Ana Zen

Ana Chanis, known by her community as Ana Zen, is the founder of Zen Panamá Studio and a passionate yoga and movement teacher whose work is rooted in the belief that our bodies can be powerful guides back to ourselves. After more than a decade working in hospitality and customer service, Ana experienced a personal and professional shift that eventually led her to yoga, movement, and entrepreneurship. In 2018, she founded what would become Zen Panamá Studio, where she has spent the past eight years building a community centered around movement, body awareness, and human connection. Her teaching extends far beyond traditional yoga, blending Buti Movement, breathwork, somatic and primal movement, meditation, music, and creative expression. Through her classes, workshops, women's gatherings, and international retreats, Ana creates experiences that invite women to move beyond their comfort zones, explore their strength, and reconnect with their intuition, creativity, and sense of aliveness. Now in her forties, Ana has found herself returning to a question that resonates with so many of the women she teaches: After years of building, achieving, caring for others, and meeting life's responsibilities — what do I want now?