Rooted in Culture.
Growing Together.

Kids · Ages 4–7
Capoeira is one of the rare practices that grows with a child rather than becoming something they outgrow. Parents who enrolled their kids expecting a fun after-school activity tell us they noticed changes across the board: better focus at school, more confidence in social situations, physical capability that shows up everywhere. What the practice builds in the early years compounds — and it never stays only in the studio. The first class costs you nothing. Most families don't stop there.

Youth · Ages 8–13
The youth program is where kids find out what they're actually made of. Real technique — kicks, sweeps, acrobatic transitions, and the improvisational game of the roda — challenges them in ways that build far beyond the studio. Students who came in as uncertain eight-year-olds leave the program as coordinated, composed young people who know how to handle pressure. Parents who enroll their kids in Capoeira watch that composure show up everywhere — at school, at home, and in how they carry themselves under pressure.

Teens · Ages 14–17
Capoeira is one of the few things that meets a teenager exactly where they are. It's physically demanding enough to earn their respect, and the roda trains self-regulation in a way no classroom can — you cannot lose your composure in the circle or you lose the game. Teens who train here leave more disciplined, more physically capable, and more comfortable in their own skin.

Adults · Ages 18+
Capoeira gives back more the longer you stay with it. What tends to happen: physical gains come first — strength, coordination, flexibility. Then mental discipline. Then something harder to name — a relationship with a culture and a community built on resilience that doesn't exist anywhere else. Adult students who walked in describing themselves as "not athletic" develop the strength to kick high, the coordination to sweep low, and the body awareness to move through a roda with control — capabilities they didn't believe they had. The roda is open to everyone. Uriel has 30 years of practice and the patience to prove it.

First class is free for new students of any age. No experience needed.

Absolute Beginner
Every new student who walks through the door says the same thing after class one: "I didn't think I'd actually be dancing this fast." That's Luis's instruction. He doesn't start with steps — he starts with how to feel the music, because the students who learn that first never look mechanical. Most people go from zero to moving with real confidence within weeks of consistent attendance. The energy in this class is consistently what new students mention — they come back because it doesn't feel like learning. It feels like playing.

Advanced Beginner
This is the level where most students either stall or break through. Luis knows exactly where the gaps are — it's the same spot for almost everyone — and closes them methodically using the Couture Dance Syllabus. Students in this class consistently describe a specific moment when the timing locked in, the connection with their partner clicked, and they stopped feeling like they were learning steps and started feeling like they were actually dancing. That moment happens here.

Intermediate
By this level, students trained under the Couture Syllabus have a foundation that shows. The details Luis builds in — musicality, clean footwork, intentional lead and follow — are exactly the things that get noticed on the social floor. This is where students go from competent to the person other dancers want to partner with.

Luis Aguilar also teaches at Revivé Studio · revivedanceclasses.com

Most adults have spent years avoiding the floor. Sitting over it, standing up from it as fast as possible, treating it as a last resort. This class reverses that relationship — and the results show up fast.

Uriel built Ground-based Mobility Flow from the movement principles that make Capoeira practitioners so physically capable. In Capoeira, the floor is not a limitation — it's where everything originates. Every kick, every evasion, every transition comes from a deep, functional relationship with the ground. This class extracts that intelligence into a standalone, all-levels practice: joint circles, animal movements, low transitions, and controlled inversions.

Students routinely discover range of motion they hadn't accessed in years — hips that open, joints that move without grinding, a physical ease they forgot was possible. One session is enough to feel it. A consistent month changes how you move everywhere else. No Capoeira experience required, though Capoeira students use this class specifically to accelerate their game.

Gentle Yoga
Most people who need this class the most are the ones most likely to think it isn't enough. It is enough — and then some. Gentle Yoga works in the places high-intensity training ignores: chronic tension in the hips, shoulders, and jaw that most adults have simply learned to live with; a nervous system that has forgotten how to downshift; a body that has been asked to perform for years without ever being asked how it feels. Long holds, supported poses, and intentional breathwork address all of it. Give it three weeks and notice what shifts — in the studio and outside of it.

Vinyasa
Melissa builds every sequence with purpose. Nothing in this class is filler — every transition teaches you something specific about how your body moves. Whether you're newer to the practice or more experienced, modifications and more advanced variations exist in the same room, so no one feels out of place. What students consistently notice is not just that they get stronger. It's that they get smarter about their movement — and that awareness changes how they carry themselves everywhere else.

Melissa Rodriguez · 500-hr RYT · Revivé brings classes to Roots & Wisdom Studio