CPD13 Certified Somatic Medicine Practitioner – Bodywork & Breathwork Training
A Continuing Professional Development Specialty Intensive
BIYOME’s Certified Somatic Medicine Practitioner – Bodywork & Breathwork training is a deeply experiential program designed for clinicians, therapists, yoga teachers, and allied health professionals who want to deliver trauma-informed, body-based therapies with confidence, compassion, and clinical integrity.
This transformative 50-hour, 3-day immersive course blends somatic experiencing embodiment training, therapeutic bodywork, conscious breathwork, and pranayama, grounded in cutting-edge psychosomatic therapy principles and evidence-informed mind-body medicine. You will learn to work with the nervous system at its deepest level, supporting emotional regulation, interoceptive awareness, and nervous system integration through embodied practice rather than talk therapy alone.
Participants experience a seamless integration of Eastern contemplative arts with modern somatic science, including conscious breathwork techniques, hands-on somatic interventions, trauma-responsive facilitation, and reflective practice tools that cultivate presence, clarity, and ethical precision.
Mapping the Inner Landscapes of Ecstasy in Consciousness
This training invites you to explore non-ordinary states of consciousness not as random experiences, but as mappable inner landscapes within Eastern contemplative traditions. Drawing on breath control through pranayama as described in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Gheranda Samhita, and Shiva Samhita, participants engage in pranayama as a precise gateway into samadhi, navigating the conscious, subconscious, and unconscious layers of the mind. Breath becomes the bridge from personal awareness to universal oneness and beyond, guiding a journey that is both deeply inner and expansively transformative.
This is both somatic and consciousness-based medicine.
Master the medicine of the breath.
Course Code:
Next Date Offered:
Daily 9:00am – 5:00pm.
Options available for face-to-face training or online learning.
Course available to be taken online from May 2027. Contact us for more details.
What You Will Learn
- Facilitate safe, trauma-aware breathwork sessions that support emotional release and nervous system resilience
- Apply somatic bodywork techniques that help clients access regulation, embodiment and psychophysical integration
- Bridge pranayama, nervous system science and psychosomatic therapeutic skills for lasting change
- Cultivate ethical, respectful and professional boundaries with diverse populations
As part of BIYOME’s world-class mind-body medicine offerings, this course supports your professional development and broadens your therapeutic scope within contemporary health and wellness settings. Elevate your capacity to guide profound, embodied transformation and stand at the forefront of somatic therapy practice.
Key CPD & Registration Details:
- Registered with Yoga Australia, Meditation Australia and Yoga Alliance: 50 CPD points.
- RANZCP: Psychiatrists may claim all training hours under Section 4.2 Structured Formal Learning.
- Psychology: 50 CPD points for active learning with APS, AAPi, and the Psychology Board of Australia (PsyBA).
- PACFA: 50 hours of Category A CPD (face-to-face training).
- Other Eligible Bodies: CPD points are claimable with ACA, ABA Australian Breathworkers Association, Global Professional Breathwork Alliance, AASW, and other professional associations. Always confirm eligibility with your registering body.
BIYOME’s Specialty Intensive Teacher Training can be undertaken as Continuing Professional Development (CPD) with Yoga Australia and/or the Meditation Association of Australia, as well as obtaining Continuing Education (CE) recognition with Yoga Alliance.
Should you wish to complete a full meditation certification (330 to 1000 hours) or yoga certification (150 to 1000 hours), please view this Specialty Intensive Training as an elective within our full course offerings. Details are available here.
Further Information & Requirements
Head Senior Yoga & Meditation Teacher
Yoga Therapist & Ayurvedic Practitioner
Director of BIYOME
Dr NIKOLA OGNYENOVITS
M.D., FRACGP, FACRRM, FAChAM (RACP)
Addiction Medicine Specialist Physician
Breathwork Facilitator
There are no required books at this stage.
There are no recommended books at this stage.
Props attain a 15% discount when purchased from Yoga King Products.
Required
- 1 yoga mat
- 1 yoga strap
- 1 bolster
- 2 blocks
- 2 blankets
Optional
- 1 Iyengar yoga chair (backless chair without the cushion, can be purchased from EMP Industrial)
- zafu (meditation cushion)
- zabuton (meditation cushion base)
Your CPD13 Investment
Face-to-Face
Full investment upfront $1,888
Online Learning
Full investment upfront $1,508
Access is not offered without complete payment.