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Axé Boom Boom We want every kiddos out there to be active for life. Capoeira & Djembe are our super powers. What's yours? Our social enterprise in based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Connect with us here or visit out website. Keep training! Kasia & Grześ

16/10/2026

🥋 “I’M TOO OLD FOR CAPOEIRA!”

Said who?! 😂❤️

You don’t need to be flexible.
You don’t need to be super fit.
You don’t need to know any martial arts.

You just need to COME AND TRY! 🔥

Our Adults & Older Teens Capoeira classes (16+) are full of movement, music, laughter and positive energy!

And the best part?

👩‍🏫 TWO TEACHERS – Kasia & Grześ supporting you throughout the class!

💪 YOUR LEVEL, YOUR PACE – Exercises adapted for beginners and experienced students.

🤸 MOVEMENT – Develop strength, balance, coordination and mobility.

🥁 MUSIC – Discover the rhythms, songs and traditions of Capoeira.

❤️ COMMUNITY – Meet people, make friends and enjoy moving together!

We proudly teach the Capoeira methodology developed by Mestre Papa Leguas passed on to us through 15 years of learning with our teacher, Mestre Medusa

Authentic Capoeira. Supportive teaching. Endless opportunities to grow!

📍 ST MICHAEL’S CHURCH
1 Slateford Road, Edinburgh

🗓️ EVERY WEDNESDAY
⏰ 6:00PM
👥 AGES 16+

✨ BEGINNERS WELCOME!

📩 DM us to book your first class!

Don’t wait until you’re fitter, stronger or more flexible.

START WHERE YOU ARE! ❤️

Move. Drum. Play. Active for Life, every day!

15/10/2026

“I HAVE NO RHYTHM!”

Are you sure? Or has nobody explained it in a way that works for you yet? 😉❤️

Meet Grześ, our experienced Djembe teacher who has a wonderful talent for making even tricky rhythms feel achievable!

Because not everyone learns in the same way.

👂 HEAR IT – Listen to the rhythm.
👀 SEE IT – Watch the demonstration.
👏 SAY IT – Count, clap or speak the beat.
🥁 FEEL IT – Play, practise and let your hands discover the rhythm.

Different explanations. Different approaches. One amazing feeling when it finally clicks! 😍

Our Djembe classes are about so much more than playing drums.

✨ Learning something new
✨ Building confidence
✨ Connecting with others
✨ Having fun without pressure
✨ Becoming part of a welcoming community

And YES, absolute beginners are welcome!

📍 The Space, 183 Dalry Rd, Edinburgh
🗓️ Sundays | 5:45pm beginners

🥁 Ready to find your rhythm?

Book your class through the link in our bio or visit:

www.axeboomboom.org/djembe-drumming-classes/

❤️ Everyone has a rhythm. Come and discover yours!

Move, drum, play! Active for life every day!

14/10/2026

🥋 LESS SCROLLING. MORE ROLLING! 🤸‍♀️🔥

Looking for an activity your child will actually LOVE? 😍

Capoeira is where martial arts meet music, movement, games and FUN!

And while your child is having the time of their life, they’re also developing:

💪 Strength and flexibility
⚡ Agility, balance and coordination
🧠 Focus and concentration
❤️ Confidence and resilience
🤝 Teamwork and friendships
🥁 Musicality and rhythm

No experience? No problem!

Our children’s Capoeira classes are welcoming, playful and full of positive energy.

📍 EDINBURGH
🥋 MONDAYS – 4:30pm | North Merchiston Club
🥋 THURSDAYS – 4:30pm | Tynecastle High School

👧🧒 Ages 5–16
✨ New students welcome!

📩 DM us to book a trial class!

Let’s get more children moving, smiling and discovering what their bodies can do!

Move. Drum. Play. Active for Life, every day! ❤️

07/10/2026

Never played a djembe before? PERFECT. 🪘❤️

Seriously.

You don’t need experience.
You don’t need to already know the rhythms.
And you definitely don’t need to be worried about getting everything right!

Our Sunday djembe classes are friendly, welcoming and designed so beginners can learn at their own pace.

And one of the things we love most about our community?

Our more experienced students help our beginners too. 🙌

Someone gets lost in the rhythm?
We help them find it again.

Someone isn’t sure of a technique?
We show them.

Someone makes a mistake?
We keep drumming! 😄

Because that’s how learning works.

You listen.
You try.
You get lost.
You find the beat again.
You laugh.
You learn.
And suddenly you’re playing something you never thought you’d be able to play. 🪘🔥

Drumming is about more than learning rhythms too.

It’s connection.
Concentration.
Community.
Music.
And the incredible feeling of creating one sound together.

So if you’ve been saying:

“I’d love to try drumming one day…”

Maybe this Sunday is the day. 👀🪘

📍 Dalry, Edinburgh
🗓 Every Sunday
⏰ 5:45pm
🙌 Beginners very welcome

Book your place and come drum with us!

06/10/2026

Do you know how our Kids Capoeira classes really started? ❤️

Take us back to 2020/2021…

Restrictions were changing, children had spent months missing activities and friends, and families were desperate for their kids to MOVE again.

But we had a problem.

Capoeira didn’t have a governing body giving us specific instructions about how we could safely return to classes.

So what did we do?

We followed the wider sportscotland guidance…

…and took Capoeira OUTSIDE! 🌳🤸‍♀️🤸

Was it perfect?

Definitely not. 😂

We live in Scotland after all! 🌧️

But then the children arrived.

They saw their friends again.

They ran.
They kicked.
They played.
They laughed.
They trained together.

And honestly… seeing the joy on their faces was priceless. ❤️❤️❤️

Those sessions taught us something we have never forgotten.

Physical activity for children is about much more than exercise.

It’s friendship.
It’s confidence.
It’s belonging.
It’s play.
It’s learning.
It’s feeling part of something.

And that experience helped shape what our Kids Capoeira programme is today.

We want children to develop agility, balance, coordination, confidence and resilience.

But above everything else, we want them to LOVE moving.

Because if movement brings joy when you’re young, there’s a much better chance you’ll keep moving as you grow. 🙌

That’s our bigger mission:

Active for Life. ❤️🌍

And it all started with a group of children doing Capoeira outside during one of the strangest periods we can remember.

How amazing is that? 🥹❤️

02/10/2026

Who are we, what do we do… and WHY do we do it? ❤️🌍

If you look through these pictures, you’ll see lots of different things.

🤸 Children learning Capoeira
👨‍👩‍👧 Families moving together
🔥 Teenagers and adults training Capoeira
🪘 Adults learning West African djembe drumming
💃 Samba
🙌 Movement and wellbeing team building workshops

They may look like completely different activities.

But they are all connected by one mission:

Helping people become Active for Life.

We don’t believe there is one “right” way to be active.

Some people love sport.
Some love music.
Some love dance.
Some want to train hard.
Some simply want to move, laugh and meet other people.

And that’s OK.

For us, movement is about so much more than exercise.

It can build confidence.
It can help us connect.
It can introduce us to different cultures.
It can challenge us.
It can make us laugh.
It can give us a community.
And, most importantly, it can be something we genuinely look forward to doing. ❤️

From a young child discovering movement through play, to an adult picking up a djembe for the first time, we want people to have opportunities to keep learning throughout their lives.

Axé Boom Boom is an Edinburgh-based social enterprise, which means our work also has a wider purpose.

Income generated through our programmes and corporate work helps us create more opportunities for children, young people and communities to access sport, movement and wellbeing.

So yes, we teach Capoeira.

We drum.

We dance Samba.

We move.

But underneath all of that, we are building confidence, connection, wellbeing and community.

That is why we do what we do. ❤️

Move, Drum, Play
Active for Life Everyday. 🙌

30/09/2026

What an incredible energy! 🪘🔥🙌

Our Axé Boom Boom students, together with Kasia .with.kasia and Grześ recently had the opportunity to take part in an amazing djembe workshop with Mohamed, organised by Sue and

And WOW… what a workshop! ❤️

The room was full of rhythm, concentration, laughter and energy, and our students absolutely loved it. They were learning new rhythms, experiencing a different teaching style, challenging themselves and enjoying making music together.

They’re still buzzing from it! 🙌🪘

For us, this is such an important part of learning.

It’s not only about coming to your regular class every week. Meeting different teachers and musicians gives you a chance to hear something new, experience another approach and keep growing.

We’re also really excited that Axé Boom Boom and Drumming Hands are working closely together to create even more opportunities for people to experience drumming, movement, culture and community. ❤️🌍

We believe music and movement have an incredible ability to bring people together, no matter their age, experience or background.

A huge thank you to Mohamed for sharing your knowledge and energy with us, and to Sue and Highland African Beats for making it happen. 🙏

More rhythms.
More learning.
More collaboration.
More community. 🪘❤️🔥

28/09/2026

🎉 WOW!!! ALMOST £1,500!!! 🎉

A HUGE SHOUT-OUT to every single person who has donated to our Kiltwalk fundraising! ❤️🙏

THANK YOU!!!

Every £1 raised gets us closer to creating more free and subsidised Capoeira opportunities for children and families through Axé for All. 🥋❤️

Your donations can help give children the opportunity to:

🤸 MOVE
💪 GET STRONGER
🥋 LEARN NEW SKILLS
🥁 EXPERIENCE MUSIC & RHYTHM
🤝 MAKE FRIENDS
🌱 BUILD CONFIDENCE
❤️ FEEL PART OF A COMMUNITY
😁 HAVE FUN!

Because being active shouldn’t only be about exercise.

We want children to fall in love with MOVEMENT.

To play.
To explore.
To challenge themselves.
To laugh.
To belong.

And hopefully to carry that love of movement with them throughout their lives. ❤️

Our dream?

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland where every child has the opportunity to Be Active for Life!

Nearly £1,500 raised and we’re still going! 🙌

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! ❤️

You can still donate and help us create even more opportunities for children and families. Link in BIO

LET’S KEEP SCOTLAND MOVING! 🥋🥁🤸‍♀️

23/09/2026

🤸‍♀️🔥 OUR ADULTS & 16+ CAPOEIRA CLASS IS FLYING! 🔥🤸‍♂️

We absolutely LOVE the energy in this class. ❤️

People getting together.

Moving.

Learning.

Laughing.

Challenging themselves.

And simply enjoying life! 🙌

Because being active doesn’t have to mean forcing yourself through another workout.

Movement can be FUN!

But Capoeira is also so much more than exercise.

It is:

🤸 Movement
💪 Strength & coordination
🧠 Focus & learning
🥁 Music & rhythm
🤝 Connection & community
🌍 Afro-Brazilian culture
❤️ History & tradition
😂 And plenty of laughter!

At Axé Boom Boom, our teaching follows the tradition of , founded by

Our teachers, Professora Risada (.with.kasia ) and Professor Pingado (.tucum.capoeira ), continue to learn from their teacher Mestre Medusa , who trained under Mestre Papa-Léguas. We love to train with our Edinburgh community

That connection matters to us. ❤️

Because when you learn Capoeira, you aren’t simply learning some cool kicks.

You are becoming part of a living tradition.

You learn the movements, but also the music, instruments, songs, jogo, culture and community surrounding Capoeira.

And there is ALWAYS something more to learn. 🌱

You don’t need to be fit before you start.

You don’t need to be flexible.

You don’t need previous experience.

Just come ready to move, learn and have fun!

📅 Wednesdays
⏰ 6pm
📍 St Michael’s Church, Edinburgh
🙌 Ages 16+

Come and experience the Axé! ❤️🥁

22/09/2026

Almost a month of Capoeira Kids! 🥋❤️

And WOW we’re so proud of our young Capoeiristas!

The progress we’re seeing already is amazing. 🌟

But Capoeira isn’t just about learning kicks and acrobatics.

It helps children develop:

💪 Strength & coordination
🧠 Focus & listening
🎯 Confidence
🤝 Cooperation & respect
🎵 Rhythm & creativity
🌱 Resilience & perseverance

And there’s something extra special happening too…

A HUGE thank you to our amazing teens and young adults who came along to play music for our younger students! 🥁❤️ Hannah and Logan!!!

You brought the energy, rhythm and spirit of the roda and helped make the class extra special.

It’s wonderful to see our older students supporting and inspiring the younger generation.

Well done! 👏 We’re so proud of you!

And we’ve had a little lesson in community too. 😄

After an unexpected last-minute venue change, our Monday classes moved back to our “new/old” venue at

Our families were absolutely brilliant and supported us through the change. ❤️

That’s true community, when plans change, we adapt and keep moving together!

Thank you to all our amazing families and our fantastic young musicians. 🙏

Keep moving. Keep learning. Keep growing.

Axé! 🥋🥁❤️

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