OPIS

Here I humbly lay at your dancing feet: my first dance class offering, my first Emerging Waves class. We will move awkwardly together as fresh, new babies, squinting at the light. Our brand-new baby bodies, hearts, and spirits will have our first dances together, our first crawls together, our first cries together, and our first stumbles. The firsts of many to come.

Wednesdays in July except July 1
July 8: 8:00-10:00pm
July 15, 22, 29: 7:30-9:30pm

Oakland Veterans Memorial Building
The Lounge (across from the Ballroom), ground floor
200 Grand Ave, Oakland, CA
Parking lot available. Enter from Bay Place.

General ticket: $25
BIPOC ticket: $15

Masks optional.
Please do not come to the dance if you have any cold- or flu-like symptoms.

Facilitated by Cecilia Lam 5Rhythms Teacher-in-Training
Mentored by Ray Diaz and Stuart Phillips

WHAT ARE EMERGING WAVES?

Emerging Waves is a space held by a 5Rhythms®️ Teacher in Training. In this 5Rhythms class, you are invited to move through the 5Rhythms with simple guidance, exploring body parts giving space for your personal expression. Music becomes the teacher alongside the Teacher in Training, supporting your movement practice through the Waves map of Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness.

Rooted in the teachings of Gabrielle Roth, 5Rhythms®️ is practiced by tens of thousands of people around the world. It is a movement meditation, a creative path, and a philosophy grounded in the belief that when we move, we heal. Movement becomes both medicine and metaphor—opening space for personal insight, and embodied presence.

This practice welcomes every body, every culture, every age, and every level of experience. Wherever the 5Rhythms are danced, a community forms—one that moves together, sweats together, grows together, and supports one another’s freedom and authenticity. Here we meet ourselves and each other with curiosity, kindness, and the courage to be real.

Creativity. Connection. Community.

Cecilia Lam is currently participating in the training path to become a certified 5Rhythms teacher.