Meet the Head of Yoga and Strength for the Badass Lady Gang Amanda Kerpius
Run, Selfie, Repeat
Kelly Roberts
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Head of Yoga and Strength for the Badass Lady Gang, Amanda Kerpius is a certified Yoga Therapist and Yoga Teacher, Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Running Coach, 10x marathon finisher, Boston Marathon Qualifier, and new mom!
During undergraduate school, Amanda performed at football and basketball games as a Colorado State “Golden Pom'' dancer. With her midsection constantly exposed to thousands of sports fans, she started running as a way to help improve her perceived body-shape. After graduation, Amanda moved to NYC to pursue a career in dance. She ran and ran and ran convinced that having a smaller body would help her career. What she didn’t know is that she was building a physical and mental endurance that would carry her through her trials of adulthood: career changes, college degrees, marriage, divorce, financial debt, pregnancy, and now, motherhood. Running is Amanda’s meditation and when Amanda feels most connected with her breath, thoughts, and Self. Running is when she feels most alive and she knows she isn’t alone. Through her teaching and therapeutic work, Amanda seeks to help others continue this magical journey of life with endurance of mind and body.
First a trained dancer, Amanda practiced, performed, and choreographed dance for 26 years, lending her lifetime of body awareness newfound credibility through a yoga form that is both rigorous and healing to the physical and emotional self. Amanda graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Swedish Institute’s massage therapy program in 2017 and shortly thereafter received her License in Massage Therapy. That year she also completed a yearlong study of functional movement science with the Gray Institute making her a Fellow of Applied Functional Science. In May 2021, she completed an 850-hour yoga therapy certification with Prema Yoga Institute and became a certified yoga therapist with the International Association of Yoga Therapists. She received her first 200-hour yoga teacher training certification in 2012 and has accumulated nearly 3,000 teaching hours since then.
As she trains for her 11th marathon, Amanda specializes in and has a passion for helping endurance athletes perform better and experience deep, nourishing recovery with yoga-based functional movement, functional massage therapy and game-changing yoga wisdom that’s designed to ignite the mind and body to achieve it’s best.
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| 0:00.0 | I have someone with me in case you heard a second voice or unless you were like wow Kelly's |
| 0:26.9 | getting really good at ventriloquism. She can really throw her voice. If you are privy to things going |
| 0:34.4 | on in the badass lady gang universe you've noticed a new face in the strength and yoga on demand video |
| 0:42.6 | section. I want to introduce you to the newest coach of the badass lady gang. Hi friend can you |
| 0:51.7 | introduce yourself. Hello everybody my name is Amanda and I'm so grateful to join this platform |
| 0:59.4 | because I love love running it's everything to me it just helps me get through life and I know |
| 1:07.5 | I'm not the only one that feels this way so I found a way to help people run more and run stronger |
| 1:14.6 | through a practice of yoga and functional strength. I'm also a massage therapist too so if you're |
| 1:21.5 | local to the New York City area I can help you out with that too but I'm so excited to join this |
| 1:26.9 | platform and I just want to help all of you the best I can. I've known Amanda for what six |
| 1:36.2 | years seven years holy crap isn't that crazy. When did you when did you start working at finish |
| 1:41.6 | line? Well I started at finish line PT as a patient and that was in 2012. Wow I was going to |
| 1:51.2 | see a woman named Brynn the set and she was the best physical therapist I had ever had and she was |
| 2:00.1 | so inspiring in the way that she treated me with my running injuries. She actually got me running |
| 2:06.0 | a marathon after I had osteoarthritis after I had hamstring tendonitis and she got me running |
| 2:12.1 | those marathons and she was so creative in her treatment approach and so smart and so funny as |
| 2:19.9 | hell. So funny we love you and so we love you Brynn I will I will always worship Brynn so |
| 2:27.3 | I have more reasons than one to worship her because I called her up one day and I said I want to do |
| 2:31.4 | your job and so she persuaded me not to go to PT school. She said don't do it don't spend that |
| 2:43.1 | money get your massage therapy degree you can teach yoga do massage. Anyway I followed the |
| 2:49.7 | path and she also introduced me to my husband that's a whole other story for another time. |
| 2:55.7 | Brynn got me the job at finish line physical therapy after I started massage therapy school and I |
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