the 2025 Boundless RETREAT: Our Presenters & Classes
The Boundless Retreat OFFERS WORLD CLASS KINK & BDSM EDUCATION
“The education offered at the Boundless Retreat was amazing. In just a couple of days I had access to some of the best presenters and their classes—this alone was worth the cost.”
Get ready to learn, explore, dive deep and play harder with our lineup of presenters at the 2025 Boundless Retreat.
- Master Hines dares you to unleash your beast and dance dangerously close to the blade, tapping into raw instincts and razor-fine trust.
- Nyxie Noc will help you slip beneath the surface with lessons in stealthy humiliation, and the share stinging pleasures of intimate impact.
- Metal_Ouch_Maker & Unique_Elle are here to pull your strings — literally. Whether you’re brand new to the rope or already tangled in your obsessions, they’ll guide you through the beauty of knots, tension, and wickedly clever predicaments.
The 2025 Boundless Retreat isn’t just a retreat — it’s a call to those hungry to expand their limits, savor intimacy and intensity, and live unbound.
2025 BOUNDLESS RETREAT PRESENTER BIOS
MASTER HINES
Master Hines is a BDSM Educator and Professional Dominant with thirty plus years of experience in the BDSM community. Core to Master Hines’ BDSM philosophy is spirituality through power exchange with a heavy emphasis on the spiritual connection. between Top and bottom. His play ranges from sensual to sadistic.
Master Hines is well known for his flair and artistry with floggers and has presented classes on many topics including Flogging, Spirituality and SM, Erotic Knife Play, Rough Body Play, Caning, Protocols, Primal Play and more. Master Hines is also an accomplished artist specializing in contemporary painting and photography.
You can visit his web sites at LovingDominance.com and HinesFineArt.com and TheArtistHinesPhotography.com. You can also find more information about Master Hines and read some of his writings on Fetlife at MasterHines.
NYXIE NOC
Nyxie Noc (they/she/he) is a queer, genderfluid D-type and experienced educator passionate about fostering safer, more connected communities through the principles of agency, consent, and equity. With a career that spans roles as a dominatrix, fetish content producer, kink educator, Consent and Conduct team leader, and community consultant, Nyxie brings a wealth of expertise and a unique perspective to their work.
Nyxie has supported consent teams and safer-play orientations for over 850 participants and trained over 100 staff members in sex-positive organizations. Their workshops and lectures, like “Agency in Consensual Kink” and “Ethical Dominance,” challenge participants to reimagine relationships and play through the lens of empowerment and intentionality.
They’ve collaborated with organizations such as Boundless Events, AfterDark Events, and Stopgap Dungeon, and were a featured presenter for SF Leather Week’s Folsom Street Fair 2024. Known for their warm, approachable teaching style and innovative frameworks, like the BURGERS for Agency model, Nyxie inspires individuals and groups to deepen their understanding of connection and inclusivity.
Nyxie lives in San Francisco and is available for coaching, consulting, and event instruction. Reach them at viridiluxconsulting@gmail.com or visit their website at www.viridiluxconsulting.com/nyxienoc.
Metal_OUch_Maker & Unique_Elle
Metal_Ouch_Maker (he/him) has been experimenting with kinky things since he was a young man and joined the FetLife community in 2012. He has a broad wheelhouse of skills and teaching experience including metal fabrication, leatherwork, welding, 3D modeling, CNC machining, professional scuba diving instructor, in addition to being a 3D and 2D artist. He brings all of these together to teach fun, exciting, and informed Kink-positive classes.
He also designs, hand-crafts, and sells several different toys, is a dealer for bondage rope, and is establishing a kink/ life coaching following. Together Metal_Ouch_Maker and Unique_Elle participate in community events, promote healthy and kinky lifestyles, host parties, and teach classes.
Unique_Elle (she/her) was born and raised in Indianapolis, IN and has been sex positive and experimenting for most of her adult life. She joined the FetLife community in 2020 and shortly after discovered that one of her main kinks was rope. With over 25 years of experience as an RN, she offers a unique perspective and a wealth of information that can be applied to the kink world. She has instructed many new nurse hires at the hospitals she has worked at and loves to impart her wisdom and knowledge on them.
In 2023 these two forces combined and have since taken over 100 classes together and began exploring their kinky depths together. In January 2024 Unique_Elle, Metal_Ouch_Maker and his other partner Miss_Minxx, set up a small, rope-centric and kink-friendly space in Sacramento, CA where they all teach monthly classes and host play parties.