by Silvia Smart | Aug 21, 2022 | About Naga, self-defense
Soccer Teams can be dynamic spaces where girls’ empowerment comes into focus. One such club here in Portland is The Saints Girls Academy. I was privileged to teach two of their age groups (the 15/16 year-olds and the 11, 12 & 13 year-olds). Their... 
by Silvia Smart | Sep 9, 2020 | About Naga, Child Safety, Health and Wellness, Poekoelan, self-defense
Listen Up! This is a piece by National Public Radio about our sister school, Studio Naga in Oakland, CA, first published in 2006 but still relevant today. We teach our students how to hit – and hit hard! And with that ability to protect oneself comes an imense... 
by Silvia Smart | Sep 16, 2020 | About Naga, Health and Wellness, self-defense
What is the National Women’s Martial Arts Federation? The NWMAF is dedicated to promoting the involvement and empowerment of women and girls—cis and trans/non-binary/gender non-conforming person—who are active in martial arts, self-defense, and healing arts.... 
by Silvia Smart | Jul 27, 2020 | About Naga, Health and Wellness, self-defense
Is The Empowerment Project New? Yes! It is! Our self-defense programs and workshops have always been super high quality. But with the work we have done to get nationally certified, it was time to up our game and let the world know we have reinvigorated our commitment... 
by Silvia Smart | Dec 22, 2022 | Corporate Workshops, De-escalation, self-defense
The Workshops Throughout the pandemic, I’ve had the opportunity to teach quarterly workshops for the Splunk team. We started off with basic self-defense classes and moved on to provide de-escalation workshops, courses on bystander intervention, and... 
by Silvia Smart | Dec 22, 2022 | Active Shooter, Corporate Workshops, De-escalation, self-defense
AAA is a Company that Cares About its Team My grandfather, was a member of the American Automobile Association (AAA) as far back as I can remember. Road trips with him meant thumbing through “TripTiks”, a very cool mapping system, provided by AAA. Someone literally...
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