330MTT Meditation for Personal Development & Meditation as Therapy
Approved training course of The Meditation Association of Australia
Professional Certification in Mindfulness, Wellbeing & Evidence-Based Practice
Meditation is one of the most transformative practices to emerge from Eastern traditions and become widely embraced across the Western world. Beyond its profound personal benefits, learning to teach meditation allows you to share these life-changing techniques with others, helping them cultivate greater wellbeing, resilience, and inner peace.
For many students, meditation begins as a daily practice and gradually becomes a way of life. Regular meditation nurtures mindfulness, compassion, emotional balance, and lasting contentment, creating positive change that extends into every aspect of life. As a qualified meditation teacher, you can guide others on this same journey toward greater clarity, calm, and unshakable inner peace.
Our Meditation Teacher Training Course combines three specialised meditation intensive electives to provide a comprehensive education in the philosophy, psychology, and physiology of meditation. This evidence-informed program equips you with the knowledge and practical skills to confidently teach meditation in a variety of professional and community settings.
You’ll explore how meditation can support people experiencing:
- Stress and anxiety
- Depression and low mood
- Chronic pain
- Emotional overwhelm
- Mental and physical health challenges
The course examines these conditions through a biopsychosocial framework, providing a deeper understanding of the causes of suffering and the role meditation can play in supporting holistic wellbeing. You’ll also gain insight into many of the most prevalent mental health challenges affecting modern society and learn how to adapt meditation practices to meet the diverse needs of your clients.
Whether your goal is to become a certified meditation teacher, expand your existing health or wellness practice, or deepen your personal understanding of meditation, this training provides the confidence, knowledge, and practical experience to make a meaningful impact in the lives of others.
Students who wish to go beyond 330 hours may want to explore:
Advanced Studies in Meditation & The Science of Spiritual Experience
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Available to be taken face-to-face or online only.
Dates for face-to-face attendance will depend on the chosen electives.
What You Will Walk Away With
Upon completing this Meditation for Personal Development & Meditation as Therapy Teacher Training course, you will have the skills, knowledge, and confidence to teach rich, informed, and engaging meditation classes. You will learn to communicate meditation practices effectively, integrate the latest research, and provide personalised support for diverse mental health and wellbeing needs.
Whether undertaken for personal growth or to teach others, this course offers a valuable lifelong practice. Meditation is an innovative lifestyle medicine of the 21st century, supporting mindfulness, resilience, and holistic wellbeing.
BIYOME’s Meditation Teacher Training courses provide a comprehensive pathway to becoming a qualified meditation teacher, with graduates eligible to apply for membership with the Meditation Association of Australia.
Upon successful completion of your BIYOME certification, you may be eligible to join this professional association, gaining recognition within the meditation teaching community and access to valuable professional benefits, networking opportunities, and ongoing development pathways.
Our meditation teacher training programs are designed to support ethical, knowledgeable, and confident teaching practices, preparing graduates to share meditation and mindfulness practices professionally within diverse wellbeing settings.
BIYOME’s 330-hour Meditation Teacher Training specifically allows you to become a proficient meditation teacher in 12-18 months. This course will enable you to register a provisional membership with Meditation Australia and open the pathway to full membership after two years.
What You Will Learn
- Understanding Disconnection: Suffering, Stress, & the Maladapted Mind
- Meditation as Lifestyle Medicine: Our innate ability to change
- The Path to Wellness: The Philosophy Behind Practice
- The Ethical Philosophy of Practice
- Understanding the Body-Mind Connection: Anatomy, Physiology & Neurobiology
- Theory of Teaching-Technique
- Currently Researched Meditation Styles
- Breathing Pattern Therapy
- The Neuroscientific Study of Emotions: What are the six emotional styles?
- The Ten Facets of Observable Physiologic Changes due to Meditation
- Specialty Intensive Training (CPD) of your choice
What You Will Experience
Three face-to-face specialty intensive training electives
Throughout the course, there is an essential face-to-face component that incorporates training tailored to your course. (details below – The BIYOME Difference).
PLUS Foundational Content Provided Online
Additionally, throughout this course, foundational training in Meditation as Lifestyle Medicine is provided online. This includes:
- Understanding the Buddhist Tradition of Disconnection: Suffering, Stress, and the Maladapted Mind
- The Buddhist Tradition of Suffering
- Stress: Tradition in the West
- Our Innate Meditative Ability to Change
- Our Innate Meditative Ability to Change: Tradition in the East
- Our Innate Ability to Change: Tradition in the West
- The Meditative Path to Wellness
- The Meditative Path to Wellness: Tradition in the East
- The Path to Wellness: Tradition in the West
- The Ethical Philosophy of Meditation Practice
- The Virtues of Teaching Meditation
- Understanding the Mind-Body Connection: Tradition in the West
- The Fundamental Nature of Reality
- The Constituents of Human Anatomy: Biology & Physiology, Neurophysiological Psychology, The Embodied Brain, The Vagal (Vagus) Nerve, The Heart-Brain Connection, Heart Rate Variability,Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Axis, Psychoneuroimmunology, & The Gut-Brain Axis, Sociology, Energetic Communication, Epigenetics, & The Polyvagal Theory
- Theory of Meditation Teaching-Technique: The Altruistic Teaching Methodology
- The Altruistic Teaching Methodology: The Science of Compassion and Connection
- Mindfulness: The Science of Attention and Attunement
- Pranayama: The Science of Respiration and Regulation
- Meditation: The Science of Concentration and Clarity
- Currently Researched Meditation Styles
- Focused Attention Style Meditation
- Open Monitoring Meditation
- Focused Attention and Open Monitoring Style Meditation as it relates to Creative Thinking
- Positive Affect Training (Compassion Meditation)
- Breathing Pattern Therapy
- The Neuroscientific Study of Emotions: What are the six emotional styles?
- The Ten Facets of Observable Physiologic Changes due to Meditation
- The Vagus Nerve
- The Heart-Brain Connection
- Heart Rate Variability (HRV)
- The Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Axis
- The Gut-Brain Axis
- Psychoneuroimmunology
- Neuroplasticity and Cortical Re-Mapping
- Bioplasticity and The Embodied Brain
- Meditation for our DNA, epigenome, telomeres
- Meditation’s effects on our Inner Pharmacy
Taught By
CELIA ROBERTS BSc
Head Senior Yoga & Meditation Teacher
Yoga Therapist & Ayurvedic Practitioner
Director of BIYOME
A/PROF JAMES KIRBY
Compassion Science Researcher
Author & Clinical Psychologist
ANITA CASSIDY BOWMAN
Sound healing practitioner
>>Find out more about our faculty & staff
The BIYOME Difference
Selection of three (3) specialty intensive training electives for continued professional development from the following intensive retreats (some course dates/teachers/topics yet to be confirmed and may be subject to change):
2026
CPD06 Mindfulness for a Meaningful Life (Year-round, monthly Fridays 9:30-12:30; 8 consecutive classes are part of the course)
CPD10 Compassion Focused Yoga Therapy and Meditation Teacher Training (November 13-16, 2026)
2027
CPD02 Evidence Informed Yoga Nidra (March 12-14, 2027)
CPD06 Mindfulness for a Meaningful Life (Year-round, monthly Fridays 9:30-12:30; 8 consecutive classes are part of the course)
CPD08 Ayurvedic Nutritional Psychiatry: Food-Mood Yoga and Meditation Therapy (February 19-21, 2027)
CPD12 Buddhist Psychology for Contemplative Clinical Practice (April 30 – May 2, 2027)
CPD16 Music Yoga Therapy and Sound Meditation (August 6-8, 2027)
CPD18 Yoga Therapy, Breathwork, Pranayama & the Science of Breathing (September 3-5, 2027)
CPD25 Vedic Meditation, Ayurvedic Psychology and Eastern Psychiatry (August 20-22, 2027)
Detailed information on specialty intensive training electives (CPDs) is available here
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Your 330MTT Training Requirements
- 80% face-to-face attendance
- Completion of three (3) Specialty Intensive Training Modules (CPD) and associated multiple-choice questions
- The submission of the multiple-choice questions within the online 330MTT content
- Two (2) 20-minute live (Zoom) meditation classes
- Daily Practice sheet – 9 months
Your 330MTT Investment
Full investment upfront $4,758 (until November 30, 2026).
Full investment upfront $5,058 (from December 1, 2026).
Payment options available on request.
* Access to the course materials is not offered without complete payment.
We highly recommend at least 12 months regular practice or a qualification within the field of health and wellbeing; however, we take all cases individually – please complete an application form and we will contact you directly to discuss.
- Siegel, D. J. (2010). The mindful therapist: A clinician’s guide to mindsight and neural integration. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Co.
Please note that there are also required texts for each intensive elective undertaken
- Siegel, D. J. (2012). Pocket guide to interpersonal neurobiology: An integrative handbook of the mind. New York: W.W. Norton.
- Ricard, M. (2015). Altruism: The power of compassion to change yourself and the world. Tullamarine, Australia: Bolinda Publishing.
- Doidge, N. (2016). The brain’s way of healing: Stories of remarkable recoveries and discoveries. London, United Kingdom: Penguin Books.
- Davidson, R. J., & Begley, S. (2013). The emotional life of your brain: How its unique patterns affect the way you think, feel, and live – and how you can change them. New York, NY: Penguin Putnam.
- Seligman, M. E. (2018). The hope circuit: A psychologist’s journey from helplessness to optimism. New York, NY: Hachette Book Group.
- Hanson, R., & Hanson, F. (2018). Resilient: How to grow an unshakable core of calm, strength, and happiness. New York, NY: Harmony Books.
- Hanson, R. (2013). Hardwiring Happiness: How to reshape your brain and your life. New York, NY: Harmony Books.
- Feuerstein, G. (2014). The psychology of yoga: Integrating Eastern and Western approaches for understanding the mind. Boston, MA: Shambhala Publications.
- Feuerstein, G. (2008). The yoga tradition: Its history, literature, philosophy, and practice (3rd ed.). Chino Valley, AR: Hohm Press.
- Carrera, J. (2006). Inside the yoga sutras: A comprehensive sourcebook for the study and practice of Patanjali’s Yoga sutras. Buckingham, VA: Integral Yoga Publications.
Props attain a 15% discount when purchased from Yoga King Products
Required
- zafu (meditation cushion)
- blanket
- 1 yoga mat
Optional
- 1Â yoga strap
- 1 bolster
- 2 blocks
- 2 blankets
- 1 Iyengar yoga chair (specific design to be purchased from EMP Industrial)
- zafu (meditation cushion)
- zabuton (meditation cushion base)
Please note that there are also required props / variances in prop requirements for different specialty intensive electives