5Rhythms Emerging Waves with Cecilia in Downtown Oakland and Lake Merritt

Come move with what's here. Twelve 5Rhythms Emerging Waves classes this summer. We start the summer dance class series crawling as a baby,  then stumbling as a toddler, playing as a child, and finally moving into maturity at the end of the series. 

SCHEDULE THROUGH THE END OF 2026
Wed Sep 9, 7:30 - 9:00pm at the Veteran's Memorial Building
Mon Sep 14: 6:15 - 7:45 pm at Oakland Interplay 
Wed Sep 23, 7:30 - 9:00pm at the Veteran's Memorial Building
                    ** a break for two weeks **
Mon Oct 12: 6:15 - 7:45 pm at Oakland Interplay 
Wed Oct 21, 7:30 - 9:00pm at the Veteran's Memorial Building
Mon Oct 26: 6:15 - 7:45 pm at Oakland Interplay 
Wed Nov 4, 7:30 - 9:00pm at the Veteran's Memorial Building
Mon Nov 9: 6:15 - 7:45 pm at Oakland Interplay 

MONDAY Venue: 
Interplay @ Oakland
2273 Telegraph Ave (enter on 23rd), Oakland, CA 
--- This being Downtown Oakland, please do not leave valuables in your car ---

WEDNESDAY Venue:
Oakland Veterans Memorial Building
with Lake Merritt Dance
in The Multi-Purpose Room (Second floor, to the right after the stairwell)
200 Grand Ave, Oakland, CA
----Enter parking lot on 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

Click here to fill out the required waiver (required once per person).

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.