50-Hour 'From Ambition to Inspiration'
Yoga Teacher Training

- Program Overview & Daily Schedule -

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***** Course Update: Summer 2025 *****

This was the program of our 50-Hour Summer 2024 Training, and we absolutely loved it! It was transformative and truly unique.

We’re thrilled to share that this kind of retreat/training with Tal and Anu will return in August 2025, featuring updated content and fresh inspiration. Stay tuned for details!

With gratitude,
The Luna Alignment Yoga Team.

Course Structure 

Our 50-Hour 'From Ambition to Inspiration' Yoga Teacher Training led by Tal Swissa & Arnaud Chartier, is a 9 day program composed of 2 Modules:


  • First ModuleSelf Awareness & Yoga Meets Dance

  • Second ModuleTeaching From Being


    This training is about thriving and living a life of well-being, guiding and inspiring others to do the same.
    There are two types of teachers; those who teach techniques and methods they have learned from others. And those who teach from their own experiences, insights, wisdom, and mistakes. Yes, it's essential to be guided and inspired by others, but ultimately, your own inner knowledge is paramount. The challenge is that we often don't trust our experiences, feelings, and insights; it feels safer to rely on someone else's experiences. This training is a step towards self-confidence and self-acceptance. From there you can become a greater teacher. This is  the core of our teaching: how to accept yourself as you are and grow from there, inspiring others to do the same.

    We have developed this new training program aimed at diving deeper into the art of teaching and inspiring. You will get more experience, knowledge and inspiration to enrich your toolbox. We will practice Alignment Yoga, Movement, Somatic Movement Exploration, traction workshops, asana labs and Tandava dance practice. As well as, working and improving your teaching and facilitating skills.


    What is Tandava?

    Did you know that Tandava (the divine dance of lord Shiva) is a core practice of yoga? It is also a core practice of our training. During this practice you will dive into an awakening of the inner dance of sensation, energies and emotions inside yourself. Guiding you to become more sensitive to the inner dance happening within yourself.

    To support this subtle teaching, you will receive a pre-recorded online foundation training - "Meditation is a Dance" by Arnaud Chartier, an  introduction and a guided practice.

    With this new inner fluidity, your capacity to inspire will become far more valuable, as you grasp that deep teaching is not a matter of words, but instead it is a transmission of your own inner state and energy.


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First Module - 5 Days

Self Awareness & Yoga Meets Dance

I. Awareness Practices

Proprioception (physicality)

  • Alignment Yoga classes
  • Asana labs
  • Inner space classes - traction workshops, dance of space.
  • Movement integration classes - mobility, strength, adaptability.

Interoception (emotion, energy, intellect)

Emotion:

  • Somatic classes
  • Meditation
  • Inner dance for circulation of emotion.
  • Yoga for emotion (ex: sequence for inner confidence).

Energy:

  • Prana Apana class (art of grounding).
  • Inner dance for movement of energy (spontaneous Qigong/Tandava dance).

Intellect:

  • Meditation to meet your belief system.
  • The art of manifestation.


II. Theory


The 5 Koshas (sheaths of our being), fascia and the balance between all.


Meditation:

  • The art of inner positioning.
  • Free the unconditional inner movement, focus on space.

Polyvagal Theory:

  • Inner safety
  • Movement of emotion
  • Resonance
  • Coming out of pain focusing patterns.

Nervous System:

  • Habits
  • Repetition
  • Proprioception, interoception and exteroception explanation.
  • Core believes and patterns.
  • Maya and the way we see ourselves, the world, others.

Second Module - 4 Days

Teaching From Being

Svadhyaya: Know Thyself


My Story:

  • Svadhyaya - write down my story.
  • Self-knowledge teaching.
  • Story teach tool structure.
  • How to inspire with how I overcame my own challenges.


Art of presence:

  • Energy resonance (HRV).
  • Theater (I AM the best version of myself).
  • How to create from students questions (improv).

When Yoga Meet Dance:

  • Sequence and structure (find your why).
  • Structure a themed yoga class, using asana and movement.

The Course will be Taught by

Tal Swissa and Arnaud Chartier 

Tal Swissa – Founder of Luna Alignment Yoga

Tal is an experienced yoga teacher, yoga therapist, and movement educator who has been practicing yoga for nearly 20 years. She is the founder of Luna Alignment Yoga. Over the years Tal has developed her own practice system, she calls it Alignment Yoga .Since 2016, she has been leading Alignment Yoga Teacher Training Courses (TTCs), empowering students from around the world to deepen their practice and teaching skills.

Tal believes that yoga is far more than a physical practice; it is a transformative pathway to holistic well-being and self-discovery. Her teaching integrates in-depth knowledge of alignment, therapeutic movement, mobility, and mindfulness to create a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment.

 Tal’s approach empowers students to practice at their own pace while experiencing yoga as a tool for healing, growth, and connection. Through her guidance, students build strength, improve mobility, and find balance in both body and mind. 

Read Tal's personal story...

Watch an interview with Tal...

Arnaud (Anu) Chartier

Anu started practicing Yoga in 2002. He has lived in Buddhist monasteries in Thailand and New Zealand for several years, studying various meditation methods and over time expanded his studies of Hatha Yoga also into Iyengar Yoga, Therapeutic Yoga, Yoga Therapy Consultation, Alignment Yoga and Tantra. In total having undertaken 5 TTCs on top of his constant personal studies, Anu has made it his life's mission to find ways to combine Yoga and Meditation with modern science. Anu's purpose in teaching is to enable his students to live a balanced life in the modern-day world. Anu's classes are unique, he has a beautiful holistic-therapeutic approach to yoga. 


- Daily Schedule -

  • 8:00-9:00 - Meditation in Movement

  • 9:00-10:00 - Breakfast, Break

  • 10:00-12:30 - Yoga Class/Movement Class

  • 12:30-16:00 - Lunch, Break

  • 16:00-18:00 - Workshop

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