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Athletics has always been a huge part of Kelly's life. At age 6, she started what would become a long relationship with movement. At first, it was swimming. By age 12 she was swimming for three teams. It was at this point that Kelly was turned on to yoga when one of her swim coaches suggested she work on her flexibility. She started with Rodney Yee home videos and kept up with a relatively regular practice up through high school.
At Penn State University, Kinesiology seemed like a perfect fit for a girl who had developed such a love for athletics and movement, and Kelly loved learning everything she could about the human body. From being a TA for a human anatomy class to joining the PSU crew team. During her time on the team, she used her developing knowledge about athletics to create a strength training program for the other rowers, held an exercise nutritional talk once a semester, and lead yoga classes for the entire team once a week - her first teaching position. At the end of her rowing career, Kelly took home a bronze from the Head of the Charles regatta, the second largest 2 - day regatta in the world; a gold from the Dad Vail regatta, the largest intercollegiate rowing event in the USA; and an ECAC (Eastern College Athletic Conference) Rowing championship in 2006.
Kelly graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology form Penn State, and quickly moved to DC to work as a certified Personal Trainer/Group Exercise Instructor in one of the most fitness-forward cities in the nation, and having sustained injuries herself, quickly developed a niche in the corrective exercise specialty. She takes great joy in empowering injured and physically compromised people to move with – not in spite of – their injuries, and enjoy the freedom and serenity that movement naturally provides.
Her first month in DC, Kelly discovered the Down Dog Yoga Community. One class, and she was hooked! Here was a practice that increases strength and flexibility and rehabilitates all at one time. She has never looked back, and Down Dog is the studio she calls home. What was once a supplement to exercising became a path to deeper understanding about herself, the importance of her work and the world around her.
She continues to feed her hunger for competition through road racing and cycling, but yoga is her constant.
Kelly earned her 200 RYT in November 2008 and joined the Down Dog Teaching Team in August 2010. She lives in Alexandria with her husband, Jon, and their two cats, Hudson and Empacher. She can often be found outside, in, on, or around water, and considers herself a constant student – always relishing the chance to learn something new!
