During this week's "Saturday stretch," Leandro Santos da Silva demonstrates the Afro-Brazilian exercise and art form capoeira and shows off some everyday stretches.

In a sunny, wood-floored studio space above the shops in Tacoma’s antique row lie the practitioners of a centuries-old cultural art form. At once a style of martial arts, a spiritual practice and a ...

It is a ritual. People in white clothes form a circle, clap, play tribal music and sing in Portuguese. Meanwhile, two jump into the center, concentrate, throw kicks and avoid each other with ...

Capoeira master shares benefits of dynamic exercise During this week's "Saturday stretch," Leandro Santos da Silva demonstrates the Afro-Brazilian exercise and art form capoeira and shows off some ...