Instructor: Tanya Zimmerli - RYT 200 hour

Tanya has been teaching with East Meets West since November 2008, blending her extensive experience in alignment-based and vinyasa yoga into powerful, flowing and balanced classes. Her approach to teaching strives to combine energetic movement and a sense of playfulness with awareness and proper form to reduce the risk of injury.

Tanya began practicing yoga in the Sivananda style in 1994. Five years later, she switched to a more alignment-based style of yoga and then later added a regular vinyasa practice. Tanya completed her teacher training at The Health Advantage Yoga Center in Herndon, Virginia, and has studied Ashtanga yoga with David Swenson. Tanya has also taken numerous workshops with nationally-recognized teachers such as Elise Browning Miller, Beryl Bender Birch, Roger Cole, Paul Grilley, Desiree Rumbaugh and others.

Through yoga, Tanya has found increased peace and awareness of body and mind as well as a thriving community of like-minded people. Ultimately, Tanya seeks to introduce these same qualities of peace, awareness and community into each of her classes.