NR ’24 Educator
Abundant Mischief and IronTempleDog
Bios:
AbundantMischief and IronTempleDog are a romantic couple who are excited to unite their respective years of kink teaching and lifestyle experience as a co-presenting team for the first time.
AbundantMischief is a queer polyamorous toppy switch, gleeful sadomasochist, and enthusiastic boot fetishist. She has been active in the Northeast US kink community for over 16 years, and enjoys bringing crossover knowledge from her 2 decades of experience as a professional dancer, circus artist, and performing arts educator into her kink teaching. She has taught for Dark Odyssey, TES, TESFest, Tethered Together, IMsLBB, Pragmatic Kink, MAsT: Auckland, CUFF, House of Kush, House of SCK, and Black Rose. She is passionate about injury prevention, fetish fashion, creative sadism, and enabling kinksters of all kinds to live their best lives.
IronTempleDog is a non-monogamous photographer and kink educator. His most frequent identities include demi-masculine, polysexual, fraysexual, very top-leaning switch, mad and consensual accomplice. He likes leather, rope, rough body play, cigar play, whiskey, bootblacking, boots in general, taboo, transgressive things of all sorts, vikings, his beard and orgasms. Since the mid-90’s, he has taught for numerous organizations including Dark Odyssey, Tease, Rendezvous at The Ridge, Sanctum, SubSpace, and facilitated several GrUEs. Recent interests include the intersection of kink and flow states and peak experiences, critical conversations about consent, effective scene negotiations, and edge play. Old saws still holding on hard from his punk days include anti-capitalism, anti-colonialism, anti-fascism, awareness of privilege, awareness of intersections, and personal accountability.
Class by AbundantMischief with demo bottom IronTempleDog
Beginnings & Endings: Transitioning Into & Out of Scenes
Day/Time/Room:
Friday, 12/6
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Conference Room B – Main Floor
Ever get excited while making play plans, but then feel unsure of how to start once it’s time to play? Do you start to get tired or feel “done” mid-scene, but are uncertain about how to wind things down?
This class provides tools and strategies for navigating the transitions between everyday life and play time, and back again, including:
- Strategies for shifting your focus in preparation for a scene
- How to set the mood for the kind of scene you and your play partner want to have
- Approaches to starting a scene, for both tops and bottoms
- Considerations for which starting approaches work best for various types of play
- Approaches for ending a scene, for both tops and bottoms
- Considerations for which ending approaches are most suitable for various mid-scene situations
- Strategies for providing smooth transitions from play headspace to aftercare to everyday life
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Flexibility Training for Kink
Day/Time/Room:
Saturday, 12/7
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Studio 2 – Second Floor
Do you admire photos of bondage bottoms in extreme positions, or simply want to feel more comfortable and confident in common bondage poses? This class will draw upon Russian circus-style flexibility training and contortion basics to provide ways to safely stretch backs, hips, shoulders, and legs before a play session and for cross-training to increase your overall flexibility over time.
This class will include:
- A Russian circus-style warm-up that can also be used as a quick full-body warm-up prior to play or other physical activitie
- General principles for increasing your range of motion
- Tips for preventing injuries during flexibility training
- Exercises to increase the range of motion in your back, hips, shoulders, and legs
- Active flexibility strategies for bottoming in hogties, backbends, hip-opening poses, and box ties
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Authentic Femdom in Action
Day/Time/Room:
Saturday, 12/7
10:45 AM – 12:45 PM
Conference Room G – Ground Floor
Learn how to harness your own authentic style of feminine dominance and put it into action! This class will help you find your own personalized approach to femdom, get more comfortable inhabiting a dominant role, and provide tools for developing your own authentic femdom dynamics, across a wide spectrum of types of power exchange and levels of intensity ranging from short-term play and casual platonic service to 24/7 TPE.
Class by AbundantMischief with demo bottom IronTempleDog
Trampling & Boot Play
Day/Time/Room:
Saturday, 12/7
3:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Boardroom 2 – Main Floor
Do you love the idea of stepping on people, want to be stepped on, or want to know more ways to incorporate boot-related kinks into your play?
This class will cover techniques for standing and walking on someone, safer body positions for both bottoms and tops, and considerations for choosing footwear for a trampling scene. We’ll also explore the wide variety of other kinds of play involving boots, such as kicking and other forms of boot-based rough body play, sensation play, cbt, and boot worship as part of a scene, including considerations for safety, hygiene, and aftercare.
