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In her latest book, The Movement Miracle (published March 14), Miranda Esmonde-White promotes, in equal measure, stretching and strengthening to help take us back to the point, when, she tells me, “we never second-guessed the state of our body in terms of what we can and can’t do.” We don’t need to feel the burn to achieve that end. Rather, says the Montreal-based fitness trainer, who turns 74 in May, a regimen of slow- to medium-paced movements done 25 minutes a day is enough to “rebalance” muscles and joints, and enhance functional mobility – which, she points out, we need for everything from reaching into high and low cupboards to putting on our shoes.
A classically trained ballerina (and National Ballet of Canada alum), Esmonde-White has…
