Pilates and/or Yoga? Interested in the pros and cons of each

I've done both. I've fine pilates fur a few years - really great for core strength and backs, and also made me more flexible, so I thought I'd do ok with yoga. I found it much more challenging than expected. It works different muscles in a different way.
So, I'd say do both! Also strength training and some aerobics.

I love Pilates. I am a very practical person and interested in the body, and not about the feels or spirituality at all. So yoga has never appealed.

Pilates (with a great teacher) really sorted out my diastasis rectii and my over tight hip flexors/under developed hamstrings. It made a big difference to my posture. I really need to go back to it!

I love pilates but you need to have a good instructor. I might add, your arse will become awesome with pilates, it will point up 🍑

Any recommendations for online Pilates classes suitable for a beginner?
I did lots of yoga years ago but would like to give Pilates a try.

My yoga class was amazing, really enjoyed it! Am beyond exhausted after a disturbed night with DS so hoping it's not some messed up tired endorphin mash up but looking forward to my next class on Friday. Maybe I've found the exercise that I'll finally enjoy?

Thank you @ErrolTheDragon, I will tell them and hopefully the knee strap will also be an indication I need to be careful

Yoga is about your mind, body, spirit joining in union to assist you in your path to enlightenment

Pilates was created as a form of exercise by an ex gymnast to assist injured patients.

Both can be brilliant for the mind and body depending on what you want to work on and by seeing which one makes you feel good during and after.

Pilates for me. Better for strengthening, recovering and rehabbing injuries. Also no mumbo-jumbo

As @Duchessofealing said. I really enjoy yoga, practised for a long time and am naturally quite good at it in terms of being able to do difficult postures easily, it’s good for mind, body and soul...but feel pilates done very correctly with a very good instructor is more beneficial for your strength and tone. Have you seen the (very old) Joseph Pilates? There’s inspiration for you

I've done both. Like the flowing stretching nature of yoga, but it really aggravated my back. The deep forward bends did me no good at all. For that reason I don't do it any more and find the way Pilates strengthens your core suits my body much better.

I do both (not enough of either at the moment with my toddler around but anyway).

I think yoga is more holistic, it’s good for flexibility, relaxation, a great night’s sleep or an energising way to start the day. Ashtanga or Vinyasa flow type yoga are more athletic and especially good for strength.

Pilates is amazing for strengthening your core and great for posture. It feels more technical. I know some people find it boring but I actually find concentrating on small movements quite relaxing and satisfying.

Pilates classes are either mat or reformer based and tend to be fairly similar in my experience. Teachers are serious but it doesn’t feel like a ‘lifestyle’ in the way yoga is for some practitioners, just exercise. One of my Pilates instructors was also a physiotherapist. Yoga classes vary wildly. I’ve been to classes with instructors who really go in for the spiritual side (not my thing at all) and do lots of chanting and breathing, while classes at gyms tend to feel more like standard exercise classes. Different types of yoga are very different from one another.

I've got my first yoga and Pilates class on Wednesday at my new gym and I'm bricking it. I hurt my knee last week so a bit dubious about some of the positions I might need to do

Much prefer Pilates.
Yoga I feel prizes flexibility over strength. Advanced poses are only available to those super flexible and some people are just anatomically more flexible. I could do yoga for 20 years and I doubt I’d get in to some poses. Therefore I get pissed off as I’m strong and fit and want to workout.

Also hate the spiritual side of yoga.

Pilates is more based around core strength. It has done wonders for my back by strengthening my core. Also strengthens glutes and hips so has helped me run injury free. I’m more flexible through Pilates but for me that’s not the main benefit more of a side benefit. You need to find a good instruction who can keep things interesting. I also love reformer Pilates.

Physios and doctors recommend Pilates more now.
Yoga actually put my back out a few years ago and it was excruciating.

I enjoy yoga more, but pilates has made a massive difference to a long term back problem and when I get lazy about it the back pain flares up again very quickly.

I prefer Pilates, I feel like with Pilates I can feel what each position is working whereas with yoga sometimes it feels like I’m all twisted up like a pretzel when a simpler pose would have done the same thing.

I think yoga is nicer for mental health and relaxation though, I like a yoga with Adriene video before bed sometimes.

Yoga myself. I have had injury problems in the past and yogas approach of working with the whole body and accepting that you listen to and move with your body seems to suit me

I found Pilates focussed too much on core/back, too prescriptive and not progressive enough for me ( although I suspect that a lot is finding the right teacher. And I have had poor ones for both)

I prefer pilates. I find yoga boring and my mind wanders. With pilates you can see and feel the difference really quickly.

I prefer Pilates.
I'm not very flexible and feel that it would take decades doing yoga to improve that.
With Pilates my balance and core strength has improved so much. My body really favoured my left side previously but now I feel more balance.
I go to class once a week and do it on zoom at the moment.

I'm in the pilates camp because I use it for core strength and stability. I quite like Body Balance as a good all round class. I really really don't like yoga, i actually find it stressful which is everything it's not meant to be!! To be completely honest, I don't either will make you toned unless you do a couple of hours a day every day.

I much prefer Pilates. It’s much more technical and has a sound scientific basis whereas Yoga I’ve found is a bit wishy-washy. I don’t like holding poses, it’s just dull and some of them aren’t actually all that good for you. I can see that people enjoy it as a mind/body/relaxation thing but as a proper, body improving exercise then I think Pilates is better. I guess it depends what you want and what your end goal is.

I do both. I have done yoga for years, both a class (now Zoom) and Yoga With Adrienne on YouTube. Yoga has been great for my flexibility and is very calming. It can be good for upper body strength, but only if you really work at it - a couple of downward dogs once a week won't really do it.

I was still finding that my core wasn't great and my lower back wasn't as robust as I'd like, so I've recently started private pilates sessions. As others have said, pilates isn't as easy to pick up from YouTube as yoga. Having one on one lessons is great as you work really hard and can't really cheat, plus you know that you're squeezing the right bits!

I kind of know what people mean about pilates being duller than yoga, but I'll be continuing with both as I think they're both really valuable.

I prefer pilates too.
There was also yogalates which combined the two.

I always think tho if no medical issues etc - the best exercise for you is one you enjoy and do regularly and commit to!

I prefer Pilates but never got anywhere with yoga. My physio (for shoulder injury) said Pilates better for me as I lift heavy weights and my elbows slightly too flexible anyway. I found it very good for rehabbing my shoulder and also working on form as lots of the exercises are also used in strength training so you can practise them at much lower intensity.