At The San Francisco Capoeira Center we incorporate mindful body alignment and joint mobility exercises to our Mindful Capoeira core curriculum. By paying attention to skeletal and joint alignment we preserve and prepare the body for a lifetime of Mindful Capoeira. Here is a short clip of an amazing hip […]
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The San Francisco Capoeira Center’s approach to capoeira is an approach rooted in mindfulness. In our capoeira practice we start from balance and cultivate balance through slow deliberate and mindful movement. We have taken the “momentum” out of the way that we practice capoeira. Through eliminating momentum in training, we […]
The San Francisco Capoeira Center presents Capoeira Angola Quintal’s first capoeira music video! This is the teaser for a full length album that will be released in parts by BAMM.tv. We are so proud to have worked with BAMM.tv on this project and we can’t wait for the full episodes […]
The San Francisco Capoeira Center is inviting your child to participate with us in our SF capoeira youth program! We offer capoeira classes for two age ranges: 4-6, and 7-12. Age 3 students will be considered for participation on a case by case basis. Our capoeira program for youth is […]
The San Francisco Capoeira Center is teaching the ways of mindfulness in motion. We are constantly asking ourselves how we can be more graceful, intentional, and more fluid in not just capoeira, but also in life. Through the process of learning movement, music, acrobatics, play, dance, and language we are […]
At The San Francisco Capoeira Center we believe that capoeira should be taught in a responsible way, mindfully, as to honor and serve our bodies, minds, and spirits. Our idea of embodying freedom takes many forms in the realm of movement and capoeira. One of these forms of freedom is […]
At the San Francisco Capoeira Center, our classes are a full body work out. They open the channels in the body and spin all of the chakras like a great yoga class. Capoeira is a yoga form in motion where all of the movements spiral both upwards and downwards from […]
Here is an awesome video brought to you by the San Francisco Capoeira Center. Mestre Nô, Grand Master, and founder of Capoeira Angola Palmares (the parent group of CAQ) is the pioneer of mindful capoeira. His approach to capoeira as a movement art has sustained his personal practice through 40+ […]
There is beautiful energy in this game, marked by a friendly hug in it’s completion. In San Francisco, Capoeira is growing as a mindful practice! Here is an awesome video brought to you by the San Francisco Capoeira Center. Capoeira Angola Quintal San Francisco is the ticket to embodying equilibrium, grace, […]
Here is an awesome picture brought to you by the San Francisco Capoeira Center. At Capoeira Angola Quintal San Francisco we have a mindful approach to creating freedom in the body. Our practice honors and preserves the body while opening our material selves up to ultimate liberation and flight. While […]