helping

A couple of months ago I took up Pilates. I have a DVD with 10 minutes sections. When I started I did the 10 minutes stretching part. It was a bit hard work to start with, so I wouldn't do all of it, just what I could manage. I found that it meant that I was getting less pain in my joints and muscles. I now occasionally do a bit of the belly on or bums and thighs. I can't manage to all the repetitions of every bit of it, but I am finding it to help me an awful lot. It is a nice gentle type of exercise that I can do while I am unable to do any more vigorous exercise. It is helping me a lot, and strangely giving me some hope for the future that there will be a return to a more normal.