That quiet friction inside your life like a rhythm just slightly off beat. A sense that something’s missing or misaligned.

It’s not pain. Not exactly. But it hums in your chest. A low ache. A tension between the life you’re living and the one you know, somewhere in your body, is possible.

That’s where my journey began. Not in a gym. Not on a stage. Not through sports or dance. It began with that same ache the kind that doesn’t go away just because you’ve done everything “right.”

I chased excellence to survive and live a better life. I built a career as a software developer, application engineer, and designer. I was succeeding, on paper. But underneath it? Something was slipping.

The further I went, the more disconnected I felt from others, from the world, from myself. And then I experienced something. Like memory and a dream.

It was Capoeira. It found me. I followed. At first, I thought I was learning how to do beautiful acrobatic movements and floreiro. But slowly, I realized something else was happening:

I was learning how to listen. How to feel. How to be. Capoeira didn’t just show me how to move. It showed me how to live.