Transform your life, with others

The Connect & Play Method.

The biggest problem we have as human beings is disconnection. From our body. From our joy. From our creativity. From each other. The Connect & Play Method solves that problem.

What it is

Capoeira is the tool. Play is the motivation. Connection is what happens.

Connect with Self

Connect with your body
We start the physical part with light mobility and light stretching, built on the best practices of yoga and human movement. And it's personal. Inside the group, you get your own moment to connect with your body.
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You vs You
The only thing that matters is that you improve and explore your own potential. Comparison and competition are the root of so much drama, so we leave them at the door. I say it out loud: don't take me as your example. I might just be more flexible than you, and that's not the goal. The goal is to grow the way you want.
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Connect with your natural talents
Capoeira combines a whole bunch of art forms: dancing, fighting, singing, playing instruments, poetry, performing. One of them might wake up a talent in you. And here you get to embrace it in a safe setting.
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Manage your energy
We listen to what you and the group actually need. Sometimes that's more movement, and the music comes later. Sometimes it's more music and singing first, and then you move. And sometimes you need other people's energy to lift yours, or a place to let some of yours go.
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Explore your voice
We explore the voice in several ways. Natural sound making, just the vowels. Singing songs, all kinds of songs. And speaking about your own process, out loud, with people who listen.
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Discover your play personality
We all have a play personality. The thing that lights you up. The thing that comes so naturally you forget it's special to other people. It's close to your natural talents, and capoeira helps you find it. Connecting with it is life transforming.
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Connect with Others

Loneliness no more. Make & keep friends
We come together and we connect for real. Capoeira is vulnerable by nature. You sing, you move together, you play together, you fall, you get up, you laugh, and you support each other. In our group we respect each other the way we are. We are kind. We help each other.
Where we do this: Classes · Workshops
Improve your social & communication skills
Asking someone something feels a lot better in a safe setting than when you're not sure. So here you can explore it and practise it. And the game itself? The game is communication.
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Connect through music
A lot of our connection happens through music, through the way we use our voice together. Scared to sing? Scared to speak up? That's fine. Just do it, and you'll see yourself grow.
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Connect with All

We are one
One reason people love the classes and the group: together we create the experience of being one. It's an energy field. Looking at each other. Daring to speak from the heart. Being generous, helpful and kind. That connects us to all there is.
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Connect with the now
One of the biggest gifts capoeira brings: it gets you out of your head and into the now. Into the game, into the music. We practise it, and step by step it feels natural. Then you bring it into the rest of your life, and there things flow too. You get more creative, you get more done, and you enjoy it more.
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& Play

Play is leading. Play is our motivation.

It's one of seven primary emotional systems in the brain, as fundamental as fear, care and seeking. Not a luxury. A biological need.

Boosts confidence & creativity
A universal, positive language
Diminishes fear of failure & perfectionism
Sets healthy physical & mental boundaries
Less burnout, stress & depression. More life energy.

The rule

Play is leading.

Play is leading because it relaxes you. Your body and your mind. It lets you try things out, be curious, and connect with the other. Making friends gets a lot easier.

And you can fall. You can fail. You know what? Just smile and stand up again. That's what matters: you keep going with a positive attitude.

We all fall. We are all insecure. We are all ashamed of certain things. That's normal. And when we play with each other, with all of that, it's all good. It doesn't matter. Because we play.

You don't have to be good at this. Not at capoeira, not at singing, not at the moves. Just be open to learn something new.

Two players laughing in the middle of a game in class

Neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp identified PLAY as one of seven primary emotional systems biologically hard-wired into the mammalian brain, as fundamental as fear, care, or seeking. It's not a luxury. It's a biological need.
Dr. Stuart Brown and the National Institute for Play have spent decades showing what happens when we deprive ourselves of it: burnout, disconnection, loss of creativity and joy.
Capoeira, at its core, is a play system. That's not a metaphor. That's neuroscience.

Source: Jaak Panksepp, National Institute for Play

Where you can do this

Same foundation. Different room.

Classes in The Hague

Every week, with the group. Beginners welcome, always.

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Workshops

For capoeira events, dancers and movers, and kids.

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1-on-1 coaching

Just you and me. The fastest way forward. In person in The Hague, or online.

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Come play.

Tell me where you're at. I'll tell you what to try first.

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