OL330MTT Advanced Diploma in Meditation as Lifestyle Medicine (Online)
Approved training course of The Meditation Association of Australia.
Vocational Enrichment Programme: Transformational Meditation as Lifestyle Medicine.
Meditation is not only one of the most rewarding and life-changing practices to migrate from the east to the west, so too is the capacity to teach it to others. Many who immerse themselves in the world of meditation begin a journey of understanding like no other. Practice changes from a discipline to an embedded quality in daily living that nurtures one throughout life. Meditation offers benefits of a mind shaped on the values of mindfulness, compassion, and contentment. Meditation can cultivate unshakable inner peace: teaching mediation has the compassionate capacity to offer this same ability to cultivate unshakable inner peace to others.
This course will enable you to combine three of our meditation specialty intensive training electives, supporting a comprehensive understanding of philosophy, psychology, and the physiology of meditation. People who suffer from stress or anxiety, chronic pain, depression, and ill health often find powerful relief through meditation. So this course offers an adept understanding of suffering from a biopsychosocial perspective, including the prevalent mental illnesses within our current culture. Moreover, this course illuminates how to assist best a diversity of clientele in finding the wellbeing they seek.
Students who wish to go beyond provisional membership with the respective associations may want to explore:
Master’s in BioMedical Meditation Therapy & Allied Health
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What You Will Walk Away With
Upon completing this course, you will have the skills to teach a rich and informative, educated class. You will be able to understand and deliver your teachings with confidence, convey the latest research in the field to students, and provide more personalized support to a diverse range of mental health areas.
Whether you do this course full-time or part-time for yourself or teach others, it is a valuable practice to live by and share with others.  Meditation is an innovative lifestyle medicine of the 21st century.
BIYOME’s Meditation Teacher Training courses create a unique avenue to becoming a yoga teacher registered with the Meditation Association of Australia.
Upon graduation, certification with BIYOME avails the opportunity to register with this association providing you with a globally recognized membership. The Meditation Association of Australia offers a standard of training recognition for teachers to practice with insurance worldwide.
BIYOME’s 330-hour Meditation Teacher Training specifically allows you to become a proficient meditation teacher in 12-18 months. This course will enable you to register a provisional membership with Meditation Australia and opens the pathway to full membership after two years.
What You Will Learn
- Understanding Disconnection: Suffering, Stress, & the Maladapted Mind
- Meditation as Lifestyle Medicine: 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
- Currently Researched Meditation Styles
- Breathing Pattern Therapy
- The Neuroscientific Study of Emotions: What are the six emotional styles?
- The Ten Facets of Observable Physiologic Changes due to Meditation
- Specialty Intensive Training (CPD) of your choice
What Additional Materials Are Provided
- Daily Practice Journal
- Complete access to all Daily Practice Meditations
- Complete access to all Provided Literature
- Complete access to all Audio Lectures
- BIYOME Terminology Dictionary
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Selection of three (3) speciality intensive training electives for continued professional development (some course topics yet to be confirmed and may be subject to change):
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- CPD01 Meditation as Lifestyle Medicine: Mind-Body Therapy
- CPD02 Yoga Nidra Teacher Training
- CPD04 Trauma-Informed Meditation Teacher Training: Brain, Biome, and Genome
- CPD06 Mindfulness for a Meaningful Life
- CPD07 Therapeutic Application of Kundalini Yoga
- CPD08 Food-Mood Yoga and Meditation Therapy
- CPD09 Meditation & Yoga Therapy for Pain Management – Neuroscience of Pain
- CPD10 Compassion-Focused Yoga Therapy and Meditation Teacher Training
- CPD11 The Yoga of Relationships – Relational Yoga and Meditation Therapy
- CPD16 Music Yoga Therapy and Sound Meditation
- CPD18 Yoga Therapy, Pranayama & the Science of Breathing
- CPD19 A Kundalini Yoga Approach to Cultivating the Therapeutic Space with Siri Bhagvati
- CPD20 Yuan Qigong: Heal your Heart, Heal your Body
- CPD21 Evidence-Based Kundalini Yoga Therapy with Dr Khalsa
- CPD22 The Science and Art of Awakening Human Consciousness – Meditation Training
- CPD25 Vedic Meditation, Ayurvedic Psychology & Spiritual Counselling
Detailed information on specialty intensive training electives (CPDs) is available here
Your OL330MTT Training Requirements
- Completion of three (3) Specialty Intensive Training Modules (CPD) and the submission of the associated multiple-choice questions
- The submission of the multiple-choice questions within the online 330MTT content
- Proof of having taught nine Meditation (9) classes
- Daily Meditation Practice sheet – 9 months
We highly recommend at least 12 months regular practice or a qualification within the field of health and wellbeing; however, we take all cases individually – please complete an application form and we will contact you directly to discuss.
- Siegel, D. J. (2010). The mindful therapist: A clinician’s guide to mindsight and neural integration. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Co.
Please note that there are also required texts for each intensive elective undertaken
- Siegel, D. J. (2012). Pocket guide to interpersonal neurobiology: An integrative handbook of the mind. New York: W.W. Norton.
- Ricard, M. (2015). Altruism: The power of compassion to change yourself and the world. Tullamarine, Australia: Bolinda Publishing.
- Doidge, N. (2016). The brain’s way of healing: Stories of remarkable recoveries and discoveries. London, United Kingdom: Penguin Books.
- Davidson, R. J., & Begley, S. (2013). The emotional life of your brain: How its unique patterns affect the way you think, feel, and live – and how you can change them. New York, NY: Penguin Putnam.
- Seligman, M. E. (2018). The hope circuit: A psychologist’s journey from helplessness to optimism. New York, NY: Hachette Book Group.
- Hanson, R., & Hanson, F. (2018). Resilient: How to grow an unshakable core of calm, strength, and happiness. New York, NY: Harmony Books.
- Hanson, R. (2013). Hardwiring Happiness: How to reshape your brain and your life. New York, NY: Harmony Books.
- Feuerstein, G. (2014). The psychology of yoga: Integrating Eastern and Western approaches for understanding the mind. Boston, MA: Shambhala Publications.
- Feuerstein, G. (2008). The yoga tradition: Its history, literature, philosophy, and practice (3rd ed.). Chino Valley, AR: Hohm Press.
- 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.
Props attain a 15% discount when purchased from Yoga King Products
Required
- zafu (meditation cushion)
- blanket
- 1 yoga mat
Optional
- 1Â yoga strap
- 1 bolster
- 2 blocks
- 2 blankets
- 1 Iyengar yoga chair (specific design to be purchased from EMP Industrial)
- 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 OL330MTT Investment
Investment to becoming registered with Meditation Australia starts from $3,568*
Payment Plan**
(1) Deposit payment – $249
(16) Monthly Payments – $238
*Upfront payment discount applied
**Certificate of completion / registration is not offered without complete payment.
