Movement Experience
Zen Appeal was created by Tanya Peale, who is no stranger to movement. She has been moving since she was 4 years old. Classically trained in ballet, tap and jazz. Gymnastics 1 1/2 years. Blue belt in Northern Shaolin Kung Fu. 12 years of fitness competitions; state and national level, in the NPC. Ran half marathons, 5k's, 10k's. Years of practicing(since 2005) and teaching yoga(since 2008). AND years of weight training(since 1992), resistance training, functional training, core training, bodybuilding, toning, shaping, calisthenics, etc and training clients of all ages, sizes and shapes certified back in 2000.
On finding yoga . .
While working as an independent trainer at a gym in Addison, TX, there was a glass enclosed small studio outside. Addison Circle yoga. I used to watch the classes while i waited for clients in the adjacent gym. Of course I took a class and was hooked. Yoga was what my life was missing. A connections to something, a connection to myself. About 3 years in, I decided to take Gaia Flow Yoga (name changed as they grew) their teacher training in 2008 and have been teaching ever since. Like many say and I will concur, yoga changed my life. Furthered my yoga education (500hr TT) and experience learning under Ricky Tran, an extremely knowledgeable student of Ramaswami who was a student under Sri Krishnamacharya. I hope to continue on and become a yoga therapist within this same lineage.
What is learned since . . .
When one spends many years in the fitness industry, you learn a lot. Upon finding yoga, that is when the realization of the missing element to a sound, lifelong health and fitness practice. It was yoga. Yoga helps not just the body to be supple and more realized but the more importantly the mind. If you consider the aging process: muscle loss and wasting, loss of hormones etc, plus patterns we create in the body on a daily basis with work or simply our posture, we need something to bring us back to balance. That is yoga.
What is brought to the table . .
Yes ZEN Appeal is a female owned small business. We have been going strong since 2013 and plan to continue for as long as people need help making health and fitness AND YOGA a part of their daily lives. Yes men practice yoga. Yoga was created by men for men over 5000 years ago. Only until Indra Devi was allowed to practice in 1938 (reluctantly) by my 500hr lineage Sri Krishnamacharya, were women excluded from Yoga. After her, not until the 1970's were women openly allowed.
