Movement & Performance Lab with Kate Conklin
I created DOJO to work with my most advanced clients in the most exciting and effective modalities that I have discovered and developed in 30+ years of singing and coaching.
The work is rigorous, playful, and transformational.
ABOUT DOJO
DOJO means “place of the way.”
Founded in many ways of knowing, DOJO is a movement and performance lab dedicated to deepening your strength, artistry, and creativity.
We come to DOJO to honor ourselves, one another, and the work.
This is where we fortify ourselves and our art.
In DOJO, we hone these practices to sharpen our skills, expand our artistry, and live fully.
The goal is to be filled and challenged here, so that the rest of your life and work blooms.
ELEMENTS OF DOJO
Teaching
I will bring principles and concepts to challenge and inspire you in each weekly meeting. These ideas will move you into new ways to perceive and help you be at the growing edge of your work.
Physical Practices
The physical practices in DOJO facilitate the dynamic stability, uprighting, joint centration, synergy, coordination, and timing that are present and required for healthy development, as well as high-level artistry and athleticism.
Artistic Practices
- Text Work
- Character Work
- Skill Building & Refinement
- Rehearsal Iterations
- Performance Synergy
- Technical Practices
- Coordination Practices
Coaching
You are invited to be coached on anything you are currently doing or working on from a physical / artistic / vocal / coordination / biopsychosocial standpoint.
In DOJO, we do the physical, technical, and artistic practices together in real time. You get everything in the session itself, so the demands of life do not prevent you from getting the benefits.
DOJO is for you if…
You want to improve your movement, health, and artistry in a multi-faceted, integrated process.
You want to have a deeply integrated creative and performance process.
You want to release antiquated or non-constructive pedagogies, attitudes and habits.
You want to incorporate the most potent science into your movement and performance.
You want to develop your own work to benefit your art, your career, your students, and the world.
You are truly open to being lovingly challenged to improve your art and your craft to see what is truly possible for you.
You want to be deeply connected with your art and your life.
You want to work intimately with principles and practices in the field of human performance.
You want to belong to an intimate community of formidable artists who are committed to living as fully as possible.
Join the DOJO
September – December, 2025
Structure
We meet weekly for the first 3 weeks of each month.
Day and time will be determined by the availability of the participants.
Fee
Full price for DOJO is $10,000 for four months.
*For one time only, Fall 2025 is offered at $5000 for four months.
To register, please complete the registration form to provide your availability and complete your payment.
“Working with Kate is like synthesizing ten different practitioners into one incredibly precise, enthusiastic, effective, and radiant master teacher who won’t let you squirm away from improvements just because they feel strange or unfamiliar.
Every time I take an issue to Kate, it gets solved in a way that gives me more than I’d thought to ask for.”
Rainelle Krause, Soprano
Your Instructor
Kate Conklin
Kate Conklin’s work as a vocal artist and extraordinary performance coach is to discover and distill the most potent and essential movement and artistic principles and processes to reveal the greatest integrity, creativity, and truth.
Steeped in many ways of knowing, from ancient traditions to current scientific discovery, Kate has spent decades performing professionally and coaching the best performers in the world. Kate’s process has emerged from deep study in the fields of optimal performance, optimal acoustics, flow state, stress physiology, neurobiology, systems theory, Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization, anthropology, philosophy, creativity, and neuro- and bio-plasticity.
Kate was the vocalist for Cirque du Soleil’s “O,” and a vocal faculty member at the California Institute of the Arts where she founded and directed the Bulgarian Vocal Ensembles.
Kate is a certified Integrative Alexander Technique teacher, holds two degrees in Vocal Performance, and was a Fulbright Scholar to Bulgaria for singing, pedagogy, and conducting. She is triple certified in pranic healing energetic practices, and working with the subconscious.