PRIESTESS OF DARK EROS
OUR FLAGSHIP DOMINATRIX TRAINING - LEVELS I, II & III
THE DOMINA
She is the keeper of thresholds.
She stands where fear and longing meet.
With a glance, with a gesture, with the slightest curl of her lips,
she reveals to you the place where your hunger hides.
She is sovereign in her presence.
Nothing can rush her. Nothing can shake her.
She knows how to wield silence like a blade,
and how to cut through pretense with a single command.
She is the alchemist of power.
In her hands, control becomes an offering,
pain becomes purification,
and surrender becomes revelation.
She does not dominate for cruelty’s sake.
She dominates because she sees deeper than the mask.
She dominates to strip away falsity,
to bring you, trembling, into your truth.
She is not merely a woman in leather and heels.
She is Priestess. She is Oracle. She is Spellcaster.
She is the Dark Muse who makes kings kneel,
not in defeat, but in devotion.
YOU WILL BE BOTH!
THE SUBMISSIVE
She is the chalice.
She is the open vessel, the holy ground,
the mystery that does not conquer but receives.
Her gift is not in grasping but in yielding.
Her radiance is revealed when she bows.
In kneeling, she rises into her true majesty.
The world told her surrender was weakness.
But in her body, she feels the lie.
For when she opens, the heavens rush to fill her.
When she yields, her power multiplies.
Her surrender is not collapse.
It is devotion.
It is worship.
It is the silent prayer of a woman
who dares to be undone —
and in being undone,
becomes infinite.
YOU WILL master both the dominant & the submissive archetypes!
In this trainings you will explore and master both of these cornerstone archetypes of this realm. Your submissive will inform you of your own inner desires and your feminine polarity. You will learn to listen to her, to cherish her and to receive nourishment and containment through her.
It is from your nourished submissive that you will learn to hold great space as a Domina for the journey of others — to hold a shamanic field for their catharsis and erotic expansion.
Students will work with each other in all the exercises and scene. Every exercise and scene you do, you will do as one archetype and then the other.
By the end of this training, you will be deeply rooted in the softness and receptivity of your submissive, and you will have acquired the skill set and the energetic container to usher others into their own submission.
The women you meet and work with in this journey will play a pivotal role in your education and expansion. Expect to form some lasting friendships in this container.
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*PLEASE NOTE - We have designed this training to be thorough enough to train practitioners, but you don’t need to be an aspiring practitioner to take this training. You are most welcome to do it just for your own exploration and erotic awakening. A good 30%-40% of women who have done this training have done it entirely for their personal journey.
THE THREE LEVELS OF THIS TRAINING
The knowledge and wisdom in the BDSM realm comes to us from a long lineage of explorers. Some of the brightest minds and boldest spirits are drawn to this exploration. So many categories of play and investigation fall under this umbrella acronym of ‘BDSM’ that even the content in these 3 levels of training is not exhaustive! There is so much to learn and discover in this field!
Nevertheless, we aim to give you a VERY thorough education in this realm through these 3 levels. Each level will give you the confidence to bring the content of that training into your session work immediately after class if you so choose. Many women also do our training entirely for their own discovery and expansion — which is also most welcome. Our encouragement to students has always been that first and foremost they should do this work for themselves. Even if they want to be great practitioners, doing your own work is the correct first step. Only through the fullness and integration of your journey can you then hold superlative space for others.
Each of these 3 Levels will be a week-long retreat container.
We will work intensely together over those seven days.
We will cover the theory and ideas of a particular module and then follow that quickly with exercises and scenes.
By the end of each container, students will have acquired Mastery in the theme of that Level.
Each level will build on the previous level — till we culminate our journey in level III with a Graduation Ceremony and the issuance of a certificate of completion, honoring you as a PRIESTESS OF DARK EROS.
Expect the bonds that you form with the other women during these courses to become a cherished part of your journey and your life going forward.
LEVEL I - SOMATIC MASTERY
In this foundational level, we will first start with the body itself. You will master handling the body through its wide range of sensations. You will learn:
CONTAINMENT
ROPE BONDAGE
BODY SAFETY
USING YOUR HANDS FOR IMPACT PLAY- SPANKING / SLAPPING
FLOGGING
SENSATION TOY & TOOLS - Pinwheels, feathers, rabbit fur, candle wax, etc.
OTHER BONDAGE MODALITIES SUCH AS CUFFS & STRAPS
OTHER IMPACT TOOLS - Canes, Whips, Straps, Paddles.
POSTURES
VOICE & COMMAND
SCENE CONSTRUCTION
AFTER-CARE
You will also go deep into investigating your two archetypes of the Dominant and the Submissive.
You will inquire into what your Modern Woman feels about both of these archetypes and what internal journey and process you need to undertake to allow your inner Dom and your inner Submissive to flourish in your system.
You will learn what qualities make for a great Dom, and what qualities make for a gracious and receptive submissive.
You will also investigate PAIN and combining PAIN + PLEASURE.
This module will also go into some more advanced somatic areas such as you embodying your cock! You will commence your STRAP-ON exploration in this class.
This class will also go deep into the AROUSAL possibilities within a scene space and combining all forms of sensation and impact play in conjunction with sexual arousal.
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PLEASE NOTE - Even though you will swiftly bring in arousal into your scene play during this week, we don’t have the time to TRAIN you in the art of arousal within our BDSM levels. It’s precisely because of this that we added the two separate modules on learning how to handle bodies with skill:
MASCULINE MASTERY - For learning to handle the male body.
FEMININE MASTERY - For learning to handle the female body.
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By the end of Level I, you will feel confident in taking the human body through a wide range of sensations, pleasures, edge play and containment. You will have started your journey in embodying your inner Dom and inner submissive. You will feel confident enough to gather someone’s desires and boundaries and construct a custom-designed scene for their expansion and pleasure.
LEVEL II - ESTEEM PLAY MASTERY
This module will plunge deep into the human psyche and matters of human ESTEEM!
BDSM is brilliant at investigating the 3rd Charka and all our issues of identity and self-worth.
As practitioners, this kind of scene play is also some of the most common request you will receive from male submissives.
You will need the foundational training of your Level I to hold the container firmly for this fiery investigation into the human psyche. We will explore this area in increasing levels of intensity, starting with:
HUMILIATION PLAY / CHERISHMENT PLAY
OBJECTIFICATION PLAY
EXCLUSION PLAY
DEGRADATION PLAY
MALTREATMENT PLAY
We will plunge further into some really specialized and challenging areas of Esteem Play, such as:
RACE PLAY
CLASS PLAY
GENDER DEGRADATION PLAY
You will bring in all your Somatic Mastery from Level I and combine the physicality of impact, pain & arousal with all the psychological play in this module.
You will learn the fundamental distinctions between Somatic Play & Psychological Play.
You will learn what preparations you need to make as a Dom to be able to create this journey for your submissive.
You will combine 1st Chakra + 3rd Chakra energies; combining pain and impact with humiliation & degradation.
You will combine 2nd Charka + 3rd Chakra energies; combining sexual arousal with humiliation & degradation.
You will investigate how and why diminishing the identity in the 3rd Charka can be a gateway to opening the floodgates of erotic energy.
You will learn to create scenes and scene flow that combine the energies of the 1st, 2nd & 3rd charkas by combining Pain, Pleasure, Arousal and Esteem Play within a single, integrated scene. This is something that your male submissives will very much request, appreciate and desire from you as their Domina.
You will enter all this play as a submissive yourself and forge your own identity center till it is strong and fortified, so you may in turn create that journey for others.
By the end of this week, you will become masterful at not only creating sophisticated and nuanced scenes that help your submissives grapple with their self-esteem and identity issues, you will also know how to milk this often charged psychological play for greater erotic activation.
LEVEL III - DARK EROS MASTERY
In this final journey, we will move into investigating the deeper recesses of the BDSM realm. We will need all our somatic mastery as well as esteem play mastery to explore these advanced areas.
We will expand further into investigation of Dom-sub possibilities through various forms of ROLE PLAY. We will understand the nuances of :
DDLG - Daddy Dom - Little Girl dynamics, as well as Mommy Dom - Little Boy scene play.
Parent - Child play, that is more about investigation the submissive’s Child Archetype. You will explore your own incomplete issues with your Mother & your Father in scene play.
Various other forms of role play that are built on a power gradient, and thus very conducive to BDSM scene structure.
We will explore why such role-play often carries great potential for erotic arousal and expression.
We will explore OWNERSHIP dynamics.
We will explore MASTER-SLAVE DYNAMICS, and
SLAVE TRAINING
You will combine your somatic + esteem training to explore areas such as PUNISHMENT play.
We will discuss SERVICE in the Dom-sub / Master-slave dynamic.
We will explore FINANCIAL DOMINATION. You will do so by first and foremost investigating your issues and limiting beliefs around money.
We will investigate some of the darker corners of our Eros in:
CONSENSUAL NON-CONSENT
CUCKOLDING PLAY
SEXUAL HUMILIATION & DEGRADATION
ORDEAL SCENES
We will also investigate the cross-currents between MAGIC & BDSM. We will investigate the magical and transmutative potentialities in and through the intensive energies of PAIN, SACRIFICE, ORDEAL, TORMENT, ECSTASY, DEGRADATION.
In closing, you will decide what style and flavor of Domina you are, and how you want to embody her and present her to others going forward. And you will declare the power and place of your submissive within your life.
We will end our journey with a Graduation Ceremony - where you declare both your 3-D & 5-D energies and intentions of your Dominant & your submissive going forth.
CLIENT SKILLS
Each level will have sections and conversations in it on this topic.
PLEASE WRITE TO US WITH YOUR QUESTIONS
We know committing to this training is a big time and money investment. If you have questions, or if you want to talk to Lauren & Om before joining, we are very happy to get on a zoom call with you and answer all your questions and concerns.
OM RUPANI - OmRupani@me.com
LAUREN HARKNESS - Lauren@LaurenHarkness.com