Kaiyu Tendo
Chapter 02 / Membership
This is not a content subscription. It is a training ritual — a daily discipline, coached weekly, measured honestly, and reviewed in person twice a year at the dojo. The price below buys structure, accountability, and the company of people who refuse to drift.
Every paid tier includes the full Shuhari curriculum, the private member network, and the biometric integration. The differences are depth of coaching, group size, and how often we put you on the mat in Brooklyn or Kyoto.
Not sure which tier fits? A coach will recommend one on a free 30-minute call. No pitch deck, no sales sequence.
Chapter 02.1 / The Four Tiers
Pricing scales with coaching intensity and dojo access. All figures in USD, billed monthly. Annual plans save two months — request the link after enrolment.
I.
For first-year practitioners building the daily ritual.
$240/ month
3-month minimum commitment.
II.
For working founders and competitive athletes.
$480/ month
6-month commitment. Most-chosen tier.
III.
For executives scaling a team or a season.
$960/ month
12-month commitment.
IV.
Private, by invitation. Two client roster slots open per quarter.
By application
Annual retainer, cohort of 12.
Every tier includes lifetime alumni status on graduation: 11,400 graduates across 38 countries, with a private deal-flow and matchmaking channel.
Chapter 02.2 / What the Price Buys
Membership is built around six moving parts. Each one is graded, scheduled, and reviewable — never left to motivation.
A four-stage method derived from the 14th-century martial code and rebuilt for knowledge work. Each stage has twelve weekly drills, a written manual, and a graded checkpoint. Used by 4,200+ paid members across 38 countries.
Sleep, HRV, and strain scores flow into your coach dashboard weekly. We are the only platform pairing Bushido-derived virtue scoring with consumer-grade biometric data, so effort and recovery stay honest.
One to two live group sessions per week, recorded and transcribed. Practitioners run drills together in small cohorts of 8–12. No webinars, no audience of a thousand.
A gated Slack of 320+ active monthly members and 11,400 lifetime alumni. Quiet by design. Founders, operators, and competitive athletes only — vetted on intake.
Two in-person retreats per year at our Brooklyn or Kyoto dojos. Three days of floor work, paired drills, and graded review with a senior coach. Travel and lodging are not included.
Every drill, manual, and member journal in a searchable archive. Your coach adds a written review every session — kept private to you and surfaced at quarterly checkpoints.
Chapter 02.3 / The Track Record
92%
of members hit a stated goal within 90 days. Independently verified by Userfeed in Q1 2024.
4,200+
individual members trained since the program launched in 2017.
11,400
graduates in the lifetime alumni network, across 38 countries.
4.9/5
across 2,140 verified reviews on Trustpilot and G2, as of 2024.
Founded in 2017 by 3x All-Japan Kendo champion Sensei Hiroshi Tendo and ex-McKinsey strategist Lena Park. Backed by a $4.2M seed round led by Founder Collective in 2022.
Chapter 02.4 / A Member's Account
"I joined at Practitioner in the spring of 2023, three weeks after a failed fundraise. Ninety days in I had closed a $1.4M seed and PR'd my half-marathon by eleven minutes. The structure is what changed me, not the content — I had read the books already. Having a coach grade my weeks, and a room of people who refused to slip, made the difference between knowing and doing."
Chapter 02.5 / The Next Step
The free 30-minute Strategy Call is the right move if you have a specific goal in mind — a promotion, a PR, a launch, a fight — and you want a coach to recommend the tier and the cadence that fits. It runs on Zoom, no slide deck, no follow-up sequence unless you ask for one.
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