Rooting JOY

5-Week Online Dance + Movement Series

Description:
In heavy times, JOY is not optional — it’s essential. 🌟

Do you feel like the weight of the world keeps pulling you down?

Are you exhausted from the grind, the noise, the constant push to keep going?

What if the medicine your heart is crying out for is already within you?

What if JOY is the root you can return to again and again?

🌱 Rooting JOY is a 5-week online dance + movement series designed to help you reconnect to:

💛 Joy as medicine💛 Joy as ritual💛 Joy as resistance.

Each week , will be:

• A live 55-minute online class
• A new playlist to inspire your movement
• The power of JOY to ground, liberate, and renew

Tuesdays, 2–2:55pm PST
September 30th, October: 7,14,21,28

Energy Exchange: $150

🎥 Replays available — so you can join live or on your own time.

✨ Joy lives here.✨ Joy moves here.✨ Joy roots here.

Root into JOY. Liberate your soul.

Samba Recess:

Dance, Play & Be FREE!

In the middle of your workday, your body is asking for a break. Not just any break—a recess.

Samba Recess is your mid-day invitation to play, move, and recharge. Samba is joyful, Samba is fun, Samba is freeing!

This 45-minute class will help you:

• Restore your energy
• Relieve stress
• Spark creativity
• Reconnect with JOY

Perfect for team development, personal wellness, and self-care.

Friday, October 10th

11:30 - 12:15pm PST

in person

💚 Energy Exchange: $33

PLAY is not just fun it is needed! —it’s productive, healing, and essential to our joy.

Samba Recess is your liberation lunch break.

Achieve YOUR Samba Goals with a Professional Samba Coach!

Q) What are YOUR Samba dance goals?

Q) Is your Samba Goal to parade in Rio Carnaval one day?

Q) Is your Samba Goal to perform locally in a group or as a soloist?

Q) Is your Samba Goal to compete for a Samba Royalty Title at an upcoming competition?

Q) Is your Samba Goal to learn the fundamentals of Samba and dance Samba well?

💫 Whatever your Samba goal may be, it is not too small or too big to achieve with a supportive and encouraging Coach by your side! 🤩

Hi! Queen Jazz-Ylaine Baptiste here, YOUR Samba Coach! 👸🏽

😄 It is an honor and pleasure to journey with you as you move towards your Samba goals!

BENEFITS OF COACHING:

✨Learn samba dance with confidence!

✨Have the guidance and encouragement of a Coach with over 22 years of Samba Experience! PLUS 40 years of dance training in various dance styles, not including dancing since the womb!

✨Train with a Reigning Samba Queen, Professional Dancer and Competitor, 20+ Years Dance Educator, Mentor and Coach

I am ready to share all of my knowledge, wisdom and expertise with YOU!

✨Each Coaching session is tailored to your goals.

You learn at your pace, receiving tips for ways to improve and develop your samba to support your growth.

✨Coaching sessions are great for the absolute beginner to the seasoned professional dancer.

🗓BOOK YOUR COACHING SESSION TODAY!

✨”Samba is a journey not a destination, enjoy the experience.” 💃🏽🎉🎉

Samba Foundation:

4 Week Class Series

September 9,16,23,30

3 - 4:30pm PST - Online

(4-5:30pm MT/5-6:30pm CT/6-7:30pm ET)

Start or continue your Samba journey with a strong foundation.

This class series will teach foundational principles to practice and integrate into samba to include: footwork, hips, arms, direction and progression. 

This class series is best for:

•. Students who have taken no classes, one class or just a few classes here and there

• students who are getting back to samba after some time away - refreshing

• students who like or love to return to the fundamentals of Samba and deepen their understanding.

* This course is appropriate and relevant for students who have been studying samba for many years, decades even.

Each class of the four week series is 90 minutes in length, and a combination class of two principles per class.

bring:

hydration, comfortable clothes to dance and move in, barefoot or gripper socks, dance sneakers or ballet shoes are suitable as footwear for this class.

Come ready to learn and build YOUR Samba Foundation.

note: no previous Samba experience is necessary.