330MTT Advanced Diploma in Meditation as Lifestyle Medicine

Approved training course of The Meditation Association of Australia

Vocational Enrichment Programme: Transformational Meditation as Lifestyle Medicine

Meditation is not only in itself one of the most rewarding and life-changing practices to migrate from the east to the west, so too is the capacity to teach it to others. Many who immerse themselves in the world of meditation begin a journey of understanding like no other. Practice changes from a discipline to an embedded quality in daily living that nurtures one throughout one’s whole life. Meditation offers benefits of a mind shaped on the values of mindfulness, compassion, and contentment. Meditation has the capacity to cultivate unshakable inner peace: teaching meditation has the compassionate capacity to offer this same ability to cultivate unshakable inner peace to others.

This course will enable you to combine three of our meditation speciality intensive training electives, supporting a comprehensive understanding of philosophy, psychology, and the physiology of meditation. People who suffer with stress or anxiety, chronic pain, depression and ill health often find powerful relief through meditation, and so this course offers an adept understanding of suffering from a biopsychosocial perspective, including the prevalent mental illnesses within our current culture. Moreover, this course illuminates how to best assist a multiplicity of clientele in finding the well-being they seek.

Students who wish to go beyond provisional membership with the respective associations may want to explore:
Master’s in BioMedical Meditation Therapy & Allied Health

Course Code:

330MTT

Qualification:

Provisional Meditation Association of Australia Member with the ability to become Full Member.

Current Intake:

Commence anytime.

Available to be taken face-to-face or online only.

Dates for face-to-face attendance will depend on the chosen electives.

Please contact us if you need more information.

What You Will Walk Away With

Upon completing this course, you will have the skills to teach a rich and informative, educated class. You will be able to understand and deliver your teachings with confidence, convey the latest research in the field to students, and provide more personalized support to a diverse range of mental health areas.

Whether you do this course full-time or part-time for yourself or teach others, it is a valuable practice to live by and share with others. Meditation is an innovative lifestyle medicine of the 21^st century.

BIYOME’s Meditation Teacher Training courses create a unique avenue to becoming a meditation teacher registered with the Meditation Association of Australia.

Upon graduation, certification with BIYOME avails the opportunity to register with this association providing you with a globally recognized membership. The Meditation Association of Australia offers a standard of training recognition for teachers to practice with insurance worldwide.

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 opens 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

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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

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Taught By

The teachers for this course will vary depending on your selected electives and may include:

CELIA ROBERTS BSc
Head Senior Yoga & Meditation Teacher
Yoga Therapist & Ayurvedic Practitioner
Director of BIYOME

DR JAMES KIRBY
Lecturer in Clinical Psychology UQ School of Psychology

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

CPD04 Trauma-Informed Meditation Teacher Training: Meditation Therapy for Brain, Biome & Genome (May 29 – June 1, 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)
CPD18 Yoga Therapy, Breathwork, Pranayama & the Science of Breathing (August 28-31, 2026)
CPD25 Vedic Meditation, Ayurvedic Psychology and Eastern Psychiatry (August 7-10, 2026)

2027

CPD02 Yoga Nidra Teacher Training (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)

Detailed information on specialty intensive training electives (CPDs) is available here

What Our Students Say

Hear from past and present students about their experiences with and the benefits they gained from our courses.

The education I have received from the course has been extremely detailed, and I feel more than equipped to integrate more Meditation into my Yoga classes and courses. I have learnt many new (to me) styles of Meditation, and much information about why it works the way it does. I feel confident to now integrate new techniques I have learnt into my classes and have already begun incorporating meditation into all my children’s and adult classes.

Siobhan Tierney

330MTT

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Your 330MTT Training Requirements

In order to satisfy the training requirements for 330MTT, you will need to complete the following items.

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

Investment to become registered with Meditation Australia starts from $4,758.

* Access to the course materials is not offered without complete payment.

Prerequisites
Required Books
Recommended Books
Required Props

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

1 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