Dancing to Our Own Drum
InterPlay for People of Color - BIBOYUM
Kira Allen and
Soyinka Rahim

Oakland, CA
Wednesdays, September 14th- October 19th 6:30-8:00 PM
Join us for a time to tap into our grace,
by noticing and affirming our body wisdom,
we release and recharge together
Breathe In, Breathe Out = BIBO (BeeBoh)
Best used with Sound: roar, sigh, hum, yum, or shhhh
To release tension BIBO Roar or Sigh
To lighten your mood BIBO Hum
To appreciate the good BIBO Yum
To quiet your spirit or silence a room BIBO Shhhh
From Soyinka Rahim, Grassroots Spiritual Practitioner BIBOLOVE!!!
Cost: 0-$15, sliding scale or class card
Registration/Information: Registration is not required, this is a drop in class, but please attend as often as you can. Questions: contact Kira Allen kira.allen21@gmail.com
Venue
InterPlayce
2273 Telegraph Avenue (at 23rd St.)
Oakland, CA 94612
InterPlayce is the center of the InterPlay universe. The offices for Body Wisdom, Inc. are also located here. The building is at the corner of 23rd and Telegraph, one block north of West Grand. It is just a few blocks from the 19th Street Downtown Oakland BART station, and on several convenient bus lines. On-street parking is always available at night and metered during the day. It is also easily accessible by several of the major freeways.
Click here for a map.
Leaders
Kira Allen
This Certified InterPlay leader is an author, collage artist, activist, advocate, and facilitator who specializes in working with Black, Indigenous, People of Color and Queer communities. She holds an M.A. in Transformative Arts from John F. Kennedy University, and a B.A. in English/Creative Writing from Mills College. Bearing witness to her own traumas and triumphs through a wide variety of modalities inspires her work with participants of all ages in: classrooms, homeless shelters, churches, non-profits and intimate circles inside people’s homes. Ms. Kira cultivates sacred creative spaces invoking all her experiences to empower marginalized communities. Her poetic memoir, Write This Second, was republished in April of 2019 and can be ordered through any local independent bookstore.
Soyinka Rahim
Soyinka Rahim (GSP) is a grassroots spiritual practitioner who is the founder and artistic director of BIBOLOVE.US which stands for "breathe in breathe out love." She was also the founder of OurThing Performing arts company, where she created the modern-day folk dance play An Altar Piece to Alter Peace, a multimedia, intergenerational performance piece for peace. Her work BIBOLOVE taps into the power of sound, movement and visual art, raising the love vibration of peace, love, joy, happiness, health, grace, and ease. BIBOLOVE supports our personal and collective life challenges by feeding the love frequencies for generational, cultural, racial, body, and economic unity. Soyinka has brought her wisdom as a spiritual director, conference weaver and workshop leader to InterPlay Certified Life practice, Facing Race, National Association for Independent Schools for Teachers of Color,
Boys and Girls Clubs, Spiritual Directors International Conference, and the Parliament of World Religions.