Movement & Performance Lab with Kate Conklin
Welcome!
I created DOJO to work with my most advanced clients in the most exciting and effective modalities that I have discovered in 30+ years of singing and coaching.
The work will be rigorous, transformational, and playful.
DOJO has 3 components:
- Online Weekly Training Sessions with Coaching
- Monthly Intensive Vocal Mastery Workshops with Coaching
- An On-Site, In-Person Retreat (see below)
DOJO Online
September – December, 2024
A movement and performance lab dedicated to deepening your strength, artistry and creativity.
In DOJO, we do the physical, technical, and artistic practices together in real time, so that the demands of your life don’t prevent you from doing the practices
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.
Monthly Vocal Mastery Workshops
A multi-dimensional exploration of each topic, the workshops are deep-dives into the most foundational pillars of movement and performance.
Each workshop includes:
- Physical Structure & Function
- Precise Skill & Coordination Exercises
- Principles & Practices for Experimentation & Teaching
- Personal Coaching for Integration & Fluency
DOJO Retreat
Welcome to Solana Beach in San Diego, California.
Kate has assembled her most trusted team of practitioners to create a truly world-class, transformative experience.
The retreat is designed to be nourishing, challenging, and spacious.
As you work and co-regulate with these facilitators, you will feel stronger, more connected, and more vital.
Group sessions include:
- Extraordinary Respiration Work
- Omni-servation Skills
- Voice Work / Singing with Kate
- Performance Coaching
- In-person-only Surprises!
Individual sessions with practitioners include:
- Gentle and precise assessment with structural and tissue work to unwind sub-optimal movement patterns
- Establishing dynamic stability, uprighting, and joint centration through primal and developmental movement positions
- Practices to create the conditions for optimal coordination synergy and timing
- Restorative Alexander Technique table work
- Specific exercises and techniques to facilitate awareness, stability, strength, and connection
- Physical nervous system support with Aerial Somatics and fascial unwinding
- 2-hour massage tailored to your needs, goals, and integration
Your Retreat Facilitators
Four practitioners at the leading edge of their fields, deeply rooted in their traditions and practices, dedicated to your growth and expansion.
Between them, they have worked with some of the most influential and innovative people in performance, athletics, and tech, including the founders of Pinterest, Vuori, and Twitter; Grammy-winning artists and producers like Rick Rubin and Butch Vig; Cirque du Soleil performers; and the World Surf League.
These are the practitioners sought out by artists and athletes at the peak of human performance.
World-class performers work with Kate, Mike, Maggie, and Betsy to develop their bodies, and their work with the most precision, integrity, and creativity.
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.
Betsy Finkelhoo
Betsy Finkelhoo is a seasoned somatic bodyworker, Dharma Coach, and multi-dimensional healer with over 17 years of experience.
An alumna of Utah College of massage therapy, Betsy has excelled at her continuing education for over a decade including Upledger CranioSacral therapy, Yoga therapy, aerial somatic therapy, theta healing, lymphatic massage, deep tissue, trigger point, fascial release, reflexology, and acupressure.
She has cultivated a skillful touch and intuitive approach while gracefully blending her natural caring presence into every session.
Betsy has worked in and facilitated retreats and ceremonies all over the world including Costa Rica, Australia, Mexico, and Bali, to provide deep healing and inspiration for veterans, artists, CEOs, and creatives.
In addition to her healing work, Betsy is an active public speaker, podcaster, and circus performer/fire artist.
Learn more about Betsy’s work.
Michael Rintala, D.C DNSET
Michael Rintala is a Doctor of Chiropractic, a Prague School of Rehabilitation Primary Instructor teaching Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization (DNS) and a DNS-Certified Exercise Trainer (DNSET). He specializes in sports medicine and rehabilitation, and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from UCSD.
Dr. Rintala has been part of the Professional Golf Association (PGA) Tour Sports Medicine Team since 2004. He is also a treating doctor for the World Surf League and part of the USA Surfing Performance Committee. He has been involved with a wide variety of activities and organizations ranging from dance to action sports, and is featured in Peter Attia’s NY Times Best-Selling book “OUTLIVE: The Science and Art of Longevity.”
Dr. Rintala travels the world training elite athletes, thought-leaders, and rock stars to perform and compete with optimal functionality and sustainability.
Watch Dr. Rintala: with Vuori x Taylor Knox & with Peter Attia.
Maggie Rintala, DNSET
“I move people towards themselves.”
Maggie Rintala is a coach and trainer who guides her clients toward integrating fitness and their body’s inherent wisdom to experience less pain and more joy.
Maggie approaches each session with the eyes of a technician, the heart of a dancer, and the mind of a coach. Using DNS exercises to build awareness and ability, she works with her clients to strengthen capacity and resilience by challenging flow, strength, awareness, transitions, and coordination, ultimately moving every client toward what is possible and desired.
Maggie is a master of the many ways to authentically connect to movement, and her clients also experience freedom, vitality, and confidence that extends far beyond their fitness journey, touching all aspects of their lives.
DOJO is for you if…
You want to improve your movement, health and artistry in multi-faceted, integrated process.
You want to have a deeply integrated creative and performance process.
You want to release antiquated or non-constructive pedagogies and attitudes.
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, and your students.
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 the best practitioners in the fields 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
DOJO + Vocal Mastery Workshops + In-Person Retreat
$20,000
DOJO + Vocal Mastery Workshops (Online Only)
$10,000
DOJO + Vocal Mastery Workshops + Retreat + Monthly Private Coaching
$30,000
To discuss options:
BOOK A CALL WITH KATE
See the brochure (PDF)
“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