classes

I wish I could say I teach because of the great money and glamour that comes with being a teacher. I cannot. I teach because I love the work. This is my day job. I am happily willing to travel almost anywhere; group size is not a factor. Classes can be customized for the prospective audience and regional legal considerations.

Playing Without Toys
New to BDSM? Can’t afford all those expensive floggers, canes and other toys? Bored with the same old stack-and-whack activities? Tired of carrying a bulging 50 pound toybag? Then this class is for you!
Floggers, whips, violet wands and such are all lovely to play with, but limited and expensive. We all have access to the best toy there is: the mind. Come explore the endless possibilities of playing without toys from basic energy manipulation to really mean things you can do with just your own body parts. We’ll discuss opening the mind to possibilities, adaptive techniques for whatever’s at hand, and how to put together a scene you won’t soon forget-and all without toys!

Fantasy Made Flesh: The Essential Workshop for Erotic Roleplay
We all take on a variety of roles each day: parent, lover, employee, diplomat. And there are roles we fantasize about, yet dare not express: the slave, the barbarian, the princess, the delinquent, the whore. Can these roles become reality at least within the closed and trusting environment of the bedroom? Of course they can--and should! Fantasy Made Flesh teaches readers to use their imaginations within a sensual/sexual context and give themselves permission to become the creatures of their dreams. I address letting go of self-consciousness and self-criticism, cultivating environments, setting the stage with props and costumes. I teach people how to bring their most outrageous fantasies into living, breathing, incredibly-turned-on reality. This class is taught as a workshop.

Introduction to Erotomancy
This class was well-received at its debut at Michigan Rope's "Bondage and Beyond" and also at Vicious Valentine 5 in Chicago and was extended into a full two-day workshop for Temple Emet in Detroit. It covers the divination of prime erotic sensation sites (and what one can do with them) by observation, examination and manipulation of human energy fields. By learning how to identify signals using a cultivated sense of touch without touching, participants will learn how to detect "sweet" spots and "hot" spots: places on the human body that crave attention, and those that wish to be left alone. Increased awareness of the signs and signals the human body exhibits at all times is an amazing way to "magically" read a bottom's body, increasing the potential for accurate and intense physical interactions. An extremely useful skill in impact play and bondage settings, the self- and other-awareness cultivated using erotomantic techniques enhance not only experiences within a scene, but one's overall life experience.

Vaginal Fisting
Fisting is not something one does to a woman; it's an intimate, potent act one does with a woman. I am the author of A Hand in the Bush: The Fine Art of Vaginal Fisting. This fact combined with my love of the act makes me the ideal candidate for teaching the subject. This class is taught with both lecture and demonstration components.

Temporary and Permanent Ritual Scarification and/or Play Piercing (2 separate classes)
I regard all forms of bloodplay--cutting, scarification, play piercing--as a physiospiritual way of accessing incredible intensity; I teach those subjects from a technical perspective within the framework of sacred sexuality. A cutting workshop includes safety, setup, audience participation on chicken breasts (blade respect and basic techniques) and a demonstration of a temporary or permanent cutting, depending on volunteers. Play piercing includes safety, setup, patterning and a live demonstration on a human volunteer.

Divine Sensations: Kink and the Unitive Experience
Some of us are Buddhists, some Christians, some agnostic; our spiritual diversity is just as important as the other diversities our community embraces. The BDSM experience lends itself beautifully to the creation of Sacred Space; in this workshop, we'll discuss and uncover how our own unique experiences of kink permit us access to the Divine, to Source energies, and how those energies can be used to enhance our lives.

CunningTorments: Female Genitorture
Full of nerve endings and possibility, the pussy is often a focus for devoted, devious attentions. Orgasm control, clips, clamps, pervertibles, things that buzz, blow, sizzle and smack; all intended to make a pussy purr. Basic anatomy, safe use of delicate tissues and techniques for maximizing pain and pleasure from basic (warming up, cooling down, manual torment techniques) to some advanced techniques (fire, piercing, adhesives) will be covered. If done with a live demo, final orgasm will be determined by audience vote.