Workshop archive
A representative sample of class titles offered across the retreat's run. The catalog grew over the years, but these threads ran throughout: rope, impact, protocol, M/s, leather family dynamics, sensation play, and the practical and emotional work of D/s relationships.
Rope and bondage
- Rope Bondage Basics
- Rope Bottom's Boot Camp
- Bondage for Sex
- Hogties
- Architectural Dynamics
- Exchanging Power with the Rope
- CBT Bondage 101
Impact and edge play
- English Caning
- Bottoming for Flesh Hook Suspensions
- Branding 101
- Fundamentals of Cutting
- Flesh in Flight
- Hooked Up
- Piercing Artistry
- Fucking as Edge Play
M/s, protocol, and leather family
- Master/slave Getting Started
- Discipline and Correction in M/s
- Managing Multiple Submissives
- Leather Family Dynamics
- Service That Actually Serves Us
- Kinking the Habit: Reigniting the Flame in D/s and Poly
- Leather Witch
Psychology and headspace
- Mindfuck: The Psychology of a Scene
- Creative Humiliation
- Embarrass, Humiliate, Degrade, Objectify
- Playing Between The Ears: Erotic Hypnosis, Trance, Dirty Talk
- Fantasy Roleplay
Sex, sensation, and the body
- Butt Seriously, Folks - The Ins and Outs of Anal Play
- Foot Fetish for Everyone
- Piss Play
- Not Your Grandma's Enemas
- Urethral Play - A Hole of Your Own
- Kinky Female Genitalia
- Tantric Sex: Yoga for Sexual Arousal
- Partner Yoga
- Making Safer Sex (and Play) Sexier
- S&M From the Knees Down
- Fucking Machines
Identity, awareness, and craft
- Gender and Sexuality Awareness and Sensitivity
- Keep on Shooting! Erotic Photography for Amateurs
How the curriculum evolved
Early-era workshops leaned toward foundational skills: rope basics, single-tail introduction, negotiation, the unwritten manners of dungeon space. As the retreat matured, the catalog expanded into deeper relational territory - long-term M/s, leather family structures, mentorship and the protocol of the old guard. The body of classes on edge play (cutting, branding, suspensions, fire) grew alongside that, with a corresponding emphasis on safety culture and informed consent.
The throughline across all of it was practice, not theory. Classes were demonstrative, often participatory, and assumed that students would go home and do the work.
Many of the relational topics covered at the retreat - daily protocol, mentor/protege practice, M/s task structures - are still part of how leather people structure their dynamics today. If you keep a daily list of duties or check-ins with your dynamic partner, SubTasks is a small tool built around exactly that pattern.