
Own Your Truth
A Mantra for Growth
As Popeye said, I yam what I yam. I am an athlete, a mama, a wife, an anatomy geek, an OG internationally ranked pro cyclist and a post-menopausal hardcore yoga flygirl with a serious potty mouth. And guess what? The older I get, the more I realize how much I want to keep growing. So I’m reinventing myself. Again. It doesn’t matter if you’re 19 or 90, in the best shape of your life or climbing out of an injury. Transitions are incredibly powerful. If you’re always arriving, you’re never leaving. If you’re always rising, you’re never shrinking. Let’s defy gravity. Let’s move with confidence. Let’s heal. Let’s get strong. Let’s focus. Let’s lift each other up and get shit done.
About Leslee
Leslee Schenk Trzcinski is not your average yogi. A self-described yoga coach with a decorated athletic history and unique yoga training credentials, her own practice has helped her unlock her athletic potential, cope with an aging athlete body, recover from numerous injuries and navigate motherhood, career and life. With Leslee, you always get 100% Leslee: salty personality and relentless passion, support and encouragement, heart and soul.
Leslee’s unique accomplishments and credentials include:
CYCLING
- PRO Cyclist: US national/Olympic development women’s cycling team, the 7-Eleven, Lowrey’s and Celestial Seasonings pro women’s trade teams; in residence Olympic Training Center
- 2-time world championship medalist, 3-time world championship team (road and TTT); numerous international stage wins
- Nike sponsored and featured athlete in original, CLIO-winning NIKE commercial, “Bo Knows”
- Colorado State Champion; Colorado Woman Athlete of the Year
US OLYMPIC COMMITTEE
- Appointed to a prestigious subcommittee of the US Olympic Committee (USOC) chaired by track great, Edwin Moses
- Athlete appointee as cycling national governing body representative to the USOC Athlete’s Advisory Council
TRIATHLON
- Started bike racing through triathlons — having won the few races completed, including age group category in the Eastern Regional Championships
SWIMMING
- Nationally ranked, AAU swim champion – Cincinnati Marlins under Stanford’s Skip Kenney; Ohio State champion, All-American and record holder (that record has fallen but other pool records from the ’70s still hold today); team captain – undefeated Skidmore College women’s swim team
RUNNING
- Completed four marathons; qualification for 100th and 101st Boston
SKIING
- Former PSIA associate certified ski instructor, on staff Keystone/Arapahoe Basin, Colorado; collegiate ski team member, Skidmore College
EQUESTRIAN
- Broke, trained, showed hunter/jumper thoroughbreds for many years; participated in 3-day eventing; riding my own mounts and as a ‘hired gun’ for others; hired consultant/aid for prestigious Saratoga Race Track annual yearling sales
SOCCER
- SAY soccer center halfback — championship Ohio team
BROADCAST COMMENTATING and JOURNALIST
- Journalist and broadcast commentator (cycling events – post pro competition). Broadcast mediums include: ESPN, Prime Sports Network, Tour Tracker, NBC Sports, NBC/ABC affiliates around US. Print mediums include VeloNews, Inside Cycling, Bicycling Magazine, Women’s Sports & Fitness and a ‘stringer’ for major national dailies.
CYCLING and TRIATHLON COACH
- Certified USA Cycling and USA Triathlon coach developing custom plans and overseeing training, recovery and nutrition needs
- Full time, certified yoga “coach” – registered with the national governing body, Yoga Alliance (E-RYT 500hr+)
- On faculty, several yoga teacher trainings in person and online
- Wide range of clients and students
- Ongoing personal study in yoga alignment, mobility, physiology, functional anatomy, pranayama (breathwork), yoga philosophy, nutrition and sports psychology in the form of classes, advanced workshops and industry conferences
- 200hr yoga training with internationally renowned leader Francois Raoult, Open Sky Yoga; 300 hour with Aimee Senise Connors; studied and practiced intensely with Iyengar senior teachers Patricia Walden, John Schumacher, Karin O’Bannon and Lois Steinberg, as well as anatomy with Tiffany Cruikshank (anatomy) and Leslie Kaminoff and biomechanics with Jules Mitchell
- 100hr pranayama training, Francois Raoult
- In-depth study of yoga for peri/post menopause, Senior Iyengar teacher Bobbi Clennell
- Yoga for Parkinson’s with Richard Rosen
- Yoga philosophy study with Douglas Brooks and Vishali Varga
- Former member, Board of Directors of the Yoga Service Council (mission of breaking down barriers to yoga for all populations and audiences despite income/socioeconomic, physical limitations, incarceration, military service, trauma, age)
- Cultivation of voice and writing with narrative medicine expert, Sarah Webb