At some point, anything you care about deeply will break your heart. Not as an accident. Not as a failure. As part of the path.
In capoeira, you fall. You misjudge. You get caught. And you learn to return — not with anger, but with awareness.
This chapter explores heartbreak not as something to avoid, but as something to understand. What happens when passion turns into pressure? When connection becomes complicated? When doubt quietly enters?
Through capoeira and lived experience, we reflect on a difficult question: What if heartbreak is not what closes you… but what opens you?
The roda doesn’t stop when you fall. And neither does the path.
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The book: 50 Lessons on Capoeira, Teaching, and Life by Alex Maltsev
Contact: mail-podcast@alexmaltsev.me
