Hi Miranda!

I have been doing your workouts religiously since December 17, 2012 on PBS (WQPT). One of my friends told me about your show. I have been diagnosed with degenerative joint disorder in my knees quite a number of years ago. Since doing your program, I have significantly reduced the joint pain in my knees. I cannot tell you how great that feels! I actually look forward to getting up at 5:30 a.m. so that I can work out with you at 6:00 before heading for work.

I am 59 and feel 29. And I absolutely love the backgrounds you have selected for your workouts, along with the music. I can’t believe how fast that 25 minutes go by!

Thanks for being there for all of us. You such an inspiration!!

I am 54 years old and obese. After having severe pain in my legs from my weight, I decided to finally do something about my weight. I started Weight Watchers and started to lose. But knew if I didn't find some sort of exercise that I would stick with that I would have a lot of loose flab and continue to have weak muscles.  I found your program on PBS and started working out.  I have been doing it 5 days a week for the past three months and have lost 45 lbs. so far and am starting to see definition in my body.

I'm so excited that I found your program. It not only is helping with the weight loss but helping me with balance, flexibility, toning and also helping with my arthritis.  I'm sure after your ankle broke, you must have felt defeated, but look what it lead to; You helping me and many others. Thank You so much!

Hi Miranda,

I am almost 69 years old. I have been doing the Classical Stretch Age Defying Series for about a year. I am in heaven. I have been working out since I was 35, so I wasn't in bad shape. But these stretching exercises have made such a difference in my flexibility and balance. And I have a solid core and solid abs. I had arthritis in a thumb joint and sometimes when I walked down stairs my ankle would buckle. Not anymore. Nope. No more joint pain and my ankle bends just like it should.

Thank you so much.

I am 52 years old and needless to say life seems stressful and hectic. My body is beginning to not do the things I ask! A friend told me about this workout on PBS. I did it for the first time this morning. My legs are shaky, but wow, I feel better from those 20 min or so! I will be doing this every morning. Thank you. I think I may have found what I am looking for!

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Dear Miranda,

My body and I want to say thanks to you for sharing your knowledge, being so encouraging and making it possible for me to regain strength, flexibility and confidence. With that comes a re-awakened sense of purpose, perspective, hope and enthusiasm for life. A fall right after Christmas, which resulted in a slight back injury, stopped me in my tracks. Your Back Pain Relief video helped ease me along and back to a good starting point to then begin the Core workout. This all came after many months of only taking daily walks, which have been part of my routine for years, but which aren't enough to keep my whole body feeling exercised. Less than a month after starting the core workout, I already feel stronger all over, more flexible and and so motivated.

Doing these stretching exercise at home allows me to work at my pace, stop and go back, and most importantly, breathe a lot, and noisily. I'm sure I'd be self-conscious in a group about making anything like the noise I very comfortably do in my own living room.

When I finish the 55 minutes I feel so happy and grateful to you and almost always say a big thank-you for doing what you do and being there!

Sincerely, A happy 61 year old.

I have been doing Classical Stretch for a number of years.  

I am 56 years old.  Today I was at a wellness fair and I stood on a piece of equipment to check balance and they were to tell me what risk range I would be in for falling.  Twice I had to stand for 15 seconds holding the spot in the middle of the "bullseye".  It waivered a little bit and all I kept thinking was hold my core!   My score was .8.  The woman seemed surprised and asked my age and then told me I was in the 17-35 yr. range, which was .07-2.2. Because of stimulating my balance sensors like you teach us, I did remarkably well!  

 I did what I could to promote your program!  Thank you!

Dear Miranda:
 
Happy Anniversary.  Well, it is actually my one year anniversary doing Classical Stretch.  I have to write and let you know how much you have changed and improved my quality of life. I was so quite taken by your combination of stretching and strengthening incorporated into one routine that it has become a way of life for my exercise routine.
 
One morning last October, while scrolling through television stations, I came upon your Classical Stretch work out on Connecticut Public Television and have to tell you I have done your routines every day (missed two) since then.  I was always searching for the ‘perfect’ workout routine and I found it in Classical Stretch.  The combination of strengthening, stretching, toning and aerobic built into one routine is a golden formula. I taught aerobics throughout my life and am a natural athlete but found the routine of aerobic activity and weight training was never quite enough.   I have lengthened and strengthened my muscles.  I am tone and look like I am in my thirties. (I’m 52)  I lost 25 pounds of bulk and fat.  I feel light and free in my limbs when I move. I can skip two stairs at a time, as I live on the third floor, and am so proud I am right behind my 21 year old son, who glances back at his mother…
 
My goal is to become a certified Classical Stretch teacher and be able to help people not only look good but be healthy and strong because of your routines.  I am going to be sending away for the information and begin to train to become a Classical Stretch teacher.  I would love to reach out to the elderly community and hopefully make teaching my full-time job.
 
Thank you for your wonderful life-changing programs and incredibly inspiring attitude and vision.

Hi,

I am 58 years old and I have never been enthusiastic about an exercise program until starting this one. After a herniated disc years ago and osteoarthritis I thought my days of good physical health were over until I began this program.  I have never felt better or stronger.  The squats have taken inches off my thighs and after years of unsuccessful kegel exercises for incontinence the squats have completely corrected that problem as well.

Thank you for this valuable program. I tune into PBS to participate.  

Dear Miranda and friends,

I am writing to let you know how Classical Stretch is literally saving my life.  Five years after getting an abdominal injury in a "Pilates" class, followed by a knee injury after joining a cycling team,  I found myself afraid to do any exercise, and found myself, becoming weak, overweight, and experiencing chronic back pain from my desk job.  (Sometimes it was the trainer who did not know what they were doing.  Sometimes it was just my body, which had weakened.) The less I moved around, the less I COULD move around  even when I tried. I had lost hope.  This was particularly sad given that up to ten  years ago, I was quite athletic!

Then I came across Classical Stretch on PBS (WHUT)!  It was one where Miranda had a chair so I felt I could MAYBE do it with her!  I did about half of the show and felt like $1 million dollars all day long!

Since that day two months ago, I have consistently done a Classical Stretch routine every morning, and am finding I have less pain, and a desire and ability to be more active.  I have even lost 7 pounds since I started two months ago!
I want to thank Miranda and helpers!

My promise to you is to continue until I reach my goal weight, and to maintain from there!

I discovered your DVDs while watching the Marilyn Denis show when I was recovering from hip replacement surgery last May. As I rehabbed, I very carefully performed what exercises I could without compromising my new joint and recovery.

I am now four months post-op, and can do most of the exercises in the first DVD, and I feel great. I just wanted to thank you for helping me get my body back its strength and flexibility. I am heading for my second replacement next month, and will continue with your program when I am able.

What I like best, is the fluidity of movement with no abrupt anchoring or angling of limbs. I truly didn't think I'd feel this good again.  

Best regards

Dear Miranda,

I've been doing Classical Stretch for the past 17 years. I'm going to be 87 at the end of this month and no one believes me when I tell them my age. I attribute it to your exercise program and want to thank you for your help.

Hi. I’ve been doing Miranda’s classes at 7:30 each morning before work ever since I discovered her on PBS while home on vacation a couple years ago. I enjoyed it SO much that I asked my boss if I could change my hours to come in a half hour later just so I could do the show before work. She said yes and I’ve been doing it ever since. I’m 64 and I feel so much more limber and “straight” and lately people have been telling me I look great.
 
I have had a lot of rheumatic aches and pains over the years, including a serious bout with polymyalgia rheumatica, and nearly 20 years ago my Dr said if I didn’t exercise regularly he’d see me in the operating room in 20 years. Well, I’m happy to report that that’s one meeting I haven’t had to keep.
 
I love Miranda. She can make me laugh out loud in the middle of a class with some of her comments. And Classical Stretch allows me to let out my “inner ballerina” for thirty minutes a day. I’m so grateful for this show. I can’t imagine not doing it.

We thrilled to share Amanda’s wonderful story fromHopewell Elementary School. Take a look at the cutest Classical Stretch fans!

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Thank you so much for changing my life.  I stumbled on to your program on PBS and have enjoyed so many improvements in my body.

I had recently told my 90 year old mother that I did not want to live to be her age because at the age of 60 I already had too many aches and pains.  This seems strange because I am very athletic and participate in multitudes of sports.  But my hips and back were so tight and painful that waking up and getting going was proving to be more and more dreadful.

Now, after one month of Miranda, I am sleeping better, feel relatively pain free, and can face living into an old age, which my DNA will most probably mandate.  You are a revelation and I look forward to taking you into my very senior years.

I have been an athlete and active all my life. But at age 42, injuries, babies and a stressful career as a lawyer (which keeps me behind a computer most if the day), caught up to me. I was not "fat"' but was out of shape and my back was a mess.  I've tried PT, chiropractic, treadmills, yoga, ibuprofen, red wine, and nothing really helped. I found your program about 6 months ago and I am hooked! I can't believe how it has helped my neck and back. As a busy working mom, i love that in 23 minutes I can completely loosen my back and relieve my pain. I can't spend an hour at the gym every day, so your program is perfect.

And my flabby arms are gone!  I resigned myself that after 40 I would have flabby arms unless I did 100 push ups a day-and that was not going to  happen. I can't believe how great my arms looked after doing your program just 2 months, 3 times a week.

Next I need to work on my abs! I can't quite keep up with your ab work outs- you are killer! But I will keep trying!