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Jessie Rard - circus artist turned coach

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Where flexibility meets strength 🤜🏻🤛🏻
💪🏻 Weightlifting for hypermobile humans
🦓 hEDS, POTS, MCAS 🥄
🎪 Flexibility, Contortion, Handstands

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Ready to improve your strength and flexibility?? Start your conditioning journey with @twistedfoxtraining from the comfort of your home!

Jessie aka @twistedfoxtraining was a part of Cathedral in the early days and is now dedicated to helping artists and athletes build strong foundations for success in their chosen apparatus or discipline.

Strength at Home (Mondays at 7AM, ONLINE): Using weights, bands, and bodyweight, this class will help you gain muscle *and* mobility. Designed to balance out some of the muscle tension created by aerial and pole training, this class will rotate through the major body parts, covering upper and lower body strength, as well as injury reduction topics such as shoulder stability and knee pain. Always with the focus on gaining strength, maintaining flexibility, safety for hypermobility.

Active Flexibility (Thursdays at 7AM, ONLINE): Join coach Jessie for building strength for pole! This class is created to take at home. You will also receive the video recording after class. We will provide lots of modifications for low-equipment set-ups, but here is some recommended equipment if you have them available to you:
- yoga mat- a chair or bench- yoga blocks- resistance bands

**This class is online! You will receive a zoom link via email within the 15 minutes prior to class**
💜Sign up online or through the MINDBODY app💜

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As the eve of what has been an unexpected and endlessly busy year I wanted to celebrate the collaborative performances and projects I got to experience in 2025. Working with so many talented queer humans in my community left me feeling more creative, more seen, more connected. From conceptual coffee dates to rehearsals to long nights working behind the scenes, we made these things reality.
Thank you @circustim for teaching me to find the fun in aerial silks.
For @twistedfoxtraining to put up with my endless contortion journey with laughter and patience.
For @graceonapole for showing up with all of your romantic, sensual self, for saying yes to so many amazing shows and helping grow @aerotiques.deux into the name it has astonishingly become.
For @loved.by.monsters for living with my chaos and coming up with incredible costumes with minimal time and materials.
To @purrblind who helped elevate a beloved old man yaoi sketch into an incredible duo performance.
To @vernal_wisdom and @rainbowcircusto for not only helping me develop an entire show, but building a tender, beautiful opening act that I’ll never forget.

Building these moments meant the world to me, and I cannot wait to be a bigger, beefier base for more duos in 2026. 🔥

#circuslife #performerlife #queerartist🏳️‍🌈 #transjoy

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Check out the latest episode now

@superpennie talks to @twistedfoxtraining about all things hypermobility and circus training

#adhd #autism #hypermobility #eds #hypermobile #physio #circus #lgbt #contortion #contortionist #fitnesspodcast #podcast #bendandsnatch

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I think Jessie just called me autistic 👀

Spoke to @twistedfoxtraining about hypermobility and circus for the latest episode of the pod

And you can’t talk about hypermobility without talking about neurodivergence

And you can’t talk about neurodivergence without talking about gender identity

Stream the full episode now

Just search Bend & Snatch on YT or wherever you get your podcasts

#trans #autism #neurodivergence #transgender #nonbinary #transfitness #hypermobility #eds #circus #queer #lgbt

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Remember when we used to use this app to share photos of our lives? Imma do that again.

Thanks for November, beautiful humans!

And now for low-work December, which could not have come at a better time 😂

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I *promise* I’m not trying to pry the block out of y’all’s hands…I’m just offering my thoughts and suggestions on alternative warm up drills that might better prepare your necks for chin stands 🫶🫶

Lmk if you want more examples on good neck warm up exercises for backbending!

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Neck compensations have been a HOT TOPIC during my Thoracic Word flex classes this month, because sooooo many people intentionally crank their neck all the way back during upper back stretches and it actually just sandbags your thoracic extension progress 🤷🏼‍♀️ There is no biomechanical advantage that you gain by locking your neck out in full extension during these stretches, and it’s also not great for your neck health either 😅

HUGE thank to my lovely friend @twistedfoxtraining for so kindly volunteering to take the photos (AND be the model!) for this post - it is much appreciated!

PS: if you want to join Thoracic World, it’s not too late! Sign up for my class membership via the first link in my bio and get instant access to the first two weeks of classes (PLUS my entire on demand library). We meet every Tuesday and Friday morning at 10am PST for 30 mins of TARGETED upper back work for backbends 💪 (…and yes, that means that all recordings are included, always and forever 🤪)

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📣 Our next match donor is here!

We’re thrilled to share that @twistedfoxtraining is matching donations to CSAW up to $350! That means that the next $350 in contributions towards CSAW’s work goes twice as far in supporting BIPOC circus artists and their art!

❤️ csawcircus.org/donate or link in bio ❤️

Whatever you can give right now will be DOUBLY as impactful for artists of color to get the equipment, training, travel, and access to festivals needed to continue their circus journey. Turn your $10 into $20!

Jessie Rard (he/they) is a trans-nonbinary personal trainer and disabled athlete who has coached under the moniker Twisted Fox Training since 2019. Jessie specializes in strength and mobility for gender diverse, neurodiverse, and hypermobile athletes and artists. Last year they *finally* received their hEDS, POTS, and MCAS diagnoses and have expanded into medical advocacy to further assist the hypermobile circus artists dealing with chronic illness and disability. Jessie has been happily supporting CSAW from the beginning. because it never occurred to them *not* to.

More from Jessie:

"During my years both as a gig based artist and in circus school, I worked, scrimped, and saved to make it on my own as much as possible. But I always had financial support from my family to fall back on when I hit rough patches or couldn't quite make both rent and school fees in a given month. Being a transgender artist or a circus artist of color doesn't automatically mean that a person is struggling financially, but white cisgender people are statistically more likely to have access to family and financial resources. I have had the privilege of family support to fall back on, and while my business may be small, I am grateful that it gives me the opportunity to help others and support orgs like CSAW."

And thank you for every one of you who helps move our mission forward. Let’s make the most of this match! 💛 If you're interested in making a match too, DM us or email info@csawcircus.org to learn more.

Please head over and donate now at csawcircus.org/donate so we can meet our match ASAP!

#match #twistedfox #impact #twinning #circuseducators #disabilityadvocacy

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More combos, more fun with @twistedfoxtraining for Floor Slink! It's a great way to train your floor tricks AT ANY LEVEL. I've loved rebuilding my shoulders and abs these last two weeks at @thewildskypoledancestudio

#floorwork #transdancer #floorchoreo #floordance #lowflow #lowflowtricks

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Variations on a combo! Back on the pole for the first time in MONTHS for some core strength maintenance and worked through some spinny shoulder-heavy combos.

Also, you really should take Floor Slink with @twistedfoxtraining at @thewildskypoledancestudio

#floorwork #transdancer #floorchoreo #transman #lowflow #lowflowpoledance #lowflowtricks #lowflowpole #floordance

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A trick update! #backbending #contortionist #contortiontraining #flexiblility #petitàpetit #circus #circuseverydamnday #splitstraining #splits

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