Emily Lesinski, PT, DPT (2025)

26/06/2022

Over the past week I had allowed myself a bit of excitement… Pride for me in recent years has felt a bit awkward; do I belong here? I want to participate! Does anyone care when I can essentially pass as straight, in a straight relationship? But this year I thought, I’ll try it on for size- claiming my participation, being…out? Exciting!
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And then Friday happened. And celebrating anything feels ridiculous. I’m so mad and sad.
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But the more I think about it…. anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment is deeply rooted in misogyny and the belief in supremacy of one gender over another- anything uprooting the gender binary and their specified roles, all the way down to the bedroom, is hated. Reproductive freedom and healthcare rights are *absolutely* wrapped up in that.
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Pride basically says F**K all of that, and look at us thriving even. So if you’re feeling really conflicted this weekend, I get it. Take time for sadness and use anger to fuel resistance. But you ARE ALLOWED to have joy. If you feel like getting out and celebrating, DO IT, with special acknowledgment to all uterus-havers today. Make it known…. Religious zealots and conservative politicians can try to legislate away our rights, but it is truly the minority attempting to control the majority, and we will never go away.✊🏼🏳️‍🌈. Happy Pride, fam. GO VOTE.
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14/06/2022

Oh hey!
It’s my face. Seeing as how I’m really inconsistent with social media, it occurred to me it might be time to hop back on and remind/introduce you to what I do.
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Did you know I’m a physical therapist *and* I teach movement classes and private lessons? Did you know you can train flexibility, handstands and partner acrobatics with me every week at ? Did you know you can schedule with me through my website (link in bio)? Well, consider yourself informed! Since we’re at it and it’s June, I am also a member of and ally to the LGBTQ+ community; our training spaces and my treatment space are inclusive and open to everyone, and my clinical expertise includes rehabilitation after top surgery. If you have an injury issue or training question, feel free to reach out. Can’t wait to meet you!
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25/05/2022

Hey y’all! If ya didn’t know….it’s this dude’s birthday!
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Especially over the last two years, I’ve watched you navigate maintaining and BUILDING new business amidst a global pandemic, taking a chance and seeing an idea through to bring a huge, beautiful circus training facility to New York City, grow and develop your own physical practice to an incredibly high level and share it in your teaching, and just generally be a dope human. If you can do this all by 33, I’m excited to see what’s coming up! Love you - thanks for picking me up (and throwing me, and spotting me, and sometimes letting me pick YOU up 😂).

18/04/2022

Hey movers and shakers!
I know I don’t post that consistently, but amongst everything we work on, what is most exciting me RIGHT NOW is the CIRQUEHAUS FESTIVAL, only a couple weeks away!
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Since we opened in November, the space has grown and developed into a full-fledged circus training facility, and we are so pumped to be bringing in some of our favorite instructors from other cities to gather for spring in NYC. There will be 3 day-long intensives on Friday (2 acro options and one solo movement option), a Friday night performance, 4 sessions on each day of the weekend of partner acro and solo movement classes available, and plenty of jam time!
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Scroll through for schedule info. members get discount on tickets! Link in bio
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23/03/2022

Hey friends. PLEASE join us Saturday for a donation-based handstand jam/informal coaching on Saturday 2-5p EST! Suggested donation $20-100, all proceeds will go to Ukraine relief efforts at and - Join for some or all of the session! Several of our coaches will be present with tips and spotting, leads warm-up 2-2:30.
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518 West 38th St.
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IF YOU CAN’T COME please still consider DONATING💛💙.
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PayPal: CirqueHauseUkraineRelief@gmail.com

21/03/2022

Funny, somehow uska ruska has come up several times amongst training friends in the last week or so (chats with , , , …..). This is a photo from 18 months ago (seems like last week), when and visited, as we thought the specter of COVID was disappearing😂. They took some of the coolest photos of me doing movement things, and I’m so grateful. Also, in discussing and attempting this handstand variation lately, it feels so much harder than this day in Oct 2020, when I thought nothing of jumping to it on the tall canes in the middle of the street with Dmitriy spotting! Swipe for the full shape :)
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Also, these are my hands. Did you know I’ve have three different wrist and hand surgeries? They’re an integral part of my job, and each time I managed to be really creative and never took more than a day or two off work. The same surgeon did all three procedures, although they were totally unrelated: R distal radius ORIF (Oct 2011), L thumb ulnar collateral ligament repair (March 2012), and R fifth metacarpal ORIF (July 2017). Occasionally little twinges happen and I remember these souvenirs in my hands, but the vast majority of the time, they let my stand on them, hang from them, stand on them on other people, catch other people, and take care of people with them, without a peep. Sometimes I think my hands are my favorite part of my body :).

08/03/2022

Here we gooooo!!!! Next CirqueHaus Fest has some dope teachers confirmed 🤗. Basic deets are:
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Friday May 6
Choice of day-long intensive
Evening performance
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Saturday May 7
- 4 sessions, each with a choice of two different acro classes or a solo movement class.
- Jam time
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Sunday May 8
Same as Saturday, slightly earlier end time :)
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Pricing and registration at
www.CirqueHaus.com/events
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Members get a BIG discount!

04/03/2022

Hey all!! I am so excited to let you know that since our first event this past November was a joy and an amazing way to open our new space, we are planning the next CIRQUEHAUS FESTIVAL for the weekend of May 6-8! Mark your calendars, buy your tickets, and plan your travel. (And swipe for images from the Nov event!)
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We’ll follow a similar format of Friday day long intensives, then four sessions on both Saturday and Sunday, each with a few choices of Acro classes or solo movement options. Friday evening there will be another dope night of performances. Plenty of jam time will be included in the weekend as well. Since our last event CirqueHaus has been more fully outfitted, including a full rigging system with safety lines. I would love to see you all there.
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Members get a full 50% off ticket prices, which are at www.cirquehaus.com/events - as the kids say, watch this space for details coming soon!
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14/12/2021

CW: body dysmorphia
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It may seem weird to be really sparse with posting for months now, and then jump on to talk about this. But I don’t journal, and it’s two more days till my next therapy appointment so…🤷🏻‍♀️
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This post isn’t a cry for help, nor do I want well-intentioned but misplaced reassurance or compliments. It’s just a record-keeping, saying out loud what often gets left out of many IG posts (I KNOW this is incredibly common).
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Body dysmorphia is a bitch ain’t it? When I was in late high school and early college I dealt with and mostly resolved some disordered eating behavior. In the intervening years things have ebbed and flowed emotionally, but I’ve remained physically healthy; on average, over the past 3-4 years I’ve had fewer negative thoughts about my body than in my late teens for sure. I’ve learned, actually, many many new physical skills and am stronger today than ever in my 20s. I barely ever drink, do some kind of movement daily which actually interests me (no mindless gym/elliptical grind), and I generally eat complex carbs, veggies, some fruit, occasional fish and eggs. I do admittedly have a sweet tooth but don’t force myself to abstain from the vegan ice cream I like.
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The recent weeks have been *incredibly* busy planning an opening event and subsequently opening a new training facility in NYC (), maintaining my own personal business, continuing to teach 6-7 classes per week with , talking, learning, talking some more and growing in relationships, and recuperating from a fairly bloody but not medically serious hand injury while biking. Training has been more sporadic, less intense. Because finances are spread more thinly, I say yes to more work. But things have been really exciting; I’ve experienced support and community in our new business venture, and I’ve received many new referrals from trusted colleagues and studio members with wonderful things to say about my PT work.

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23/10/2021

Last week we went and set up a 20-foot rig inside to take some photos with the beautiful light and there was STILL SO MUCH space above it 🤯🤗. Opening SOON. Who’s excitedddd?!?
📷: the talented (thanks for dealing with the spins!)
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14/10/2021

YOU ASKED! Here it is, more info on CirqueHaus Festival! Facebook event link for ticket sales. Specific class content published SOON!
Teachers: .moonbeam.acro .acro .temple and little ol’ me and :)
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Friday November 12:
Choice of 3 day-long intensives running from 12-2 and 3-5pm
1. Open Level Acro
2. Advanced Acro
3. Solo Acrobatic Movement
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Saturday November 13:
Four sessions throughout the day, with three options in each session to meet you at your skill level!
AM Session 1: Flexibility
AM Session 2: Handstands
PM Session 3: Acro
PM Session 4: Acro
EVENING JAM!
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Sunday November 14:
Four DIFFERENT sessions, three DIFFERENT choices each, again!
AM Session 1: Flexibility
AM Session 2: Handstands
PM Session 3: Acro
PM Session 4: Acro
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**Sat and Sun will have at least 1 solo movement option per afternoon.
***COVID policy: Vaccination required, rapid testing daily AT CHECK-IN - PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY!!

05/10/2021

CIRQUEHAUS MEMBERSHIP INFO!

-DID YOU KNOW-
If you CURRENTLY have a Warrior Bridge membership, you will automatically get membership included to our NEW facility, opening in November!!
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That means….for your current rate of $175/month you get:

- 24/7 access to open training time at CirqueHaus
- Unlimited classes at Warrior Bridge in the studio
- Unlimited virtual class access
- Access to the archived library of online material
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GET YOUR MEMBERSHIP NOW, before it goes up to $225!
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www.warriorbridge.com

01/09/2021

Hey y’all! Do you know what tomorrow is?!? My birthday 💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♀️🤣🤣🤣If you want to celebrate with we, come to flexibility and handstands with me! Backbends at 5:30p and Handstands at 6:45p EST in studio or online! I can’t think of a more appropriate way to commemorate my birthday than with some movement 💛💛💛

27/06/2021

In recent years, I’ve felt a strange tension around ; between the heartswell I feel and the pull of celebration and community, and a feeling of inauthenticity, like I was being phony.
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Well, I’ve arrived at the conclusion that there IS a likely way to dispel that cognitive dissonance so, to that end:
I’m a cis woman (and I acknowledge the privilege I have). I’m attracted to more than one gender. Thus far, I’ve only had serious hetero relationships. Will these current truths about me evolve or change over time? Who knows. I don’t have a good word for what I am. There are moments I feel silly about that; at age 35 I don’t know myself? BUT, I think there’s a beautiful wide world out there, and an infinite spectrum along which anyone can identify themselves….and we’re allowed to grow and shift over time.
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Happy pride y’all! If you feel comfortable, tell me about your unique place on the identity spectrum. I want to hear about what makes you, you! Peace and love 🌈💛😻

01/05/2021

Today is the day!
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is opening for partial capacity classes! I could cry at how wonderful re-connecting to community feels. I can’t wait to see people practicing in our space which has felt so lonely over this past year!
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We’re doing everything we can to keep things safe, and ask that you PLEASE pre-register for classes. They are already filling quickly, and we’re so happy our people are supporting us! Come pay us a visit soon. The studio is ready, we are ready, and we know you’re ready to get your practice on!

📷: the incomparable

25/04/2021

Hi all!
Posting is hard. I’ve been lurking and following and reading, and occasionally have been putting up schedule stuff in stories.
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Honestly? I get analysis paralysis. I feel like a paragraph or two isn’t enough to dig into a movement concept. Or, I feel like I’m constantly repeating myself with “it depends, every body is different”. Or, I fear someone reading a short catchy caption and thinking, “Yes but what about X? She doesn’t really know what she’s talking about!”
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I have a few posts planned around questions I’ve been asked recently. I’d love to hear from YOU - is there a movement concept or question nagging at you? Come clarification on the structure of the wrists, elbows, shoulders? A reminder that IG isn’t a great forum for personal injury questions; in that case, feel free to DM or email me!
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I can’t wait for things to heat up just a bit in NYC. We’ve been working our asses off to make sure there is a studio space for you to practice in very very soon! This is a photo from last summer with ….looking forward to creating more!
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22/02/2021

Hey y’all! Did you know that we’ve announced dates for our next Anatomy and Movement Teacher Training through ?! This is a training and I co-lead, and we’ve developed it over several years into its current form: a training aimed at educating practitioners, teachers and movement students about how bodies work and how to use that foundational knowledge to develop a movement practice. A large portion of the training time is dedicated to learning anatomy and biomechanics. We discuss different tissue types, joints of the different regions of the body and their corresponding musculature, and how that awareness makes for intelligent teaching and training. If you know how the scapula interacts with your rib cage and your arm, your handstand practice might feel a little different!

There will be a virtual option, and, if it’s safe, an in-person option. Message me with questions! If you’re ready to level-up your teaching or take your practice to new depths, join us **JUNE 19-29!**

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17/02/2021

Maybe I should put on a dress and take my hair out of this messy bun once in a while....🐦💛. Thanks for insisting a dress would be a great idea for a shoot and - never would’ve thought to do it myself!

Emily Lesinski, PT, DPT