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Weekly Classes



Periodic Classes

5Rhythms Saturday Spirit Dance Next Class 6 Dec 2025 Berkeley Qibei Shen Steiner
PENINSULA SWEAT YOUR PRAYERS WITH SILVIE Next Class 7 Dec 2025 Redwood City Sylvie Minot
5Rhythms in the Park Next Class 15 Dec 2025 Sacramento Majica Alba
Threshold Next Class 5 Feb 2026 Sacramento Majica Alba
5Rhythms at SF Botanical Garden Next Class 28 Feb 2026 San Francisco Vehllia Tranne

Upcoming Workshops



Moving Parts

Sacramento - 5 Dec 2025 to 7 Dec 2025
Lucine Eusani

 

5Rhythms initiates us back into the wisdom of our bodies and unleashes the dynamic healing power of movement. This invites us to track memories and perceptions through gestures and shapes.

IFS offers a framework for understanding and healing by helping us facilitate a journey of self-discovery, compassion, and ultimately, liberation from the weight of the past. 

Somatic IFS recognizes that the body holds memories, emotions, and experiences that can be accessed and processed through body awareness, movement, breathwork, and touch.

The workshop brings together the gifts of all three of these incredible healing modalities to support us to liberate ourselves from the deeply ingrained, often unconscious, beliefs, emotions, and patterns of behavior that are passed down through generations within a family or cultural lineage. These legacy burdens can manifest as limiting beliefs, emotional wounds, or dysfunctional relationship patterns that negatively impact our lives even if we haven't directly experienced the originating trauma.

This workshop offers a light and playful gateway into the wise and compassionate witness that lives within (in IFS called Self energy).  

Within this workshops are concepts from the therapeutic principles of Internal Family Systems, explored through the 5Rhythms embodiment map. While these bodies of work are therapeutic in nature, this workshop is not "therapy".



Prerequisite: None. All workshop hours contribute to 5Rhythms® Teacher Training prerequisites.

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Forces of Nature Women

Berkeley - 6 Dec 2025 to 6 Dec 2025
Qibei Shen Steiner

 

2025 Dates: 9/13, 10/4, 11/1, 12/6, Saturdays

Time: 2pm - 5:30pm

​​✨ Registration Required: www.qibei.be/forcesofnature


This is a calling. 

A return to the wild, instinctual power that’s been living inside us all along. 

Beneath the noise of culture, 

the weight of shoulds, 

the tight cages of expectations - 

You are your own force of nature. 

Here, we move to remember and come alive. 

To feel the earth rise and fall in our bones, 

ocean waves crashing through our veins, 

the wind whispering on our tongues. 

Let your body speak its ancient dialect. 

Let your heart roar, and taste its own nectar. 

Let us encounter one another - raw, real, fierce, tender, hilarious, fabulous - in the sisterhood of becoming and belonging. 

This is a space for all womxn, who hear the call. 

All colors, all shapes, all stories welcomed here. 

No prerequisites, no “right” way to be. 

Toss away the need to perform, prove, and pretend. 

Come as you are. Dress how you want. Move how you feel. Say fluck it and be free. 


Forces of Nature Women’s Circle is a 3.5-hr workshop where we journey through 5Rhythms® dance movement meditation and creative exploration. Brings snacks and drinks to share for the community connection time toward the end.


✨We ask you to arrival in the studio early or on-time to support the group coherence.

✨ Registration is required. No drop ins. www.qibei.be/forcesofnature

✨ This is a substance-free, scent-free space.

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Local Teachers

Christina Graham-Smith San Diego, California Teaching Since: 2014 Dancing Since: 2007

“Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.- Martha Graham ”

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Majica Alba Sacramento, California   Dancing Since: 2008

“My job is to hold a sacred space where people can see what is already there.”

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Juliette Kunin Nevada City, California Teaching Since: 2010 Dancing Since: 2001

“Keep dancing with that spark of truth that resides in all of us. Allow it to lead. Have the courage to leap, even when it is scary...”

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Sylvie Minot Sausalito, California Teaching Since: 2001 Dancing Since: 1994

““The body holds stories and old wounds, and medicine as well. It has the antidote to heal itself. Through moving, we release our stories and allow healing to come through.” - Sylvie Minot”

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Tom Truman Santa Cruz, California Teaching Since: 2016 Dancing Since: 2006

“" Your Body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds" Khalil Gibran ”

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Jenelle Smith Irvine, California   Dancing Since: 1997

“This is the truly creative dancer, natural but not imitative, speaking in movement out of (themselves) and out of something greater than all selves. ~Joseph Campbell”

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Albo Mussmann Arcata, California Teaching Since: 2024 Dancing Since: 2017

“Dance the World into being”

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Bettina-Kira Neumann San Francisco, California Teaching Since: 2024 Dancing Since: 2012

“"The most precious jewels may never see the light—but once they do, they shine." "It is a gift to have the courage to move through your wounds and find your freedom." "Deep wounds once held me hostage—believing I wasn’t good enough, that ”

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Tim Doody New York, New York Teaching Since: 2024 Dancing Since: 2012

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Qibei Shen Steiner Berkeley, California Teaching Since: 2024 Dancing Since: 2013

“In movements, everything is possible. ”

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jacia Kornwise Chico, California Teaching Since: 2004 Dancing Since: 1990

“Dance when your broken open. Dance when you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free. Rumi”

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Jake Smith San Diego, California Teaching Since: 2023 Dancing Since: 2015

“If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough”

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Alessandro Moruzzi San Francisco, California Teaching Since: 2014 Dancing Since: 2007

“Rain, oceans are my Flowing. Street traffic, crowds chatting are my Staccato. Waterfalls, pounding jack hammers are my Chaos. Winds, hummingbirds are my Lyrical. Echoes of drops in a cave, my breaths are my Stillness.”

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Vehllia Tranne San Francisco, California Teaching Since: 2014 Dancing Since: 2010

“I dance to rediscover, remember, recreate, and to return to love. It takes courage to live one's truth. Your courage breeds courage in me. Will you join me and dance our truth?”

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Masayo Benoist Los Angeles, California Teaching Since: 2014 Dancing Since: 2009

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Jo Bainbridge Cobbett Los Angeles, California Teaching Since: 1997 Dancing Since: 1988

“this dance is my practice; my presence, playfulness and passion meet
and the truest sense of my self emerges
here i connect to source & know my depth ”

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Margaret Wagner San Francisco, California Teaching Since: 2004 Dancing Since: 2000

“Discover your ground, define your passion and voice, dissolve what holds you back, delight in your originality, dance with whatever is in the moment.”

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Davida Taurek San Rafael, California Teaching Since: 1987 Dancing Since: 1987

“We reside in our body to express the unique and amazing being living inside. Telling the truth through the body liberates us from the confines of social structure and hardened beliefs of self. In other words, dancing ROCKS!”

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Bella Dreizler Sacramento, California Teaching Since: 2008 Dancing Since: 2001

“After all this time I have no doubt: embodied physical practice in the context of a shamanic 5Rhythms wave delivers. Must be present to win. ”

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Daniela Peltekova Los Angeles, California Teaching Since: 2007  

“We are Gods and Goddesses with a global case of human amnesia. We dance to remember, we dance to forget, we dance to let go, to heal the cells of our body-mind and reignite the crystal imprints of our souls.”

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Kiaora Fox Santa Barbara, California Teaching Since: 2016 Dancing Since: 1983

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Jay and Amber Kaplan California Teaching Since: 1994  

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Aaron Lifshin San Francisco, California Teaching Since: 2016 Dancing Since: 2010

“What a surprise it was to find all the answers in the body, not the mind.”

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