charleston "Samu Rai" Marquis

Charleston “Samu Rai” Marquis is dancer/choreographer, street Poet and Pilates Master teacher, born on the Eastern Caribbean island of St. Lucia, the first and most experience Pilates teacher in Austria, with more 30 year of teaching experience, and a Body awareness teacher par excellence; the person who introduced the Pilates method to the German speaking countries. Samu Rai studied Pilates in London and New York. Samu Rai believes in the “free university concept” – that is knowledge is everywhere and it belongs to whoever who is awake enough to pursue it. Every second gives us the opportunity to learn, to connect to the greater pool of knowledge. His deep understanding of the body is based on many years of experience and integrates the teaching of Moshe Feldenkrais, Matthias Alexander, and Gjurgieff techniques in his teaching. To the people who have had the opportunity to work with him, he is an “Authentic teacher”, a specialist in solving many diverse types of movement difficulties, a combination of Sherlock Holmes and Merlin. He dazzles, provokes and inspires his students simultaneously.” The solution to your problems is in the being not the doing because we create the problem, the problem don’t create itself”, he would often say.
He has contributed two of the most evolutionary learning Tools to the Pilates method, i.e,
ABC Principle and Dynamic spiral Breathing.
Today he is the founder of the Bodyhood Pilates Studio in Vienna.