Freedom Dance for BIPOC

A guided movement meditation and freestyle dance experience for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color)
About this Event

Merge & Emerge was created to help you use your body as a tool for healing, and expand your capacity for joy, presence and liberation.

It's a space for authentic self-expression, where we use movement to release trapped emotions, tap into intuition, and work through everything you're experiencing in your mind and body.
This 90-minute session will take you on a journey that begins with a warm-up and brief guided movement practice, and then builds into freestyle dance to music curated & played live by a DJ.
You can dance with partners or by yourself; you can move slowly or run around the space.
There are no expectations for how you’re supposed to look — you are free to do whatever you want to do, without judgement.
We wind down with a few moments of introspection and spiritual stillness, and then end with a closing circle where folks can reflect and share about their experience.

Event Details

📍Interplay Studio at 2273 Telegraph Avenue in Oakland, California.

🚪Please enter at the 23rd Street entrance.

💰Tickets will also be available at the door, cash or Venmo. (If cost is a barrier, you are welcome to come. We'll work it out! No one will be turned away for lack of funds.)

⏰Doors close promptly at 10:50 am to preserve the container

About Your Facilitator

Sapana Doshi is a UC Ethnic Studies professor and facilitator trained in The 360 Emergence and Open Floor schools of conscious dance. She founded Freedom Dance Collective and created Merge & Emerge as practice lab for BIPOC drawing on The 360 and other embodiment, ancestral, intellectual and activist wisdoms.

About Freedom Dance Collective:
We believe that liberation begins with the body and ripples out to change the world.

We offer decolonized movement meditation with curated soundscapes from the Global dance floor for all people of color to expand our presence, joy and connection.

We are a joy-forward BIPOC community space where you can move through it all - free of talk, substances and judgment.

Come as you are. No experience necessary. If you can breathe, you can dance!