CPD06 Mindfulness for a Meaningful Life

These practices carried me through the most challenging adult year of my life. They shaped courage, compassion and meaning in my own healing. It is my offering that they serve you too.

Celia Roberts, 2018

“Mindfulness for a Meaningful Life” provides a year-long immersion in contemplative practice, somatic mindfulness, meaning-making frameworks and evidence-informed meditation. This training is suitable for personal transformation and for clinicians seeking to incorporate safe, culturally respectful and neuroscience-aligned mindfulness approaches into therapeutic work.

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.

The training integrates Buddhist and Yogic contemplative traditions with modern psychology, clinical mindfulness research and meaning-making. It supports therapists, clinicians and wellness practitioners in applying these practices to reduce stress, support emotional regulation, enhance resilience and cultivate a compassionate therapeutic stance—while also deepening their own embodied sense of meaning, purpose and wellbeing.

2026 schedule

February 6 – Meditation for Finding and Achieving Your Unique Purpose
March 27 – Meditation to Reclaim Your Personal Power
May 1 – Meditation for Building Immense Inner Strength & Stamina
June 12 – Meditation for Radical Healing from Illness, Cancer & Other Diseases (Evidence-Based)
July 24 – Vedic Psychology for Mental Health Insight
August 21 – Dream Yoga & Lucid Dreaming Meditation Retreat
October 16 – Samadhi – A Journey into the Superconsciousness States
November 6 – Vedic Meditation – Mantra Meditation & Marma Point Sound Healing

February 6 – Meditation for Finding and Achieving Your Unique Purpose

A retreat focused on values clarification, reflective inquiry and meaning-making. Contemplative exercises and psychological insights support participants to clarify direction, strengthen intentional living and cultivate a sense of purpose in both personal and professional contexts.

March 27 – Meditation to Reclaim Your Personal Power

An experiential session using breath, posture and attentional grounding to shift from reactive patterns to centred, intentional responding. Practices foster emotional regulation, embodied presence and compassionate self-leadership.

May 1 – Meditation for Building Immense Inner Strength & Stamina

A somatic and contemplative approach to cultivating inner steadiness and resilience. Breathwork, energy cultivation and attentional depth support psychological endurance, stamina and emotional stability.

June 12 – Meditation for Radical Healing from Illness, Cancer & Other Diseases (Evidence-Based)

A retreat exploring contemplative practices that support wellbeing during health challenges. Drawing on Kelly Turner’s evidence-informed principles, participants cultivate hope, emotional resilience and lifestyle practices that complement clinical care.

July 24 – Vedic Psychology for Mental Health Insight

A culturally respectful introduction to Ayurvedic psychological models and Vedic contemplative methods integrated within a modern wellbeing framework. Participants practise Vedic Meditation, graha chikitsa principles and self-inquiry to enhance emotional literacy, reflective capacity and therapeutic presence.

August 21 – Dream Yoga & Lucid Dreaming Meditation Retreat

A culturally sensitive exploration of dream-awareness practices within contemplative traditions. The retreat examines mindfulness during sleep states, the science of lucid dreaming, attentional training and reflective techniques that enhance clarity, creativity and insight.

October 16 – Samadhi: A Journey into the Superconsciousness States

A session exploring advanced attentional stillness and contemplative depth, framed through both traditional and neuroscientific perspectives. Participants practise rhythmic breathwork and concentration techniques that foster steadiness, insight and expanded awareness.

November 6 – Vedic Meditation, Mantra & Marma Point Sound Healing

A retreat exploring mantra and marma-point sound practices through a trauma-informed, culturally respectful and evidence-informed lens. Practices use rhythm, sound and focused attention to support grounding, emotional regulation and somatic clarity.