Biography of miranda esmonde-white age

Miranda Esmonde-White is the New York Times best-selling author of the Aging Backwards series, a world-renowned healthy aging educator, and an innovator in the field of stretching. 

A former professional ballerina, Miranda created the globally recognized, science-based fitness technique, Essentrics® Stretch Workout, in 1997, becoming a flexibility trainer to numerous high-performance athletes and celebrities. She is the television host of the long-running fitness show on PBS, Classical Stretch, and creator/host of the award-winning PBS docuseries, Aging Backwards and Forever Painless. 

Miranda’s fast-track program is revolutionizing the way we understand the role that our cells, muscles, bones, connective tissue, and joints play in slowing down the aging process while keeping our bodies feeling young, healthy, and pain-free.

Based in Montreal, Canada, Miranda now spends her time developing the Essentrics technique in relation to emerging science, writing, and work related to PBS. She also travels extensively, giving lectures, hosting retreats, and teacher-training workshops.

As a former professional ballet dancer, I left home at the young age of ten to train at the renowned National Ballet School in Toronto and later joined the National Ballet of Canada to dance around the world. I loved how my body felt at that time in my life; undeniably strong and flexible with complete freedom of movement gained from ballet training (less the injuries and pain that came along with this demanding profession). Fast forward to my thirties: I opened a dance and fitness center at the height of the new Aerobics movement, and I was teaching it daily. After a few years, and having entered my forties, my body began to hurt; I was losing my range of motion, my joints were in pain and my muscles were becoming shorter, which inhibited my flexibility.

My students were feeling the same way and I decided to put all of my professional training and experience to work: I combined the knowledge I had gained from practicing Tai-Chi, from years of physiotherapy for my back pain, and of course from my professional career in ballet, to create the Essentrics® workout. Essentrics has come a long way since teaching my first class over 30 years ago – with 20 years on PBS as their longest-running fitness show, four documentaries, a New York Times bestselling book on aging, and an Ins

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