Kylene started as a wee thing in a tap/ballet combo class at Academy of Dance here in Oak Harbor, WA. Hating the structure of ballet, she moved into tumbling with her older brother Zack for the next year. From there her time in cheerleading began and she did everything encompassing youth league football cheer, Liberty All-Stars competitive cheer, high school cheer (football and court side basketball), and ICE athletics in Anacortes for a total of 9 years. Her next adventure in dance started the summer of seventh grade with some private lessons in Jazz, then ballroom dance with her boyfriend at Dan's Classic Ballroom, and beginning lyrical with Claudia when In Motion began, all here in Oak Harbor.

Moving into college, dance started as a past time. A way to fill the P.E. requirements for a Bachelor's Degree. She took a ballroom course during her USAC Study Abroad program in Costa Rica and started in beginning ballroom dance at Central as well as the Swing Cats club. Costa Rica encompassed Bachata, Merengue and Cumbia with some small dabbles socially in Salsa (which she never got the hang of). Coming home she continued her time in Swing Cats, a club focused on West Coast and East Coast Swing with explorations to Lindy Hop and the Charleston. By the end of her second year in college she was approached by dance program director Therese Young who wanted to invite Kylene to pursue a minor in dance, since the credits were starting to add up and Kylene just kept coming back.

By the end of her third year Kylene was part of Orchesis, Central Washington University's dance performance program, and had performed in the local dance studio's production of Cinderella. She continued course work in modern, ballet, pointe work, and jazz. This was the year Kylene was set to graduate, but there was a little hangup with her credits from Costa Rica in pursuing her Spanish minor.

Feeling a little put out and quite frustrated Kylene took a gap year, which of course wracked the nerves of those around her about return to college, would she graduate, what's going on mentally and is she ok? Her friends and family just hoped and prayed that all the work currently put in wasn't for nothing. During the gap year she paid out of pocket for classes at the local dance studio, continuing pointe, lyrical and ballet work and for the first time performing in no less than six dances in their Nutcracker production (2016), including the snowflake scene en pointe. Also during the gap year, the Dance MAJOR program passed administrations! What a huge blessing and during the 2017-2018 school year Kylene returned to classes, took a translation course to finish her residential Spanish credits, took the most AMAZING anatomy class with full cadaver lab and in class lecture hall, and finished out her credits for the Dance Major.

In March of 2018 Kylene graduated cum laude from Central Washington University with a double major in Psychology and Dance and a concentration minor in Spanish, with the study abroad experience advantage. Her coursework for the major included 48 classes in dance. Performance, Choreography, Production, History of Dance, Ballroom, Injury Prevention, Anatomy, Pilates, you name it, it was in there.

Coming home Kylene continued to pursue different avenues by traveling from the Oak Harbor area up to Bellingham to practice with the Bellingham Reparatory dance group, down to Langley to perform with Meander Dance Company (her first paid dance job), over to Mount Vernon to Ground Zero Gymnastics and Seattle to New Moon Movement Arts for training in Aerial Silks, over to Lynnwood for training in heels dance and choreography, and right here in Oak Harbor teaching Pilates at the Pilates Collective from March 2023-August 2025. Her teaching hours total 1,086 hours across three studios, and over the course of that time she has done nothing but fall more and more in love with movement each step of the way.

Other movement passions have included competitive rock climbing, high school wrestling, two years of Cross-Fit in Ellensburg, MANY group fitness classes, Belly dancing, Cardio Kickboxing, Zumba, Les Mills Barre, TRX, and most predominantly yoga from the time she was 16 at the Lotus Tea Bar until present day at Chrysalis Yoga Shala.

Where does she get it? Everywhere. The inspiration for movement is EVERYWHERE, and she wants you to be a part of it!