500YTT Advanced Diploma in BioMedical Yoga, Meditation, & Lifestyle Medicine
A Yoga Australia and Yoga Alliance Approved Training Course
Complete Integrative Lifestyle Medicine training programme
This program is life-changing.
Expect these educational years to be up there with some of the best years of your life! Transformative, educational, enriching, and all about an absolute lifestyle change for the better. This is a complete Yoga, Meditation & Integrative Lifestyle Medicine qualification.
Designed to be completed over an 18 to 24-month time frame, this course is intended, and with your dedication, will give you the best training options for your future and personal lifestyle. The BIYOME 500 hour complete integrative Lifestyle Medicine training programme delivers immersive “present moment awareness” education transforming personal and collective consciousness. This training provides quality experiences that allow you to become truly mindful: in your work & livelihood; within your relationships; within your body & mind; this creating a life of deep sensate experience bringing resilience, meaning, joy, compassion, and hope.
Through this course, by cultivating internal change, you will cultivate the beginnings of compassionate change within the lives of many.
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 500hr membership with the respective associations may want to either explore:
BIYOME’s Complete Yoga Therapy Training Programme:
650YTT Master of Biomedical Yoga Therapy, Meditation, & Allied Health
OR
BIYOME’s option for adding 150hr upgrade after completing the 350hrs in a time frame that suits you.
UP150YTT Postgraduate 150hrs
Please contact us if you wish to upgrade your existing 500hr qualification by 500 hours (UP500) to have completed 1000 hours. We access each case individually.
Course Code:
Qualification:
Yoga Australia Full Member
Yoga Alliance 500RYT Member
Meditation Association of Australia Member
Current Intake:
Commencing August 2024
Available to be taken as an online course at any time.
What You Will Walk Away With
Upon completion of this, your teaching skills will be second to none. You will walk away a changed person able to listen intentionally, compassionately, and with deep presence and resonance. You will know how to read and interpret pulse, breath, face and gait, motor skills, demeanor, and nervous system imbalance and requirements for restoration and meditation. You will be able to provide your clients with skills for significant and lasting change through all of the following certifications:
- Yoga and Meditation as Transformational Lifestyle Medicine
- Personalised BioMedical Yoga
- Trauma-Informed Yoga & Meditation Teacher Training
- Yoga Nidra Teacher Training
- Restorative Yoga Teacher Training
- Mindfulness for a Meaningful Life
- The Neuroscience behind all practices
- The Physiology, Psychology, and Philosophies behind all practices
- Plus, an integrated sense of your well-being as a practitioner
BIYOME’s Yoga Teacher Training courses also create a unique avenue to becoming a yoga and meditation teacher registered with Yoga Australia, Yoga Alliance, and Meditation Australia.
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
- Introduction to Yoga and Meditation 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
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. This includes the below 12-hour weekends offered from August 2024 – July 2025.
August Intake 2024
August 10 & 11, 2024
September 7 & 8, 2024
October 5 & 6, 2024
November 2 & 3, 2024
February 8 & 9, 2025
March 8 & 9, 2025
May 3 & 4, 2025
May 31 & June 1, 2025
July 26 & 27, 2025
Foundational Weekend Content
face-to-face content and teachers are subject to change
February Weekend
- Psychoneuroimmunology – When the Body Says NO
- Meditation Research, Science, Practice – Stop the Addiction to Excessive Thinking
- Introduction to Yogic Metaphysics – The Five Pranas
- The Psychosomatics of Working with Prana
March Weekend
- Yoga & Neurophysiological Psychology: The Six Conduits of a Connected Mind
- Yoga Philosophy 1 – Classical Yoga Study & Practice: What is Yoga? Including brief history, definitions, and sutra 1.1-1.4
- What is the Embodied Brain? Cortical Maps & Neuroplasticity
- Yoga Physiotherapy 1 – The Predictive Mover – Understanding Pain & Bioplasticity
May Weekend
- Cultivating The Science of Calm: Polyvagal Theory & Somatic Experiencing Polyvagal Theory In Yoga Practice
- Yoga Physiotherapy 2 – The Application of Anatomy and Physiology in Teaching Yoga in the classroom (General Population)
- The heart-brain connection & Heart rate variability (HRV) – Heart as the basis of superconsciousness
- Yoga Philosophy 2 – 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
June Weekend
- How Our Thoughts Shape Our Digestion – the gut-brain axis
- Yoga Physiotherapy 3: The Science of Posture and Position including strength, flexibility and the stretch response
- Prânâyâma & Breath Science
- Yoga Physiotherapy 4: Asana Modifications for managing common injuries in the classroom
July Weekend
- How to Hack Your Behaviour – Understanding the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis
- Yoga Philosophy 3 – Yoga as The Science of Self-Realisation
- Meditation for Your Inner Pharmacy
- Assessment & Conscious Marketing & Business ideas: How to attain Yoga Australia Registration, getting a First Aid Certificate
August Weekend
- 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
September Weekend
- 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
October Weekend
- 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
November Weekend
- 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
MARIAN CAVANAGH
Senior Yoga Teacher
Registered Relax & Renew Instructor
LEANNE DAVIS
Yoga Australia President Viniyoga
Yoga Therapist & Senior Yoga Teacher
MELISSA DAY
Associate Professor, UQ
KEN WARREN
Holistic bodywork
SAMANTHA LINDSAY-GERMAN
Kundalini Yoga
SWAMI MUKTI
Satyananda Yoga
CHANTHALAH WEBSTER-TIGHT
Senior Physiotherapist
Senior Yoga Teacher
OLIVER CROSSLEY
Registered Physiotherapist
Yogic Physio
>>Find out more about our faculty & staff
The BIYOME Difference
Selection of five (5) specialty intensive training electives for continued professional development from the following (with a limit of only one meditation option) 4-day intensive retreats (some course teachers/topics 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)
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)
CPD09 Meditation & Yoga Therapy for Pain Management – Neuroscience of Pain (November 28 – December 1, 2025)
CPD16 Music Yoga Therapy and Sound Meditation (August 22-25, 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 500YTT Training Requirements
- 80% face-to-face attendance
- Completion of the foundational weekend retreats
- Completion of five (5) 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 500YTT content
- To undertake 70 additional class hours with a registered yoga teacher
- Proof of having taught three Meditation (3) classes
- Daily Meditation Practice sheet – 3 months
For 500 hour upgrade courses (if not combining with a 350 hour course), a 350 hour yoga teacher training course must be completed or being completed.
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.
- 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 500YTT Investment
Investment to becoming registered with Yoga Australia AND the Meditation Association of Australia starts from $9,548*
Payment Plan**
(1) Deposit payment – $499
(23) Monthly Payments – $420
*Upfront payment discount applied
**Certificate of completion/registration is not offered without complete payment.
