Meet Erin Myers | Bold Journey

February 17, 2026

Read Erin’s interview with Bold Journey below or on their website here.

We recently connected with Erin Myers and have shared our conversation below.

Erin, so good to have you with us today. We’ve always been impressed with folks who have a very clear sense of purpose and so maybe we can jump right in and talk about how you found your purpose?

Years ago I danced with the Radio City Rockettes and during my first season became very injured. The manager told me I needed to do Pilates, or I wouldn’t be returning for a second season. I fell in love with Pilates, fixed my injuries, and a year later opened my first Pilates studio.

In the second year of owning my first studio a mom brought her 9-year-old daughter to me who had scoliosis. They wanted my help. Word had spread that I had scoliosis, had danced with the Rockettes (so I guess that meant I knew how to deal with scoliosis???), and so they were there for help. Despite not knowing the intricacies of scoliosis like I now know, I was able to decrease the girl’s scoliosis in the first 6 months of working with her. That was the beginning of the journey.

Since then, I’ve founded Spiral Spine, a company devoted to enriching the lives of people with scoliosis. I’m an international presenter and expert on scoliosis. I have created numerous products including the books I Have Scoliosis; Now What? and Analyzing Scoliosis, the app Scoliometer by Spiral Spine, the Scoliosis Retreat, the Scoliosis Movement Specialist Certification, and the Spiral Spine Pilates studio to name a few. I’ll be starting a podcast this year called The Erin Myers Show. I absolutely love helping people all over the world who have scoliosis. It is such a challenge, yet brings me so much purpose and joy.

Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?

Scoliosis is the number one pediatric spinal diagnosis in the world. Depending on the underlying root cause, usually when you get scoliosis it never goes away. So, the kids with scoli continue to have it as adults, and many more adults acquire scoliosis as they age. That means that on the low end, 5-7% of the world population has scoliosis, but from my research, it is much more. That is so many people.

I couldn’t reconcile those statistics with everyone I came in contact with that had scoliosis feeling like they were orphans. They all felt like they couldn’t find information on scoliosis, how to help themselves, how to prevent it from the next generation, how to deal with the physical pain, or how to deal with the psychological struggles they often felt.

I dove in head first, with my entrepreneurial hat on, and founded the company Spiral Spine. I started creating products and services for people with scoliosis, their families, and practitioners who help them. I melded this with Pilates, since I’ve been a Pilates instructor for 20 years, and it’s been magical. People get stronger and more flexible to decrease pain, while gaining community, be that at Spiral Spine Pilates studio in Nashville, TN, or at other studios around the world where we’ve trained teachers. We even have people who live remotely who stream Spiral Spine on Demand or do virtual lessons with my instructors and are receiving so many live-long benefits. You can find all of this and more at SpiralSpine.com.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

In your daily life, do you see a problem that you could fix? In the beginning of my scoliosis journey, I couldn’t figure out why no one had “fixed the problem” of people with scoliosis not feeling like they had a place to go for long-term care. Why couldn’t they (nor I for that matter) find research on scoliosis and what to do about it? As I started going down this pathway, not seeing that anyone had really created services nor products for this population of people, I chose to step into it. If you see a problem in your daily life that you think you may be able to step into and create solutions to, do it. The ride may to take you on an amazing journey.

Do you have a holy discontent that makes your heart burn? A handful of years ago there were three suicide attempts from clients at Spiral Spine, and since then I’ve heard stories of many more. My heart burned with discontented anger that could only have come from a holy place. I was furious that medical providers had left people feeling so emotionally destitute that they could only come to one conclusion, and that was to kill themselves. One of my teachers called me to tell me about a suicide attempt from one of her scoli teens. I started crying, hurting so deeply for the entire world-wide situation. After this teen was released from in-patient care, she was allowed to do one outing a week for a month before returning to school. She asked to come to her weekly Pilates scoliosis lesson at Spiral Spine. I started seeing that this was so much more than Pilates at that moment. If you receive a holy discontent, walk into it. Your purpose might be lying in the next step you take. You might have been given a glimpse at how you can change so many people’s lives.

Be curious to the point on nosey. I’m not sure where I got the habit of digging and digging on a topic, but I definitely do it now. In my latest book, I Have Scoliosis; Now What? I have almost 500 research references in it. In chapter 13 alone, I have 350 research references, which tears apart the nutritional roots of idiopathic scoliosis. I just kept digging and digging, and because of it, the book and these findings have blessed so many people around the world repair their health and halt scoliosis from going to the next generation. When something doesn’t make sense, don’t stop. Keep being curious…even it’s to the point that you feel you’re being nosey.

All the wisdom you’ve shared today is sincerely appreciated. Before we go, can you tell us about the main challenge you are currently facing?

Living with scoliosis is complex. I like to say that scoliosis is the most complex spinal diagnosis in the world. Yes, there are the twists and turns of the physical spine, but many people also have muscular pain, internal auto-immune conditions, and additional spinal diagnosis on top of having scoliosis. Sometimes I just feel like I just don’t have enough tools to help in all these aspects. For this reason, I started partnering with companies that specialize in areas that people with scoliosis can benefit from to improve their overall quality of life. Some of these include a Pilates equipment manufacturer so people with scoliosis can get equipment for home, a medical grade air purifying company so scoli people that have decreased lung capacity can have clean air to breath to reduce the amount of lung infections they get, and a company that makes far infrared mats with negative ions to decrease overall bodily inflammation and reduce pain. This is my newest journey forward in helping people with scoliosis.

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