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.