Armory Studios announces 7-week fall BDSM course. Participatory workshops open to all experience levels begin September 5. Kink Company performer and BDSM expert Madison Young is partnering with Armory Studios to lead a seven-week intensive BDSM workshop for couples beginning September 5. The fall course, entitled, “An Intimate Exploration of Dominance and Submission,” will include a series of intimacy labs, live demonstrations and hands-on workshops aimed at couples and triads — whether mildly curious about D/s relationships or well-versed in the lifestyle.
“This is a really unique journey no matter where you are in your experience,” says Young, who has been teaching sexuality workshops since 2004. “Each class builds on the last, and shows how each aspect — physical, emotional, technique, and negotiation — builds on the others.”
Unlike traditional Armory Studios workshops, the classes are not offered a la cart. Instead, Young has designed a comprehensive program with hands-on instruction, readings and homework. The course begins on Thursday September 5, and happens consecutive Thursday nights through October 17th.
The classes encompass subjects including role-play, communication, sexual technique and yoga/meditation for bondage. While the class is open to single individuals, Young says that couples and triads are likely to get the most out of the classes.
“This is a participatory workshop,” Young says. “Much of the instruction is about learning to communicate fully with your partner or partners, and to read the signs, physical and mental, that they’re providing. There will be live demonstrations, but much of the instruction is about learning to interact with the person you’re with.”
But Young says that newcomers need not be intimidated. As with all Armory Studios, participation will be scaled to individual comfort levels.
“Dominance and submission is all about negotiating and respecting boundaries,” she says, “We want everyone to be comfortable exploring their sexuality at their own level. This is an amazing journey, and I’m excited to teach it.”
Tickets for and more information about the seven-week course can be purchased at Armory Studios.
ABOUT ARMORY STUDIOS WORKSHOPS
The Armory Studios workshops are the educational arm of San Francisco-based fetish entertainment Kink Company. Weekly classes continue Kink Company’s mission to demystify BDSM and celebrate alternative sexualities through in-depth instruction with world-class teachers and advocates. The Armory Studios workshops have been featured in The Huffington Post, CBS News, The International Business Times, the San Francisco Bay Guardian and numerous other publications.
ABOUT MADISON YOUNG
Madison Young is a sex positive Tasmanian devil. This sexpert grew up in the suburban landscape of Southern Ohio before moving to San Francisco, California in 2000. Since then this mid-western gal has dedicated her days to facilitating safe space to dialogue on the topic of fringe identities and cultures as well as documenting healthy expression of sexuality. Young’s breadth of work in the realm of sexuality spans from documenting our sexual culture in her feminist erotic films to serving as the Artistic Director of the forward thinking non-profit arts organization, Femina Potens Art Gallery. Young, values sexual education in her work and has taught workshops, lectures, and acted as a panelist on the topics of sexuality, feminism and pornography, and kink around the world including at Yale University, Hampshire College, University of Minnesota, and UC Berkeley. Her writings have been published in books such as The Ultimate Guide to Kinky Sex, Baby Remember My Name, “Rope, Bondage, and Power”, and “In Soumises”. Young’s soon to be released memoir “Daddy” will be available in fall 2013 through Barnacle Books Publishing
MADISON YOUNG’S INTIMATE EXPLORATION OF DOMINANCE AND SUBMISSION
A Seven Week Series of hands on workshops, intimacy labs, and radical sex presentations and live demonstrations coupled with assigned homework and complimentary reading materials that is aimed to guide kink curious couples on their journey through kink and bdsm. Classes take place Thursdays at 7pm Sept. 5-Oct. 17
The 7 Week course will include in depth exploration of the following topics:
– Identifying and Manifesting your Kink : Erotic Fantasies & Role Play;
– Kink and Communication: Tools for Negotiating a successful scene, identifying boundaries, and Navigating Ds relationships/Ds contracts;
– Sexual Positions and Techniques for Kinky Couples;
– Basic Impact Play and Pain/Pleasure Processing;
– Mind Body Connection – Stretching, yoga, visualization, and meditation for a more pleasurable bondage scene;
– Energy and Breath Orgasms – How to incorporate Tantra into Kink Play;
– After Care and Check-ins – Self care, top and sub care for post-scene processing, caring for our bodies, minds and spirit post scene.
This course will lead couples through exciting new worlds and create space and permission to manifest your deepest fantasies and desires in safe space. You will learn how to create containers for radical and kinky sex while creating stronger bonds between you and your partner. Attendees will recognize specific goals for their sex lives at the beginning of the course and through class work and pleasurable based home study we will discover exciting new changes with in ourselves.
This course is not exclusively for couples but is greatly beneficial when couples attend together.
The mailing address is:
1800 Mission Street
San, CA 94103