Learn Garba, together.
Actually learn the dance everyone loves. Be dance-floor ready, not the one sitting down at Navratri. Beginners welcome; nobody learns alone.
The garba class where you actually get good
A Navratri night teaches you nothing. A once-a-season workshop fades by the time the dhol starts. Garba Groove is different: real classes, real progress, week after week, until the steps live in your feet.
You learn the way garba was always learned: in a circle, everyone facing in, nobody learning alone. That mistimed clap in your first class? Gone by your third. And yes, it will be the best workout of your week. That's just not why you'll come back.
Classes, from first step to leading the circle
Three levels, beginner to advanced, all built so you can start from zero. Mix and match classes with one pack, move up when you're ready, and go from "I can't dance" to the one others follow.
- Beginner: the core steps, claps, and spins, taught from scratch. No experience needed, said loudly.
- Intermediate: faster rhythms, richer sequences, real flow.
- Advanced: the polish, the speed, the front of the circle.
Rhythms & Spins
The core garba steps, claps, and spins, taught from scratch. No experience needed, said loudly. Where everyone starts, including the people now leading the circle.
Grace & Barrels
Faster rhythms, richer sequences, real flow. The steps get more interesting, and it starts to feel less like following and more like dancing.
Master Garba
Speed, styling, and the harder traditional variations. This is the front of the circle, for dancers who want to be the ones others watch at Navratri.
What a garba circle looks like
Garba as it's danced in Gujarat and wherever the diaspora lands. Photos of our own circle arrive with season one — until then, this is the tradition you'd be learning.
The circle, from the inside: everyone facing in, nobody at the back.
Photo: Saurabh sirohiya, CC BY-SA 4.0
Dandiya raas at Ambaji temple, Gujarat — the tradition our classes teach.
Photo: anurag agnihotri, CC BY 2.0
Raas in a school gym — garba travels wherever the diaspora goes.
Photo: jackiembarr, CC BY 2.0
Garba is big here. Now it has a home.
The Bay Area threw more than 50 garba events in 2025, from arena nights with touring artists to community ras-garba in school gyms. Sharad Navratri 2026 runs October 11 to 20, and the whole region will be dancing.
Garba Groove is where you get ready for all of it, and where the dancing doesn't have to stop when the season ends. Classes run in sessions; when enough of us want more, the waitlist brings more.
Stay in the loop
One short email now and then: new session dates, Navratri picks, what the circle's been up to. No spam, ever.
Or DM @garba.groove on Instagram
Your first circle is waiting
Walk in unsure, walk out with the steps. The circle handles the rest.