SYZYGY DANCE PROJECT CLASSES & WORKSHOPS
We want to meet you on the dance floor – no matter your fitness level, age, size, or amount of experience!
5Rhythms Sweat Your PrayersJoin our monthly 5Rhythms Sweat Your Prayers® class with Syzygy Dance Project founder Sylvie Minot, where you can be led on a journey of self-discovery as participants come together in community. The class is made up of two waves. The first wave is your time to arrive, let go of your day, and settle into your body. During the second wave, we dance more deeply and explore a specific theme. 5Rhythms® is a simple movement practice designed to release the dancer that lives in every physical body regardless of shape, size, age, or experience. While the practice itself is simple, it has the power to catalyze deep healing and creative expression. The primary teaching of this work is: If you put your psyche in motion, it will heal itself. The five rhythms are Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, and Stillness. They come together to create a wave. There are no steps to follow. Each rhythm has a different energy and tempo in which we tap into the wisdom of our bodies, bring awareness to the patterns in ourselves and our lives, and find our own individual expression. Sweat Your Prayers™ is done with minimal guidance or silence. The class is meant as a moving meditation. 5Rhythms with Sylvie Minot SATURDAY March 8, 2025 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Hidden City Ballroom 304 Washington Ave. Point Richmond, CA 94801 *DONATION: $20.00 *Monthly SDP Patron Members are free to attend but must notify interest before 24 hrs to class. Please take a rapid COVID test the day of the event if you believe you have been exposed Please register to reserve your spot as class size is limited. Merge & Emerge BIPOC 5Rhythms![]() CALIFORNIA - OAKLAND Location: Interplay Studio 2273 Telegraph Ave., Oakland (please enter at the 23rd street entrance) Dates: 1st & 3rd Saturdays Time: 10:30 am - 12:00 pm (Doors close at 10:50 am) Produced in Partnership with: Sylvie Minot, Sapana Doshi & Kamla Sufi Cost: $20.00 (No one turned away for lack of funds) No Pre-registration Required--pay at the door On the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month Sylvie Minot, Sapana Doshi & Kamla Sufi will be offering BIPOC Freedom Dances on teacher rotation. These three teachers share a commitment to creating healing spaces through movement for the BIPOC community. The next BIPOC Dance Teachers are:
Virtual Shamanic JourneyVIA ZOOM Dates: Mondays, February 3 - March 17, 2025 Times: 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST Cost: Sliding Scale $275-$375. (Payment plans and other options available). Shamanic journeying bridges humans between the worlds, beyond the five senses, to recover messages, knowledge, and wisdom from our guardian spirits and ancestral allies.
During this individual and communal process, we will dance, journey with the drum, and embody our guidance through movement. We will put the group’s messages into motion by creating embodied tableaux. Throughout the series, we will honor the worlds of the soul, the animals, the land, and the ancestor’s spirits. This series is sold out. Outreach Facilitator Training 2025![]() VIRGINIA - CHARLOTTESVILLE Location: Charlottesville, VA Produced by: Ann Kite* Dates: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - Sunday, March 30, 2025 Times: Various Cost: $1150.00 early bird special before 2/15/25. - $1250.00 after 2/15/25 Pre-registration: Application required. In this intensive 5-day training, you will explore how dance and movement can be used as a powerful resource and tool in working with specific outreach populations. You will learn movement exercises, and how to support body movement and energetic attunement with others. You will practice regulating and re-grounding yourself while leading a group, integrating voice with authentic movement and exploring confident leadership. The training also involves discussions around outreach populations, and the challenge of bringing movement classes to groups resistant to or less comfortable with movement. Heartbeat with Sylvie Minot![]() CALIFORNIA - SACRAMENTO Location: *Clara Auditorium 1425 24th Street, Sacramento, CA 95816 Dates: Friday, April 25, 2025 - Sunday, April 27, 2025 Times: Fri 6:00pm-9:00pm/Sat 11:00am-6:00pm/Sun 11:00am-6:00pm Cost: $325.00 early bird special before 3/9/25. - $400.00 after 3/9/25 Prerequisite: 3 completed 5Rhythms Waves classes are required prior to attendance. Our bodies hold stories, our head makes up stories, and our hearts feel these stories. Can we access our hearts (and emotions) without giving the stories too much power? Often when we touch into feelings there’s a story attached to it. In this workshop we weave the 5Rhythms with our emotions, calling on our elemental allies of earth, fire, water, air, and ether to guide us on this journey. By separating our emotions from our stories, the stories become our history and our emotions are free to move and dance. By connecting and moving with our emotions, giving them voice and shapes, we unlock the heart and release its limitless power to heal. |
Syzygy Dance Project Event Calendar
“I have a found a kindred community on Sylvie’s dance floor.” “Sylvie's classes are a wonderful dance experience, integrating movement, fun, self-expression and deep connection (if you wish to) with others in a language we forget to use - physical movement/dance. You definitely don't have to be a good dancer to do this; it's a safe, total acceptance environment. I've been going religiously for 5 years. Sometimes it's the highlight of my week!" |
PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMS

VIRTUAL VIA ZOOM
Location: ZOOM
Dates: 6 Thursdays, February 27, 2025 - April 3, 2025
Times: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm (PST) | 2:00 - 3:00 pm (EST)
Cost: FREE (You must pre-register)
Produced By: *NewBridge Services & Life Center Stage
Registration: Call Beth Jacobson at 973-686-2242 or email [email protected]
Syzygy Dance Project is committed to improving the overall well-being of seniors, caregivers and those dealing with chronic pain in the communities we serve.
Facilitated by Sylvie Minot, the SDP & New Bridge Services' Bodies in Motion program is designed to help older adults, caregivers and those in chronic pain connect with their bodies, let go of muscle stiffness and allow fluid movement to emerge.
Bodies In Motion is not just a great physical activity—it’s also a chance for participants to socialize while moving their bodies to music. This class helps bodies to be more relaxed, alert, and participants to be more connected to the community.
The oldest Bodies in Motion participant is 108, and she is a testament to our belief that if we get our bodies moving, no matter our limitations, we can experience the positive benefits of dance.
During every class we see participants’ energy levels rise, smiles return to their faces, and many remark that they experience less pain.
NewBridge Services Director of Community Response and Education Beth Jacobson says Bodies in Motion is suitable for all older adults, including those with chronic pain and disabilities, because the movements can be adapted. “I have received nothing but positive feedback from participants,” said Jacobson, adding that participants often request class playlists so they can do the movements at home between sessions.
Those interested in this free program can contact Beth Jacobson at [email protected] for more information.
For information on Syzygy Dance Project and Sylvie Minot's refund and cancellation policy for Syzygy Dance Project sponsored events,
see the SDP Refund Policy page here.
*Please note that third-party workshop and class organizers and producers often offer and manage events where Sylvie Minot is invited to facilitate.
They are responsible for setting their own refund policies and issuing refunds.
Please contact those producers about their refund and cancellation policies.
see the SDP Refund Policy page here.
*Please note that third-party workshop and class organizers and producers often offer and manage events where Sylvie Minot is invited to facilitate.
They are responsible for setting their own refund policies and issuing refunds.
Please contact those producers about their refund and cancellation policies.
Proceeds from our public classes and events help subsidize our many outreach
programs for people in recovery, inmates, veterans and the elderly.