ABOUT US

WE ARE DEDICATED TO STOPPING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN!

We teach you to neutralize threats.

FOUNDER AND LEAD INSTRUCTOR: ELLIOTT DERZAPH

Elliott has been teaching Self-Defense full-time since 2016. His extensive background includes boxing, wrestling, Judo, Kung-Fu, Tae-Kwon-Do, Karate, Ju-Jitsu, and Aikido (which he's been studying since 2005).

• Elliott's specific techniques are simple to learn and easy to use. 

OUR INSTRUCTORS

Include both men and women. Instructors hold varied belts in a variety of martial arts, street fighting, and other fighting forms. All instructors have been fingerprinted as required by the State of California under the Live Scan Service.

• "Lifelong training has taught us that size does not matter in self-defense. Awareness, training, and focus do." Elliott Derzaph

CHOOSE THE POWER TO CHANGE YOUR WORLD NOW!

Ensure your safety and eliminate risk. Strengthen both your mind and body. Feel and be safer. Quick thinking and acting can save your life.

It is better to be trained than vulnerable. Our program teaches students about fighting knowledge and survival. Our self-defense workshops teach women to utilize their internal power to develop autonomy, confidence, and empowerment.

INNER CAPACITY BUILDING. 

Our self-defense workshops teach women to unleash their inner strength -- from emotional to physical -- to protect themselves. Here at Conscious Defense, we train women to unleash their ability to protect themselves.

OUR PHILOSOPHY - OUR THINKING

We started this program as a service to women, because of our understanding that women move differently through public space and are often less able to experience freedom and self-expression without fear for their safety. Women are fully capable of self-defense and they deserve to live without fear. Unfortunately, even though some men try to take advantage of women, this should not prevent women from living without fear or being safe in both private and public places.

Women should experience true equality with men in every aspect of life.  Society is tired of women living in constant fear of being attacked.  We agree. Enough is enough!  Too many women are routinely abused physically, emotionally, and sexually.  With proper training and self-defense skills the insanity of such fear can be eradicated.

Conscious Defense has trained women in the United States, Canada, and Trinidad and Tobago

• ​​WE TEACH SELF-DEFENSE TO WOMEN IN THE LOS ANGELES AREA & SURROUNDING AREAS. (Currently have trained in Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades, Bel Air, Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Malibu, Marina del Rey, West Los Angeles, Los Angeles, and Culver City, SFV, SGV)
• Conscious Defense is a self-protection program transforming and protecting women's lives.​ You can have... SELF-PROTECTION FOREVER!