What if I'm not very co-ordinated?

You don't need to be co-ordinated to do Pilates. Being co-ordinated is, in large part, what Pilates gives you.

There's no choreography here. Nobody is stepping to a beat, following dance patterns, or doing anything that requires you to move four limbs in different directions at speed. Movements are slow, simple and deliberate, and they're broken down piece by piece: put your feet here, breathe in, do this one thing, breathe out. If you can follow that, you can do Pilates. Everyone can follow that.

If left and right occasionally abandon you, welcome to the club. Our instructors say "the leg nearest the wall" for a reason, because half the room, including some very experienced members, has a wobbly left-right compass. Nobody cares. It's practically a running joke.

And here's the encouraging bit: co-ordination genuinely improves with Pilates, because so much of the method is about re-teaching your brain and body to talk to each other clearly. Members who arrived describing themselves as hopelessly uncoordinated often find, a few months in, that everyday things feel smoother, walking, stairs, balance, even sport.

Come as uncoordinated as you like. We'll work with it, and quietly fix a fair bit of it along the way.