#64.  An article on unwanted touch and harassment in yoga sparks on discussion on sexual harassment, sexual maturity (or intelligence, or experience), sexual kindergarten, and sexual heart chakra adjustments.

The article:

Yoga is Finally Facing Consent and Unwanted Touch

#63.  Azul sees something online that makes her mad, Bonzinho respectfully disagrees, Varal interjects with irrelevant insertions, and Sucão says "I just want to understand" repeatedly.

#62.  Our annual Halloween episode.  Spooky stories of impish tricksters, quilombos, graveyard capoeira, and the cursed rhythm that must never be spoken of.

#61. Short sections on women or racism in capoeira, long sections on family trees, and great illustrations.  A review of a classic capoeira book.

The Little Capoeira Book by Nestor Capoeira

The Capoeira Guidebook by Varal

#60.  Our totally comprehensive, helpful, and professional guide to getting started in capoeira.  Sumos, mean girls, and cleansing rituals to getcha going.

#59. Ready?  You're walking down the street on the way to the studio when a homeless man with a homeless dog asks if you can spare anything and all you have are the clothes on your back and your favorite berimbau.  What do you do?  Give him your shirt and take class topless?  Play him some classic capoeira tunes about freedom from oppression? 

#58.  We squeeze a lifetime's worth of motor skill development into a single episode.  The stages of learning a movement, some wisdom from Mestre Acordeon, and how to sidestep an existential crisis.

Easy viewing for the psychomotor pyramid here.

Original paper here.

#57.  A two-part episode where we confuse ourselves and then disagree about the takedown tesouro de joelho.  Then, in part 2, a discussion on the ethics of excluding casual capoeiristas.  Should you be treated differently just because you don't eat, sleep, and breathe capoeira?   Is it wrong to make an injured or pregnant person stand in the corner and play pandeiro for an hour?

#56.  Four (or five or six) ideas or notions that we used to believe and no longer do.  Varal dismisses teachers, Sucão embraces violence, Bonzinho argues that capoeira belongs in Tekken after all, and Azul wakes up to others' blindness.

#55.  Sucão presents a psychology paper that investigates hierarchy, group dynamics, and rebellion.  Perfect for capoeira, we thought.  Rebels with allies keep their heads, it seems, while the lone gun loses out.