The Wiggle Room: Release the Cheeks

Schedule

Sun Aug 24 2025 at 11:30 am to 01:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

La Peña Cultural Center | Berkeley, CA

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Judgement free movement spaces. Are you ready to release? Those cheeks that is! It's more than a twerk class.
About this Event

Event Description:

Are you ready to release? Those cheeks that is! The lovely and talented Saharla Vetsch is back with her energizing and empowering movement workshop – Release the Cheeks.

This beloved workshop is all about releasing the tension and stress we carry in our hips (and booty) by connecting our minds to the body through lower body focused movement. More than a twerking class, Saharla will guide us through a series of stretches, movements, and grooves before we shake it out on the floor. Trust, you will definitely get your twerk game up too!

In The Wiggle Room, we also intentionally practice having flexibility and grace in our mindset and self-talk around the things we’re each navigating in life. All so that we can leave feeling lighter, brighter, (a little sweaty) and standing in our power.


Remember to Wear + Bring:

Comfy clothes and shoes to move with ease

• Refillable water bottle

• Something to release (non tangible)


Tickets:

$10-40 Sliding scale tickets available. No one turned away for lack of funds.We are grateful for your support of our work and the investment in yourself.


Meet Your Instructor:

Saharla Vetsch (she/her) is a Somali American rooted in the Bay Area. Saharla earned a degree in Performing Arts and Social Justice with a concentration on dance from the University of San Francisco. Her artistic and academic journey has been marked by a profound commitment to the transformative power of movement. Saharla’s teaching and performances encourage and celebrate the intersecting identities that make up who we are and inform how we all engage with the world and each other. She does this in the spaces of queer nightlife entertainment, early childhood dance education, and through collaborative dance performances. Saharla strives to be a beacon of self-expression, harnessing the liberating power of dance to ignite a sense of freedom through community.


About WildFiya:

WildFiya is a well-being and lifestyle company with a playful, culturally relevant, and revolutionary spin on self-care, personal development, and community for Black and brown womxn. We’re on a mission to guide Black and Brown womxn as they unlock and [re]connect with their passion, pleasure, and purpose on a journey to a joyful, healthy, and whole life.

Through our curated playful and restorative workshops, events, and more, we uplift ways of thinking and being that help you center joy, manage stress, nurture wellbeing, activate personal power, connect to something bigger, and resist the oppressive expectations to be everything for everyone else that diminish your health and quality and of life. We’re a funky mix between wellness studio, rec center, and your fave study group.


Walk on the Wild Side: https://www.iamwildfiya.com/

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Where is it happening?

La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, United States

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Tickets

USD 10.00 to USD 40.00

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