'Most of my students had, or have, backache/neckache. I’ve either beeen able to get rid of it or help them to maintain it (when they don’t come to classes it starts to come back, they do a few exercises at home and that helps to keep it at bay).'

The first ever episode of the Back Pain Liberation podcast is all about the benefits of Pilates for back pain. I'm very pleased to introduce Gillian Greenwood who's been teaching Pilates in London for 17 years. I was fascinated to hear Gillian's take on the unconscious posture habits that can lead to back problems, as well as the effect of our state of mind on chronic pain.

You'll hear how Pilates has been the way forward for the students in Gillian's classes who fixed their back and neck problems through this training.

It's easy to feel that you are struggling alone with chronic back pain; so it's heartening to hear that plenty of other people have had this same problem and found ways to get themselves out of pain.