Own Your Truth

Leslee's 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

TUNE Yoga founder and chief tuner, Leslee Schenk Trzcinski, ERYT-500, YACEP, 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.

Athletics

Cycling

• Professional 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 Olympics Committee

• Appointed to a prestigious subcommittee of the US Olympic Committee (USOC) chaired by track & field legend, Edwin Moses
• Elected as cycling national governing body representative to the USOC Athlete's Advisory Council

Triathlon

• Started bike racing through triathlons — 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 Commentator, Journalist, Announcer

• Journalist and commentator (cycling events) including: ESPN, Prime Sports Network, Tour Tracker, NBC Sports, NBC/ABC affiliates around US. Print includes VeloNews, Inside Cycling, Bicycling Magazine, Women's Sports & Fitness and a ‘stringer' for major national dailies. Race announcing for international cycling events.

Coaching

• Certified USA Cycling and USA Triathlon coach developing custom plans and overseeing training, recovery and nutrition needs.
• Completing NASM (Nat'l Assoc Sports Medicine) certifications in Personal Training, Corrective Exercise, and Performance Enhancement Specialization

Yoga / Mobility

• Full time, certified yoga "coach" – registered with the national governing body, Yoga Alliance (E-RYT 500hr+)
• Over 1,000 hours of training in yoga/pranayama, mobility, anatomy, biomechanics, research
• Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP)
• On faculty, several renowned yoga teacher trainings in person and online
• Wide range of athlete clients, yoga teacher mentees, and student clients
• NEW! Functional Range Systems Certification, July, 2023 (mobility development, articular strength, neurological control)
• 200hr yoga training with internationally renowned leader Francois Raoult, Open Sky Yoga (Iyengar)
• 300 hour with Aimee Senise Connors
• In depth study and practice with Iyengar senior teachers Patricia Walden, John Schumacher, Lois Steinberg
• Varied anatomy training with Ray Long, Tiffany Cruikshank, and Leslie Kaminoff
• Biomechanics and Science of Stretching training with Jules Mitchell
• 100hr pranayama training, with special guest Timothy McCall, MD, Yoga as Medicine
• Refresher 200 hour yoga training – again with Francois Raoult, in Iyengar style, nada yoga, anatomy and practicum
• In-depth study of yoga for peri/post menopause with senior, global, Iyengar teacher, Bobbi Clennell
• In-depth physiology study on menopause for athletes with PhD researcher and innovator, Dr. Stacy Sims
• Coursework with fascia pioneer, researcher and leader, Tom Myers
• Yoga for Parkinsons study and in depth pranayama practice techniques with Richard Rosen
• Yoga philosophy study with Douglas Brooks and Vishali Varga
• Former member, Board of Directors, 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 guide, Sarah Webb
• On faculty/lecturer and content developer, yoga teacher trainings in 200 and 300 hour including Tru Yoga Rochester, Midtown Athletic Club, Quiet Mind Studio, others