Description
Event discussion on Fetlife:
Starts at 1pm on the April 11th 2026
1/399 Glen Osmond Rd, Glen Osmond, 5064, SA
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Workshop summary
When bottoms ask their tops about what they’re meant to do in BDSM play, they often get told: ‘Just enjoy it!’ But bottoming skills are real and varied, and we can make meaningful differences to our experiences.
It’s difficult to explain what bottoms are doing when so many of their skills are invisible to observers—be it their preparation before play, their negotiation, assessing risk, communicating, opening themselves to sensation or expressing themselves truly. Bottoms can wind up having to learn lessons through experience, and sometimes the lessons come too late.
This workshop is a deep dive into all the practical skills you’ll need to develop your bottoming skills, from the basics in negotiation and perceiving risks during play, to the more abstract skills in processing pain, knowing how to communicate ideas, and deepening your kink fantasies.
With concepts applied to a range of styles including rope, impact, wax play, needle play, and knife play*, you’ll build practical skills for the play that you love. Beginners will have a vast download of ideas to prepare them for play, and experienced bottoms can gain further insights on how they can get the most out of their experiences.
Go deeper, know your worth, and find beautiful new ways to enjoy your bottoming journey.
Learning outcomes
- Understanding bottoming as a role and how to negotiate expectations unique to you and your partnership
- Building more nuanced skills in aftercare and in preparation for play
- Gaining insights into basic indications of skill level when choosing a top (and more importantly, if it lines up with how the top describes their own capability!)—as well as identifying good personal qualities in a top, and in your compatibility.
- Identifying risk and safety factors from a bottom’s perspective, understanding how it might look and feel in multiple play styles, including rope play, impact, wax play, needle play, and knife play.
- Responding to a top’s communication, how to follow movement in rope or more physical play without resisting or rushing ahead, and while reducing risk.
- Building skills in processing pain and assessing ‘good vs bad pain’, both physical and psychological.
- Gaining a deeper understanding of subspace and how it works, how you can lean into it if you want to, and how you can mitigate the potential for subdrop.
- Introduction to ideas around ‘cooperative bottoming’, playing as a participant rather than an audience member, and working as a team with your top to have incredible play experiences.
- Methods for letting go with a trusted top, ways of exploring yourself and expressing yourself truly in play.
- Building a fantasy: Understanding the three layers of reality which overlap in fantasy-based play, and how you can suspend your disbelief and fall deeper into the kinky narratives that you hold inside you.
Bio
Symphonie has spent almost 4 years practising kink as both top and bottom in a range of styles, including shibari, impact, needle play, wax play and knife play. With a particular fondness for bondage and torture fantasies, she enjoys authentic emotion and exploring both the light and darkness in a person’s heart.
For the last two years Symphonie has also assisted in facilitating private kink parties and educational events. She has an ongoing passion for bottoming education—and in moving beyond the basics to illuminate more complex and abstract bottoming skills.
*Demonstrations will be applied only to rope, impact and physical play, and no blood will be drawn.
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Content Warning: It is very likely that we will be discussing themes that include domestic violence, sexual or physical abuse, trauma and triggers to trauma, please always feel free to leave at any time or take a break if needed.
Allergies & Dietary Needs: We provide, coffee, tea, cake and biscuits on the day! We have soy milk, lactose-free dairy milk, and gluten-free cake/biscuits. If you have any dietary needs outside of these please get in touch so we can cater for you.
Media Consent: We might be taking some photos during the event, but rest assured that all participant faces will be cropped out of any images we choose to use. Any other images will be permanently deleted.
If you have any concerns, please feel free to speak with staff, when you check in, and we’ll ensure your comfort and privacy.
Recomended Audiance:Â Active Kinksters, Beginner Kinksters, Experianced Kinksters, Folk who want to get into the Kink Scene, Folks interested in Role Play.
- General Admission: Includes entry for one attendee and afternoon tea.
- Streaming Online: There will be no streaming of this event, if you would like to attend and have accesibility issues people get in touch and we will do our best to accomodate.
Please bring your Purchase Confirmation as your proof of purchase. You will get an email after you check out, that email is your "ticket" to the workshop.
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Important Info
By attending this class, you acknowledge that:
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Content is for general educational purposes only – not personal, legal, or medical advice.
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Adult Bliss and its presenters are not liable for any outcomes, injuries, or distress arising from the session.
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These are classes, not practical workshops, unless otherwise stated.
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Participation is voluntary and at your own risk.
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We are not responsible for the actions of other attendees.
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We do our best to protect privacy, but anonymity cannot be guaranteed.
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We may take photos for social media and will avoid showing faces. Let us know if you’d like a photo removed.
- Cancellation Policy: If you are unable to make it to our workshop for any reason please let us kow 48 prior to the event. Cancellations made 48 hours or more before the event will receive a full refund.
Cancellations made less than 48 hours before the event are non-refundable.
By booking, you agree to these terms.
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