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
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)
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)
CPD13 Certified Somatic Medicine Practitioner – Bodywork & Breathwork (May 14-16, 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)
CPD23 Psychedelic Preparation & Integration Therapy for Allied Health Professionals (September 10-12, 2027)
CPD25 Vedic Meditation, Ayurvedic Psychology and Eastern Psychiatry (August 20-22, 2027)
CPD27 Compassion-Focused Psychedelic Therapy: Clinical Supervision Skills & Training (March 19-21, 2027)
CPD02 Evidence Informed Yoga Nidra
Discover BIYOME's comprehensive Yoga Nidra Training Course and explore the transformative practice of yogic sleep through the lens of neuroscience, yoga philosophy, and modern therapeutic applications. Learn how Yoga Nidra supports deep rest, nervous system regulation, stress reduction, emotional resilience, and self-awareness while gaining practical skills to guide others. Ideal for yoga teachers, health professionals, therapists, and wellbeing practitioners seeking accredited CPD and evidence-informed approaches to meditation, healing, and conscious relaxation.
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
BIYOME’s Restorative Yoga Teacher Training is an immersive course exploring deep rest, embodied awareness, therapeutic yoga practices, and the science of relaxation. Learn how restorative yoga supports the mind-body connection through conscious movement, breathwork, interoception, pranayama, and nervous system awareness. Designed for yoga teachers, therapists, and practitioners seeking to deepen their understanding of restorative practices, this training integrates traditional yoga wisdom with contemporary approaches to wellbeing and therapeutic application.
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
Explore the connection between food and mood through Yoga Therapy. Learn how gut health, the microbiome and the gut-brain axis influence mental wellbeing through Yoga, Ayurveda and meditation.
Read MoreCPD10 Compassion Focused Yoga Therapy and Meditation Teacher Training with James Kirby
Explore Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), Yoga Therapy and meditation practices designed to support emotional wellbeing, nervous system regulation and resilience. This training integrates compassion science, somatic practices, mindfulness, and therapeutic approaches to help practitioners understand the relationship between the brain, body and emotions while supporting trauma-responsive mental health care.
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 evidence-based Yoga Therapy and Sound Healing Training explores the therapeutic use of music, mantra, meditation and sound to support nervous system regulation, neuroplasticity, cognitive function, emotional wellbeing and rehabilitation. Integrating contemporary neuroscience with traditional yogic practices, the course provides practical skills for applying sound and music therapeutically in yoga classes, meditation and private therapy settings.
Read MoreCPD17 Yoga Therapy Foundations
Yoga Therapy Foundational Training provides the essential foundations for developing the knowledge, skills and confidence required to become a Yoga Therapist. This three-day training explores Yoga Therapy consultation, client assessment, therapeutic sequencing, individualised Yoga Therapy programs and the traditional Viniyoga therapy model. Designed for yoga teachers and aspiring Yoga Therapists, the course integrates traditional yogic wisdom with modern therapeutic application, supporting safe, ethical and effective practice in one-to-one and professional settings.
Read MoreCPD18 Yoga Therapy, Breathwork, Pranayama & the Science of Breathing
This course explores traditional pranayama, breath-based meditation and yogic breathing through a culturally trauma-sensitive and academically grounded framework. Integrating contemporary research in respiratory physiology, neuroscience, psychophysiology, autonomic regulation and behavioural medicine, participants learn how therapeutic breathing practices may support nervous system regulation, emotional wellbeing and whole-person health.
Read MoreCPD23 Psychedelic Preparation & Integration Therapy for Allied Health Professionals
This module integrates evidence‑informed psychotherapy, contemplative practice, somatic awareness and culturally respectful yoga‑based therapeutic methods. All yogic and meditative components are taught with explicit acknowledgement of their cultural origins, ensuring traditional spiritual practices are not conflated with clinical psychedelic therapies.
Read MoreCPD25 Vedic Meditation, Ayurvedic Psychology and Eastern Psychiatry
This professional development course integrates Vedic Meditation, Ayurvedic Psychology and principles of Eastern Psychiatry within an evidence-informed biopsychosocial model. Set in the peaceful foothills of Brisbane and delivered under the guidance of BIYOME Founder and Director Celia Roberts BSc, supported by Vedic scholar Doctor David Frawley, participants explore contemplative practices that enhance emotional regulation, self-awareness, therapeutic presence and formulation skills relevant to psychological and psychiatric care.
Read MoreCPD27 Compassion-Focused Psychedelic Therapy: Clinical Supervision Skills & Training
This training integrates didactic teaching, experiential learning, supervised clinical skills practice, reflective exercises and case‑based discussion. Participants build foundational competencies in preparation, therapeutic support and integration within Australia’s legally sanctioned, medically supervised psychedelic‑assisted therapy services.
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