660MTT Master’s in BioMedical Meditation Therapy & Allied Health
Approved training course of The Meditation Association of Australia
Complete Meditation Therapy Training Programme
There are no words to describe this program; it is simply life-changing.
Meditation is not only 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 life. Meditation offers benefits of a mind shaped on the values of mindfulness, compassion, and contentment. Meditation can cultivate unshakable inner peace: teaching mediation has the compassionate capacity to offer this same ability to cultivate unshakable inner peace to others.
This course is designed to challenge and develop you personally and professionally. These will be the most intense yet valuable 24 months of your life. Not only will you walk away a qualified meditation practitioner, so too will you walk away knowing that you have been enriched through a transformative, educational, and absolute lifestyle change. This is a complete qualification, providing you with over 660 hours of meditation practice and study.
Designed to be completed over two years, this course is intended, and with your dedication, will give you the best training options for your future and your lifestyle. The BIYOME Biomedical Meditation Therapy & Allied Health programme delivers immersive “present moment awareness” education, transforming personal and collective consciousness. This training provides quality experiences that allow you to become truly mindful: in your work & livelihood; within your relationships; within your body & mind; this creating a life of deep sensate experience bringing resilience, meaning, joy, compassion, and hope.
Through this course, by cultivating internal change, you will cultivate the beginnings of compassionate change within the lives of many.
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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.
Please contact us for 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 21st 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 660-hour Meditation Teacher Training specifically allows you to become a proficient meditation teacher in 18-24 months. This course will enable you to register a provisional membership with Meditation Australia and offers full membership.
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
- Altered Consciousness
- Benefits of Spirituality
- Flow
- Mindset
- Enlightened Body
- Ayurveda and the Mind
- Vedic Meditation
- What type of Yogi are You? What is Your Path of Practice?
- Body of Light Science
- Sacred Geometry
- General Relativity, Quantum Physics, and String Theory
- Lucid Dreaming
- The Vow to Take Enlightenment in This Very Life
- How to Achieve Enlightenment
- Specialty Intensive Training (CPD) of your choice
What You Will Experience
Six face-to-face specialty intensive training electives
Throughout the course, there is an essential face-to-face 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
- Altered Consciousness
- Benefits of Spirituality
- Benefits of Meditation and Prayer on the Brain
- Social and Mental Benefits of Spirituality
- Flow
- Mindset
- Compassionate Being
- The Psychology of Luck
- Enlightened Body
- Shakti – The Body Holds the Key
- Kundalini
- Samskaras
- Karmas
- Ayurveda and the Mind
- Vedic Meditation
- Vedic Tools for Concentration and Meditation
- Therapeutic Effect of Vedic Meditation
- What type of Yogi are You? What is Your Path of Practice?
- What are these paths and practices
- Working with the Body
- Working with the Heart
- Working with the Mind
- Body of Light Science
- Sacred Geometry
- General Relativity, Quantum Physics, and String Theory
- The Quantum Leap of Consciousness
- The Implicate Order and Quantum Entanglement
- Dark Holes in The Universe and Our Hearts
- Lucid Dreaming
- How to Lucid Dream
- The Vow to Take Enlightenment in This Very Life
- How to Achieve Enlightenment
Taught By
CELIA ROBERTS BSc
Head Senior Yoga & Meditation Teacher
Yoga Therapist & Ayurvedic Practitioner
Director of BIYOME
MARIAN CAVANAGH
Senior Yoga Teacher
Registered Relax & Renew Instructor
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 six (6) speciality 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):
Available to complete face-to-face or online*
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)
CPD05 Restorative Yoga Teacher Training: Restorative Yoga Therapy (October 22-24, 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)
Detailed information on specialty intensive training electives (CPDs) is available here
Available to complete online*
CPD09 Meditation & Yoga Therapy for Pain Management – Neuroscience of Pain
CPD20 Yuan Qigong: Heal your Heart, Heal your Body
CPD22 The Science and Art of Awakening Human Consciousness – Meditation Training
Detailed information on online-only specialty intensive training electives (CPDs) is available here
*Online means utilising pre-recorded videos available in the student portal.
What Our Students Say
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Your 660MTT Training Requirements
- 80% face-to-face attendance
- Completion of six (6) Specialty Intensive Training Modules (CPD) and associated multiple-choice questions
- The submission of the multiple-choice questions within the online 660MTT content
- Three (3) 20-minute live (Zoom) meditation classes
- Daily Practice sheet – 18 months
Your 660MTT Investment
Investment to become registered with Meditation Australia is $7,138.
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