Arielle

Arielle is a Shamanic Warrior. She has a BA in Psychology with an emphasis in Women's Studies, has training in crisis management and mental health, and has a certificate for sex educators training through San Francisco Sex Information (http://sfsi.org/).

Arielle is a queer Leather Dyke and Shamanic Warrior. She has been active in leather communities since 2003 and sat on the Boards of the Exiles, SF Citadel, SF Boys of Leather, and PerverCity. She has taught classes for Screw Up, Youth Gender Project, GenderBlast, Lyric, the SF Citadel, Society of Janus, smOdyssey, the Wet Spot, Living in Leather Arizona, OneTasteSF, Bound By Desire, and SAADE. She is also a graduate of the Journeyman Academy. She is the creator, founder, and former organizer of the Queer Playground and San Francisco Kinky Queers, as well as the Queer Leather Nosh. She discovered her path of service in 2004 and is currently apprenticing with various shamanic and spiritual teachers on her path towards awareness and awakening. Her passions and inspirations are the merging of BDSM and spiritual worlds to create openings for transformation and awakening with play, fun, love, and joy.  She also enjoys the intersections and play between spirituality, sexuality, and relationships. Her purpose is supporting the empowerment of others, providing openings for transformation through joyous love and presence.

The Power of Service and Integrity

This workshop is an in-depth conversation about bringing in service as a way of being to create more of a connection with Spirit and self.  I will talk about what power, service, and integrity are, while also providing tools and exercises to allow you to go deeper with each of those aspects.  You will walk away with a better understanding of what service is to you, as well as some practical tools to go deeper with in your life.  This discussion will also cover the importance of integrity as the foundation for service on both the Top and bottom end of the spectrums, as well as seeing how it relates to all areas of one’s life.  We will also discuss service as a way of being rather than a way of doing.  We will discuss how to incorporate and develop these ways into every day life through practices and exercises.  Come with questions, thoughts, concerns, and an open mind.  

Ritual BDSM

Learn some basic tools for creating sacred space and ceremony and using SM as a means to set intention, release energetically, and create openings both spirituality and energetically (chakras, etc.). This class will explore using ritual in SM play and practice, as well as methods for creating ritual and how to incorporate SM into each step.  We will discuss the creative process of including any kind of ritual in SM practice.  It will be  a blend of pagan, eastern, and western ritual and beliefs.  Participants will be encouraged to share their own beliefs.  The class will also explore intuitive play and developing one’s intuition through exercises, and practices, as well as looking at various types of play that can be used to raise energy, release blocked energy, and open ourselves up to any possibility we invent for our lives.