levels, participation based session, we will cover multiple genres of emotion and how to bring them into your scenes, including exercises, unique ties, and other mood-generating techniques. Self-tie adjustments will be included – you can change your own mood, too!
Recommended supplies: 4 30’ lengths of rope, a blanket or mat to tie on, a cutting implement, and notebook/pen(cil). Participants should know a single and double column tie.
Rope Top’s Toolkit
When you are just getting started, putting together a rope kit can be very intimidating. What kind of rope? How much of it? What else do you need? What is this going to cost? This class is focused on helping rope tops, and especially beginning suspension riggers, make the decisions that are right for them by providing comprehensive discussions around WHY and HOW to choose materials and tools, from the perspectives of safety, budget, aesthetics, function, longevity, convenience, and preference. Different types of ropes, carabiners, cutting implements and rings, among other tools, will be displayed and/or passed around so you can get a feel for them. There is no “one size fits all” rope kit, and this class is the perfect way to take your game from hardware store rope to a full suspension kit: one step at a time, informed about options, and avoiding costly mistakes.
Departure From The Norm (Rope Focus)
Large. Heavy. Muscular. Male. Transgender. Disabled. Elderly. Fragile. Triggered. Stiff. Inflexible. Injured. As unique individuals that gloriously break the mold we see depicted so often, how can you best participate in rope? As a top who comes across these folks wanting to be tied, how can you increase your skills and adaptability to make rope accessible to everyone and enjoyable for your partners? This class will present a framework and open forum for approaching challenges and customizing rope based on different bodies and minds. I’ll also cover ways unique bottoms can approach the rope world and help tops branch out. In addition, I’ll speak about tying techniques and emotional challenges for tops who don’t fit the top mold: female, small/short, and/or lacking upper arm strength. At the end of this class, you will be better equipped to depart from depicted rope stereotypes and tailor your rope experience.
Scott Smith & StrumPet
Discussion on Service in a D/s relationship – StrumPet
What does it mean to provide excellent service? How do you bring your life skills into your kink in productive ways? How can you tailor your actions and choices to your dynamic? StrumPet (she/her) will share thoughts and experiences from her kink journey and facilitate open discussion and sharing from those who choose to attend. Tops & bottoms / singles & pairs+ all welcome. Discussion will be framed by D/s relationship dynamics over time periods vs play scenes.
SNAFU
So the Shit has Hit the Fan. Might I Suggest a Better Way Than Licking it Off? Even if your bottom isn’t named Annie, this workshop will help you plan for the worst and experience the best. As is often said, there are the folks who have had an emergency and there are folks who will; no one is exempt. Covering steps you can take before, during, and after an event; Scott pulls from his experiences in the emergency services and rescue to build a class that will put critical tools in your head and in your emergency kit. Please feel free to send me scenarios you would appreciate being included. (Connect@OneWithKnots.com or via FL: Scott_Smith).
Suturing
They are small, they are pointy, and they get into really tight spots. Covering aesthetic, practical, and structural attachments with Needles & Sutures, this workshop is sure to get under your skin. Or, maybe the skin of your bottom…
If you absolutely, positively, don’t want them to get away, or you have the escape artist from hell, this workshop is invaluable. There will be blood.
Scott applies his medical background in this free-flowing workshop covering safety, equipment selection, cleaning, usage, sadism, and a wee bit of humor. – This may create some localized discomfort.
Punching and Bruising:
The workshop is all about the kinematics of knuckles against skin. A discussion, not of words but of base level physicality. The thoughts, not of what to say, but of what patch of skin is calling out to be touched. The connection between one person’s strike and how, or if, the other breathes. The art of turning a human canvas shades of black and blue. The ongoing joy of confirming tenderness over days, as the blues become purples and greens.
This workshop covers strike zones, risk profiles, striking implements, force development, and a bit of first aid.
Hair Bondage
Gimme a head with hair, Long beautiful hair, Shining, gleaming, Streaming, flaxen, waxen.. Let me tie it, let me bind it, I love hair. Short hair, long hair, hair for immobilization, hair for predicament, hair for aesthetics, and even hair for suspension. This is all about hair. How to get a hold of it, how to attach to it, and many ideas for what to do once you’ve got it.
Seq
Got Consent To Kink
Join us for Got Consent, a good starting point for Consent To Kink. We will touch on the following ideas: State of Consent, Consent Culture, Consent Best Practices, Things to Consider, Withdrawing Consent, Ability to Consent, Trauma, and Explicit Prior Permission for Consent to Kink. We will also provide free resources made available by the National Coalition For Sexual Freedom.
Accountability – Does it really have to be that daunting?
For many of us, hearing the word “accountability” can cause an instant stress response. To be “held accountable” can sound intimidating. What about our culture makes us so afraid to be accountable? Let’s discuss the fears surrounding accountability and explore ways to prepare in advance, as well as practice being accountable in our day-to-day activities and interactions. We will explore what is and is not part of accountability, as well as how apologies and reparations work in conjunction with accountability. We will also cover the concept of creating an accountability pod.
X2Ride
7 Pillars of Well-Being Roundtable
Time 2 Take Care of You through Awakened Awareness of the Self, utilizing the 7 Pillars of Well-Being.We all have our own personal constitution, which is the reason certain diets/exercise work for some and not others. Self-discovery and knowledge are the way to ultimate well-being. Utilizing the 7 pillars we can awaken our own personal awareness. This roundtable discussion we will share thoughts/ideas of how we can incorporate the 7 pillars, nutrition, cleanse, movement, sleep, connection, inspiration and peace into our daily lives.
Fundamental Yoga Session
Have you wanted to take a yoga class but thought you were not flexible enough or too nervous to take a group class with people you do not know. This session will be a great opportunity to enjoy a lighthearted yoga session, which will allow you to move the body with the breath in a safe, non-judgmental space and ask questions throughout the practice. We will focus on fundamental movements and proper form/technique, so you can continue a safe, effective yoga practice anywhere. You can participate using a yoga mat or towel if you are able to get on and off the ground. Some poses can also be demonstrated in a chair, if you would like to join the session but are not able to get on and off the ground.
Introduction to Breathwork/Meditation
Are you ready to disconnect from the world of technology and noise to find balance? Join us to discover how 5 to 10 minutes per day can help you regulate and harmonize the body. This session you focus on alternate nostril breathing and So Hum meditation. The practice can be done seated on the floor or on a chair.
Yulinda Rahman aka Doc Yu Roc
The History of BDSM: From Rituals to Rebels
Ever wonder how we got here? From ancient rituals to modern-day dungeons, this class takes you on a journey through BDSM’s evolution across time and culture. We’ll dive into the roles literature, art, and media have played in shaping perceptions of kink, highlight key historical figures and events, and unpack how social movements and legal changes have impacted kink communities. By the end, you’ll walk away with a deeper appreciation for where we’ve been, how we got here, and what it means for the spaces we create today.
Kink in Color: A Multicultural Lens on BDSM
BDSM is everywhere, but it doesn’t look the same everywhere. In this class, we’ll take a global tour of kink, exploring how different cultures practice, understand, and integrate BDSM into their communities. Along the way, we’ll highlight universal themes, unique traditions, and the ways cultural background shapes consent, power dynamics, and community norms. We’ll end our journey in the U.S., turning the lens on the intersection of race and kink to critically examine today’s climate for BIPOC kinksters and the spaces we create together.
Kinky & The Brain: What Neuroscience Reveals About BDSM
What’s happening in your brain when you’re deep in subspace, riding a wave of pain, or caught in the heat of power exchange? This class breaks down the fascinating neuroscience behind BDSM; from how we process pain and pleasure to what’s happening hormonally and emotionally during scenes. We’ll explore the mental health benefits, potential risks, and therapeutic possibilities of kink while also unpacking the science behind subspace, aftercare, and why some folks find themselves chasing “the drop.” If you’ve ever wanted to know why your brain lights up the way it does during play, this class is for you.
