350YTT Personalised BioMedical Yoga
A Yoga Australia and Yoga Alliance Approved Training Course
Vocational Enrichment Programme: Biomedically Informed Yoga for the Individual
This program is designed to be completed over a 12 to 18-month time frame, giving you the basics in a 200 hour Yoga as Lifestyle Medicine program plus a 150-hour upgrade to personalized Biomedical yoga. Upon completing this program, you will become a professionally recognized teacher through Yoga Australia. You will acquire the skills to integrate yoga and meditation into your daily life and the lives of others. This course will provide an accurate understanding of the science and deep experience of the transcendental state of yoga.
BIYOME’s 350 hour Yoga Teacher Training program will enable you an adept understanding of the holistic being, which aims to embed the capacity for you to tailor a practice to suit the individual needs of your clientele. You will gain a level of knowledge that assists you in the ability to conceptualize the body deeply – offering your students a diverse and personalized experience of the practice, as opposed to just delivering a class.
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 the 350hr membership with the respective associations may want to either explore:
BIYOME’s complete 500hr training program that gains Level 2 FULL Registration with Yoga Australia and Yoga Alliance:
500YTT Advanced Diploma in BioMedical Yoga, Meditation, & Lifestyle Medicine
OR
BIYOME’s options for an upgrade after completing the 350hrs in a time frame that suits you.
UP150YTT Postgraduate 150hrs
650YTT Master of Biomedical Yoga Therapy, Meditation, & Allied Health
Course Code:
Qualification:
Yoga Australia Full 350YTT Member
Yoga Alliance 350RYT Member
Current Intake:
Commencing February 2024.
Available to be taken as an online course at any time.
What You Will Walk Away With
Upon completion of this 350 hour Yoga Teacher Training, you will have the skills to teach a rich and informative, highly educated session to a wide variety of individuals with a range of different therapeutic needs. Our courses provide you with vast and rich information to understand and deliver your teachings with confidence, convey the latest biomedical research in the field to students, offer appropriate alignment cues, give touch adjustments, and teach yoga postures aided by props designed to assist with neurological feedback. With intention and discipline, you will become confident in developing heightened proprioceptive awareness in your students and give them a suitable level of control over breath, mind, and body.
As a BIYOME teacher, you will be able to cultivate the experience of meditation through yoga asana, harness the psychological state of flow in your classroom and offer your students the ultimate transcendental experience described for millennia through the science of yoga.
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 350-hour Yoga Teacher Training specifically allows you to become a Level 1 Yoga Teacher and obtain insurance to teach yoga worldwide. You will then qualify to upgrade further with postgraduate specialties.
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
- Introduction to Personalised BioMedical Yoga
- Adept Understanding of Disconnection: Suffering, Stress, & the Maladapted Mind
- Adept Understanding of the Body-Mind Connection
- Adept Wisdom in Theory of Teaching-Technique
- Âsana Principles
- Working with The Vagal (Vagus) Nerve
- Working with The Heart-Brain Connection
- Working with HeartRate Variability
- Working with Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Axis
- Working with Psychoneuroimmunology
- Working with Gut-Brain Axis
- Specialty Intensive Training (CPD) of your choice
What You Will Experience
Ten face-to-face foundational contact weekends
Throughout the course, there is a foundational face-to-face face component that incorporates training tailored to your course. These will include 120 hours via ten 12-hour weekends offered February – November 2024.
February Intake 2024
February 10 & 11, 2024
March 9 & 10, 2024
April 6 & 7, 2024
May 4 & 5, 2024
June 1 & 2, 2024
July 13 & 14, 2024
August 10 & 11, 2024
September 7 & 8, 2024
October 5 & 6, 2024
November 2 & 3, 2024
Foundational Weekend Content
face-to-face content and teachers are subject to change
- WEEKEND ONE (February)
- What is Stress? How to Stop the Addiction to Excessive Thinking
- Meditation Yogic Philosophy
- Introduction to Yogic & Ayurvedic Metaphysics
- Applied Metaphysics
- WEEKEND TWO (March)
- What is the Embodied Brain? Cortical Maps & Neuroplasticity
- Teaching Methodology: compassionate boundaries, touch adjustment, shaktipat
- Understanding Pain & Bioplasticity
- The Predictive Mover
- WEEKEND THREE (April)
- Yoga & Neurophysiological Psychology: The Six Conduits of a Connected Mind
- Classical Yoga Study & Practice: What is Yoga? Including brief history, definitions, and sutra 1.1-1.4
- The Relational Result on Neurobiology: Heart Communication, Epigenetics, Polyvagal Theory
- Classical Yoga Text Study & Practice: Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras: 1.12 – 1.16 practice and detachment, 1.20-22 Sraddha, 1.23 -29 Surrender – Isvara and 1.31 signs of disturbance
- WEEKEND FOUR (May)
- Anatomy and Physiology 1: The Application of Anatomy and Physiology in Teaching Yoga in the classroom (General Population)
- Anatomy and Physiology 2: The Science of Posture and Position including strength, flexibility and the stretch response
- Anatomy and Physiology 3: Asana Modifications for managing common injuries in the classroom
- The Pyschosomatics of Working with Prana
- WEEKEND FIVE (June)
- Prânâyâma & Breath Science
- Understanding the neurobiology of pain and perception in yoga therapy
- Sequencing with Prana
- The Science of Mindfulness and Pain
- WEEKEND SIX (July)
- Moving Meditations & The Science of Self-Realisation
- Yogic Philosophy
- ASSESSMENT
- Conscious Marketing & Business ideas: How to attain Yoga Australia Registration, getting a First Aid Certificate
- WEEKEND SEVEN (August)
- Understanding the individual: How stress and suffering presents itself / Symptomatology
- The Vyûha Model: Hetu, Hayam, Hânam, & Hânopâyah 1
- Yoga Therapy for the Lower Body
- The Vyûha Model: Hetu, Hayam, Hânam, & Hânopâyah 2
- WEEKEND EIGHT (September)
- Course planning and sequencing for the individual
- Mindfulness CBT research for pain management
- Yoga Therapy Tools for the Upper Body
- Individualised Therapy and Assessment Protocols
- WEEKEND NINE (October)
- Adept Theory of Teaching-Technique: Working with the Heart-Brain Connection & Heart Rate Variability
- Adept Theory of Teaching-Technique: Working with the Vagal Nerve & the HPA axis
- Trauma-informed Music Therapy, Somatic Embodiment, Neuropsychotherapy
- Body and Face Reading
- WEEKEND TEN (November)
- Meditation Course Planning
- Adept Theory of Teaching-Technique: Working with Psychoneuroimmunology & Gut-Brain Axis
- Classic Poses of Restorative Yoga for the classroom environment
- ASSESSMENT
Taught By
Other teachers for this course will vary depending on your selected electives.
CELIA ROBERTS BSc
Head Senior Yoga & Meditation Teacher
Yoga Therapist & Ayurvedic Practitioner
Director of BIYOME
LEANNE DAVIS
Yoga Australia President Viniyoga, Yoga Therapist, Senior Yoga Teacher
SAMANTHA LINDSAY-GERMAN
Kundalini Yoga
SWAMI MUKTI
Satyananda Yoga
KEN WARREN
Holistic bodywork
MARIAN CAVANAGH
Senior Yoga Teacher
Registered Relax & Renew Instructor
OLIVER CROSSLEY
Registered Physiotherapist
Yogic Physio
CHANTHALAH WEBSTER-TIGHT
Senior Physiotherapist
Senior Yoga Teacher
MELISSA DAY
Associate Professor, UQ
>>Find out more about our faculty & staff
The BIYOME Difference
Selection of two (2) speciality intensive training electives for continued professional development (with a limit of only one meditation option) from the following 4-day intensive retreats (some course dates/teachers/topics yet to be confirmed and may be subject to change).
2024
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)
CPD10 Compassion Focused Yoga Therapy and Meditation Teacher Training (November 15-18, 2024)
CPD17 Yoga Therapy Foundations with Leanne Davis (November 29 – December 2, 2024)
CPD20 Yuan Qigong: Heal your Heart, Heal your Body (June 14-17, 2024)
CPD21 Evidence-Based Kundalini Yoga Therapy with Dr Khalsa (August 16-19, 2024)
CPD22 The Science and Art of Awakening Human Consciousness – Meditation Training (7 Fridays, March-September 2024)
CPD24 Sound Healing Medicine: Multi-Instrument Training for Whole-Body Integration (August 30 – September 2, 2024)
2025
CPD02 Yoga Nidra Teacher Training (April 18-21, 2025, 2025)
CPD06 Mindfulness for a Meaningful Life (Year-round monthly Fridays 9:30-12:30; 11 consecutive classes for a 4-day course)
CPD08 Food-Mood Yoga and Meditation Therapy (June 13-16, 2025)
CPD18 Yoga Therapy, Pranayama & the Science of Breathing (March 21-24, 2025)
Detailed information on specialty intensive training electives (CPDs) is available here
Your 350YTT Training Requirements
- 80% face-to-face attendance
- Completion of 10 foundational weekend retreats
- Completion of two (2) 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 350YTT content
- To undertake 50 additional class hours with a registered yoga teacher
- Prerequisites
- Required Books
- Recommended Books
- Required Props
We highly recommend at least 12 months of regular practice; however, we take all cases individually – please complete an application form and we will contact you directly to discuss.
For 350 hour UPGRADE (if not combining with the 200YTT course), a 200 hour yoga teacher training programme must be completed or being completed.
- 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.
- Lasater, J. (2009). Yogabody: Anatomy, kinesiology, and asana. Berkeley, CA: Rodmell Press.
Please note that there are also required 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.
- Easwaran, E. (2007). The Bhagavad Gita. Berkeley, CA: Nilgiri Press.
- Myers, T. (2017). Anatomy trains : myofascial meridians for manual and movement therapists. London, United Kingdom: Elsevier Health Sciences.
- Feuerstein, G. (2014). The psychology of yoga: Integrating Eastern and Western approaches for understanding the mind. Boston, MA: Shambhala Publications.
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
Your 350YTT Investment
Investment to becoming registered with Yoga Australia starts from $6,998*
Payment Plan**
(1) Deposit payment – $249
(17) Monthly Payments – $432
*Upfront payment discount applied
**Certificate of completion/registration is not offered without complete payment.