🤸🏾‍♂️LEARNING OBJECTIVE

Gather Axé or energy while doing Ginga.

WHAT YOU NEED

• Clear floor space where you can safely do cartwheels and handstands

• Footwear and flooring surface that enables you to move without slipping and without twisting your ankles or knees

• A partner (optional)

LESSON SEQUENCE

• Introduction

• Exercise 1: Gathering Axé with Images of Water and Earth

• Exercise 2: Basic Ginga with Axé

• Discussion & Reflection

NOTES & MODIFICATIONS

• Do this exercise alone or with a partner.

• Experiment with different kinds of imagery to see what works for you.

• After completing this lesson, reflect in a journal entry, in the video comments, or talking with your capoeira partner.

• After completing the Axé exercises with Ginga, repeat them with other capoeira movements.

INSTRUCTOR

DeShawn "Quiabo" Robins