Capoeira workout

Spiritual Bencao

This Afro-Brazilian art, combines elements of martial arts, music, and dance. It was created in Brazil by slaves from Africa, especially from Angola, Mozambique and Congo sometime after the sixteenth century. 

Participants in this game, form a roda, or circle, and take turns either playing musical instruments, singing, or ritually sparring in pairs in the center of the circle. The sparring is marked by fluid acrobatic play, feints, takedowns, and with extensive use of leg sweeps, kicks, and headbutts.

The Roda has a deeper significance to its members:
 

' When we play capoeira in the Roda, towards the center of it, all of us become equal so Capoeira does not have sexual, colour or any kind of prejudice, for me we are all just capoeiristas with our differences and limitations."

Jogar de Capoeira

 Capoeira is played by all- regardles of age or gender. It encourages the practitioner to find himself through play, to discover the quasi orgasmic pleasure of living in the moment.

Capoeira imbues its practitioners with its beauty and strength; it requires them to reach beyond themselves, to discover the warrior, the poet, and the philosopher that resides deep within each one of us. The capoeirista, when he discovers his potential to be a great artist, must find his inner change and gradually develop his own originality, he must find a deeper way to be unique.

This is just a teaser... 


Watch out for the real capoeira workout tomorrow