Power Rooted In Earth

HEX Boxing Club is a sanctuary for in‑person holistic boxing training, supportive community, and connection to Earth. A boutique boxing club within a private membership association centering women and non-binary individuals, we teach boxing as both a healing practice and a disciplined craft, offering amateur and professional skills alongside herbalism, meditation, and creative arts. Founded by author, herbalist, former fighter, and USA Boxing certified coach and licensed professional coach Vanessa Chakour, HEX offers integrated training, community space, and healing for inner and outer wilds.

Our Ethos

We’re stronger together. In a divisive sociopolitical landscape and increasingly loud virtual world, we need physical spaces where we can cultivate resilience, constructively release pent‑up rage, and root our power in what is real. At HEX, resilience grows through relationship with our bodies, our communities, our creative nature, and the biodiverse ecosystems we depend on. We approach boxing as a holistic martial art and disciplined practice that awakens instinct and grounded strength. As earthly bodies, our health and well‑being are inseparable from the health and well‑being of Earth. The wild is not just “out there,” it is our flesh and bones.

Community Voices

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“When I began boxing with Vanessa I had just separated from a difficult marriage and as a survivor of gendered violence, I needed a safe place to find my power, agency and strength again. I not only found all three, but also my community in the safety of the curated space for womxn. As a queer womxn I am forever grateful to Vanessa’s emphasis on safety, technique and holistic empowerment in and outside of the boxing space. At HEX I can feel safe to grow further as a boxer and in community with fellow womxn.”
~ Marissa, Art Therapist

“Beyond physical strength, boxing has given me more presence and reminds me to ground when I'm swimming in my head. As perimenopause (and life!) brings unexpected waves of anxiety, boxing helps me return to my body where I feel my feet on the ground. Boxing training has strengthened my back, sharpened my focus, and helped me calm when I'm anxious and feeling out of control. I’m deeply grateful for this space where the practice of boxing can have such a profound impact outside of the gym."
~ Scout, Visual Artist

“Over 10 months of training with Vanessa, I’ve regained functional fitness in my core, hips, and shoulders lost due to the compounded trauma of becoming a parent in my 40s while living with complex PTSD. The HEX instruction style and community make boxing accessible and fun! I’ve honed my skills and steadiness to propel full-body power. I’ve also increased my capacity to metabolize the onslaught of individual and collective harm of our times. Boxing has become an essential tool in my embodied healing toolkit."
~ DSL, a black queer non-binary Embodied Healing Weaver and Land Steward

“Boxing has introduced me to a new way of understanding how my mind and body communicate; it is fascinating, healing, energizing, and so much fun! Vanessa conjures a communal magic and vitality in the boxing room, creating a powerful space for everyone to train and thrive.”
~ Rachel L.

“When I moved to Western Massachusetts, I was looking for a safe and welcoming boxing gym and I found it at Hex Boxing Club. Vanessa’s classes are so fun and challenging and training with other womxn is happiness for me. I love the emphasis on technique, supporting and encouraging each other, and learning about myself through the sport. I’m In love with boxing — the way it reveals what needs tending to and allows access to strength, sovereignty and spirit.”
~ Michelle, Future Boxing Champion

Our Name

The word HEX carries history. Associated with fear of feminine power, the word marked wise women with knowledge of plants, healing, and Earth‑based ritual. Many have long since reclaimed the word, turning what was meant to contain them into a spell that unsettles others. As a shape, the hexagon appears in honeycombs built by bees whose collective labor holds strength, and in the cellular structures of plants who harness the energy of the sun. At HEX Boxing Club, we draw on the charged feminine force behind the word and the physical strength found throughout nature.