CPD04 Trauma Informed Meditation Teacher Training: Meditation Therapy for Brain, Biome & Genome

Integration is the pathway toward wellbeing.

Dan Siegel

This course is designed for teachers, yoga therapists and practitioners, including doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, counsellors, psychotherapists, allied health professionals and mental health care workers who wish to deepen their practice, enhance clinical insight and build professional capacity to offer trauma informed meditation and mindful embodiment within contemporary clinical settings. The course aligns with the key principles of the RACGP Curriculum, the RANZCP Fellowship Competency Framework and the PACFA Training Standards for trauma responsive practice. The programme is registered with Meditation Australia and Yoga Australia.

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.

This trauma informed teacher training course delivers evidence based content relevant to general practice, psychiatry, counselling, psychotherapy and allied health. From a meditative and experiential framework, you will examine the gut-brain, heart-brain axis and the effects of traumatic stress on neurobiology, cognitive processing, immune function, hormonal regulation and digestive health. The course highlights how thought patterns, behavioural responses and environmental stressors influence physiology and emotional states, and explores practical ways to positively influence the gut brain axis to promote holistic health outcomes.

Trauma Informed Meditation Teacher Training Meditation Therapy for Brain Biome and Genome also incorporates current thinking in epigenetics, demonstrating how familial history, lived experience and intergenerational patterns shape identity, behaviour and resilience. The course further explores how present day choices and self regulation can positively influence future generations.

This intensive training is facilitated by BIYOME Director and Head Teacher Celia Roberts BSc, a long standing educator in Trauma Informed Mindfulness for over twenty years.

Participants engage in meditation based trauma responsive learning, including intergenerational trauma, childhood trauma and collective trauma healing. Celia teaches within a biopsychosocial and neurobiological framework that aligns with the RACGP emphasis on whole person care, the RANZCP focus on reflective practice, clinical formulation and therapeutic alliance, and the PACFA commitment to embodied presence, relational attunement and safe trauma responsive engagement. Her intention is to support your personal embodiment of presence so that you may confidently offer attuned embodied presence for others.

Please note that while this course enhances the trauma informed capacity of practitioners, it is not a qualification or certification to provide trauma therapy or trauma specific treatment. Instead, it operates as a complementary training that strengthens trauma responsive meditation practice, therapist wellbeing and mindful care across general practice, psychiatry, counselling, psychotherapy and allied mental health.