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6 skills over 6 weeks with 9 experts so you can safely play
Join us in Toronto for a hands-on event like no other! Our workshops will help you build your confidence and skills in a safe and welcoming environment so you can explore your wildest desires.
These workshops are beginner-friendly, don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to learn and connect with 8 educators in the field. This event listing follows Eventbrite community guidelines, please address any direct questions to the workshop host. This event is educational and not sexual in nature.
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How it works
Each week will have a theme and two educators. Class is on the following Mondays, from 7-9pm. Sign up for all 6 weeks for a reduced price and get access to our exclusive graduation play party, or buy your tickets a-la-carte. Only full 6 week course participants will have access to the graduation party.
September 28: Navigating D/S Relationships with Dare Campbell and Jessica Hartig
October 5: Rough Body Play with Rae Szereszewski and Button
October 19: Humiliation Play with Lady Pim
October 26: Fetish Fashion with Rae Szereszewski andThe Hanged Man
November 2: High vs Low Protocol with Lady Pim and Jessica Hartig
November 9: Sensation Play: Temperature, Texture, and More! with Dare Campbell and Lady Shayne
Bonus: Graduation Play Party
The exact address of The Kneeling Room will be given out a few days before the date of your class, but is located in the Parliament and Carlton area. The play party date will be released on the first day of class.
Workshop Details
All workshops are beginner friendly, and you can attend either solo or in a pairing/group.
Navigating D/S Relationships with Dare Campbell and Jessica Hartig
D/s relationships have distinctly unique qualities that set them apart from vanilla ones. For instance, how do we advocate for ourselves, and maintain autonomy within our roles as Dominant and submissive? How do we manage balance and avoid burnout? How do we listen and take accountability in a kinky context? Dare and Jessi will help you identify common D/s relationship challenges and discuss ways to check in, find common ground, and move through difficulties with care and intention. This class format will include reflection, discussion, and lots of time to share.
Rough Body Play with Rae Szereszewski and Button
Rae and Button will be exploring what it means to play rough with each other, including primal play, wrestling, breath play, and more. This class will cover safety, including things to consider to keep yourself and your partners safe. This class format will include lecture, discussion, some demo, and, time permitting, a chance to try things out for yourself.
Humiliation Play with Lady Pim
This class will cover the full spectrum of humiliation play, from light teasing and embarrassment, to heavy dehumanization and disgust. We will discuss harm reduction practices, and talk about the intentionality or "why" surrounding this kink. In groups, we will practice using language, context, and tone to make us feel how we want to feel. Wherever you fall on the humiliation spectrum, this class will have insight and ideas for you to take home.
Fetish Fashion with Rae Szereszewski and The Hanged Man
Whether you're going to a play party, a clubbing event, or playing in your own bedroom, "What should I wear" is one of the first questions most people are asking. This class will explore how apparel impacts a scene, including your creativity, mindset, tone, and the play itself. We will also discuss how the apparel itself can be the object of desire, and change our self perception. This class format will include a lecture and discussion, and end with time to use the space to take photos.
High vs Low Protocol with Lady Pim and Jessica Hartig
Jessi and Lady Pim define "protocol" as the etiquette, or ritual surrounding D/s dynamics. It could describe the opening or closing practices of our kink scenes, or simple romantic gestures like opening a door for the other, or greeting our partner in the morning with a cup of tea just how they like it. There will be discussion surrounding what protocol feels like to both give and receive. This class will show you demos of High Protocol play, or play that involves very specific, detail-oriented rules, as opposed to kink that is Low Protocol, or looser in nature. It will also include hands-on experiental play in groups. If you've ever wondered how to enhance and bring definition to your kink play, this class is for you.
Sensation Play: Temperature, Texture, and More! with Lush Lynn and Lady Shayne
These two presenters are ready to make you feel things you have never felt before! Join Dare and Lady Shayne as they walk you through playing with temperature, electricity, scents, fluids, soft textures, prickly tools, and more. They will share tricks of the trade, creative kinky scene ideas, and safer practices for each. If you're looking for a fun and interactive class, this is the one for you.
Your Educators
Lady Pim is a Professional Dominatrix, kink educator, and owner of The Kneeling Room. Her practice is centred on playfulness, connection, and intentionality, and she hopes to add her kink philosophy to this mix of great educators and topics. https://www.ladypim.com/
Rae Szereszewski is a certified sexual health educator and relationship coach. She aims to empower people to make authentic and informed choices in both their relationships and their sex lives. Rae has taught workshops for multiple universities across Canada, fraternities and sororities across Ontario, staff trainings at camps across Ontario, at sexual assault crisis centers, private groups, and more. Her coaching practice primarily focuses on helping ethically/consensually nonmonogamous and kinky individuals navigate their relationships. Her past lives included making body positive custom latex clothing, and creating sex positive events at a swingers and lifestyle club. www.sharewithrae.com
Jessi (she/her) is a queer, kinky, polyamorous & neurodivergent therapist and artist. Her background is in art therapy and she believes in the powerful healing that can come from expressing yourself through creation, as well as the healing that can come from play and kink. As a therapist she takes a trauma-informed and person-centred approach, recognizing that each person has unique needs and growth processes. Outside of the therapy space, Jessi loves facilitating events that give folks an opportunity to learn themselves in ways they have not explored before.
Lady Shayne: Sup fuxkers! My name is Lady Shayne and I delight in bending you over, tying you down, and messing you up! Knowledge is power an dI eleive you should always be learninga bout yourself every opportunity you get...and I'm going to stuff you full of knowledge. In case you couldn't tell, I'm a professional dominatrix and I'm excited to meet you all at the 6 week intensive. ladyshayne.com
Button has been kicking around the kink scene since 2010. She's been an organizer for several munches, play parties and grappling events over the years. Rough body play has become a favourite form of play for both bottoming and topping, and she likes to share with others about how this kind of play can be fun, connective, silly, brutal, and most importantly, safe
Dare Campbell (they/them) is an educator and explorer who has spent years supporting individuals within underserved sexuality and disabled communities, as well as guiding both emerging and established leaders. They have been featured on various podcasts, university panels, and television programs and have taught at numerous sexuality and kink conferences across North America since 2010. Dare was the recipient of the 2024 Black Rose Jack McGeorge Excellence in Education Award and the Leather Leadership Conference 2021 Sir Alan Penrod Living Leadership Scholarship. Currently working on a second Bachelor of Arts in Sexuality Studies, they have a BA in Psychology from York University. For more information, visit their website at http://www.learngrowrepeat.ca
The Hanged Man (he/him): Settler ally, living historian, unapologetic pervert, fashion maven, dungeon handyman and giant dork… Hangman has been a kink scene curmudgeon since before you were born and has his toe dipped into running events across town including the fabulous Playground Kink quarterly fetish and dance party! https://playgroundkink.com