Online Short Courses
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in Yoga and Meditation
Online Continuing Professional Development
At BIYOME, we recognise that every individual learns differently. To support students who prefer online study or live remotely or outside Australia, we offer a range of 50‑hour online courses. Our Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programs are designed to extend your unique interests, teaching style, and areas of specialty, deepening your knowledge, skills, experience, and professionalism in yoga and meditation teacher training.
Our online materials draw on years of training and recording. They include extensive prerecorded sessions, additional video and audio resources, selected post‑event recordings, and ongoing student support to guide you throughout your learning journey. With dedication and commitment, online students can experience a rich and comprehensive education that prepares them to become integrative lifestyle medicine yoga teachers who are job‑ready for the future of allied health.
Please explore the CPD courses listed below to learn more. If you prefer to attend in person, please visit our sales page here.
While our online resources are extensive, please note that some post‑event recordings may not be available after the event due to the sensitive nature of certain topics and copyright considerations.
CPD02 Evidence Based Yoga Nidra Teacher Training (Online)
Yoga Nidra is an evidence based ancient transformative practice of deep relaxation and meditative inquiry that releases negative emotions and thought patterns, calms the nervous system, and develops an inner sanctuary of well-being and equanimity that underlies all circumstance you may encounter in your life.
Read MoreCPD03 Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training: Compassion based Yoga Therapy (Online)
Trauma is a prevalent sociological health ailment. Adverse child experiences, inept assistance, or compassionate connection in the face of suffering, as well as levels of disconnect that impact inability to feel safe, significant, or to make sense and meaning in life have impacted our society in ways that are quite often to vast to fully fathom. Clients come seeking wellbeing through various primary or secondary treatment methodologies that include (albeit not limited to) therapy, yoga, or meditation.
Read MoreCPD04 Trauma-Informed Meditation Teacher Training: Meditation Therapy for Brain, Biome & Genome (Online)
Anchored in the biopsychosocial model central to general practice, psychiatry, counselling and psychotherapy education, this program emphasises the equal importance of the body and mind in trauma responsive care. Through this integrated embodied brain perspective, practitioners learn to support patients and clients in ways that cultivate safety, regulation, connection and wellbeing.
Read MoreCPD05 Restorative Yoga Teacher Training: Restorative Yoga Therapy (Online)
Sleep deprived, exhausted, and overworked many clientele within our society come seeking a sense of relief from chronic illness, inflammation, anxiety, depression, or a sense of unease. Learning to teach restorative practices and to focus classes on the benefits of self-care enables a richness within the practitioner’s services that allows for integrative well being in their clientele.
Read MoreCPD06 Mindfulness for a Meaningful Life (Online)
Participants build skills in breathwork, emotional processing, movement-based meditation, mantra meditation, attentional training and contemplative inquiry. The program emphasises experiential learning, trauma-responsive practice, cultural sensitivity and the development of presence and attunement within self and the therapeutic relationship.
Read MoreCPD08 Ayurvedic Nutritional Psychiatry: Food-Mood Yoga and Meditation Therapy (Online)
We invite you to become part of this pioneering work in the field of yoga therapy, looking at the food and mood connection. This evidenced informed course will help you to understand the link between food and mood, microbiome and gut health through the lens of Yoga, Ayurveda, Meditation, as well as a biopsychosocial model of well-being.
Read MoreCPD09 Meditation & Yoga Therapy for Pain Management – Neuroscience of Pain (Online)
One in five people in Australia suffers from persistent pain. In this 50hr Yoga Therapy and Meditation course, designed for yoga teachers and meditation teachers, you will learn about the neurophysiology and science of pain. You will be able to provide your clientele or students with a new outlook on how to perceive and manage pain through yoga, mindfulness and meditation.
Read MoreCPD10 Compassion Focused Yoga Therapy and Meditation Teacher Training with James Kirby (Online)
This intensive integrates evolutionary models of human emotion with practical contemplative and somatic methods that cultivate compassion toward self and others. These skills enhance emotional balance, resilience and the therapeutic relationship across diverse clinical and wellness contexts.
Read MoreCPD12 Buddhist Psychology for Contemplative Clinical Practice (Online)
Rooted in the timeless principles of Buddhist philosophy, this immersive program combines contemplative science with modern biopsychosocial understanding and lived experience. It goes beyond mindfulness alone, helping practitioners release habitual grasping and address the underlying causes of suffering. The result is a compassionate, restorative approach that enhances wellbeing for both practitioner and client.
Read MoreCPD13 Certified Somatic Medicine Practitioner – Bodywork & Breathwork Training (Online)
This transformative 50-hour 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.
Read MoreCPD16 Music Yoga Therapy and Sound Meditation (Online)
This three-day intensive will assist the understanding of how to use music, mantra, chanting, silence and the sounds of nature to therapeutically apply to both the classroom environment and private therapy setting from an evidence-based and evidence-informed model. Learn how to actively support students as they strive to improve their overall health and improve their nervous system health and cognitive, sensory, and motor skills.
Read MoreCPD18 Yoga Therapy, Pranayama & the Science of Breathing (Online)
This course examines traditional pranayama, breath based meditation and yogic breathing within a culturally trauma sensitive and academically grounded framework, integrating them with contemporary research in respiratory physiology, neuroscience, psychophysiology, autonomic regulation and behavioural medicine.
Read MoreCPD22 The Science and Art of Awakening Human Consciousness – Meditation Training (Online)
Together, we will explore the science of consciousness by turning our attention inwardly. The teachings will be understood experientially, not just conceptually. The wisdom behind all the spiritual truths of surrender, oneness, emptiness, compassion, liberation and no-self will be explored experientially in meditation, using scientific pointers to open the mind and heart to all that IS.
Read MoreCPD25 Vedic Meditation, Ayurvedic Psychology and Eastern Psychiatry (Online)
Set in the peaceful foothills of Brisbane, this course integrates Vedic Meditation, Ayurvedic Psychology and principles of Eastern Psychiatry within an evidence-informed biopsychosocial model. Primarily delivered under the guidance of BIYOME Founder and Director Celia Roberts BSc, supported by Vedic scholar, Doctor David Frawley, participants examine contemplative practices that enhance emotional regulation, self awareness, therapeutic presence and formulation skills relevant to psychological and psychiatric care.
Read MoreCPD26 Ayurvedic Massage, Kundalini Bodywork & Pranic Healing (Online)
In this course, you will learn how to observe a client’s current state of health and their personal dosha/s. With your knowledge of the strokes of classical Ayurvedic massage, you will be able to determine which strokes suit the individual dosha of a person, and similarly which Ayurvedic herbal medicated oils are required to suit a condition and constitution to relieve the mind and body from tensions, tightness, stresses and toxic build ups.
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