The Empowered Performance Course and Mentorship

Other courses: Presentations, slides, reading materials, and exercise libraries are often the primary ways concepts are taught.

How Empowered Performance differs: You get all of those resources, plus live, in-body application with Katie. You're not just learning the theory. You're practicing it, feeling it in your own body, and learning how to recognize it in others.

Other courses: Practical work may be folded into a weekly call, with Q&A or additional support sometimes handled by staff or AI tools.

How Empowered Performance differs: EP includes dedicated live application calls, small group sessions, and direct access to Katie through Slack and email. You'll also learn from past participants who bring their own voice and perspective to the work, so you get more than one way of seeing and applying the material.

Other courses: Education and personal training are typically separate.

How Empowered Performance differs: You'll follow 12 weeks of strength programming alongside the course, with multiple training options available. The goal is to actually experience the concepts you're studying in your own body, not only understand them on paper.

Other courses: Deeper assessment training may require another course or in-person experience, and individual feedback isn't always included.

How Empowered Performance differs: Active self-assessment is built into the core curriculum from the beginning. You'll practice with your own assessments or client assessments, learn through peer discussion, and receive individual feedback from Katie. Weekly quizzes help make sure you're understanding the material, not just moving through it.

Other courses: The material is often taught primarily through one instructor's lens.

How Empowered Performance differs: Katie brings trusted specialists into the course to help you see how this work connects across disciplines, including pelvic floor physical therapy and foot biomechanics. You'll explore those perspectives alongside Katie's teaching on the relationships between the foot, pelvic floor, gait, strength, and movement.

Other courses: Some programs center the experience around earning a certification.

How Empowered Performance differs: There's intentionally no certification attached to EP. The goal is deeper understanding and better application, not another credential after your name. The course is approved for 2.0 NSCA CEUs, 2.7 ACE CEUs, and 1.9 NASM CEUs, and many PTs and athletic trainers have successfully submitted it for continuing education through their state licensing boards. EP is also approved in partnership with Equinox.

Everything you need to know to get started on the right foot for the course and your own training.

A deep dive into my assessment, breathing, and position, that is the basis for the entire course. You will learn how to self assess using active range of motion testing to help you understand your own compensations as well as how to assess and help even your most complicated clients.

A study of the human system, including organ placement, asymmetries, rib angles, the diaphragm, and shoulder anatomy and biomechanics.

A breakdown of the connection of the thorax to the pelvis and pelvic diaphragm, and how the pelvis orients and rotates. Plus a breakdown of internal pelvic floor health from Dr. Emily Kadish.

Using a lens of biotensegrity to understand how we can create optimal tension and compression to support the function of the diaphragms and allow for optimal pressure management.

How alterations to optimal tension and compression can result in shape change of the axial skeleton that results in sub optimal movement and pressure management.

A discovery of the coordination of the pelvic diaphragm and the foot with various phases of gait. This is a whole new way to see the entire body from the ground up.

A deep dive into coordination, motor control and tendons that will change the way you program and get your clients amazing results!

A detailed explanation of exercises in relationship to breathing and how to use a principle based approach to guide our decision making and improve performance.

A full discussion and deep dive into prolapse, diastasis, leaking, pregnancy and post-partum and how it relates to expansion and compression principles with Dr. Emily Kadish.

An unconventional view of how the earth informs human movement, stress, and recovery, that can help us develop tools for improving our own internal communication network.

Creating a comprehensive program that can lead to lasting results for anyone you work with. We will incorporate the principles from the entire course into a cohesive strategy for programming. You will learn how to create a simple and effective program from complex training information that you actually understand.