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Invigorating total-body workout from the bestselling, award-winning spa fitness line Targeting all the major muscle groups with five 10-minute workouts

Praise for Previous Core Fusion DVDs:
Fitness "Best Belly Blaster"; Health "Best Pilates" DVD; Shape "DVD of the Month";
Pilates Style "Best Targeted Toner"; and Real Simple "Best Gearless"

"DVDs We Love…effective, easy to follow, and fun"—Prevention
"Delivers results in a short period of time"—Los Angeles Times
"Try the workout celebs are loving."—Shape
"Heidi Klum and Cameron Diaz rave about this Pilates, yoga, and core conditioning regimen."—FitSugar

SILVER SPRING, MD – The newest workout in the award-winning, best-selling workout series, Exhale: Core Fusion Lean & Toned, will be released on May 4, 2010. Featuring the brand’s proven formula of five 10-minute workouts to deliver fast results and maximum flexibility, this workout mixes stretching and sculpting moves for a long, lean, and defined physique. Husband and wife team and Core Fusion creators Fred DeVito and Elisabeth Halfpapp bring the mind/body spa experience home by teaching Lean & Toned like one of exhale’s nationally renowned Core Fusion classes. Exercisers can do the full 50-minute class or choose one or more of the five segments depending on their schedule ($16.99; Approx. 55 min.; www.AcaciaLifestyle.com).

The exercises in this program are from their popular Core Fusion classes, which have a large celebrity clientele including Charlize Theron, Heidi Klum, Cameron Diaz, Kate Hudson, Mariska Hargitay, Goldie Hawn, Ivanka Trump, Mario Lopez, Samantha Harris, and Hilary Swank. A quarter of a million people have transformed their bodies at exhale and now exercisers can get these same results at home.

Lengthen, strengthen, and transform your physique with Core Fusion Lean & Toned. This program targets all the major muscle groups in five 10-minute segments, each focused on a different part of the body (Upper Body, Thighs, Flat/Round Back, Gluteal, and Pretzel Core Toner). You can tailor your practice to time constraints, or do them all together for an invigorating total-body workout.

Bonus Features: 5 minute bonus stretch and workouts from Exhale: Core Fusion Thighs & Glutes and Shiva Rea: Creative Core Abs

The best-selling Core Fusion DVD series includes Body Sculpt, Pilates Plus, Thighs & Glutes, and Pure Abs & Arms.

Husband and wife team and Core Fusion co-creators Fred DeVito and Elisabeth Halfpapp have over 50 years of combined experience teaching Pilates, Lotte Berk Method, yoga, and dance—disciplines that comprise the Lean & Toned workout. They are founding team members of exhale, a leading mind/body spa with locations in the U.S. and the Caribbean. www.exhalespa.com.

Acacia, a product line of Acorn Media headquartered in suburban Washington, D.C., is one of North America’s leading providers of mind, body, spirit programming on DVD. Acacia DVDs are available from select retailers, catalog companies, and direct from Acacia at (800) 944-0474 or www.AcaciaCatalog.com. Trailers and clips at www.AcaciaLifestyle.com