Your Teachers
Lang Maria Liu - "Professora Lang" - has been playing capoeira for over twenty-four years and is a teacher - a Formada - of "Filhos de Bimba Escola de Capoeira" under Mestre Nenel - Mestre Bimba's son's - guidance.  She has a Ph.D. in Eduation.  (You can read her book Bimba's Rhythm is One, Two, Three: From Resistance to Transformation Through Brazilian Capoeira, available on Amazon). Lang is also a Gokhale Method primal posture teacher.


 Meredith Kenny - "Marionete" - has been playing capoeira for fourteen years.  She is the senior student and assistant teacher at Filhos de Bimba Toronto. 







Mark Francisco - "Jet Li" - is an advanced student who has been playing capoeira for fifteen years and assists with classes. 

Offerings

Traditional Capoeira Regional Classes​
Bahian Folkloric Classes
​Community Celebrations & Performances
Stretch & Strength Classes and Primal Posture
Volunteering Opportunities
Organized Trips to Brazil and the US

Why train Capoeira?

Capoeira opens a world to the senses - music to stir the soul, dances to awaken sensuality, fighting arts to stir the warrior spirit in all of us...  There is the warmth of community, the joy of creativity and the satisfaction of personal growth.  Filhos de Bimba Toronto is a school dedicated to personal well being and community transformation.   You are welcome!

Professora Lang's Book
Bimba’s Rhythm is One, Two, Three is Lang Maria Liu’s first book.

Part ethnography, travelogue and personal odyssey, it bridges many genres in its search for truth and hope. The reader is taken deep into the Afro-Bahian world of capoeira on the northeast coast of Brazil, where slave ships once plied the shores.

During three trips to Brazil undertaken for her Ph.D., the boundaries between research and personal experience blur. Recently divorced and having left behind the capoeira school she co-founded with her ex-husband in Canada, the author finds herself falling in love with a capoeira master. Will she find her place in this world, one so different from her own? And can the wounds of her past, stretching back generations, ever be healed?

Here, amongst the Afro-Bahians whom she fears at first, the author learns about our common humanity, and that the act of surrender – something she has fought all her life – may be the only true path to joy.