| Over an 8 week session, Michael Goldstein (Mestre Ombrinho) leads Capoeria Workshops with NYC District 75 students. Through this Brazilian self-defense and dance program, students achieve focus, discipline, respect while building camaraderie with peers.
 Students focus on FITNESS and COORDINATION skills while participating in a full body warm up of stretches, strengthening exercises and a routine of ten basic capoeria moves.  Agility exercises prepare students for sequences of Capoeria moves in pairs.  Students are introduced to Brazilian musical instruments including the berimbau, agogo bells and atabaque drum.
Michael Goldstein (Mestre Ombrinho) has dedicated over 25 years to enriching the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds through classes and performances in capoeira, the Brazilian form of self-defense disguised as dance. He is a master teacher, the founder and executive director of the non-profit organization Afro Brazil Arts, and the first non-Brazilian to become a master of capoeira. He is widely known for his mastery of capoeira among Brazilian capoeira masters and practitioners, as well as his ability to make capoeira accessible to people who are experiencing it for the first time. a master of capoeira. He is widely known for his mastery of capoeira among Brazilian capoeira masters and practitioners, as well as his ability to make capoeira accessible to people who are experiencing it for the first time. | 
