An Introduction to Needle Play
Are you intrigued by needle play, but not sure where to start? Do you find needles a bit intimidating, and want information to help you feel more comfortable? In this 101 class, we’ll discuss some of the dreadful delights and sexy scenes needles can offer. Then we’ll learn how to prepare, play, and clean up safely, and we’ll cover the basics of placing and removing needles.
Having Fun With Needles
What makes a needle scene fun for both the bottom and the top? What types of fun do needles offer? Once you get the needles in, then what? Come learn how to create a needle scene that all participants will enjoy, from the very first poke to the very last pull. We’ll briefly review safety and setup, then cover placement, aesthetic options, manipulation, sensation, and removal.
Blood Painting: Needle Play Body Art
Do you love the idea of aesthetically pleasing needle scenes, but struggle with creating perfect designs in steel? Do you want to create something beautiful without using a ton of needles? Do you just really love blood? Come learn how blood painting uses impact and palette knives to give you a new way to make stunning art with your needle scenes.
Reaching Through Steel: Connective Needle Play
Needle play is a technically demanding kink, and it can be tough to maintain a connection with your bottom while also focusing on aseptic technique and needle safety. From negotiation to aftercare, and all the fun in between, come learn new tips and tricks for keeping your bottom engaged and connected from start to finish.
Pretty Needles for the Risk Averse
Needle play offers fabulous opportunities for aesthetic creativity, but each technique comes with its own considerations for safety. This class explores how to create fabulous art with string, feathers, beads, and more, all while minimizing health risks. Come learn how to create beautiful needle art within a conservative risk profile.
Tiny and Vicious: How To Be Mean With Little Needles
Wanna have a good time with little holes? Come learn how to make your sadistic needle play excruciating at any gauge! Discover locations, techniques, patterns, and manipulations that are sure to elicit some delightful screams, all at 20 gauge and smaller… because it’s not the size that counts, it’s how you use it.
Needle Predicament Bondage
This intermediate class explores how to create delightfully devilish predicaments with needle play. Whether you’re binding your bottom in challenging postures, or tying them to other objects, needle bondage offers a variety of unique physical and psychological challenges.
Cathartic Flogging
Catharsis is a process of release, purification, and relief, whereby one is rid of repressed emotions and energies. Come learn how flogging can elicit mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual catharsis. This workshop does not focus on technical flogging skills, so please have some knowledge of the fundamentals.
Communicating Risk: Creating Informed Consent
Risk aware consent lets us ethically and responsibly indulge in our darkest fantasies, but getting there isn’t always easy. From both the bottom and the top perspective, what should you ask or tell to help your partner fully understand what you want to do, and where your limits are? What do you need to disclose in order to ensure that your partner’s consent is adequately informed? Come discuss the complexities of negotiating scene limits, develop skills for communicating your needs your own needs, and learn tips for helping your partner(s) communicate theirs.
Speaking From Experience: Advanced Negotiation
Negotiating before a scene helps both tops and bottoms play with risk aware consent, but what happens once the scene starts? Communication can’t simply stop when play begins, but calibration requires a rapport between top and bottom, and mid-scene negotiation can be dangerous territory. Come sharpen those important skills that help you and your play partners express desires and boundaries, set parameters for play before a scene begins, and communicate your wants and needs in the heat of the moment.
Serene Sadism: How To Be A Nasty Top Without Loosing Your Balance
Sadistic play lets us indulge in fantasies of violence and suffering, often providing a necessary release of visceral desires… but sometimes it feels like the urge is too strong, and the monster once freed will never go back to sleep. How can we be our nasty selves, and still maintain enough stability to function in the outside world? Come learn how to feed your inner beast without loosing your inner balance.
Sensual Sadism: Connection Through Pain
Whether you’re a sadist or a masochist, pain can be a lot of fun! But what makes the difference between a good scene and a fantastic scene? It’s that delicious feeling of intimate connection. Come learn how to use pain as a vehicle for connection, and make your sensation play extra steamy.
Rituals of Kink
What is ritual, and what is its purpose? How can we use ritual to enhance our experience of kink? From fetish outfits, to setup and cleanup routines, to complex D/s protocol, kink is full of ritual language. Let’s look at rituals both sacred and secular, and explore how actions can speak louder than words.
Thista Minai 