Do you have private health insurance? Many funds cover Pilates with a physiotherapist. Even physios who don't run classes would be able to help you with muscle isolation and show you basic positions. Maybe that's an option?
We do pilates at our school with a pilates instructor. I ended up giving up cause I can't get the breathing right or the right muscles to work etc LOL. I would just end up laughing at myself which wasn't very helpful to the others who would then laugh too.
I know it's a bit exxy but you will really benefit from doing a couple of lessons to learn the proper technique to get the benefit of the excercises. I thought I knew what I was doing from the DVD but OMG I was so far from doing it properly I went to a physio in Berwick and I think there is also a pilates studio that gives one on one lessons.
Definitely see a physio who knows about pilates. That's how I got into it. Was seeing a physio for a lower back injury and she worked with me on basic core muscle movements as I wasn't even strong enough to start in a beginners pilates class. Then once I was good she referred me to a pilates studio where I had a couple of semi-private (only 4 students, makes it cheaper) sessions on the reformers and then moved to the floor classes. That was about 4 years ago and have been doing it once a week ever since (apart from having a few months off after DS was born ).
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I went to a physio in Berwick and I think there is also a pilates studio that gives one on one lessons.
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