Empowered Movement Self-Defense

Not your average self-defense class. Empowered Movement offers self-defense, kickboxing, and strength training for women, with an empowerment-based and trauma-informed approach. Group and individual training available. Empowerment-based self-defense is a modern framework for self-defense training, with a focus on growing women’s choices, confidence, and power to advocate for ourselves. “Don’t go out at night. Never walk down a dark street alone. Always make sure someone knows where you’ll be. Don’t wear that. Never let your drink out of your sight. Don’t let your daughter travel alone.” Sound familiar? Conventional, old-fashioned self-defense advice typically includes a lot of fear-based rules for women’s behavior, limiting our freedom and our choices. Empowerment-based self-defense (ESD) training is different. Rather than focusing on scare tactics, empowerment-based training supports skills that expand our options and boost our confidence to make the choices that are right for us. Typical self-defense training too often focuses exclusively on stranger danger, unrealistic scenarios, and impractical, overly-complex techniques. Empowerment-based training includes accessible, reality-based tools for maintaining safety and respect across the comprehensive range of situations that women and girls commonly face. The power is already within you. Let’s practice using it together.