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Classical Stretch Back Pain Relief and Prevention with Miranda Esmonde-White includes three workouts for the back.   The DVD Menu : Introduction to the Workouts 14 Minute Upper Body Pain Relief 14 Minute Lower Body Pain Relief 30 Minute Back Prevention Workout   14 Minute Upper Body Pain Relief This workout actually clocks in at 10 and 1/2 minutes. It features shoulder rolls, one arm shoulder circles, shoulder blast, Upper back stretch, diagonal pulls, forward fold arm rotation to name a few. Workout uses a chair. 14 Minute Lower Body Pain Relief Clocking just under 14 minutes, Miranda starts this workout seated stretching and rounding the back. After the chair series, there is a standing series in which you use the chair to continue stretching and rounding.  This is followed by a lying series where the IT Band is the focused. Miranda includes back arches, leg lifts and child pose to further the stretching and loosening of the back. 30 Min Back Pain Prevention Workou...

The latest DVD workout from Essentrics and Miranda Esmonde-White is Rebalance & Reboot Your Body . This DVD contains three under 25 minute workouts. The workouts are: Workout 1 Full Body Stretch Workout Workout 2 Posture and Spine Workout 3 Hip and Knee Strengthening Fully Body Stretching clocks in at around 22:30.  This workout uses a chair. The workout is broken down according to the approximate times. 0:00 circle warm up 3:05 cut the air, sway, back. ribs 7:30 mobility. toes, feet 10:00 plies 12:45 lunge, core 15:20 Barre work:  shin, calves, ankles 17:30 Barre work: leg swings, hip cleaners, hamstring stretch Posture and Spine clocks in at 24 minutes and the whole workout is performed standing and without props. 0:00 warm up the spine 2:00 spine stretch 4:45 more spine stretch 7:00  tail bone 10:00  leg hip isolation 13:00  arms 15:25  spine flexibility 20:00  chest and hamstrings Hip and Knee Strengthening clocks ...

Classical Stretch Aging Backwards Disc 1 is lead by Miranda Esmonde-White. On the disc 1 DVD, there are four 30-minute-ish workouts.  The setting for all workouts is outdoors. Miranda is the only cast member. The four workouts are: Posture Pain Relief Weight Loss Body Shape Miranda spends a few minutes at the start of each workout discussing the focus of that workout and explaining the benefits you should be striving for as you do the workout. Approximate breakdown of the 4 workouts Posture 4:02 - feet alignment, spine twist 9:25 - psoas 11:30 - platform, feet 13:25  - psoas, kicks, figure 8 17:04 -  Arms 21:06 - more psoas 23:50 - floor work (baby stretch, hips, hamstrings) 32:15 - seated spine stretch Posture workout clocks in at 33:51.  The background music in this was interesting. I enjoyed several of the tunes.  The toughest section for me was the arm section.  In the floor segment, you have the option to use an elastic band and...

Mobility & Bone Strengthening for Beginners is part of the Age Reversing workout series. This DVD contains the same Instruction & How To's segments as the other Age Reversing DVD,  plus two workouts. The Mobility workout clocks in at 28:53 and it is divided into two segments. A standing segment and a floor segment.  The standing segments works all the joints in the body including the pectorals, toes, ankles and hips by moving slowing but with purpose. Miranda does clock workout and windmills for the spine and sides of the body.  The standing segment is around 18 minutes. The floor segment uses a mat and optional risers and theraband.  The floor segment stretches the groin, hips, back and hamstrings.  The floor segment is around 10 minutes. Strengthen Your Bones clocks in at 33:13.  This workout is really a full body workout that moves slowly as it hits the various parts of the body. There is a standing segment and barre segment. Shoulder...

Posture & Pain-Relief for Beginners is a group of workouts that are a part of Essentrics Age Reversing Workouts. The DVD menu offers the following options: Instructions & How To's Posture Pain Relief The Instructions & How To's contain the following segments: 1) How to get the most of your workout 2) How to stand correctly on your feet 3) How to stand with proper posture 4) How to do exercises when in pain 5) Neutral C  The Posture workout clocks in at 28:38.  Throughout the workout, Miranda spends quite a bit of time talking and explaining the workout as she proceeds slowing through the various moves.  There are two parts to this workout; a standing segment and a floor segment.  In the standing segment, this particular workout includes stretches for the back and shoulders.  There are a series of tai chi plies and side to side lunge stretches with overhead reaches. The floor segment requires a mat, and optional block cushion, thera...

Full Body Workout Volume 2 is part of Miranda Esmonde White's Vintage Collection which includes this workout and three 30 minute express workouts. In Full Body Workout Volume 2, Miranda start you off with a brisk warm up set to pretty good music.  The set is an atrium with a man made pond that has a water fall in the background. So as sets go, it is different. After the warm up which is about 4 minutes, you go into a series of deep slow tai chi inspired body stretches, stretching one side of the body and then the other. Standing upper body and lower body strength moves follow. The standing portion is approximately 25 minutes. The next segment is floor work. This segment primarily workouts the outer hips (tough) and the abdominals.  Miranda adds stretches for the spine, groin, hip and hamstrings as she moves through this segment. The floor work is around 22 minutes long.  The workout conclude with a standing stretch about 3 minutes long. Miranda is chatty and she...

This is my first Classical Stretch Workout and I have to say I found it quite challenging in some areas. Full Body Workout Volume 1 is a 55 minute workout led by Miranda Esmonde-White.  The workout starts with about a 5 minute introduction to the concept of Classical Stretch.  The concept involves strengthening (holding) and elongation (lengthening) of the muscles. The workout does include a warm up.  This is followed by a standing series in which you do some intense upper body work (well I found it intense - I had to take breaks) and posture work.  The next section is barre workout.  Here you focus on the butt and legs.  Barre work is followed by floor work.  The floor work segment focuses on abdominal, hips and groin areas. The workout is a combination of toning (using your own body weight) and stretching (about 50% of the workout is stretching). The workout moves slow.  This is not a big calorie burn workout but I certainly felt the bu...