Joyce Gavin -

I was attached to Pilates in the 80’s/90’s not for any of its rehabilitation qualities but because I enjoyed the movements and how they made me feel and how they changed my shape. It was important then to me to learn all about this wonderful movement system so I could bring it to my clients and offer them the same feeling of being in control of how they felt and looked. Hence opening Ireland's first ever Pilates Studio in the 90’s Like most people in my youth I considered myself invincible I had a sporting career that was very taxing on the body and at the time the desire to win always far out weighted any consequences of injury. And like you I am only human and those hours and hours of tough training where bound to catch up with me. I have always had what we commonly describe a ‘bad back’ in fact in 2010 on a visit to an Orthopedic Surgeon here in Dublin for a neck injury – he commented not only on the condition of my cervical spine (neck) but the condition of my enti...