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 in itself 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 their whole lives. Meditation offers benefits of a mind shaped on the values of mindfulness, compassion, and contentment. Meditation has the capacity to 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 speciality intensive training electives, supporting a comprehensive understanding of philosophy, psychology, and the physiology of meditation. People who suffer with stress or anxiety, chronic pain, depression and ill health often find powerful relief through meditation, and so this course offers adept understanding in suffering from a biopsychosocial perspective including the prevalent mental illnesses within our current culture. Moreover, this course illuminates how to best assist a multiplicity of clientele in finding the wellbeing they seek.
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What You Will Walk Away With
Upon completion of 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, as well as provide more personalised support to a diverse range of mental health areas.
Whether you do this course full time or part time for yourself or to teach others, it is a highly 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 recognised membership. The Meditation Association of Australia provides a standard of training recognition for teachers to practice with insurance all over the world.
BIYOME’s 330 hour Yoga Teacher Training specifically allows you to become a proficient meditation teacher over a 12-month time frame. This will also give students the opportunity to apply to move their way into a full Australian teaching registration.
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
- The Altruistic Teaching Methodology: The Science of Compassion and Connection
- Mindfulness: The Science of Attention and Attunement
- Pranayama: The Science of Respiration and Regulation
- Meditation: The Science of Concentration and Clarity
- 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 YouTube Channel
- BIYOME Vimeo Channel
- BIYOME Terminology Dictionary
PLUS
Selection of three (3) speciality intensive training elective for continued professional development (some course topics yet to be confirmed and may be subject to change):
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- CPD01 Meditation and Mind Body Medicine Teacher Training
- CPD02 Yoga Nidra Teacher Training
- CPD04 Trauma Informed Meditation Teacher Training: Brain, Biome, and Genome
- CPD06 Mindfulness for a Meaningful Life (Updated Year-round monthly)
- CPD07 Kundalini Yoga and Meditation Teacher Training (to be released June 2020)
- CPD09 Meditation & Yoga Therapy for Pain Management – Neuroscience of Pain (to be released December 2021)
Detailed information on specialty intensive training electives (CPD’s) 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 at the end of each lesson within the online 330MTT content
- Proof of having taught nine Meditation (9) classes
- Daily Meditation Practice sheet – 9 months
- Prerequisites
- Required Books
- Recommended Books
- Required Props
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
- 1 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 starting from $2,280*
Payment Plan**
(1) Deposit payment – $249
(12) Monthly Payments – $190
*Upfront payment discount applied
**Certificate of completion / registration is not offered without complete payment.
