Embodied Strength Intensive

ResistanceDojo

Your embodied presence is your most valuable asset.

A six-week intensive in embodied strength—combining resistance training, somatic awareness, and nervous system re-patterning to cultivate greater agency and growth.

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The Problem

Everyone experiences resistance.
Few train their relationship to it.

I believe strength training is one of the most underutilized tools for human development. For too long the fitness industry has treated the body like an optimization project rather than a home and vessel to be inhabited.

Owen Monroy training at the Resistance Dojo

Moving through resistance does more than build muscle—when approached with honesty and presence, it reveals self-deception, dissolves perceived limitations, and builds a capacity for truth that carries into leadership, relationship, and purpose.

The Resistance Dojo framework is the result of two decades of coaching, executive leadership, and over 2,100 client sessions. This intensive goes beyond strength training. It is an initiation into a different relationship with your body—and through it, with your life.

True strength is the capacity to meet the gravity of the moment.

—Owen Monroy
Owen Monroy training at the Resistance Dojo

Not all strength is equal.

Reactive Strength

"No pain, no gain."
Distract. Numb. Survive.

Embodied Strength

Resistance as a teacher.
Presence. Intention. Safety.

The experience

Six Weeks.
Deep Work.
Real Strength.

This is not a bootcamp and I am not a drill sergeant. Truth doesn't need to be shouted. This intensive bridges the gap between inner work and resistance training.

Practice is not a performance.

Resistance reveals your patterns. Training provides a place to make the change. Integration teaches you to embody greater capacity for life.

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Owen Monroy coaching a client at the Resistance Dojo

How it works:

One-on-One

Every session, every conversation, every protocol is built around you. The cohort is limited to four to ensure the depth of attention this work requires—this is not a group program.

In-Person Training

Twelve one-hour sessions over six weeks—twice weekly, fully supervised, in a private studio reserved entirely for you. Each session is efficient yet unhurried, fully personalized to amplify your progress.

Weekly Conversations

Seven weekly accountability and self-development conversations—to translate what you're learning in the body into how you're showing up in your work, routines, relationships, and life.

Daily Practice

Personalized recovery routines and guided reflection on the days between sessions. You will realize new capacity during the workout—but strength is actually built as you recover and learn to consistently inhabit the expansion.

The Skills

Three Essential Capacities

Integrity of Effort

Truth

The ability to be honest with yourself about effort and follow through.

Intensity Tolerance

Capacity

The skill of navigating discomfort while maintaining focus on your purpose.

Embodied Strength

Presence

The ability to be fully in the body, in the gravity of the moment.

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The Invitation

A Note from Owen

In the many phases of my career as a leader, executive, coach, and entrepreneur, I've learned that success doesn't guarantee fulfillment. I believe fulfillment is rooted in presence. With presence, even struggle becomes meaningful.

True strength is the capacity to meet the gravity of the moment without fragmenting into stories of the past and projections of the future.

I want to be stronger—to increase my capacity for life and more fully inhabit every moment. Life gets uncomfortable, but the purpose of exploring life is to experience its fullness.

What I desire more than anything is to be in my body—total in my aliveness. To live this way I must fall in love with my growth edge and journey beyond performance.

This is my embodiment path—and I would be honored to introduce you to the practice.

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Owen Monroy
DOJO Over 2,100 private sessions guided in the San Francisco Bay Area
COO Chief Operating Officer, Head of Product Development, and Founder in health technology and longevity medicine startups
NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Coach at University of Illinois, Penn State, UC Berkeley, and Saint Mary's College
NIRSA Men's Volleyball National Champion as a player and years later as a coach at Messiah University—the full arc of competitive sport from athlete to leader
The Results

Stronger
in every way.

By training your relationship to resistance at your growth edge, your nervous system has the opportunity to integrate the difference between discomfort and danger. This will fundamentally shift how you process reality. I love hearing clients reflect on how they are:

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    Showing up more grounded in meetings and relationships.

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    Feeling their muscle and metabolism activated on a new level.

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    Finding uncomfortable situations less threatening and more interesting.

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    Seeking clarity instead of chasing motivation.

I am so confident in the transformative power of this practice that I guarantee results—to anyone willing to enter the Dojo and do the honest work.

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Stephanie Cowan

Stephanie Cowan

Speaker · Artist

Connection Specialist

San Francisco, CA

"I have spent many years injured and feeling disconnected from my body. Owen has the knowledge and the presence that has guided me into a better relationship with myself. I feel more strength, confidence, and connection in my body."

"I have been dealing with an injury for 7 years and working with Owen is the first time I feel hopeful that I will be able to return to full expression. Not only is he a professional in resistance training, he holds such a beautiful container for me to explore the emotions present with healing a long term injury as I return back to myself."

"Owen's relational presence is his greatest strength."

The Platform

Curated & Precise.

Evidence-Based

Every protocol is rooted in exercise physiology and behavioral science. No fads, no fluff—just first principles for changing your body and sharpening your mind. Slow, smooth and deliberate movement will keep you safe and provide a potent adaptive stimulus.

Fully Private

Beautifully maintained, distraction-free private studios reserved entirely for you. Conveniently located in Emeryville on the East Bay and at the Embarcadero, in San Francisco.

Premium Equipment

A rare line of MedX, SuperSlow, and ARX machines precision engineered for efficacy, efficiency, and uncompromising safety—calibrated precisely to your body's proportions and range of motion.

Exercise Essentialism

The most efficient and effective exercise you have ever done—guaranteed. You'll wonder why it is not more common and you'll realize how rare an opportunity this 6-week intensive actually is.

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The Investment

End the performance.

Enter the Dojo.

$4,500

or 2 payments of $2,250

Book an introductory call with Owen to get to know each other, ask questions, and explore whether six weeks in the Resistance Dojo feels like the right fit.

No previous strength training experience necessary

Applications Close Aug. 24th

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Results Guaranteed

In six weeks, you'll be meaningfully stronger and more present
—or I'll train you for free until that's true.

— Owen Monroy, Founder · Resistance Dojo