On Top: Exploring Your Dominant Persona

Note: This is the full presentation as recorded on July 18th, 2020.

This class is for those who: 1) Want to explore their dominant side 2) have a partner that is submissive and thus wants you to dominate them 3) Know you are dominant and want to deepen your understanding of D/s.

This class is not about how to be a professional dominatrix. This class is about discovering and developing your dominant persona. It is available to all genders and sexualities.

In this workshop, learn the basics of Dominance from a Professional and Lifestyle Dominatrix, Justine Cross. Have you ever wanted to know how to dominate someone but weren’t sure where to start? Are you looking for a sexy creative outlet to feel empowered?

We’ll explore:

What makes a great dominant?

What makes a bad dominant?

Consent using the Kink Negotiation Worksheet

Archetypes

Style and fashion

Technique and style

Training, knowing your skills

How you identify, using a title or a name

Character or Persona

Honing Your Craft or specialty - What do you want to be known for?

Bring all of your questions and together we will explore common dominant archetypes, styles, techniques so that you know how to begin your journey into domination. Whether you are single or with a partner you will learn skills to help you enjoy this path with confidence and sexual creativity. Unleash your inner dominant in the bedroom and in life!

Mistress Justine Cross is a professional BDSM consultant and lifestyle Dominatrix based in Los Angeles. She is the owner of both Dungeon East and Dungeon West, Los Angeles’s premiere dungeon studios, which have been used for high-profile photo and video shoots.

With over 10 years’ experience as a lifestyle Dominatrix and BDSM consultant, Mistress Justine’s expertise and creativity has been called on for dozens of print, radio, and video productions, including Janelle Monae’s 2018 “Make Me Feel” video, the 2014 film Bound, various podcasts including “Savage Love,” and for a number of campaigns and projects for major brands. Internationally recognized and followed, she keeps a dynamic travel schedule and has consulted with clients, appeared in photo shoots, and overseen projects all over the world.

With the mainstream growing more aware of BDSM, Mistress Justine’s opportunities to educate and correct the kink curious have expanded, and she’s been invited to be a guest speaker or teach classes on BDSM, safer sex practices, consent, and more at spaces and events like UCLA and the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Women’s Health 360 Conference. She has donated her time and talents in the service of organizations like the LA Sex Workers Outreach Program, and participates yearly in events benefiting LA Pride and The Keep a Breast Foundation, for which she has raised over $5,000 to date.

Extensively interviewed and profiled, Mistress Justine has appeared in Los Angeles Magazine and Playboy, and been featured in Nylon, LA Weekly, Time Out Los Angeles and on Buzzfeed.com and Salon.com. As busy as she is, she’s open to considering new projects, appearances, and clients, always entertaining another opportunity to bring collaborators and audiences to their feet, and her fans to their knees.

Learn more about Mistress Justine Cross and her dungeons at: http://www.losangelesdominatrix.com