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Core Concepts and Pelvic Mechanics with Katie St. Clair - Ep. 23

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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
      • ...more
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