Caring Kink Workshops
Conscious Kink Workshops for All Experience Levels in Bristol, Every Month!
I craft spaces that are safer, more inclusive and fun to allow you to explore your shadows, your edges and play with your innocent 'playful- desires'.
Upcoming Workshops
2026 Bristol Workshops
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January 24th - Caring Kink: Teasing and Tantalizing (SOLD OUT - I'll run again later this year). This will be lightly focused on Sub/Dom dynamics, but the main focus will be on sensual exploration, physical and verbal teasing and getting curious about our edges, so we can enjoy every stroke and even the denial of strokes. Sounds juicy? Well on top of all that we sprinkle care, safety, awareness and love!
Feb 7th: Winter 'Daytime Playtime' Party
a 90 minute workshop will help us all get on the same page to bring in care, consent and connection and lead into 5 hours of play across two differently themed rooms.Feb 21st Caring Kink: Power Play of Dominance and Submission
In 'Power Play' we will use a sensual flavour combined with exploring roles of PRIMAL, DOMINANT, WICKED, SUBMISSIVE, SERVANT, PLAYTHING. We will explore ways to do this in a safe, held way that allows us to find healing, intimacy and connection through play.March 28th Caring Kink: Tying and Holding
Tying and Holding is all about an exploration of rope play, ribbon and connecting through holding and being held. We will not be focusing on strict technique, but building beautiful connection through different materials and ways of playing. This workshop is slow and sensual - it can be relaxing and loving, or if you prefer to be bound tight it can take all sorts of twists and turns.April 18th Caring Kink: Worship!
This is a sensual and playful workshop where you can be worshipped by one or many, or you can be the adoring servant. Will you do a good job and be rewarded or punished? It's so much fun to play in these roles and so sensual and delicious.There will be summer workshops at festivals like:
October 17 Caring Kink: Pain and Pleasure
What if the doors to more pleasure can also be found in playing with pain. In this workshop we create a safe, playful space to discover how pain and pleasure are part of the same spectrum of sensation. We will use blindfolds, impact, scratching, tickling... All to delight the mind and body with delicious anticipation and breathtakingly intensity.
More information on workshops below...
More about Caring Kink
I began running intimacy workshops in 2016 and I love bringing my passion for consensual play to people. After running more than 50 events we now have a community of thousands of people who can play this way.
The work of Kink includes BDSM (Bondage, Discipline, Dominance, Submission, Sadism, Masochism) which is a lot of big scary words, I know. My mission is to remove the stigma and fear from these wonderful, playful and innocent practices and help people discover the benefits of a safe space to explore our shadows, edges and innocent playful desires.
Within the workshop we will always begin with meeting ourselves and each other, to settle our nervous systems and feel connected and safe. We will then work on knowing our 'no' and getting our clear consent practices in place. This is embodied work and my aim is to help people experience their bodies in the moment, so they know what they need and how to communicate it. I work hard to make a space where participants also feel enabled to communicate their needs. This is one of my strengths as a facilitator. I understand the importance and the challenge of this.
Once safety is established we can enjoy the joy of kinky play - things like impact play, rope play, breath play and dominance and submission. These activities we do in cooperation, stepping into and out of roles, but interlacing it all with CARE. We bring in care during everything we do, so that we can feel held and empowered even when we are engaging in acts of surrender.
Caring Kink principles:
C: Check in: at the start and throughout using pauses, squeezes and close attention. Aftercare includes check-ins too, and extends to the day or week after. Aftercare is for both partners.
A: Accidents happen: Roll with them. We treat mistakes as opportunities for connection and love, instead of blame and shame. This is a practice of:
R: Reconnect: Connection is the focus. When we notice we lose presence due to performance anxiety or something similar we slow down and pause and reconnect, following play, pleasure and love.
E: Encouraging each others truth: We encourage a clear 'no' by asking for it up front, and celebrating someone / ourselves when it's given. When someone expresses desires we celebrate them, even if it's not our cup of tea - never yucking someone else's yum's
I create sensual, (non sexual) spaces for exploration of these CARE principles. However we are working with sexual energy and workshops will have differing boundaries on nudity and allowed interactions. Please read/ watch the testimonials and let me know if you have any questions.
"It felt safe and contained, all of Neil's teachings were clear and useful, the activities were fun, and there was a good balance between feeling safe and comfortable while also exploring slightly outside comfort zones. The space was lovely, the people were lovely, the music was lovely. More Workshops Please!" - Grace
CARING KINK CURRICULUM
6 Workshops to explore the full array of BDSM
Pain & Pleasure
A focus on the SM of BDSM, with less emphasis on power play, but working in cooperation to explore:
Sensation Play
Psychology and Physically interconnections
Spanking exploration
Hair pulling, Biting
Primal Play
Teasing & Tantalising
A focus on DS and SM aspects, building connection through anticipation and presence.
Erogenous Zone Mapping
Wax Play
Feathers
Begging play
A focus on DS elements specifically allows a deepening of polarity play.
Energetics of dominance and submission
Using eyes, words and touch
Breath Play
Role Play including pet / slave
Power Play of 'Dom and Sub'
Tying & Holding
A focus on BD and DS elements, with an emphasis on connection instead of technical ropework.
Basic 'One Rope' Technique
Focus on Connection, Relaxation and Sensual Play
Ribbon Play: Giving and receiving gifts
Holding and aftercare
Worship!
Focusing on Discipline and DS dynamics is, for me, enlivening and can build deep connection and reverence, alongside playfulness and surrender.
Getting into the mindset of worshiper and worshiped
Foot worship
Explore roles/dynamics of slave/mater or goddess/god and devotee.
Worship, Punishment and Reward
Transforming Shame into Sexy!
To be liberated from our shame is to share and play with it. By exploring edgy degradation or humiliation acts we can find so much joy and pleasure, including:
Selling ourselves and letting ourselves be big and flamboyant
Expressing our little selves and being coddled and looked after
Different shame edges based on gender conditioning. Eg for men it may be emasculation / sissy play or for women it could be sl*tting about or removing the beauty mask.
Clothed and unclothed play - it can be very erotic to have one person clothed and the other nearly naked.
October 17 2026
Nov 21 2026
Daytime Playtime Parties
This is a space for you to touch, play, relax and bring out your kinky parts (within boundaries), utilising the skills that you and our community have acquired through the Caring Kink workshops.
In the daytime playtime we flip it and we will have a short 90 minute workshop at the start (20% of the day), leaving the remaining 80% for free play. We will have capacity for 120 people. To attend you need to have attended at least one of my Caring Kink workshops. If you have done this you can invite up to two friends, who you vouch for and are responsible for and I need you to arrive together.
Teasing & Tantalising
Pain & Pleasure
Transforming Shame Into Sexy
Power Play of 'Dom and Sub'
Worship !
Tying & Holding
Daytime Playtime
What is Caring Kink really like?
People really love this work and you will too...
Past Events
21-26 Sept: Touch&Play UK: Embracing Complexity
14-20 July: Buddhafield
23-29 June: Emerging Hearts CI Dance Retreat
13-15 June: Moving Connections Dance Retreat
26-31 May: Burning Nest
23-25 May: Dudes in the Dome
Sat 12 April 2025- Caring Kink: Worship!
Sat 3 May 2025 - Caring Kink: Transforming Shame (into sexy)
Sat 15 March 2025- Caring Kink: Tying and Holding
Sat 15th Feb 2025 - Caring Kink: Power Play of 'Dom and Sub'
Sat 25th Jan 2025- Caring Kink: Teasing and Tantalising
2024: Oct 26th: Caring Kink, Pain and Pleasure
2024: July/August: Lead curator, MC and teacher: Touch and Play - Shadow Dance
2024: Taught at Buddhafield,
Embodied Love and
Festival of Sensuality
2024: April 26th: Blindfolded Sensation Savouring
2024: February 17th: Authentic Relating + Touch
2024: January 27th: Caring Kink - Power Play of Dominance and Submission
2023: November 18th: Caring Kink - Tying and Holding (With CR)
2023: October 14th: Authentic Relating + Touch
2023: September 30th: Caring Kink: Erogenous Zone Awakening (With CR)
2023: September: Being Together Collaboration
2023: July/August: Facilitator and Dungeon Guide at Touch and Play
2023: July: Touch and dance workshops at Buddhafield
2023: June Dance workshops at Emerging Hearts
2023: March 25th: 11am- 5 pm: Cuddles and Consent
2023: April 15th: 11am - 10pm: Kink: Teasing and Tantalizing (With CR)
2023: May 14th: 11am - 5pm: Authentic Relating
2023: June 24th: 10am - 10pm: Kink: Diving into Sub/Dom Dynamics (With CR)
2023: March 4th: 10am-10pm: Caring Kink 2 (With CR)
2023: January 4-5th: Caring Kink (With CR)
2022: October: 2-Day Caring Kink (With CR)
2022: September: Wild Connections
2022: July: Facilitator and Dungeon Guide at Touch and Play
2022: July: Touch and dance workshops at Buddhafield
2022: June Dance workshops at Emerging Hearts
2022: June 11th: Play Party Skills
2022: May: Authentic Relating Multi-Week Adventure
2022: May 15th: Awaken Your Senses
2022: February: Platonic Pleasure
2016: 14th February: Platonic Touch and Intimacy (This was my first touch event, then I went away and did some more learning before picking it up again post-pandemic)