Workshop: Integrated Alexander Technique & Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization for Singing
WORKSHOP
Integrated Alexander Technique & Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization for Singing
Sunday, October 12, 2025
2-4 PM Pacific / 5-7 PM Eastern
Workshop Fee: $65
Location: ZOOM
(Recording will be provided to all registered participants if you cannot be there in person)
*For Singers, Instrumentalists, Practitioners, Athletes & Performers of all Disciplines
FIRST LOOK
Kate, Mike, and Maggie have been collaborating for several years, developing an approach to whole-self coordination for singing and movement that integrates the Alexander Technique and Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization.
Join this workshop to get a first look at what they (along with a small, intrepid group of professional singers) have been creating to heal faulty movement patterns and facilitate greater efficiency, strength, fluidity, and excellence.
With decades of experience as athletes, performers, and coaches, these three experts in their fields share a passion for unlocking our natural ability to perform and live with more ease, vitality, and authenticity.
You will learn:
1. The foundational principles of the Alexander Technique (AT) and Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization (DNS)
2. How AT & DNS work cooperatively to:
- Prevent injury and fatigue
- Help rehabilitate injury and sub-optimal movement patterns
- Facilitate optimal movement, coordination, and longevity
- Facilitate excellence and creativity
3. Exercises and experiments to explore optimal movement and breathing
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
Dynamic support both facilitates optimal functioning and serves as a catalyst for excellence and artistry.
In this workshop, you will learn how the most extraordinary musicians and athletes move and breathe for healthy function and performance.
Using a synthesis of the Alexander Technique, Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization principles, optimal acoustics, exquisite singing technique, and artistry, we will be soaring into principles of aerodynamics, the recoil of the respiratory mechanism, the functions of the diaphragm, functional intra-abdominal pressure and how it relates to respiration in singing, and the emergent tonus of the abdominal wall.
This work is foundational for developing strength and skill.
There are many ideas about breathing and initiating sound, and though well-intentioned, they are often incorrect or incomplete. This workshop will present the most current, accurate, and comprehensive information and approach to stabilizing the core within the context of the entire body.
In addition to sustained, responsive breathing for singing, speaking, and playing, you will learn how these principles apply to dance, stage blocking, and fitness.
When you complete this workshop, you will understand dynamic, responsive support. You will have a lived experience of how your body is truly designed to support your singing and movement.
WORKSHOP STRUCTURE
In just two hours, we will go from solid fundamentals to action, putting new concepts into practice in your performance.
Part 1: Structure, Function & Concepts
- Optimal coordination: The Alexander Technique & Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization (DNS)
- Structure and function of postural, respiratory, and vocal systems in the context of the entire body
- Optimal respiratory function: support, appoggio, and emergence
Part 2: Applications
- Exercises to establish optimal coordination for movement, respiration, and support
- Experiments & techniques to elongate exhalation, refine attunement, and extend resonance
- Integration: comprehensive rehearsal and performance plans encompassing key learning from the workshop
Part 3: Coaching
- Specific coaching for participants to work precisely to apply these techniques
- Open Q&A
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTORS
Three 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; and elite athletes like performers from Cirque du Soleil and the World Surf League.
World-class performers work with Kate, Mike, and Maggie to develop their bodies and their work with the utmost 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.
Watch Kate’s TEDx Talk/ Performance
Dr. Michael Rintala, D.C, DNSET
Michael Rintala is a Doctor of Chiropractic, one of only eighteen worldwide Prague School of Rehabilitation Primary Instructors 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.
Mike 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 was featured in Peter Attia’s NY Times Best-Selling book, “OUTLIVE: The Science and Art of Longevity.”
Mike travels the world training elite athletes, thought leaders, and rock stars to perform and compete with optimal functionality and sustainability.
Watch Mike: 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 professional dancer and teacher trained at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and has worked for over 15 years as a Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization (DNS) exercise trainer. She also holds a Spiritual Practitioner Certification through Centers for Spiritual Living.
TESTIMONIALS
“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