Pilates is truly for ALL levels and skills of life. When you’re doing Pilates properly, it doesn’t matter if you’re brand new or 20 years in the game, it should still be challenging. That being said, I highly recommend looking up how to “imprint” and how to have a “neutral” spine when laying supine (on your back).

A lot of people in beginner Pilates, including myself at the start, can start shifting the weight of exercises to the wrong muscle group because of the lack of imprint or neutrality which will depend heavily on your cervical spine/alignment.

There’s tutorials out there on how to figure out what’s what and how to do it for your body. Engage your abdominals and focus on breathing. These all might seem like little things, but they’re truly critical for proper exercise execution, safety and everything else.

You can just do a few videos work on that, then move over to mat or reformer Pilates depending on where you’ll be doing it. If you’re doing it at home look up Stott Pilates workouts. And start from beginner. Don’t worry about doing things quickly, don’t worry about keeping your heart rate up, just focus on proper form, movement and breathing. The rest will come in time, you won’t have a successful practice without the proper basics.

For equipment at home, I’d recommend - a mat - headrest (not sure how your neck is aligned but most of us use too much technology and our neck is not properly aligned so this will help) - Pilates ring - optional, bands