Discover the benefits that capoeira offers to the bodies and minds of elderly people. Carlos Alberto Rosa (Mestre Rosa) of Grupo Barauna is working with older capoeira students in Mogi das Cruzes, Sao Paulo.
How did you get the idea to teach capoeira to the elderly?
It started because I had many parents of my students who would come and watch the classes, wanting to take up some physical activity – but they thought they could never do capoeira. We had a meeting and agreed that capoeira would be very good for older people, because it could be taught as recreation. So we began a capoeira group with this goal in mind. Today, it has 20 members.
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