California

Do you have the discipline to be a free spirit?

Weekly Classes

Monday

Virtual & Live- 5Rhythms Waves Santa Barbara Kiaora Fox
Connections Santa Cruz Tom Truman

Tuesday

ONLINE 5Rhythms Chill Wave Los Angeles Masayo Benoist
ALTA-JAM Altadena Jo Bainbridge Cobbett

Wednesday

Wednesday Waves Sacramento Majica Alba
Wednesday Night Waves Los Angeles Los Angeles Masayo Benoist
5Rhythms Midweek Sanctuary Berkeley Qibei Shen Steiner
BOOK 5RHYTHMS PRIVATE (1 on 1) ZOOM SESSIONS WITH SYLVIE MINOT Mill Valley Sylvie Minot

Thursday

Wake up and Dance - Chico jacia Kornwise
Aurras Waves: Dance Your Breath to Your Soul San Francisco Bettina-Kira Neumann

Friday

TEST Santa Monica Arthur Retiz
Boundless Waves - Friday Night 5Rhythms in Berkeley Berkeley Aaron Lifshin
Wild Release San Francisco Vehllia Tranne

Sunday

Sunday Waves Arcata Albo Mussmann
5Rhythms Sacramento @CLARA Sacramento Bella Dreizler
Fumbling Towards Ecstasy Live and Online Los Angeles Jo Bainbridge Cobbett
Harmony Waves ~ In Person San Diego Christina Graham-Smith
5RHYTHMS PRIVATE 1:1 ONLINE WITH VEHLLIA San Francisco Vehllia Tranne
Sweat Your Prayers San Francisco San Francisco Vehllia Tranne
Shimmer Waves ~ Sundays Irvine Jenelle Smith
Sweat Your Prayers with Qibei Berkeley Qibei Shen Steiner

Periodic Classes

PENINSULA SWEAT YOUR PRAYERS WITH SYLVIE Next Class 5 Apr 2026 Redwood City Sylvie Minot
Friday Night Waves Next Class 10 Apr 2026 San Diego Jake Smith
APR BIPOC 5RHYTHMS SWEAT YOUR PRAYERS w/ SYLVIE Next Class 18 Apr 2026 Oakland Sylvie Minot
Emerging Waves Next Class 24 Apr 2026 San Diego Marbella Mondaca
5Rhythms at SF Botanical Garden Next Class 25 Apr 2026 San Francisco Vehllia Tranne
PENINSULA SWEAT YOUR PRAYERS WITH SYLVIE Next Class 26 Apr 2026 Redwood City Sylvie Minot
Threshold Next Class 7 May 2026 Sacramento Majica Alba

Upcoming Workshops

DANCING WITH THE ANCESTORS

Sacramento - 27 Mar 2026 to 29 Mar 2026
Sylvie Minot

In this workshop, we will dance with our ancestry which live in our heart, soul, collective memory, and DNA. We will call on the wisdom and medicine of our lineage, the power of ancestral lands, and the spirit of the animal clans to guide our dance on this journey.

We will beckon our bloodlines and sacred guides to help navigate a magical ancestral journey, weaving the 5Rhythms with our ancestral lineage.

Together, we will acknowledge, give thanks, and embody forgiveness and healing for ourselves, our ancestors, and the land. We’ll honor and celebrate by moving our bones, blood, and bodies - gifts from our ancestors.

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Waves & Wakes: Dancing with Ancestors

A 5Rhythms weekend led by Sylvie Minot

Location:

CLARA AUDITORIUM

1425 24th Street

Sacramento, CA 95816

Dates/Times:

Fri 3/27: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Sat 3/28: 11:00 am - 6:00 pm

Sun 3/29: 11:00 am - 6:00 pm

Tuition: Cost: $325 by February 8th, $400 after.

Support offered for LGBTQ+, BIPOC and those in need.

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Prerequisite: Three 5Rhythms® Waves classes are required prior to attendance.

All workshop hours count toward the 5Rhythms® Teacher Training prerequisites.

Registration is required

WHOLENESS

Santa Cruz - 19 Apr 2026 to 19 Apr 2026
Tom Truman

In this workshop we turn toward the simple, essential truth, that we are already whole. Through the map of the 5Rhythms®, movement becomes a way to remember, not to perfect or perform, but to return to the body’s innate intelligence. When we surrender to the body’s wisdom , letting breath, rhythm, and instinct loosen the habits that fragment us we open the pathways that reconnect us to our original aliveness.

Throughout the day we’ll weave dance with, embodied inquiry, & journaling amongst the grounding presence of community. Together we’ll explore the places where we feel divided or uncertain, and tap into the deeper current beneath them that is steady, resourceful, and wise. “Wholeness” is an invitation to come home to yourself: to stand in your center, to feel your full range, and to be witnessed in the beauty of your own integrated presence.

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

Tom Truman is a Santa Cruz based 5Rhythms® teacher and artisan woodworker whose life and work reflect a deep commitment to embodied expression, creativity and mindful living. Tom first encountered the 5Rhythms in New York in 2007 and has been dancing this practice for nearly two decades, becoming a certified teacher in 2016 and offering regular classes and workshops in Santa Cruz and beyond ever since. https://www.tomtrumandance.com/

Registration

EXCHANGE FOR DAY WORKSHOP

Creating Access not Scarcity: Following the class and economic justice sliding scale created by Alexis J. Cunningfolk, please review and select the price point below that allows you to attend the workshops. Discounts available are on a first come basis (10 discount spaces available) and our hope is to create a space where all can participate so reach out if you need further assistance.

Full Price for one Day $150:  

I am comfortably able to meet all my basic needs, I am employed or do not need to work, I have access to financial savings and have an expendable income and can afford at least an annual vacation. I may struggle at times, but overall I feel financially comfortable.

Partial Discount: $112.50 (25% Discount) Use code WHOLE25 when registering:

 I may stress about meeting my basic needs, but still regularly achieve them, I may have some debt, but it does not prohibit attainment of basic needs, I may have access to financial savings and have some expendable income and can take a vacation annually or every few years.

Full Discount $90 (40% Discount) use code WHOLE40 when registering :  

I frequently stress about meeting my basic needs and don’t always achieve them, I have debt that sometimes prohibits me from meeting my basic needs, I rent lower end properties or have unstable housing, I am unemployed or underemployed without access to savings, I have no or very limited expendable income and cannot afford or have the ability to take time off work for a vacation without financial burden.

Questions? please inquire with an email to Majica Alba. majicasonrisa@gmail.com

LOCATION

The Tannery in Santa Cruz

1:30pm-6:30pm

There will be a short break for food.

Link to payment: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wholeness-a-5rhythms-day-long-workshop-with-tom-truman-in-santa-cruz-tickets-1982381046073?aff=oddtdtcreator

Local Teachers

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

California

Do you have the discipline to be a free spirit?

Weekly Classes

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Periodic Classes

Upcoming Workshops

DANCING WITH THE ANCESTORS

WHOLENESS

Local Teachers

“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?”

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

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

“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...”

““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”

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

“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”

“Dance the World into being”

“"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 ”

“In movements, everything is possible. ”

“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”

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

“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.”

“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 ”

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

“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!”

“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. ”

“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.”

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

“We dance to fall in love with the spirit in all things. by Gabrielle Roth ”

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