The Sierra Bender Professional Certifications follow the Sierra Bender Empowerment Method® (SBEM), a method proven by American University, DC and University of Puerto Rico, PR to empower women and girls to claim their voice and body and assert their rights to prevent and protect females against violence. The Sierra Bender Empowerment Method® (SBEM) is a multi modal approach that synthesizes the disciplines of modern medicine, science, indigenous wisdom, holistic health, exercise physiology, quantum physics, nutrition, yoga therapy and the psychology of trauma / addiction / sexual abuse. The SBEM infuses clinical studies with holistic intelligence.

Join Sierra Bender, founder of the Sierra Bender Empowerment Method® (SBEM), Boot Camp for Goddesses®  and author of Goddess to the Core®, and Jeff Migdow, MD, in this professional training designed for health-care practitioners, yoga instructors, healers, educators, social workers, therapists, counselors, and others who wish to add a powerful, proven set of healing principles and leadership practices to their existing work.

This innovative certification offers new tools for living with power and purpose and redefines health, fitness, beauty, and self-worth for women and girls. The Sierra Bender Empowerment Method® is a unique multimodal method of healing which breaks the cycle of stress and disempowerment by developing all four planes of human experience—spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical—to enable females of all ages to reclaim, restore, and rejoice in their core feminine essence.

As a professional instructor: 

You will learn how to work with of all fitness  and health levels utilizing the Sierra Bender Empowerment Method® (SBEM) which is the core of all Sierra’s teachings. You will develop a full spectrum of training skills that deals with the human experience - strength and vulnerability, determination and receptivity, self-reliance and intimacy, action and rest. 

The Sierra Bender Empowerment Method trainings teach:

• An approach that helps clients grow and realize the benefits of awakening and maintaining all four bodies

• A deeper understanding of how to strengthen and energize the four bodies (spiritually, mentally, emotionally, physically)

• The physiology of disease, healing, and nutrition for your body

• How, why and where you hold stress and discomfort and how to release it before it creates disease

• How to heal addictions and abuse, release old traumas, regenerate cells, and permanently erase bad habits

• How to trust, listen and feel the body’s intelligence and natural wisdom to access healing energy and vitality

• Tools to prevent and heal depression, anxiety, migraines, heart disease, menopause, cancer, osteoporosis and more

• How to strengthen the immune system; halt the aging process; rejuvenate the body, clear the mind, release pent up emotions, burn fat, contour muscles, energize the spirit, sooth the soul and enhance your level of physical fitness 

• How releasing pent-up emotions and sweating stress away will help eliminate unhealthy thought patterns and beliefs
  

Your clients will learn to:

• Embrace, embody, and celebrate the value of being a woman
  
  
• Learn to be victorious and courageous, not victimized or compromised
  
  
• Gain access to their core energy through a combination of yoga, meditation, breathwork, fitness, nutrition, aromatherapy, kinesiology, and indigenous teachings.
  
  
• Develop a full spectrum of emotional states to better navigate the human experience: strength and vulnerability, determination and receptivity, self-reliance and dependence, action and rest, and reason and intuion.
  
  
• Learn to trust and heed the body’s natural wisdom to prevent illness, release old traumas, and eliminate bad habits.
  

	This certification is for trained professionals only, it is not designed for some one seeking a personal experience. If you are wanting to gain familiarity with the Sierra Bender Empowerment Method® see the following programs: Goddess to Core® One Day or Weekend Workshops Boot Camp for Goddess®.

	Professional Core Instructor™ $150 Annual Licensing Requirement View All Certification Requirements

	Sierra Bender Empowerment Method® Seize Your Power™ The SBEM is currently being measured by American University, DC. The preliminary results are amazing with the following increases after just one Goddess to the Core® Weekend Workshop.

	87% increase in self esteem 93% increase in power 70% increase in community activism and leadership 50% increase in optimism/control over their future 77% increase in righteous anger (feeling victorious and courageous, not victimized and compromised) Results by American University, DC

	Goddess to the Core® Professional Certification (CE) April 15-17, 2012 Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health Lenox, MA Sign-up Now!

	You might also be interested the following certifications: Goddess to Core® Workout Certification: Level 1 CE Wholistic Yoga Therapy Certification 200 YA Goddess to Core® Professional Certification

	Sierra Bender, At 32, Sierra Bender was pronounced dead. A misdiagnosed ectopic pregnancy ruptured her uterus causing her to bleed to death. Sierra survived thanks to a Vietnam vet doctor who used his knowledge of warfare medicine. Sierra's survival is a miraculous triumph against incredible odds....Read More

	Jeff Migdow, MD, has been exploring yoga, health, and consciousness since 1969 in places as varied as India, Nepal, Japan, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. As a member of the Kripalu ashram, he directed Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training programs. He currently develops and directs Prana Yoga teacher trainings in New York City. A holistic physician since 1980, his practice in Lenox, Massachusetts, includes homeopathy, lifestyle counseling, and Reiki healing. He is coauthor of Breathe In, Breathe Out and Goddess to the Core® with Sierra Bender.