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Class members say they enjoy Backert’s teaching style, which mixes lessons
in mindfulness with gentle encouragement to push themselves physically.
400 Harford County residents
returning to Kore Bootcamps,
the fitness studio she founded
in 2017 and its second location,
Kore Barre & Yoga, which opened
in late March.
‘I’ve been working out with
Kelly for 12 years,” Paradis said.
“She’s very motivating, not just
for my physical health but also
mentally. It’s why I have stuck
with her for so long.”
In addition to the workouts,
class members say they enjoy
Backert’s teaching style, which
mixes lessons in mindfulness
with gentle encouragement to
push themselves physically with
a disarmingly comic and slightly
off-kilter world view.
Who else but Backert would
build a business that incorporates fitness classes, meditation
sessions and workshops aimed
at “healing the relationship between the body and food” with
plans to some day open an ice
cream shop?
Backert blushes and then
laughs.
“I’m here to create a community where people feel really
good about themselves,” she
said. “Living your best life is
about moving your body, and
living your best life is also about
eating ice cream.”
Kore Barre & Yoga and its
sister business, Kore Bootcamps,
came into existence after a
roundabout journey that began
about 25 years ago when Backert
signed up her first spin class.
“I always knew I wanted to
be a teacher,” said Backert, who
graduated with a bachelor’s
degree in psychology from
the University of Maryland in
2005. “But I didn’t know what I
wanted to teach.”
Taking spin classes progressed
naturally to teaching them
at the YMCA. From there, she
branched out into other areas of
physical fitness.
“When I was at the Y, people
started asking me to lead classes
for a group of their friends or
to do personal training in their
garages or outdoors,” she said. “I
started doing that in 2007, and
that business took off so fast that
I quit the Y and started doing it
full-time.”
Club members say that Backert is an intuitive teacher who
incorporates life lessons into her
workouts.
“In your life, when you are
doing hard things, always come
back to your breath,” Backert
said.
“You can call it God, or the
universe or whatever, but it is
your inner strength, your inner
knowing, a way of centering
yourself.
“Don’t ever forget to breathe.”
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St., Bel Air and Kore Barre & Yoga,
15 E. Churchville Rd., Bel Air. 443640-5274. korebootcamps.com or
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