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Ana Carolina Lima better known in the martial arts world as Morena, is a Brazilian/American born on July 15, 1983. Morena began her road in martial arts at 12 years of age due to her struggles with extreme bullying. She is a BJJ first degree black belt under Alexandre "Vaca" Moreno from Team Kimura based out of Natal, RN, Brazil, and a capoeira professor under Mestre Ze Com Fome from FICAG based in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. With over 23 years of experience, she has also dedicated her life to learning about different arts such as self defense, boxing, MMA and others. After traveling to train, teach and competed in the pro bjj scene around the world she noticed Injury just seemed part of life for all martial artistis. Morena was the pioneer of capoeira in the city of Al Ain, in the United Arab Emirates where she also worked with Brazilian jiu-jitsu for Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan in the school systems and military. Morena is also a long time referee for the UAEJJ federation and was a commentator for the Abu Dhabi Sports Channel. Though this time she also had the pleasure of building competitors (young girls) who went on to win world tittles in a muslim country. She also competed in the most elite events around the world, and this meant seeing more and more injured martial artists everywhere. 

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BJJ Television Interview with Morena and others.

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After traveling to train, teach and competed in the pro bjj scene around the world she noticed Injury just seemed part of life for all martial artistis. Morena was the pioneer of capoeira in the city of Al Ain, in the United Arab Emirates where she also worked with Brazilian jiu-jitsu for Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan in the school systems and military. Morena is also a long time referee for the UAEJJ federation and was a commentator for the Abu Dhabi Sports Channel. Though this time she also had the pleasure of building competitors (young girls) who went on to win world tittles in a muslim country. She also competed in the most elite events around the world, and this meant seeing more and more injured martial artists everywhere. After gaining more knowledge about the body and becoming a certified physiotrainer (the only course certified by the board of physical therapy) and also going through a pregnancy at the age of 35yrs. Getting back into shape alone and without adequate time to train just seemed impossible, injuries were piling up and baby caring and dedicating herself to this world seemed impossible. Instead she decided to use her knowledge and the pregnancy to pave the road, by practcing breath work to have a successful natural birth, and then learning how to use breath and proper movement, quality movement to get back into shape.

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Martelo from Morena

"My hope is that I can teach others to wake up and look inside, and they will teach many others, and we as a collective will be at peace with ourselves and with each other. Let's grow together, and find our own rooted strength!"

She understood the benefits of weight training for a resilient body, because of the pandemic and lack of help with the kids she began her road to function strength training. Morena is a certified kettlebell training under LIVING.FIT and also a certified steel mace level 1 intructor under VKNJA/tacfit. After getting into the best shape of her life doing these simple but effective methods, with little time, in the comfort of her own home, she decided to begin teaching it to others to also feel empowered with a more holistic approach to fitness. Because of her past experience with TCI (traumatic crisis intervention) and experience working with emotional and mental health impacted teenagers, she learned many tools that she applied on herself to stay positive and productive. She decided on a method that encompasses the way we feel about our selves. She is a mother of 2 kids a 13 yr old boy and a 2 yr old girl, and wife to Alexandre "Vaca" Moreno. She is also passionate about helping women remain in martial arts by bringing awareness of the hardships of pregnancy, and a recovering post partum body. She is always in search of new knowledge and connecting with people who are on the road to their best self as she is.

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