Bodyhood Pilates (BH Pilates) represents an expanded understanding and application of the Pilates Method that had been created more than 75 years ago by Joseph H. Pilates. He was was a pioneer who combined training systems from the East and West: for example yoga, physiotherapy and gymnastics.

Bodyhood Pilates educator Charleston “Samu Rai” Marquis (CSRM ) has been using the Pilates Method for more than 20 years. He also studied kinesiology and the systems developed by Moshe Feldenkrais and Matthias Alexander. The result is Bodyhood Pilates, a revisionist approach to understanding the Pilates Method that goes beyond dictum, theory, known and accepted philosophy  [read more...]

Alpha Rhyth Mix is the musical second nature of CSRM, who calls his music “PhysicalMusic”, music for being loose and natural, music destined for the mind via the physical pathways of the body.

It is Polyphony of syncopated rhythms and organised multi-layered sound system Organised to transport you to the deeper layers of the mind, where there is no past, no future, where music are sounds, where sounds are vibrations; where vibrations are waves, and where waves are crystallized energetic information for creating joy within your self in the vast possibility of what is.

Music and CDs

LOVE ESCAPADES | 2010	DANCE WARRIOR | 2009	ICWS | 2007

CD infos and track samples

Charleston “Samu Rai” Marquis (CSRM) is well know as dancer/choreographer, performance motivator and Pilates educator. He was born on the Eastern Caribbean island of St. Lucia and grew up in London. He has given countless Workshops and seminars in hospitals, therapeutic schools and studios throughout Austria and participated as a guest teacher in Germany, the United States, and Bermuda.

He studied dance and Pilates in London and the USA. The core of his knowledge doesn’t come from any institutions, but from direct contact with direct human problems; studying, exploring, researching by seeing possibilities where supposedly there were none. Known as an Authentic and Master teacher of dance and Pilates, he has more than 30 years of teaching experience and is the one who introduced the Pilates method to Austria ...[read more...]