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 as a mystical ritual, but as a practical skill: the ability to pause, observe, and choose your response instead of reacting automatically. Presence creates space. And in that space, creativity becomes possible.

We look at how meditation connects to capoeira, why awareness is more powerful than control, and how small moments of intentional pause can change the direction of your day.

The book: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠50 Lessons on Capoeira, Teaching, and Life⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ by Alex Maltsev

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