Women’s Self Defense
Sign up now for the Women’s Self-Defense series beginning June 28!
Learn to trust your awareness, assess situations rapidly, create effective boundaries, and act on your own behalf in a safe, supportive environment.
Our Women’s Self-Defense series meets Wednesday from 6:45 to 8:45pm at our school on Hawthorne Blvd.
Who is this class for?
This self-defense series is open to all cisgender and transgender women and nonbinary people, ages 12 and older. Ages 12 to 15 must enroll with a parent or guardian. This course focuses on the experiences of people perceived and socialized as female. We have taught thousands of people self-defense in Oregon and Europe since 1981.
What Will I learn?
You will practice and train effective tactics that empower you in real-life situations. You are taught how to hit and where to hit with full power, speed, and commitment.
Role plays give you the opportunity to recognize and respond to threatening behavior with strong, assertive body language and verbal self-defense skills. You want to be aware of how we, as women, are set up by offender ploys, like gaslighting and offers of unsolicited help.
We believe in the strength of women’s power. It is a woman’s right to go where she wants to go and do what she wants to do. We have the responsibility of protecting ourselves.
Connect to your strength and have it reflected in everything you do.
See how One With Heart can change your life and sign up today!
“I am of the generation when women went to martial arts schools to get the physical skills to defend themselves. Many women martial artists realized that socialization played a huge role in why we were hesitant to use self-defense. Through sharing information in the women’s movement, we learned that empowerment comes from the blending of physical skills, verbal skills, and role playing.”
– Janesa Kruse, founder and director of One With Heart Martial Arts
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CANCELLATION POLICY FOR WOMENS SELF-DEFENSE COURSE
Cancel one week or more before the start of the course, reschedule or full refund. One reschedule only.
Cancel one week - 48 hours before , reschedule – no refund. One reschedule only.
Cancel less than 48 hours before– no reschedule, no refund