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Amputee to open yoga studio for people living without limbs

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26 Jul 2019, 09:56

25-year-old Kelsey Koch was born without a left tibia and her parents made the difficult decision to have her leg amputated below the knee when she was nine months old. Growing up, she loved golf but her heavy prosthetic leg prevented her from running or taking part in other sports.

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When Kelsey began to work with personal trainer Jen Colombo to treat her scoliosis in 2016, the fitness expert encouraged her to research prosthetics to help optimize her exercise. Kelsey, from Grand Blanc, Michigan, was fitted for a lightweight running blade prosthetic and began to thrive in Jen’s advanced yoga classes at Genesys Athletic Club.

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At the time, Kelsey was not content in her job in the billing department of a local company and decided to abandon her career to become a yoga teacher. Kelsey said: ‘I’ve had a prosthetic limb ever since I was a baby. ‘I learned to walk with one so I have never had the feeling that I ever lost something because I don’t remember. ‘I have never known anything different.

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‘I’ve always been a golfer because my family are really into that but I was never able to run or do anything especially active when I was younger because of my prosthetic.

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26 Jul 2019, 10:00

‘About two and a half years ago I first met with a personal trainer named Jen Colombo. ‘A lot of amputees develop scoliosis because you’re using your dominant side so much. ‘I went to Jen because I really wanted to strengthen my left side. ‘When I began to work with her, she encouraged me to look at different types of prosthetic limbs to see if they might help me. ‘I got fitted for an active leg which is interchangeable. ‘It has a running blade, which I use for running of course, but it allowed me to really put my all into yoga.

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26 Jul 2019, 10:01

‘It’s four pounds lighter than my older one.’ Kelsey says that from the beginning of starting yoga, she was thrown right into the deep end, which allowed her to strengthen the left side of her body – which she says she’s never ‘trusted’ balance wise before. ‘Since I started yoga, my balance, strength and posture have completely improved,’ she continued. ‘At the time I was working a nine to five job in a billing department and I just wasn’t happy. ‘I felt like I wasn’t touching people’s lives in the way that I wanted to. ‘I fell so in love with yoga that I decided to start learning to be a teacher.’

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26 Jul 2019, 10:05

‘I wanted my studio to be inclusive and help people in the same position as me so every Tuesday I hold a special class for amputees.’ According to Kelsey, many of the people who attend her classes are recent amputees, and so she’s unable to really identify them with the sense of loss having lost her leg so young, but she tries to share her experience and support her clients as much as possible. She added: I have absolutely no regrets about leaving my nine-to-five job because this is so rewarding.’
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