Biography

Margeaux Raymond, teacher, teacher trainer, and owner of RedDance Pilates, has been teaching Pilates and personal training in Chicago since 1996. She studied Pilates through The Physical Mind Institute and with Michele Larsson, founder of Core Dynamics Pilates® in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Margeaux has been an Associate Trainer with Michele since 2001 and has trained many of the instructors in Chicago. She was recently chosen to teach with Pilates Core Integration Teacher Training Program, designed by Virginia Nicholas, also a Core Dynamics Associate Trainer. The lineage and history of Joseph Pilates, Eve Gentry, and Michele Larsson are strongly emphasized and honored through PCI.

Margeaux is also trained in Gyrotonic® and Gyrokinesis® and studied this movement with Master Trainer Juergen Bamburger and Master Trainer Young-ah Kim. She is certified in Movement Therapy for people with Parkinson's Disease and was trained by John Argue author of Parkinson's Disease and The Art of Moving. Margeaux is certified for Pole Movement with Empowerment through Exotic Dance®.

Margeaux has created RedDance® from her training and passion in each of these mediums. RedDance® is offered exclusively at RedDance Pilates. She is also a Reiki Practitioner and blends this Japnese Healing Energy into each of her classes. Margeaux is an avid runner, studies Kabbalah, is the devoted mother of three brilliant children, and lives with a grateful heart every moment of every day.