Leather Week - Exquisite Flogging PART 1 with Midori

Improve your flogging skills! Whether you’re a total novice or already confident with the whip, there’s plenty for you in this unique and very active class.

Enjoy drills on techniques to deliver powerful, effective sensations without top-fatigue. Sharpen your finesse and precision to create the desired sensual, sexual and emotional effects. Midori shares with you a uniquely connected “California” style of whip use.

You’ll learn how to select the best flogger for your style and body type.

Bring your floggers. More the merrier! If you don’t have any, there may be a few to try out.
If you want to learn to flog in high heels, or other specialized footwear, bring them.
No need to bring a target person or a practice partner.

Midori ( 美登里 ）(she / her) Trailblazing educator, artist, and irritant to banality, Midori teaches, coaches, and consults on alternative sexuality, BDSM, Shibari cultural competency, and joyful empowerment through D/s and thoughtful kink. She began teaching in the mid 90’s in San Francisco and shortly after established her company Fire Horse Productions. Midori is known for having penned the first English instruction book on Shibari, “Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage” in 2001, paving the way for the popularity of rope today.

Midori founded Rope Dojo in 2002 and ForteFemme: Women’s Dominance Intensive in 2004. In 2020 she launched the monthly deep dive discussion youtube program Consent Dojo. Currently, she is working on a follow-up book about Shibari and strategies for engaged play. Midori is the Co-Director of Curriculum for Kink Informed Certification, part of the Sexual Health Alliance, training therapists and helping professionals to provide safe, compassionate, and inclusive service to their clients.

​She also authored “Wild Side Sex,” “Silk Threads” among others and contributed a chapter to "An Intersectional Approach to Sex Therapy: Centering the Lives of Indigenous, Racialized, and People of Color”
She is the recipient of the 2022 Humanitarian Award from the American Association of Sex Educators Therapists & Counselors (AASECT) and the 2022 Effing Foundation Grant, along with having been honored with a Sainthood by The Sisters of Perpetual indulgence.