200IYTT Integrative Yoga Teacher Training: Science, Medicine, Psychology
A Yoga Australia and Yoga Alliance Approved Training Course
Mindfulness for a Meaningful Life, Restorative Yoga Therapy, Pain Management and Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher Training
Welcome to BIYOME’s Integrative Yoga Stream! In this 200hr training, you will explore the neuroplastic brain, the biome, and genome. You will experientially engage your mind and body in the link between stress and chronic pain, the value of relationships on our health, food-mood connection, and how trauma and PTSD affect our neurobiology and brain over our lifetimes. As a 200hr Integrative Yoga Teacher, you will be able to deliver practical yoga and meditation methods for assisting your students, clients, or patients.
Teachers completing this course will become coherent in the current science and research, impart these teachings in the Allied Health Professions and fields of Mind-Body Medicine. The faculty and teaching staff on this particular course are highly trained Professors and Doctors of Psychology, Senior Lecturers and Researchers, Senior Yoga Teachers, and Yoga Therapists. For this reason, we name the course Integrative Yoga Teacher Training: Science, Medicine, Psychology.
Training is conducted in a retreat setting, a 24-acre sanctuary designed to restore, rejuvenate, and regenerate body and mind.
Students who wish to go beyond provisional 200hr membership with the respective associations may want to explore:
BIYOME’s complete 350hr training programs that gain Level 1 FULL Registration with Yoga Australia and Yoga Alliance:
350RYTT Personalised BioMedical Yoga Specialising in Restorative Yoga & Meditation
350YTT Personalised BioMedical Yoga
OR
BIYOME’s two options for adding a 150-hour upgrade to the 200 hours in a time frame that suits you.
UP150YTT Postgraduate 150hrs
UP350YTT Personalised Biomedical Yoga
* The BIYOME 200IYTT is unique and designed for those seeking meditative and therapeutic asana training and more restorative movement-based therapy. As such, you are offered the choice of specialty intensive electives rather than attending our standard six foundational 2-day weekends. This course is designed for those seeking therapeutic asana training and gentle movement-based therapy. While this course includes theoretical content focused on basic yogic principles, the face-to-face content is specific to the electives – meaning this specialty has more limited movement training than our 200YTT Yoga as Lifestyle Medicine training.
For those seeking comprehensive yoga training incorporating in-depth face-to-face asana with physical strength and flexibility training, BIYOME highly recommends our 350YTT Personalised BioMedical Yoga training. For more information, please enquire or compare course outlines in detail.
Course Code:
Qualification:
Yoga Australia 200IYTT Member
Yoga Alliance 200IYTT Member
Current Intake:
Commencing March 2024.
Available to be taken as an online course at any time.
What You Will Walk Away With
Upon completing this course, you will have the skills to teach a rich and informative, educated, evidenced-informed class. You will be able to understand and deliver your teachings with confidence, convey the latest research in the allied health field to students, offer appropriate teaching cues, and teach therapeutic yoga postures aided by the use of neurological feedback with props and heightened proprioceptive awareness.
BIYOME’s Yoga Teacher Training courses also create a unique avenue to becoming a yoga teacher registered with Yoga Australia and Yoga Alliance.
Upon graduation, certification with BIYOME avails the opportunity to register with either Association providing you with a globally recognized membership. Yoga Australia and Yoga Alliance provide a standard of training recognition for teachers to practice with insurance worldwide. While Yoga Australia is highly regarded in Australia and the UK, Yoga Alliance may be your registration choice should you wish to teach in the USA.
BIYOME’s Yoga Teacher Training courses also create a unique avenue to upgrade to becoming a yoga and meditation teacher registered with Yoga Australia, Yoga Alliance, and Meditation Australia as additional training. Ask us more!
What You Will Learn
- Introduction to Yoga as Lifestyle Medicine
- Understanding Disconnection: Suffering, Stress, & the Maladapted Mind
- 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
- The Altruistic Teaching Methodology: The Science of Compassion and Connection
- Mindfulness: The Science of Attention and Attunement
- Asana: The Science of Posture and Position
- Pranayama: The Science of Respiration and Regulation
- Meditation: The Science of Concentration and Clarity
- Sound Therapy: The Science of Vocabulary and Vibration
- Specialty Intensive Training
What You Will Experience
Four face-to-face specialty intensive training electives
Throughout the course, there is an essential face-to-face component that incorporates training tailored to your course. This includes four 4-day weekends offered year-round (details below – The BIYOME Difference).
PLUS Foundational Content Provided Online
Yoga Asana Manual
Complete access to 200hr Manual & Provided Literature
Complete access to Foundational Weekends and 4 x CPD Weekend Visual Lectures
Complete access to Bandha, Mudra & Pranayama Manual
BIYOME Terminology Dictionary
Additionally, throughout this course, foundational training in Yoga as Lifestyle Medicine, Meditation as Lifestyle Medicine, and Biomedically Informed Yoga for the Individual is provided online. This includes:
- Understanding the Yogic Tradition of Disconnection: Suffering, Stress, and the Maladapted Mind
- The Yogic Tradition of Suffering
- The Buddhist Tradition of Suffering
- Stress: Tradition in the West
- Our Innate Yogic Ability to Change
- Our Innate Yogic Ability to Change: Tradition in the East
- Our Innate Meditative Ability to Change: Tradition in the East
- Our Innate Ability to Change: Tradition in the West
- The Yogic Path to Wellness
- The Yogic Path to Wellness: Tradition in the East
- The Meditative Path to Wellness: Tradition in the East
- The Path to Wellness: Tradition in the West
- The Ethical Philosophy of Yoga Practice
- The Virtues of Teaching Yoga
- The Virtues of Teaching Meditation
- Understanding the Yogic Mind-Body Connection: Tradition in the East
- The Fundamental Nature of Reality
- The Constituents of the Enlightened Body
- Sharira, Kosha, Vayus, Nâdî, and Chakra
- 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
Taught By
CELIA ROBERTS BSc
Head Senior Yoga & Meditation Teacher
Yoga Therapist & Ayurvedic Practitioner
Director of BIYOME
DR CASSANDRA SHIELDS
PhD (Clinical Psychology), BPsych (Hons), MAPS, FCCLP Board Approved Supervisor (Psychology Board of Australia: AHPRA)
Certified Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist and Supervisor (ICEEFT)
DR STAN STEINDL
Adjunct Associate Professor, clinical psychologist and co-director of the Compassionate Mind Research Group at School of Psychology
EDWINA KEMPE
Licenced TCTSY Specialist
Social Worker
SAMANTHA LINDSAY-GERMAN
Kundalini Yoga
>>Find out more about our faculty & staff
The BIYOME Difference
2024 Integrative Yoga Course
CPD03 Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training: Compassion-based Yoga Therapy (May 17-20, 2024)
CPD05 Restorative Yoga Teacher Training: Restorative Yoga Therapy (October 25-28, 2024)
CPD06 Mindfulness for a Meaningful Life (Year-round monthly Fridays 9:30-12:30; 11 consecutive classes for a 4-day course)
CPD20 Yuan Qigong: Heal your Heart, Heal your Body (June 14-17, 2024)
Detailed information on specialty intensive training electives (CPDs) is available here
Your 200IYTT Training Requirements
- 80% face-to-face attendance
- Completion of four (4) Specialty Intensive Training Modules (CPD) and associated multiple-choice questions
- The submission of the multiple-choice questions at the end of each lesson within the online 200IYTT content
We highly recommend at least 12 months regular practice; however, we take all cases individually – please complete an application form and we will contact you directly to discuss.
- Kaminoff, L., & Matthews, A. (2012). Yoga anatomy. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.
- Feuerstein, G. (2008). The yoga tradition: Its history, literature, philosophy, and practice (3rd ed.). Chino Valley, AR: Hohm Press.
- Siegel, D. J. (2012). Pocket guide to interpersonal neurobiology: An integrative handbook of the mind. New York: W.W. Norton.
- 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.
Please note that there are also required and/or recommended texts for each intensive elective undertaken.
- Bachman, N. (2005). The language of yoga: Complete A to Y guide to āsana names, Sanskrit terms, and chants. Boulder, CO: Sounds True.
- Iyengar, B. K. (2014). Yoga: The path to holistic health. London, United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley.
- Desikachar, T. K. (1999). The heart of yoga: Developing a personal practice. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions International.
- Robin, M. (2009). A handbook for Yogasana teachers: The incorporation of neuroscience, physiology, and anatomy into the practice. Tucson, AZ: Wheatmark.
Props attain a 15% discount when purchased from Yoga King Products.
Required
- 1 yoga mat
- 1 yoga strap
- 1 bolster
- 2 blocks
- 2 blankets
- 1 Iyengar yoga chair (backless chair without the cushion, can be purchased from EMP Industrial)
Optional
- zafu (meditation cushion)
- zabuton (meditation cushion base)
Please note that there are also required props/variances in prop requirements for different specialty intensive electives (CPDs).
Your 200IYTT Investment
Investment to becoming registered with Yoga Australia starts from $4,588*
Payment Plan**
(1) Deposit payment – $249
(11) Monthly Payments – $449
*Upfront payment discount applied
**Certificate of completion/registration is not offered without complete payment.
