Miranda Esmonde-White is one of America’s greatest advocates and educators of healthy aging. Following her career as a professional ballerina, Miranda developed her own fitness technique, Essentrics®, and became the flexibility trainer to numerous professional and Olympic athletes, celebrities and other notable clients. Her fitness TV show, Classical Stretch has been airing on PBS and public television since 1999, and is rated the #1 fitness show on the network. She has filmed over 300 episodes of Classical Stretch, most of them distributed worldwide on DVD and available on streaming—helping people of all ages and fitness levels rebalance their bodies and keep their joints healthy and pain-free.
Esmonde-White’s New York Times bestselling book and award-winning pledge documentary, Aging Backwards, are revolutionizing the way we understand the role that fitness plays in slowing down the aging process while keeping our bodies young, attractive, strong and healthy.
In her latest book and pledge documentary, Forever Painless, Miranda teaches us a new way to look at our body and provides simple exercises that real people have used to end chronic pain with movement.
Based in Montreal, Miranda spends her time developing the technique, writing and training new instructors. She also travels extensively giving lectures, leading teacher training sessions and hosting retreats.