Play is a way to rediscover the body and rethink relationships

This talk was filmed at the advaya event Beyond Limits. Jorge Goia is a Capoeira and Soma specialist and practitioner trained by Roberto Freire. Jorge came across capoeira in the early 1990s, while working with Roberto Freire, a pioneer in therapeutic uses of capoeira. He then studied Capoeira and Soma in his MA and PhD in Social Psychology, at UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, where he was interested in the changes these two techniques can stimulate, and how the body awareness and skills they develop can affect emotions, feelings and behaviour. He proposed both Soma and Capoeira as a learning process of relational skills, which produce new ways of surviving and living in the world, and as such constructed an approach that goes beyond dualist models of mind/body or individual/society.