Our Team
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The courses were created by Tal Swissa, Luna Alignment Yoga's founder, yoga director and head teacher, and are presented by our own permanent in-house small and highly experienced team of teachers - Tal, Arnaud and Naama - with an overall 50 years of combined teaching experience, in different styles and different class scales and ranges.
Tal chose each and every one of the teachers carefully to achieve the desired result of a diverse and complete yoga TTCs, which allow the graduates to arrive ready and prepared to actually start teaching.
Tal, Arnaud and Naama's different experience, knowledge, teaching specialties and styles are interlaced together perfectly, so that the students are offered a complete and profound view on the world of yoga and its therapeutic approach.
Our team of teachers is most humbled and proud in the fact that they have already facilitated 12 Alignment Yoga Teacher Training Courses since starting together in Koh-Phangan in 2016 and over 275 students have graduated these unique programs by now.
Tal Swissa
Founder, Yoga Director and Lead Teacher
Tal started practicing yoga at the age of 16. She has 23 years of practice and 18 years of teaching experience. She is trained in Sivananda, Ashtanga-Vinyasa, Iyengar and Yin Yoga. She studied Yoga Therapy, Anatomy, Kinesiology, Pilates, Prenatal-Yoga, Kids-Yoga, Reiki, Theta-Healing and Thai-Massage. Tal taught at retreats and centers around the world and managed her own yoga centers 'Gaia Yogashala' and now 'Luna Alignment Yoga', where she led 13 TTCs and certified over 275 teachers.
Tal's teachings are adapted to the practitioner’s needs and condition, combining different styles, emphasizing skeletal and asana alignment.
Nami Peled
Yoga Teacher
Nami started practicing yoga in 2000 and since then she has been emerging herself into Iyengar Yoga, Ashtanga vinyasa, Vinyasa, Feminine and Prenatal Yoga. 5 TTCs and numerous workshops and courses later she is now spreading her own expertise teaching TTCs internationally. She also teaches Mindful Alignment Vinyasa, Adjustments and Therapeutic Touch workshops. An emotional coach and progressive psychotherapy facilitator. Working with nervous system awareness, energy exploration, and psychospiritual experiences. For the past last 9 years, she has been practicing contact impro, somatic breath, and different movement modalities. Her classes are a unique blend of building strength, deepening flexibility, breath and meditation. Nami uses distinctive hands on adjustments to enhance her students’ asanas.
Arnaud (Anu) Chartier
Yoga Teacher
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.
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