The Capoeira Experience

Traditional Capoeira Training with Mestranda Edna Lima

35 years Capoeira teaching and training • World's first female Capoeira Mestra/Mestranda
32 years Karate training and competition • 17 international championships • 5th degree blackbelt
 

Capoeira training • Brazilian culture • Instrument crafting • Martial arts training
Technique impact training • Theatrical performance • Health and safety

 

Capoeira Youth™

Do you remember the joy of movement? Your kids should, too.

Edna is a true master of her art and a superb educator. Mirko Cavar, Ph.D. Trevor Day School

Edna's ability to work with even our youngest students is astonishing. Michael Lofton, Ed.M. Broadway Housing Communities

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In the late 1990's Edna successfully adapted the dynamic movements of Capoeira into her trademarked CAPOEIRA WORKOUT® group exercise program. Capoeira Workout forms a bridge between cultures that links participants in a moving communications with a dynamic aesthetic that transcends social boundaries.

The methods of CAPOEIRA WORKOUT® combine the elegance of dance, the power of martial arts, the science of biomechanics, and the rhythms of Afro-Brazilian music.

CAPOEIRA WORKOUT® was recently featured in Martha Stewart's Body+Soul and in Latina Magazine

CAPOEIRA WORKOUT® has been presented at ImPulsTanz, International Dance Festival, The Wingate Sports Science Institute in Israel, New York Sports Clubs, Chelsea Piers, Equinox, and Duomo in New York City, plus fitness centers throughout Brazil and Japan.

The physiological effects of CAPOEIRA WORKOUT® have been studied at Long Island University and Chelsea Piers Sports Center.