Healing Dungeon Series
(under construction – more to come)
Boot Worship as Grounding Ritual
Boot worship can be far more than an act of service or desire — it can also be a profound ritual of grounding. Dawn, co-author of Hearts & Collars and a follower for 25 years, invites you to explore how worship can become a pathway to presence, stability, and connection.
Through intention, consent, and mindful practice, ritualized boot worship can anchor the body, calm the mind, and open the heart. In this class, Dawn shares both personal experience and practical techniques for transforming this powerful dynamic into a practice of balance, embodiment, and connection — for both the giver and receiver.
The Body Drum: Healing Through Rhythm and Impact
Your body holds stories — and rhythm is one of the oldest ways to release them.
Join Dawn, a trauma-informed educator and Priestess with over 20 years of experience in Sacred Sexuality, Ritual, and Healing, for an experiential journey into rhythm, sensation, and somatic release. This class explores how intentional impact – from rhythmic spanking and percussion play to hand drumming on the body – can awaken the nervous system, discharge stored tension, and create pathways for healing and connection.
You’ll learn:
- How rhythm and repetition regulate the body’s stress response
- Techniques for using impact as grounding, activation, or release
- Consent and communication for safe emotional processing
- How to weave rhythm, breath, and energy into a ritual of healing
This isn’t about punishment, it’s about resonance. The drum is ancient, and your body is sacred. Together, they become instruments of transformation.
The Ritual Toybag: Tools for Healing Scenes
Your toybag can be more than just a collection of toys – it can be a sacred kit for transformation.
In this class, Dawn, a trauma-informed educator and Priestess with over 20 years of experience in Sacred Sexuality and Healing Rituals, guides you through turning your kink scenes into intentional acts of healing.
Learn how to infuse ritual into play using tools such as oils, ribbons, stones, sound, and color to deepen emotional connection, create meaning, and support energetic release.
Whether you’re a top, bottom, or switch, you’ll leave with practical ways to turn your toybag into a healing altar – where kink becomes ceremony, and touch becomes transformation.
Ordeal Rituals: Power, Growth, and Transformation
Ordeal rituals use physical, emotional, or spiritual challenge as a path to radical transformation. Through intentional suffering, surrender, and resilience, participants move through pain into power, shedding old patterns to reclaim sovereignty and purpose.
Join Dawn, a [modern Qadishti](http://www.rahoorkhuit.net/goddess/priestess_today/sacred_sex.html) and Priestess with over 20 years of experience in Sacred Sexuality and Kink, as she explores the purpose and design of ordeal rituals. You’ll learn how to craft these rites with safety, consent, and deep spiritual intention, from ego-death rituals to rites of passage and personal rebirth.Discover how to navigate the energies of riding and being ridden, negotiate boundaries with facilitators, and approach these profound experiences as gateways to power, growth, and transformation.
Soothing the Nervous System: Healing Touch in BDSM
BDSM isn’t always about intensity and edge. It can also be profoundly restorative. In this class, Dawn, a trauma informed sex educator, energy worker, and co-creator of the Scarlet Sanctuary, a ritual space in BDSM events devoted to sacred touch, shares over 20 years of experience guiding others into deeper connection and healing through touch.
You will learn how to soothe the nervous system, foster trust, and cultivate intimacy through grounding techniques, intentional touch, breath, and trauma aware practices. We will also explore how aftercare and ritual can create calm, safety, and a sense of renewal in your play.
Whether you are a Top, bottom, or switch, this class will help you harness sensation and presence as pathways to nervous system regulation and healing. No prior experience is required, only curiosity and a willingness to explore the softer, more nurturing edges of BDSM.
The Alchemist: Crafting Scenes for Healing and Transformation
In this advanced class, Dawn – trauma-informed sex educator, modern Qadishti (Priestess of Sexual Healing), Reiki Master, and co-creator of The Path of the Qadishti and The Scarlet Sanctuary – invites experienced Tops, bottoms, and facilitators to explore BDSM as a form of alchemy: the sacred art of transforming energy, emotion, and intention into healing.
Whether gentle and sensual or cathartic and intense, this approach turns scenework into a pathway for healing and transformation. Dawn draws on over 20 years of experience in energy work, ritual design, and erotic healing, sharing real-world examples of how to create and hold containers for emotional release, reclamation, and renewal.
You’ll learn how to build scenes that are grounded, ethical, and trauma-aware — and how to bring presence, compassion, and skill to the process of transformation. This is where kink becomes ritual, touch becomes medicine, and healing becomes an embodied experience.
Tools for Anxiety: Finding Calm in Intense Spaces
Kink can stir powerful emotions – excitement, vulnerability, fear, anticipation. Sometimes those same sensations that make play so thrilling can also awaken anxiety. In this class, we’ll explore simple, practical tools for managing anxiety before, during, and after scenes, so that intensity becomes empowerment instead of overwhelm.
You’ll learn grounding techniques, breathing practices, and body-based tools to help calm the nervous system, maintain presence, and recover smoothly after emotional or physical play. Whether you’re a top, bottom, switch, or observer, these skills can help you stay centered and confident in both kink and everyday life.
Join Dawn, a trauma-informed educator, Reiki Master, and Priestess of over two decades, as she shares tools drawn from her own experience healing anxiety and from her work in energy, embodiment, and power exchange.
Healing through Self-Pleasuring (Masturbation)
Intentional self-touch can be a powerful practice of healing, empowerment, and self-love. Too often framed with shame or secrecy, masturbation can instead be a sacred pathway to reclaim your body, ease anxiety, process grief, and reconnect with joy.
As a modern Qadishti and practitioner of sacred sexuality, Dawn shares simple rituals and mindful techniques to bring healing energy into self-pleasure. This class offers practical tools to help you build a more compassionate relationship with your body, integrate pleasure into your healing journey, and claim sovereignty over your sexuality.
For the creation of safe space, details of traumatic events will not be shared during this workshop.
Energy Work
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Energetic Hygiene – Cleansing, Centering, and Protecting Your Energy
Whether you’re a practitioner of sacred sexuality, a kinkster, a healer, or simply curious about energy work, this class offers practical tools to support both your play and your daily life.
Join Dawn, a trauma-informed educator and Priestess with over two decades of experience in Sacred Sexuality, Energy Work, and Healing, as she guides you through techniques for sensing, cleansing, grounding, centering, shielding, and filtering energy. You’ll also learn safe, effective ways to release energetic cords and clear what no longer serves you.
Trauma-informed and heart-centered, Dawn weaves together her work as a Reiki Master, creator of Eros Gathering, and co-creator of Path of the Qadishti and The Scarlet Sanctuary to help others awaken their authentic selves, transform pain into wisdom, and reclaim pleasure, power, and presence — both in ritual and in life.
Erotic Energy Play – Creating Connection
Explore the foundational techniques for harnessing and directing personal energy to enhance intimacy and connection. Erotic Energy Play introduces participants to the basics of energy play, focusing on breathwork, intention setting, and sensing energy fields. You’ll learn how to cultivate and share energy with a partner, creating heightened sensations and deepening your connection. This class is ideal for those curious about incorporating energetic practices into their intimate lives in a safe, supportive environment.
Join Dawn, a modern Qadishti and Reiki Master as she shares how to unlock the transformative power of energy and bring a new level of connection to your sensual experiences!
Sacred Sexuality
Awakening the Senses – A Journey into Sacred Sexuality
Dawn, co-creator of the Path of the Qadishti Sacred Sexuality program, modern Qadishti, and presenter with over 20 years of experience, invites you to awaken your senses in this playful, interactive workshop. Together, we’ll explore touch, sound, sight, smell, and taste as gateways to deeper presence, passion, and connection.
This class is about more than just fun sensory play — it’s about learning to keep your body awake, your spirit engaged, and your connection with your partner vibrant and alive. With practical tips and hands-on exploration, you’ll leave with fresh ways to bring sensuality and sacred awareness into your intimate moments.
Sensual BDSM
Do you crave more from your BDSM than just swing, hit, swing, hit? Dawn, co-author of Hearts & Collars and a devotee of kink and sacred sexuality for over 20 years, shows you how to bring raw intimacy, electric desire, and deep erotic connection into your scenes.
BDSM doesn’t have to be mechanical or performative. With the right focus, every strike, caress, and command can drip with sensuality and power. In this class, you’ll learn how to transform scenes from routine play into unforgettable erotic encounters that ignite chemistry, deepen connection, and leave your body humming long after the dungeon lights go down. co-creator of the Path of the Qadishti Sacred Sexuality program, modern Qadishti, and presenter with over 20 years of experience, invites you to awaken your senses in this playful, interactive workshop. Together, we’ll explore touch, sound, sight, smell, and taste as gateways to deeper presence, passion, and connection.
Erotic Awakening: Intro to Sacred Sexuality
Sacred sexuality is more than just “better sex” – it’s a holistic path that honors body, mind, and spirit, and invites us to use erotic energy for healing, connection, and transformation. Across cultures – from the Tantrikas of India, to Taoist alchemists of China, to the Qadishti priestesses of the ancient Near East – sacred sexuality has always been a way to connect more deeply to ourselves, to others, and to the Divine.
In this class, Dawn, co-creator of The Scarlet Sanctuary, modern Qadishti, and sex educator, introduces the foundations of tantra and sacred sexuality. You’ll learn how mindful, intentional erotic energy can shift sex from being goal-focused to being a practice of presence, connection, and empowerment.
We’ll explore how to cultivate awareness, vulnerability, and intimacy without shame, and how simple practices of breath, touch, and attention can help you feel the sacred in your own body and relationships. This is a welcoming, beginner-friendly space for those who want to experience sex not only as pleasure, but as a pathway to wholeness.
Basics of Sex Magick
Sex magick is the art of channeling erotic energy to fuel intention, healing, and manifestation. In this beginner-friendly class, Dawn, a long-time teacher of sacred sexuality and energy work – introduces simple, powerful techniques for working with desire as creative force. You’ll learn how to focus energy through breath, visualization, and orgasmic awareness to create real, embodied change in your life.
BDSM
Dirty Talk 101: From Shy to Sizzling
Dawn, co-author of Hearts & Collars and a presenter with more than 20 years of experience in kink and sacred sexuality, invites you to explore the erotic power of words. Through discussion, demonstrations, and guided exercises, this class will help you uncover and release your inner erotic voice.
We’ll cover how to get started, move past shyness, and use your voice with confidence and intention. From soft and sensual whispers to raw, explicit language, you’ll learn how to shape your words to match your dynamic and ensure your partner hears what excites, arouses, and connects them.
Beast, Priestess, Healer, Hunter: The Archetypes of Power & Play
Within every scene lives a story – a dance of power, need, and transformation. Beneath the surface roles of top and bottom, Dom and sub, are ancient archetypes waiting to be invoked: the Beast that devours, the Priestess that channels, the Healer that restores, the Hunter that pursues.
In this class, we’ll explore how consciously embodying these archetypes can deepen scenes, amplify energy, and bring a sense of ritual and intention to play. Through discussion, guided visualization, and short embodiment exercises, participants will learn how to identify the archetypes that move through them, how to safely channel their energy, and how to weave myth and instinct into authentic, transformative connection.Join Dawn, trauma-informed modern Qadishti, Reiki Master, and long-time educator in sacred sexuality and energy work, to discover how mythic power lives within the body – and how to bring that power to life through play.
Marked by Desire: Erotic Biting
Dawn has a long-standing love affair with teeth, biting, and the unique intimacy they create. In this workshop, she invites you to explore how teeth can be used as tools of connection, power, and play. Whether you’re a brat looking for mischievous nibbles, a primal seeking raw expression, or simply bite-curious, this class will guide you through the many ways biting can deepen intimacy and intensity.
We’ll cover technique, anatomy, safety, psychology, and scene-building — from teasing grazes to grounding, powerful bites. Bring your teeth (and a consenting partner if you’d like hands-on practice) and discover how something so simple can become so profoundly erotic and connective.
Slutty Sex for Real Relationships – From Fantasy to Reality
Is it time to move from fantasy into real life? Dawn, co-author of Hearts & Collars and a presenter with over 20 years of experience in kink and sacred sexuality, guides you through the transition from wanting to be “naughty” to weaving it into your real-world relationships.
Whether you’re curious about adding kink to an existing partnership, exploring non-monogamy, or trying something brand new, this workshop will help you prepare. With plenty of stories, examples, and playful suggestions (yes, even things you can try at the grocery store), Dawn addresses common challenges like jealousy, body image, self-confidence, health concerns, and trust. You’ll leave with tools to keep your exploration safer, more intentional, and more deeply fulfilling.
The Introvert’s Guide to the Kink Community
Dawn, co-author of Hearts & Collars and a national presenter who proudly claims her introvert side, shares practical ways for introverts to not only survive but thrive in the kink community.
This workshop explores how to navigate munches and events when the “social scene” isn’t your comfort zone, how to find play partners without burning out, and tips for managing energy around extroverts (including how they can better support us). With humor, honesty, and lived experience, Dawn offers insight and strategies for making kink community involvement feel more authentic, sustainable, and fun – even for the quiet ones.
Negotiations: Six Styles to Get the Scene You Want – or Need
Dawn, co-author of Hearts & Collars and presenter of 20+ years, presents six distinct styles of negotiation designed to help you create the scene you desire. Whether you prefer to carefully map out every detail, or start with a blank page and let the story write itself, you’ll learn multiple approaches that can adapt to your style and needs – whether you’re topping or bottoming.
Dawn also demonstrates how the Kink Starter cards can be used as a tool to clarify boundaries, spark creativity, and inspire new possibilities. You’ll walk away with practical knowledge and new perspectives to make your negotiations smoother, more effective, and more satisfying.
Aftercare: The Cherry on Top
Aftercare is more than just hugs and chocolate – it’s what can turn a good dungeon scene into a truly unforgettable experience. Whether you’re the top or the bottom, aftercare can help bring players back to center, deepen connection, and add that final polish to your play. And here’s the twist- not everyone wants it! Some players need it, some don’t, and some want something very specific. That’s why it’s an important part of your negotiation before the scene begins.
Join Dawn, host of the Erotic Awakening podcast and presenter of 20+ years, for a playful, engaging dive into the many flavors of aftercare. We’ll explore why some people skip it, why others crave it, different styles and levels of aftercare, and easy tips for figuring out what works for you and your partner.
Come ready to learn and maybe rethink what happens after “the end” of your scene. Because aftercare isn’t just an add-on – it’s the cherry on top.
Forged in Ritual: BDSM as Sacred Practice
Dawn, co-author of Hearts & Collars and a practitioner of sacred sexuality with over 20 years of experience in ritual facilitation and ordeal work, shares the tools and techniques for bringing ritual into your BDSM. This class explores how to design and lead rituals that support transformation, self-exploration, and rites of passage through intentional kink practices.
Drawing on decades of lived experience, Dawn discusses elements to incorporate, how to set intention, ways to hold focus, and what to do when things don’t go as planned. She’ll also guide you through how to design a ritual-based toy bag – carefully choosing implements, tools, and items that align with your intent and enhance the ritual container.
With insights from rituals she has both participated in and led, Dawn offers inspiration and practical guidance for creating scenes that move beyond play into the realm of the sacred.
Power Exchange
Empowered Submission: Strength in Surrender
Submission is often misunderstood as weakness – but true submission, chosen from strength and self-awareness, is one of the most powerful expressions of trust and authenticity a person can offer.
In this class, Dawn, co-author of Living M/s, Hearts and Collars, and Lead Follow Love, and host of the long-running Erotic Awakening Podcast, invites participants to explore the paradox of power in surrender. Through personal reflection, discussion, and mindful exercises, we’ll examine how autonomy, choice, and emotional maturity transform submission into a deeply empowered act. This class is ideal for submissives wanting to deepen their sense of inner strength and conscious surrender, dominants wishing to better understand empowered submission, and anyone curious about the meeting point between strength, vulnerability, and devotion.
How Survivors can thrive in power exchange relationships
As co-author of Hearts & Collars and a follower with 25 years of lived experience, Dawn shares an intimate perspective on living as a trauma survivor within a power exchange dynamic. This workshop explores how the very qualities that make these relationships powerful — vulnerability, trust, and surrender — can sometimes bring old wounds to the surface.
Drawing from personal experience, Dawn offers insight into recognizing when trauma responses appear, how to lessen their impact, and ways to use the structure of a power exchange relationship as a foundation for healing and resilience. This class is not about “war stories,” but about practical tools and lived wisdom for creating safety, rebuilding trust, and nurturing growth within power exchange.
For the creation of safe space, details of traumatic events will not be shared during this workshop.
Mindfulness in Power Exchange
Mindfulness isn’t just for meditation cushions – it can be a powerful tool within a power exchange relationship. While both partners can benefit, this workshop focuses on how followers can use mindfulness to deepen their awareness, manage distractions, and bring more intentional presence to their service.
As co-author of Hearts & Collars and a follower with 25 years of lived experience, Dawn shares practical techniques and personal insight on how mindfulness can help followers stay grounded, respond with clarity, and find fulfillment in the act of service. Whether you’re new to mindfulness or looking to apply it more directly to your dynamic, you’ll leave with tools to strengthen both your service and your connection.
Behind the Curtain – Creating Formal Events
As co-author of Hearts & Collars and with over 20 years of lived experience in power exchange, Dawn takes you step by step through the process of creating a formal event. Whether it’s a tea, dinner, or a protocol-driven gathering, someone must understand all the moving pieces to ensure the event flows smoothly.
From planning to execution, Dawn shares lessons learned — the successes, the pitfalls, and the practical details — so that your formal event feels seamless to those being served while still honoring the traditions and protocols that make it meaningful.
Polyamory
The Polyamory Toolkit – Tools for Easing Fear, Jealousy & Discomfort
Join Dawn, co-author of The Polyamory Toolkit, for an advanced class designed to help you step out of the patterns and attitudes that keep you stuck in fear, jealousy, and unhappiness. This isn’t about theory or lofty quotes – it’s about rolling up your sleeves, digging into the real-life challenges we face, and learning practical, immediately usable tools that can shift your relationships and your mindset.
With over 20 years of living polyamory firsthand – and no role models to guide her when she began – Dawn shares the very tools she discovered, tested, and relied on through the many relationships she’s navigated. These are not abstract ideas, but proven strategies forged through experience, offered so you don’t have to reinvent the wheel on your own journey.
Beyond Jealousy: Emotional Alchemy for Polyamorous Hearts
When things are calm, we believe in polyamory – in limitless love, compassion, and the joy of our partners’ happiness. But then we see them with someone else, and everything shifts. Jealousy, anger, fear, and insecurity rise to the surface. We want to feel compersion, that beautiful mix of empathy and joy, but how do we actually get there?
Join Dawn, trauma-informed educator, co-author of The Polyamory Toolkit, and host of the long-running Erotic Awakening Podcast, as she shares insight from over 20 years of lived experience in polyamorous relationships. You’ll learn tools and techniques to help you understand your emotional triggers, communicate your needs, and transform jealousy into self-awareness, connection, and joy.
The Art of Reassurance in Polyamorous Relationships
Even in secure polyamorous relationships, moments of doubt can arise. Reassurance isn’t about fixing insecurity — it’s about nurturing connection and trust.
In this class, we’ll explore reassurance as a love language — a way to offer grounding, care, and validation that becomes one of the anchors of safety in polyamory. Learn how to recognize your own reassurance needs and your partners’, communicate them with clarity, and build rituals of comfort that strengthen your relational foundation.
Join Dawn, trauma-informed educator, co-author of The Polyamory Toolkit, host of the Erotic Awakening Podcast, and polyamorous for over 20 years, to discover simple, heartfelt practices that deepen intimacy and keep love resilient across every connection.
Hypnokink
Hypnokink Share and Do!
Dawn, certified hypnotist, leads a gathering of both hypno-kinksters and hypno-curious in a two part session. We start off with a guided conversation around hypnosis and how it can be used consensually and for kinky fun!
And in part 2, we do so hypnokink! Participate as a Tist or as a receiver, with clear safe boundaries. Don’t worry, you won’t be made to act like a chicken…unless that is your kink!
Hands Free Orgasm? Transformation? Hypnokink!
Join Belet Dawn, a certified hypnotist/hypnotherapist, for an exciting and informative introduction to Hypnokink! This beginner-friendly class is perfect for anyone curious about exploring the fascinating intersection of hypnosis and kink. Designed to demystify the art of Hypnokink, this session will provide a comprehensive overview of its principles, techniques, and practical applications within the kink community.
Whether you’re completely new to hypnosis or already have some experience, you’ll learn how to incorporate hypnotic elements into your kinky play in safe, consensual, and creative ways. Discover how hypnosis can enhance trust, deepen connections, and open up new dimensions of exploration.
This class welcomes both seasoned hypno-kinksters and those who are simply hypno-curious. Come with an open mind, and leave with the tools and knowledge to start your own Hypnokink journey!
Presenting
As a Presenter: How To Be Educational AND Entertaining
Dan and dawn, a lifestyle couple since 2001 and longtime presenters believe that it is not enough to be educational, but you must be able to truly capture your audience’s attention as well. Drawing on not only their experience in presenting for the kink, leather and spiritual communities for over a decade as well as training and facilitating meetings in Corporate America, they combine this with both Dan’s experience with community theater and dawn’s experience with creating and facilitating rituals. They share how they bring it all together to create an experience that keeps the audience’s attention so that the message the presenter is sharing can be heard.
How To Be Seen By Event Producers
Presenters are a dime a dozen. For every event that Dan & dawn put on, they reject twice as many applicants as they accept. This class will focus on the tools you need to be noticed and stand out when you put yourself out there. From Bios to Class Titles and more, find out what it takes to get those bookings you are after!