WORKSHOPS & EVENTS
With over 60 workshops presented during the event, we ensure that class size will be small and intimate and you will have plenty of one on one attention from instructors. Our sex educators, relationship experts, spiritual teachers, and BDSM masters will be sharing their experience and wisdom in a safe, interactive environment on a range of topics.
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE NOW AVAILABLE

Check out the Schedule!
(Its always a draft … until it over!)
The 2025 draft workshop and special events schedule is ready. David, our programming director, has done an amazing job. There is so much great stuff at this event you wont be able to decide what to see!
Scheduled Classes
As presenters are confirmed we will be adding workshop information below:
- Adding Torture to Suspension
- AfterDark Mixer
- Backbends 101: Anatomy & Lab
- BDSM, Non-Monogamy & You
- Beating Their Meat – Genital Torture for Fun and Pleasure
- BJ 101
- Bonobo Hospitality Suite
- Bound in Color (POC) Rope Jam
- Boundless Events Mixer
- Breaking Skin: a Sharps Play Overview
- Bruises, Bites & Bondage: The Sexy Science of Kink Injuries
- Building Transition Sequences.
- Bully: Humiliation, Degradation, and Wedgies
- Closing Ritual
- Conscious Inequality, Dominance, and Submission
- Crafting creative sharps bondage and predicament scenes
- Creating contrast, creating surprise.
- Daily Meditation
- Determining Your Risk Profile
- Drips, Pours & Rainbows: A Wax Play Overview
- Dynamic Flogging and Practice Techniques
- Enter Player Two: A Dynamic Suspension Exercise
- Erotic Knife Play
- Filthy Mouth: A Practical Guide to Talking Dirty
- Flexibility for Life: Kinky Edition
- Flirting 101
- Foot Worship: Hands-On Skills for Service and Pleasure
- From Gender Dysphoria to Gender Euphoria
- Grease is Lube: Bootblacking for Play
- In-Tension and Flow
- Kink & Flourishing: Sexy Science on Healing & Thriving
- Kink and Disabilities
- Kinky Speed Dating
- Lap Dancing 101
- Long Term Lockup: Chastity play for fun and frustration
- Make it Hurt More: Lean Into It
- Make Your Play Parties Pop!
- Massage as Service: Bodywork Skills for the Dungeon
- Meet Rack Q&A
- Mouth Rope
- Newcomer Orientation: Welcome to Dark Odyssey!
- Opening Ritual
- Pain Play For the Non-Masochist / Impact Beyond Stingy & Thuddy
- Petting Zoo & Adoption Faire
- Pinning for Pain
- POC Mixer
- POC Speed Friending
- Power dynamics through movement
- Practical Protocols for Power Dynamic Relationships
- Primal Discussion Group
- Queer Play Party and Human Furniture Cruising Lounge
- Rope bondage for sex
- Rope Bottoms’ Roundtable
- Rope Lounge
- Rope Performance for Beginners
- Rope Speed Friending
- Rough Body Play
- Sadistickle: Exploring The Tickle Fetish
- Sapphic Social
- Sensually Stingy: Tools for building connection through the pain
- Sex Magick for Kinksters
- Sin-Spired: Opening Night Performance Extravaganza
- Society of Janus Mixer
- Soft Bodies as Hard Points
- SpankLab!
- Strap-On, Get Off
- Struggle Play & Rope
- Submit to a New Paradigm: The Boardroom Dominatrix Approach to Sales and Power Exchange
- Suspension 101
- Suspension 102
- The Art of Sharps
- The Bonobo Experience
- The Bound Calf Binder Class
- The Cult of WhipCraft: Advanced Skills for enticing Whip Scenes
- The Meet Rack & Meet Locker
- The More the Merrier: The organization and logistics of group scenes
- The Poke and the Pull: Playing with Porcupine Quills
- The Sacrament of Penance
- The Twisted Nipple
- TNG Mixer
- Torment Me Forever: Creating Sustainable CNC Dynamics
- Torsions: Spinal safety and suspension
- Traceplay: Cutting and blood lining
- Turn Ons: Meeting people & playing at events
- Using TENS Boxes for Electro Play: Pain, Pleasure, and Predicaments
- Wetter Is Better: Help Your Partners Squirt!
- What Do I Do With This Extra Bullshit??: An Upline Management Class
- Why So Serious?! Impact Play for Fun, Fear, and Frolic!
- Wildside: Finding Your Primal Path
- Your First Rope Scene
Write to Programming@darkodyssey.com to contribute suggestions for upcoming Dark Odyssey events, including Surrender, Fusion, Summer Camp, and Winter Fire.