Cleo Dubois Academy of SM Arts

My heart mis full of all the love sent for my birthday. I am touched, delighted, humbled and yes it was a marvelous birthday i with chosen family Rig Daddi Sam WinslowJoseph Silverman WJ Grindatti my new relationship Alex and all of you on Facebook who so kindly honored me. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Merci beaucoup . On top of fabulous dinners, spanking
, paddleboat ride, dancing ,flowers and cards we also went to the Fakir bench and brushed varnish to protect it. What is remembered lives and life is such a great present. Love to all.

I had the great pleasure to reconnect with Patrick Califia live in person. We met at SamWinslow and Rig Daddi' loft and shared a lovely vibrant afternoon. Patrick was so present and kind . He gave me much enthusiastic support about my book to be. Way back then when i came into the scene I had the joy to met him, then her, and fell in love with his writings. To get his support and help is a big blessing and a true honor. I am going to work on my final draft in May in Malta and then we will meet again....

Hello dear kinksters!

I have been silenced for way too long. I hope this finds you well wherever you are. Now that I have been vaccinated for several weeks and find myself in a smoother stage of my grief journey about my life partner Fakir I am re-surfacing. Sharing Fakir’s lifework in his photographs and BodyPlay magazines warms my heart. I have received so many sweet and supportive messages, I feel he is remembered and well loved. Thank you.

As Bob Dylan sang, “the times they are a-changing” and I trust in the right direction of healing and understanding.

I just committed to be interviewed by Alpha Academy this Thursday April 29th at 7pm for half an hour. I know it is short notice, and I hope you will join Raven and me.

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About Zoom mentoring and live in person outdoor ritual work:
Greeting community, tribe, friends, and fans,

You know we all get by with a little help from our friends! Thank you, Eve MInax for encouraging me to do zoom! Despite its limitations, I want to do MORE! Also, in just a little more than a week, I have been fortunate to meet three new powerful women who embrace the magic of ritual! Each shamanic flogging is as unique as those who welcome the journey. Catharsis, release, tears, laughter all in the moment. My many years of erotic dominance gave me the skills to master the art of flogging. I certainly have plenty of floggers to create a symphony of sensations for those laying on my table in my yard.

Just visit https://www.cleodubois.com and watch the short video

Release your stress,
Reach for the stars,
Embrace your power!

Many years ago, Dossie Easton wrote “The Topping Book,” and in it, I love the way she described play rituals! “Ritual S/M is play directed to the purpose of attaining altered states of consciousness, of traveling beyond our habitual perceptual screens to another way of being in which everything becomes more special, extraordinary, brilliant. Goals for such a scene might be a quest for guidance or a vision, the pursuit of personal truth and understanding, or the experience of spiritual communion for its own sake….A ritual is the performance of a series of symbolic acts that act like keys to change our state of awareness. Rituals get negotiated like any other scene, by talking about what is important to each of you, preparing to validate and respect everyone’s limits.”

As many of you know, I’ve been in the San Francisco Bay Area scene for maaannyy years. Honored as Leather Marshall in 2008, I value the lessons I have learned within the greater B**M Kink Community. You learn, and then you teach! While my Erotic Dominance Intensives are not physically “safe” for these times, I feel drawn to continue educating and supporting those interested in Ritual, Leather, Kink and B**M. Mentoring couples has always been one of my favorite things continues, of course on Zoom.

Feeling a little stuck?
Want to expand your play repertoire?
Need to invigorate your intimate connection?
I would love to help. Really.

I am here. I have a safe yard, dozens of floggers, massage table to do the work and the energy to do it! I'd be glad to her from you. Email me at [email protected]

In kink with heart, and leather pride,

Cléo

https://youtu.be/iJ3LRUa1HTc

Cléo Dubois | B**M & Kink Education with Heart | California Cléo Dubois offers couples coaching, guided hands-on play, mentoring, and shamanic kink rituals in her private, well-equipped playspace. Creator of Erotic Dominance Intensives she provides safe space to allow exploration of erotic desires, skill development to gain confidence and deepen intimacy.

Our mini zoom Intensive went really well. I am grateful as i really wanted to share the pillars or consensual intimacy creating B**M with my students. Now i am ready to continue mentoring couples who are exploring kink and erotic power play. I am also offering flogging rituals in my sunny backyard when weather and temperature allows. We will survive! The light will come! Center, breathe and let your anxieties out! see ! www.cleodubois.com

Of course we cannot teach the September Intensive in person at the SF Citadel in San Francisco. Eve Minax and I are offering a few zoom classes but not the Intensive. I am ready to welcome couples for flogging rituals in my sunny backyard with mask on for me . The person being flogged laying on a massage table comfortable The ritual focused on letting go of built up anxiety. Interested? email me at [email protected]

Private Ritual Flogging Cleo talks about offering private ritual flogging

So grateful to see that B**M journeys are being recognized. To quote fakir "Body is the door to Spirit".

Whipping the Brain: The Mind-Altering, Hallucinatory States of B**M It’s late at night, and I’m naked, blindfolded and cocooned by rope in a lover’s bedroom in East L.A. Arms bent at the elbows and...

The poster for Out of Site SOMA. I love that history on line vibrant performance piece about leather Q***r culture in the South of Market. www.eyezen.org

OUT of Site:SOMA
A virtual ,Performance driven Q***r history tour
https://www.eyezen.org/out-of-site
or try www.eyezen.org
Just saw the premiere tonight. It was courageous, entertaining, deep, well done, great acting, and truly brilliant and it is about us leather q***r folks and the creation of Folsom street faire at the end.
I was surprised that this live on line theater felt so real, I laugh, I cried, I recalled some of my leather experiences i nf the 8os and 9os Only this weekend and next weekend. So good I will see it again.

Eye Zen Presents Eye Zen Presents creates live theater that protects and promotes LGBTQ+ history through rigorous research, transdisciplinary performance and community-building events in San Francisco that unearth and elevate LGBTQ+ ancestors, illuminating the life stories of unsung Q***r heroes.

Hello everyone. I hope that you are safe and staying strong.
Perhaps you have partners you'd like to share play energy with during these difficult times. Have you tried to use your negotiations skills, toys, kinky desires and need for input by scening with those you do not live with using platforms like Zoom. Surely not as good as being in the presence of your Top or submissive or kinky friend, but surely better than nothing. Tears and or***ms are good releases in these hard times.

I am adding a few pics of my dungeon for your viewing pleasure. Also sharing that PinkLabel.tv is now streaming both my films The Pain Game and Tie Me UP!
https://www.pinklabel.tv/on-demand/film/the-pain-game/
Sorry cannot share the pics on FB.
Still believing in the Magic of B**M
With heart and energy !

The full March 20-22 Intensive has been rescheduled for June 12-14.

Despite FB not allowing me to pay to grow my audience for the Intensives I teach with Eve Minax I am happy to share that the March course is full. I am so blessed to have such great teachers in Eve, Selina and JD and our wonderful group of talented players who volunteer for all the hands-on segments of the work. Connecting, shared energy, skills and consent , yesI still believe in the magic of SM.