Managing Difficult Clients for Pro-Dominants

This invaluable live workshop is geared towards working BDSM professionals as well as those looking to get into the field. Becoming skilled at managing difficult clients is essential to preventing burnout and to keeping yourself safe in what can be an intense and emotionally demanding profession. We will explore prototypes of the most common types of difficult clients using anonymous case studies taken from real life scenarios, establishing “best practices” for management for a wide range of relational challenges that emerge between clients and professional BDSM practitoners. Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of the motivations of difficult clients, and will master practical tools for handling contact with them, significantly reducing the stress of these daily interpersonal challenges.

Facilitated by: Headmistress Shahrazad

Location: The Ritual Chamber. Address will be emailed to ticket holders 24-48 hours before event.

Fees: $389 per person

Brand Spanking New: An Experiential Impact Play Bootcamp for Couples

with Headmistress Shahrazad

Are you “BRAND SPANKING NEW” to the art of impact play? Perhaps your partner has broached the idea but neither of you know where to start? This experiential boot camp with experienced disciplinarian Headmistress Shahrazad will have you spanking with confidence, accuracy, and empathy by the end of the afternoon, while having a ton of fun to boot. We will cover the art of hand spanking as well as techniques using paddles, canes, straps, belts and floggers. Positions, psychology, safety, negotiation, check-in techniques, warm-ups and aftercare will all be covered, and participants will have many opportunities to get hands-on with experiential exercises and structured/supervised practice time.

NOTES:

• Participants will be asked to wear bathing suit bottoms or underwear for the exercises in order to get the most out of the learning experiences. Exercises can all be graded from gentle to more intense depending on individual participant preferences.

• Couples of all descriptions welcome, you can even just bring a friend. (While we prefer that couples/pairs attend, we may be able to provide demo bottoms for a few solo folks who are interested in attending. Please note that we cannot guarantee the gender of the demo bottoms in this case).

• BONUS! FIRST 10 COUPLES REGISTERED RECEIVE A FREE IMPACT PLAY STARTER KIT ($75 value), including an Ouch! Hearts Paddle, a Leather Mini Spade Crop, a Sex & Mischief Mahogany Flogger, aftercare lotion and more!

Location: The Ritual Chamber dungeon. Address will be sent to registered participants.

Fees: $449 per couple; $259 per individual

Time: 1:00pm - 5:30pm EST

Brand Spanking New: An Experiential Impact Play Bootcamp for Couples

with Headmistress Shahrazad

Are you “BRAND SPANKING NEW” to the art of impact play? Perhaps your partner has broached the idea but neither of you know where to start? This experiential boot camp with experienced disciplinarian Headmistress Shahrazad will have you spanking with confidence, accuracy, and empathy by the end of the afternoon, while having a ton of fun to boot. We will cover the art of hand spanking as well as techniques using paddles, canes, straps, belts and floggers. Positions, psychology, safety, negotiation, check-in techniques, warm-ups and aftercare will all be covered, and participants will have many opportunities to get hands-on with experiential exercises and structured/supervised practice time.

NOTES:

• Participants will be asked to wear bathing suit bottoms or underwear for the exercises in order to get the most out of the learning experiences. Exercises can all be graded from gentle to more intense depending on individual participant preferences.

• Couples of all descriptions welcome, you can even just bring a friend. (While we prefer that couples/pairs attend, we may be able to provide demo bottoms for a few solo folks who are interested in attending. Please note that we cannot guarantee the gender of the demo bottoms in this case).

• BONUS! FIRST 10 COUPLES REGISTERED RECEIVE A FREE IMPACT PLAY STARTER KIT ($75 value), including an Ouch! Hearts Paddle, a Leather Mini Spade Crop, a Sex & Mischief Mahogany Flogger, aftercare lotion and more!

Location: The Ritual Chamber dungeon. Address will be sent to registered participants.

Fees: $449 per couple; $259 per individual

Time: 1:00pm - 5:30pm EST

Exploring Your Kink Identity Through Clay: A Right Brain Exploration of Perverse Landscapes

with Headmistress Shahrazad

If you’re in a phase of exploring who you are as a kinky person, no matter how many years, months or days into that journey, and you find yourself overthinking in circles, you won’t want to miss this creative deep dive into the intersections of identity, kink, and the erotic. Using clay and working solo but alongside another participant, attendees will engage in a right brain process of self-reflection using the clay as both a mirror of ourselves and as an embodiment of that which is felt but is hard to articulate in words. The process will be fully guided by Shahrazad and will also involve paired reflective work, helping you see yourself as a kinkster through multiple lenses and perspectives.

Location: The Ritual Chamber dungeon. Address will be sent to registered participants.

Time: Sunday, January 29th 12pm-5pm

Embodied Dominance: The Physicality of Being in Charge

with Headmistress Shahrazad

Folk of all genders and orientations are welcome.

Many new/learning Dominants approach the practice in a way that keeps us more in our heads than in our bodies. This embodiment-focused workshop draws on somatic techniques from Gestalt therapy that will add a whole new dimension to the way you experience yourself as a top or Dominant, and to the way your bottoms and subs experience you. If you:

• Have a hard time connecting with your own pleasure while you’re topping

• Know the skills but feel a lack of confidence when actually executing them

• Feel that your demeanor is not Dominant

• Have a hard time being present when topping

• Feel that the effect you have on your sub is not as impactful as you’d like it to be

• Are looking for skills to physically attune to a submissive’s experience

• Find that you get stuck in your head a lot during scenes

…then you will not want to miss this unique in-person workshop.

Come prepared for more experience than notetaking, we are going to train our body memory rather than our brain memory

Location: The Ritual Chamber dungeon. Address will be sent to registered participants.

Fees: $349 per person

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Brand Spanking New: An Experiential Impact Play Bootcamp for Couples

with Headmistress Shahrazad and demo bottom Alexis O’Kneel

Are you “BRAND SPANKING NEW” to the art of impact play? Perhaps your partner has broached the idea but neither of you know where to start? This experiential boot camp with experienced disciplinarian Headmistress Shahrazad will have you spanking with confidence, accuracy, and empathy by the end of the afternoon, while having a ton of fun to boot. We will cover the art of hand spanking as well as techniques using paddles, canes, straps, belts and floggers. Positions, psychology, safety, negotiation, check-in techniques, warm-ups and aftercare will all be covered, and participants will have many opportunities to get hands-on with experiential exercises and structured/supervised practice time.

NOTES:

• Participants will be asked to wear bathing suit bottoms or underwear for the exercises in order to get the most out of the learning experiences. Exercises can all be graded from gentle to more intense depending on individual participant preferences.

• Couples of all descriptions welcome, you can even just bring a friend. (While we prefer that couples/pairs attend, we may be able to provide demo bottoms for a few solo folks who are interested in attending. Please note that we cannot guarantee the gender of the demo bottoms in this case).

• BONUS! FIRST 10 COUPLES REGISTERED RECEIVE A FREE IMPACT PLAY STARTER KIT ($75 value), including an Ouch! Hearts Paddle, a Leather Mini Spade Crop, a Sex & Mischief Mahogany Flogger, aftercare lotion and more!

Location: The Ritual Chamber dungeon. Address will be sent to registered participants.

Fees: $449 per couple; $259 per individual

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Headmistress Shahrazad invites you to master the secrets of exhibitionistic boot worship. Learn unique techniques that make boot worship hot, sexy, and pleasurable to Femdoms. Practice the techniques on the delectable boots of The Ritual Chamber’s Dominants. Open to submissives of all genders.

Location: The Ritual Chamber

Cost: $125

A four-part lecture series for Dominants/Tops/Switches who wish to pursue continuing education in the mastery of consensual, risk-aware power exchange. Taught by 15+ year Pro and Lifestyle Dominant Shahrazad who weaves into her instruction an eclectic knowledge base that draws from Jungian psychology, Shamanism, human potential studies and degrees in Social Work and Sexuality Studies.

Facilitated by: Headmistress Shahrazad

Time: 7-10pm

Location: TBA

Fee: One class drop in ($40) or all four for $120.00

BUY TICKETS HERE

RSVP on FETLIFE 

March 6: Deepening Connection, Presence, and Intimacy While Maintaining Dominance

March 13: The Scope of Our Response-Ability As Dominants

March 20: Techniques for Coaching Submissives Through “Pain”

March 27: Ethical Use of Power

A four-part lecture series for Dominants/Tops/Switches who wish to pursue continuing education in the mastery of consensual, risk-aware power exchange. Taught by 15+ year Pro and Lifestyle Dominant Shahrazad who weaves into her instruction an eclectic knowledge base that draws from Jungian psychology, Shamanism, human potential studies and degrees in Social Work and Sexuality Studies.

Facilitated by: Headmistress Shahrazad

Time: 7-10pm

Location: TBA

Fee: One class drop in ($40) or all four for $120.00

BUY TICKETS HERE

RSVP on FETLIFE 

March 6: Deepening Connection, Presence, and Intimacy While Maintaining Dominance

March 13: The Scope of Our Response-Ability As Dominants

March 20: Techniques for Coaching Submissives Through “Pain”

March 27: Ethical Use of Power