Katie St. Clair is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach with 20 years of experience in the field. She is passionate about using a principle based approach to help people achieve the movement they desire! She believes in looking beyond the basics and understanding how human biomechanics is influenced by every system in the body. She uses respiration and skeletal positioning to optimize human movement. Katie is also the creator of the Empowered Performance Program, a 12 week educational, online group training program designed to empower the body and the mind. If you're interested in signing up for the program, the link is at the bottom to join the waitlist!
“As coaches we have the opportunity to truly impact someone’s life, and we need to appreciate the significance of that role.” -Katie St. Clair

On this Episode:

Building a business in South Carolina
How Katie found PRI and why she chose to study PRI
Different systems and resources that Katie has meshed for her own training & programming
David Grey’s episode with us
“The most meaningful people in education are the ones who can think outside of the box and be wrong”
Being able to learn from mistakes
Sarah Duvall Pelvic Floor Course
PRI has given Katie a lense into the human system
Katie’s Empowered Performance Programming
How Katie came up with Empowered Performance Programming
Empowered Performance contains positional breathing, strength, athleticism & accessory work.
A program with an education component and Training component
What is ISA? Infrasternal Angle
We explore Meghan’s funky ribs
We relate the ribcage to animals!
Nutation of Sacrum & counternutation of Sacrum VIDEO, scroll down to find it!
Our body as a pressure system
“We manage pressure based on our need to survive. Our need to survive is based on how we breathe”
The impact of our ribcage effects our ability to breathe
How does squat movement happen
How does a hinge movement happen
How Katie moves her brain & body


Contact Katie St. Clair
Empowered Performance Program 12 Week Waitlist

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

Shirley Sahrmann
Stuart McGill
Zac Cupples
Bill Hartman
David Grey
Frans Bosch
Cal Deitz
Joel Jamieson