500BPYTT Advanced Breathwork, Pranayama, Meditation & Yoga Teacher Training
A Yoga Australia Approved Training Course| Health Insurance Rebates| Multi-Association Professional Endorsed
Master the Art of Breath & Body: Advanced Breathwork, Pranayama & Yoga Teacher Training
The Gold Standard in Somatic Science & Consciousness-Based Practice
Step into the forefront of holistic health with BIYOME’s Advanced Breathwork and Pranayama Yoga Teacher Training. This isn’t just a certification – it is an elite, multi-level professional pathway designed for health practitioners, clinicians, counsellors, and dedicated yoga practitioners seeking to bridge the gap between ancient contemplative practice, consciousness-based medicine and modern somatic science.
Whether you are an aspiring teacher or an experienced professional, we provide a clear, evidence-informed trajectory to becoming a Certified Breathwork & Pranayama Facilitator and Level 2 (500hr) Yoga Teacher, recognised both nationally and internationally, with the ability to offer health insurance rebates to your clientele.
Choose Your Path to Professional Mastery
Our flexible certification allows you to scale your education according to your career goals:
- 200-Hour Foundation: The essential starting point for aspiring facilitators.
- 500-Hour Professional Clinician Pathway: The ultimate accreditation for those seeking clinical depth and high-level industry recognition.
Industry Excellence: As a Yoga Australia Approved Training Course with Multi-Association Professional Endorsement, our full 500hr training enables Health Insurance Rebate eligibility for your clients: positioning you at the top tier of the health industry.
Where Ancient Tradition Meets Modern Science
At BIYOME, we merge deep consciousness research with the bio-psycho-social model of health. This training provides quality experiences that allow you to become truly mindful: in your work, within your relationships, and within your body.
The BIYOME Advantage
- Modern Somatic Science: Integrate trauma-informed somatic medicine to ensure safety and ethical precision in every session.
- Transpersonal Psychology: Explore Yogic, Vedic & Buddhist psychology alongside non-ordinary states of awareness and contemplative sciences.
- Embodied Medical Training: This is “Consciousness-Based Medicine.” We focus primarily on your well-being and healing. As your healing power expands and your own suffering ceases, you can more effectively impart this transformation to others. This training is a deep exploration of supra-consciousness (samadhi states) in the timeless traditions that have mapped consciousness.
- Resilience & Meaning: Develop the somatic safety and “compassionate present moment awareness” necessary to facilitate a life of deep sensate experience for yourself and your patients or clientele.
Beyond the Certificate: A Total Lifestyle Change
This programme is designed for professional advancement and personal evolution. You will not only walk away as a fully qualified facilitator, but you will also emerge enriched by an absolute lifestyle change.
You will gain the confidence to lead transformative sessions, backed by a curriculum that values evidence-informed practice as much as it values spiritual depth.
Flexible Learning for the Modern Professional
We understand the demands of clinical and professional life. Our world-class curriculum is available in two formats:
- Face-to-Face: Immerse yourself in our dedicated learning environment.
- Online: Access the full depth of our somatic education from anywhere in the world.
Ready to Lead the Future of Holistic Health?
Don’t just teach yoga, breathwork – facilitate profound human transformation, the complete art and science of awakening consciousness. Join a community of growing practitioners dedicated to the science of the soul and the medicine of the breath, yoga, and meditation.
Available to be taken face-to-face or online.
Course Code:
Qualification:
Health Insurance Rebates: Available for 500hr Graduates (Level 2) who have completed all in person training modules and 20hrs clinical supervision practicum in person
Current Intake:
Available to be taken face-to-face or online only.
What You Will Walk Away With
Upon completion of the 500hr Level 2 Professional Clinician Pathway, you will have the clinical confidence to lead evidence-informed Somatic Breathwork and Prāṇāyāma sessions grounded in the latest respiratory research. You will master the delivery of sophisticated teaching cues and therapeutic postures that integrate neurological feedback, props, and heightened proprioceptive awareness.
You will be able to guide students beyond the wellness framework of somatic medicine and embodiment into the realms of higher consciousness and samādhi, using consciousness-based medicine through diverse yogic and contemplative practices.
By bridging ancient yogic wisdom with modern allied health insights, you will gain natural medical and psychological techniques for regulating the nervous system and cultivating a profound “felt-sense” of somatic safety for every student.
Through the integration of Vedic Counselling (the lens of Dharma and Karma) and Buddhist Psychology, you will gain a comprehensive framework for understanding the nature of suffering and the mechanics of the mind and a counselling framework within the contemplative traditions.
Professional Accreditation & CPD Recognition
Graduation from BIYOME’s 500-hour programme provides the elite credentials required to register as a Level 2 Yoga Teacher and Professional Breathwork Facilitator. Our training is rigorously audited and endorsed by Australia’s leading professional bodies:
- Yoga Australia: Fully registered for Level 2 (500hr) membership. Graduates who complete all in-person modules and the 20-hour clinical supervision practicum are eligible to offer Health Insurance Rebates to their clientele.
- Psychology & Mental Health: Offers active learning CPD points with the Australian Psychological Society (APS), the Australian Association of Psychologists Inc (AAPi), and the Psychology Board of Australia (PsyBA).
- Counselling & Psychotherapy: Selected face-to-face modules are PACFA endorsed, with each module counting towards 50 hours of Category A CPD.
- Meditation & Global Standards: Registered with Meditation Australia and Yoga Alliance, providing 50 CPD points per module.
- Breathwork Standards: These courses accrue CPD points and may provide membership options with the Australian Breathwork Association, International Breathwork Foundation (IBF) and Global Professional Breathwork 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.
This course qualifies you as a Level 2 Yoga Teacher and allows you to obtain insurance to teach yoga worldwide. You will also be eligible to register with the Meditation Association of Australia and apply for membership consideration with the Australasian Association of Lifestyle Medicine.
What You Will Learn
Foundations in Yogic, Vedic & Buddhist Contemplative Traditions
This training is grounded in the classical systems of Yoga, Vedānta, Ayurveda, and Buddhist contemplative science, presented in a clear, traditional, and clinically relevant framework. Students are introduced to the following core lineages:
Kriya Yoga
A disciplined path integrating prāṇāyāma, mantra, and subtle energy practices to direct prāṇa inward, still the fluctuations of the mind, and awaken higher states of awareness. Associated with the lineage of Paramahansa Yogananda.
Bhakti Yoga
The path of devotion, cultivating surrender, compassion, and relational connection through dedication to the Divine, the inner Self, or the sacred dimension of life.
Raja Yoga
The classical meditative system codified in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Emphasises ethical foundations, concentration, and progressive states of meditation culminating in samādhi.
Hatha Yoga
The foundational system of physical and energetic practice, integrating āsana, prāṇāyāma, mudrā, and bandha to purify the body, regulate the nervous system, and prepare for meditation and higher states of awareness.
Tantric Yoga
A body-inclusive approach that utilises breath, awareness, mantra, and subtle energy to transform human experience into a pathway of liberation, integrating both immanent and transcendent dimensions of practice.
Advaita Vedānta
The non-dual philosophical tradition articulated by Adi Shankaracharya. Teaches the essential identity of Ātman (Self) and Brahman (Absolute Reality), dissolving the illusion of separation through knowledge (jnana).
Ayurveda
The traditional system of Indian medicine, based on balancing body, mind, and environment. Emphasises constitution (doṣa), lifestyle, nutrition, and natural therapeutics to support long-term health and clarity.
Buddhist Contemplative Traditions
A comprehensive introduction to the major streams of Buddhist practice:
- Theravāda – emphasising insight (vipassanā) and concentration (samatha) to understand the nature of mind and reduce suffering.
- Mahāyāna – cultivating compassion (karuṇā) and wisdom (prajñā), including the Bodhisattva path.
- Vajrayāna / Ati Yoga (Dzogchen) – advanced contemplative systems pointing to the direct recognition of innate awareness (rigpa), understood as the already complete nature of mind.
Together, these systems provide a rigorous and integrated foundation for personal realisation and professional application within modern therapeutic and clinical contexts.
What You Will Experience
500hr Professional Pathway
- 10 Specialty Modules: (4 Core Foundational + 6 Advanced Clinical).
- Clinical Practicum: 20 hours of supervised client consultations + 20 hours of case studies.
- Personal Training Experience: 30 sessions as a Lead Facilitator and 30 sessions as a student/client.
- 100% face-to-face attendance is required for those seeking health insurance rebate eligibility.
Total Training Certification Options:
- 200-Hour Provisional Pathway: 4 Core Modules
- 500-Hour Level 2 Pathway: 10 Modules (Full professional pathway plus supervised clinical practicum for facilitators wanting to offer clients health care rebates).
A Note on Our Standards:
Our faculty ensures that every module is delivered with clinical safety, ethical precision, and evidence-informed depth, meeting the rigorous standards required for Yoga Australia Level 2 and Health Insurance Rebate eligibility.
Taught By
Clinical & Medical Specialists
DR NIKOLA OGNYENOVITS M.D
Addiction Medicine Specialist
Breathwork Facilitator
Dr TONY FERNANDO
Psychiatrist
Sleep Specialist
Former Buddhist Monk
PROF JAMES KIRBY
Professor in Clinical Psychology at the UQ School of Psychology
Leading researcher in Compassion-Focused Therapy
CORNELIA ELBRECHT
Founder of Sensorimotor Art Therapy
SEP, ANZACATA, IEATA
Senior Yoga Educators
CELIA ROBERTS BSc
Head Senior Teacher
Yoga Therapist & Director of BIYOME
ALISA CRAIG
Breathwork Facilitator
MARIAN CAVANAGH
Senior Yoga Teacher
Registered Relax and Renew Instructor
ANITA CASSIDY BOWMAN
Senior Sound Healing Teacher
Nada Yoga Lead
>>Find out more about our faculty & staff
The BIYOME Difference
These intensives bridge the gap between clinical science and ancient wisdom, providing the face-to-face hours required for Level 2 Yoga Australia registration and health insurance rebate eligibility.
Core Foundational Modules (200hr Provisional Pathway)
CPD02: Evidence-Based Yoga Nidra Teacher Training (Mar 12–14, 2027)
CPD13: Certified Somatic Medicine Practitioner – Bodywork & Breathwork (May 14-16, 2027)
CPD18: Yoga Therapy, Breathwork & Pranayama (Aug 28–31, 2026)
CPD25: Vedic Meditation, Ayurvedic Psychology & Eastern Psychiatry (Aug 7–10, 2026)
Advanced Clinical & Practical Modules (500hr Advanced Pathway)
CPD05: Restorative Yoga Teacher Training: Restorative Yoga Therapy (Oct 22–24, 2027)
CPD10: Compassion-Focused Yoga Therapy & Meditation Teacher Training (Nov 13–16, 2026)
CPD12: Buddhist Psychology for Contemplative Clinical Practice (Apr 30 – May 2, 2027)
CPD16: Music Yoga Therapy & Sound Meditation (Aug 6–8, 2027)
CPD17: Yoga Therapy Foundations (Oct 23–25, 2026)
Special Event
Sensorimotor Art Therapy: Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing, Yoga, & Meditation
- Date: March 10–13, 2028 (4 Days)
Location: Apollo Bay (Travel and accommodation not included)
Detailed information on specialty intensive training electives (CPD’s) is available here
Your 500BPYTT Training Requirements
- 100% face-to-face attendance is required for those seeking health insurance rebate eligibility
- Completion of ten (10) Specialty Intensive Training Modules (CPD) and associated multiple-choice questions
- Clinical Practicum: 20 hours of supervised client consultations + 20 hours of case studies
- Personal Training Experience: 30 sessions as a Lead Facilitator and 30 sessions as a student/client
Your 500BPYTT Investment
Investment to become registered with Yoga Australia is $10,888
Access is not offered without complete payment
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.
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Please note that there are also required and/or recommended texts for each intensive elective undertaken.
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- 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 (CPDs).