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A leading authority on mind-body
wellness, Peggy Hall is a certified yoga instructor, personal trainer, nutritionist and weight and lifestyle management consultant.

An avid surfer, Peggy put her passions together and created the highly-acclaimed and best-selling Yoga for Surfers series, which has helped thousands of surfers worldwide surf better and live better.

Peggy can be heard weekly on the
ABC Radio Network's "Health and Wellness Clinic with Peggy Hall" syndicated to 200 stations nationwide.

Peggy is a contributing editor and columnist for Clean Eating magazine and a regular features writer for Oxygen. Her work has appeared in Self, Men's Journal, Yoga Journal and many others. She's the former health and fitness editor Surf Life for Women magazine. Peggy also contributed to the books Surf’s Up: A Girl’s Guide to Surfing (Ballantine, 2005) and Surf Girl’s Guide to Surfing (Orca, 2008).

Peggy served as the online expert/guest editor at www.Self.com and contributes to several surf-related blogs. She also writes the "Fit for Surf" column at www.wetsand.com.

Heralded by Men’s Journal as one of the “Top Five Trends in Fitness”, Yoga for Surfers has garnered heavy media coverage, with Peggy being featured in Yoga Journal, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, ABC News.com, Surfer, Surfing, TransWorld Surf and Muscle & Fitness Hers, just to name a few.

Peggy’s energy and enthusiasm make her a popular guest on shows such as The KTLA Morning News, “The Mix”, KFMB Morning News among others. Yoga for Surfers has also been featured on NBC’s The Today Show.

A highly sought-after and engaging speaker, Peggy was selected to lead yoga classes for Fortune Magazine's 50 Most Powerful Women Conference in 2007. Billy Jean King taught tennis lessons, and Peggy Hall taught yoga!

Currently, Peggy teaches at Yoga Works studios in Orange County and presents special workshops on health and wellness for various resorts and spas throughout Southern California. She also created the first-ever surfer's fitness conditioning program for Equinox Fitness in Santa Monica, CA.

Known for her enthusiastic and inspiring teaching style, Peggy draws from various styles of yoga to create innovative, challenging and enjoyable classes. Her clear instruction and encouraging approach makes even the most demanding poses accessible to all, and her radiant energy is an excellent testament to the life-enhancing benefits of yoga.

In addition to receiving a Certificate in Yoga Studies from the University of California Irvine Extension, Peggy is also certified by the American Council on Exercise (ACE) as a Personal Trainer and Weight and Lifestyle Management Consultant.

A longtime instructor at the university level, Peggy is the former Director of Teacher Education Programs at the University of California, Irvine Extension. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a master’s degree in international relations from the Monterey Institute of International Studies.

Fluent in French and Arabic, Peggy lived in Paris and also in Morocco for several years where she first taught English for the Peace Corps and then worked in marketing for Proctor & Gamble in exotic Casablanca.

Prior to her career in health and wellness, Peggy provided corporate training in business writing, presentation skills and accent reduction for dozens of Fortune 500 companies through her cross-cultural communications business, "Global Learning".

Peggy is currently at work on her next DVD series, Total Body Tune-Up. Other titles in production include Heal Your Back, Yoga for Students and Yoga Secrets. She's also finishing up her book Quit Fighting with Food.

When she’s not teaching, writing or surfing, Peggy devotes her time to animal welfare issues through Compassion for All, the non-profit organization she founded with her husband. Peggy and David live in Southern California with their four kitty-cats, two of which Peggy rescued while doing animal rescue work in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.