Check Your Shoes: Capoeira, Hidden Habits, and the Small Changes That Transform Your Life
Sometimes the biggest problems in our lives don’t come from dramatic events — they come from small, unnoticed details.In this episode, I share a personal story from my years of intense capoeira traini...
2 Mar 3min
Placebo and Resistance: What Capoeira Teaches Us About Mindset
What if belief alone could change your performance — in the roda and in life?In this episode, we explore the power of belief through the lens of the placebo and nocebo effects. Science shows that expe...
27 Feb 3min
Capoeira and the Digital Immune System: Protecting Your Focus in a Noisy World
We live in a world designed to capture our attention. Notifications. Feeds. Breaking news. Endless scrolling.All competing for your time, your energy, your focus.In this episode, we explore the idea o...
25 Feb 3min
The Practice of Presence: Capoeira, Meditation, and Choosing Your Response
In capoeira, everything depends on presence. Miss a cue, drift into autopilot, react without awareness — and the game slips away from you. The same is true in life.This episode explores meditation not...
23 Feb 3min
Self-Reflection and Journaling: Capoeira, Clarity, and Tuning Your Mind
In this episode, we explore self-reflection as the foundation of growth, and journaling as one of the most powerful tools for clarity and self-improvement.Drawing on lessons from capoeira, mentorship,...
16 Feb 7min
Morning Ritual: How Capoeira Teaches Us to Begin the Day
This episode brings together several ideas from earlier chapters — identity, goals, habits, and planning — and distills them into one simple practice: ritual.In capoeira, rituals create focus, presenc...
9 Feb 5min
Have a Plan: Capoeira, Teaching, and the Discipline of One Day
“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”This episode is about planning — not as rigidity, but as responsibility.Drawing parallels between capoeira, teaching, aviation, and daily life...
31 Jan 4min
Identity Over Goals: Capoeira, Habits, and Who You Become
This episode opens the second section of the book — a section about habits and self-improvement.At first glance, habits may seem far from capoeira. But capoeira is a lifelong practice of discipline, r...
28 Jan 6min
