Specialty Intensive Training
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in Yoga and Meditation
At BIYOME, we believe in offering experiences that build upon students’ unique fields of interest, experiences that captivate innate teaching styles and areas of specialty. For this reason, throughout the year, we offer “Specialty Intensive Training” designed to truly develop and enhance learning in specific yoga and meditation methodologies.
These continuing professional development (CPD) courses have been designed to develop your knowledge, experience, skills, understanding, and professionalism in both yoga and meditation teacher training.
Undertaking BIYOME’s CPDs in specific areas of specialty intensive training not only ensures that a teacher’s knowledge and skills stay relevant and up to date but so too it opens both experienced teachers and teachers in training up to new possibilities, new knowledge and new skill areas in yoga and meditation teaching. Specialty intensive training also ensures that teachers continually deliver a safe environment and best-practice teachings to their students.
Each CPD elective is registered with Yoga Australia and may accrue CPD points with other governing bodies. At BIYOME, we encourage you to use your elective choice to lead you towards higher-level registration with Yoga Australia and the Meditation Association of Australia. Please feel free to ask us more.
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)
CPD17 Yoga Therapy Foundations with Leanne Davis (October 23-25, 2026)
CPD18 Yoga Therapy, Breathwork, Pranayama & the Science of Breathing (August 28-31, 2026)
CPD23 Psychedelic Preparation & Integration Therapy for Allied Health Professionals (May 15-18, 2026)
CPD25 Vedic Meditation, Ayurvedic Psychology and Eastern Psychiatry (August 7-10, 2026)
CPD02 Evidence Based Yoga Nidra Teacher Training
Yoga Nidra is an evidence-based ancient transformative practice of deep relaxation and meditative inquiry that releases negative emotions and thought patterns, calms the nervous system and develops an inner sanctuary of well-being and equanimity that underlies all circumstances you may encounter in your life.
Read MoreCPD04 Trauma Informed Meditation Teacher Training: Meditation Therapy for Brain, Biome & Genome
Anchored in the biopsychosocial model central to general practice, psychiatry, counselling and psychotherapy education, this program emphasises the equal importance of the body and mind in trauma responsive care. Through this integrated embodied brain perspective, practitioners learn to support patients and clients in ways that cultivate safety, regulation, connection and wellbeing.
Read MoreCPD05 Restorative Yoga Teacher Training: Restorative Yoga Therapy
Sleep deprived, exhausted, and overworked many clientele within our society come seeking a sense of relief from chronic illness, inflammation, anxiety, depression, or a sense of unease. Learning to teach restorative practices and to focus classes on the benefits of self-care enables a richness within the practitioner’s services that allows for integrative well being in their clientele.
Read MoreCPD06 Mindfulness for a Meaningful Life
Participants build skills in breathwork, emotional processing, movement-based meditation, mantra meditation, attentional training and contemplative inquiry. The program emphasises experiential learning, trauma-responsive practice, cultural sensitivity and the development of presence and attunement within self and the therapeutic relationship.
Read MoreCPD08 Ayurvedic Nutritional Psychiatry: Food-Mood Yoga and Meditation Therapy
We invite you to become part of this pioneering work in the field of yoga therapy, looking at the food and mood connection. This evidenced informed course will help you to understand the link between food and mood, microbiome and gut health through the lens of Yoga, Ayurveda, Meditation, as well as a biopsychosocial model of well-being.
Read MoreCPD10 Compassion Focused Yoga Therapy and Meditation Teacher Training with James Kirby
This intensive integrates evolutionary models of human emotion with practical contemplative and somatic methods that cultivate compassion toward self and others. These skills enhance emotional balance, resilience and the therapeutic relationship across diverse clinical and wellness contexts.
Read MoreCPD12 Buddhist Psychology for Contemplative Clinical Practice
Rooted in the timeless principles of Buddhist philosophy, this immersive program combines contemplative science with modern biopsychosocial understanding and lived experience. It goes beyond mindfulness alone, helping practitioners release habitual grasping and address the underlying causes of suffering. The result is a compassionate, restorative approach that enhances wellbeing for both practitioner and client.
Read MoreCPD13 Certified Somatic Medicine Practitioner – Bodywork & Breathwork Training
This immersive course blends somatic experiencing embodiment training, therapeutic bodywork, breathwork and pranayama, underpinned by cutting-edge psychosomatic therapy principles and evidence-informed mind-body medicine. You will learn to work with the nervous system at its deepest level, supporting emotional regulation, interoceptive awareness and nervous system integration through embodied practice rather than talk therapy alone.
Read MoreCPD16 Music Yoga Therapy and Sound Meditation
This three-day intensive will assist the understanding of how to use music, mantra, chanting, silence and the sounds of nature to therapeutically apply to both the classroom environment and private therapy setting from an evidence-based and evidence-informed model. Learn how to actively support students as they strive to improve their overall health and improve their nervous system health and cognitive, sensory, and motor skills.
Read MoreCPD17 Yoga Therapy Foundations
Yoga Therapy Foundational Training is for everyone wanting to take their yoga teaching further or for those who wish to become yoga therapists. Learn from Celia Roberts how to structure the delivery of seeing a client, taking an entire client history and assessment. You will study yoga therapy course planning and sequencing throughout this foundational course under the traditional viniyoga therapy model.
Read MoreCPD18 Yoga Therapy, Breathwork, Pranayama & the Science of Breathing
This course examines traditional pranayama, breath based meditation and yogic breathing within a culturally trauma sensitive and academically grounded framework, integrating them with contemporary research in respiratory physiology, neuroscience, psychophysiology, autonomic regulation and behavioural medicine.
Read MoreCPD23 Certificate in Psychedelic Preparation & Integration Therapy for Allied Health Professionals
This 4-day module bridges this gap by integrating evidence-informed psychotherapy, contemplative practices, somatic awareness and culturally respectful yoga-based and somatic based therapy. All yogic and meditative elements are taught with explicit acknowledgement of their cultural origins and without equating traditional spiritual practices with clinical psychedelic therapies.
Read MoreCPD25 Vedic Meditation, Ayurvedic Psychology and Eastern Psychiatry
Set in the peaceful foothills of Brisbane, this course integrates Vedic Meditation, Ayurvedic Psychology and principles of Eastern Psychiatry within an evidence-informed biopsychosocial model. Primarily delivered under the guidance of BIYOME Founder and Director Celia Roberts BSc, supported by Vedic scholar, Doctor David Frawley, participants examine contemplative practices that enhance emotional regulation, self awareness, therapeutic presence and formulation skills relevant to psychological and psychiatric care.
Read MoreCPD26 Ayurvedic Massage, Kundalini Bodywork & Pranic Healing
In this course, you will learn how to observe a client’s current state of health and their personal dosha/s. With your knowledge of the strokes of classical Ayurvedic massage, you will be able to determine which strokes suit the individual dosha of a person, and similarly which Ayurvedic herbal medicated oils are required to suit a condition and constitution to relieve the mind and body from tensions, tightness, stresses and toxic build ups.
Read MoreCPD27 Compassion-Focused Psychedelic Therapy Training: Experiential Clinical Skills Training
This training integrates didactic teaching, experiential learning, supervised clinical skills practice, reflective exercises and case-based discussion. Participants develop foundational competencies in preparation, therapeutic support and integration within legally sanctioned, medically supervised psychedelic-assisted therapy services in Australia.
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