Group Fitness Classes that Bring the Energy

Thinking about trying our "I Love Kickboxing" Fitness kickboxing class? Here's what one of our students has to say about it: When I first walked into White Oak Martial Arts, I was 46 years old, licking my wounds from a devastating divorce, and reeling from the emotional aftermath of Hurricane Helene. I was a full-time caregiver, a survivor of trauma, and a woman who had spent decades learning to silence her rage just to survive. But rage doesn’t disappear—it buries itself in the body. I carried it in my hips, in my shoulders, in the clenching of my jaw and the weight in my chest. Suppressed anger and unresolved trauma had settled deep into the very fibers of my being, blocking energy and robbing me of vitality. My nervous system was stuck in fight-or-flight. I needed a way to release what I couldn’t put into words. Kickboxing gave me that way. At White Oak Martial Arts, I found more than a class—I found a path to mental wealth. Each punch, kick , and complicated combo became an act of reclamation. I began to feel energy move through me again as the meridians in my body opened and the chakras long shut down by trauma began to awaken. I wasn’t just sweating—I was purging. Every drop was grief, rage, fear, and shame leaving my body. The instructors created an environment of strength without ego and discipline with compassion. I was never made to feel “too late," “too broken," or "too awkward." Instead, I was seen as powerful—and becoming more so with every session. Kickboxing didn’t just help me regain physical strength. It gave me a sense of energetic clarity. A return to self. A voice. A body that no longer trembled under the weight of unspoken rage from buried pain, but moved with purpose and power." T.