Understand how the body and mind work together, as well as why and how specific practices can alleviate the detrimental effects of a disconnected and apprehensive lifestyle. Let our teachers be your guides in understanding and applying state-of-the-art science and traditional wisdom to practices that assist the self and others in releasing and overcoming states of stress, anxiety, insomnia, and depression.
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Higher Level Learning (HLL) and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in Yoga and Meditation
At BIYOME, we recognise that each individual is different. As such, and to accommodate those who prefer online learning, live remotely or outside of Australia, we offer a range of 20-hour and 50-hour courses online.
Our resources reflect years of training and recording and include access to additional video, audio, and student support to guide you on your journey. We believe that with dedication and commitment, our online students can enjoy an experience that provides the education they seek. At BIYOME, we desire nothing more than to foster yoga teachers of integrative lifestyle medicine, job ready for a future in allied health.
Join The BioMedical Institute of Yoga and Meditation as we offer holistic and embodied well-being by way of Lifestyle Medicine or Personalised BioMedical Yoga. We invite you to view our currently available Online Only Yoga and Meditation Teacher Training Courses below. Click on the links to find detailed information on each online course.
Online Higher Level Learning
At BIYOME, we believe in offering experiences that build upon students’ unique fields of interest, experiences that captivate innate teaching styles and areas of specialty. For this reason, we offer “Higher Level Learning” designed to truly develop and enhance learning in specific yoga and meditation methodologies.
These Higher Level Learning (HLL) courses have been designed to develop your knowledge, experience, skills, understanding, and professionalism in specific areas of BioMedical Yoga Therapy. Please select from the list below to view more information or to purchase your course.
If you wish to attend the course in person, please go to our sales page here.
Online materials are extensive and offer prerecorded sessions and some post-event recordings. However, please note that some post-event recordings are sometimes not available after the event due to the sensitive nature of some topics and copyright issues.
HLL02 BioMedical Yoga Therapy for Gut-Brain Health (Online)
This fulfilling course is offered to all those who are seeking to understand more about digestive gut health. Aimed to bring awareness of the link between mental health and gut health via the gut-brain connection, this training is designed for health professionals and yoga teachers alike and shall harness and yoke together a new knowledge and skill set in assisting others.
Read MoreHLL03 BioMedical Yoga Therapy for Grief, Loss, and Trauma (Online)
Much of current societies' states of health are determined by ways of nominating illness and treating with pharmaceuticals rather than by cultivating our body's internal capacity to naturally bring ourselves back to a homeostatic state of being. In this educational workshop training, we combine the very best of evidence-based practice with traditional Eastern philosophy to assist you in cultivating a resilient body-mind that can innately attune to its homeostatic state. Senior teachers and professional social workers in the field of trauma, grief and loss to...
Read MoreHLL04 BioMedical Yoga Therapy for Pain Relief (Online)
Learn how to work with pain and discomfort in your own body and the science of pain rehabilitation to assist others. This course will combine evidence-based knowledge with traditional wisdom in combination with Biomedical Yoga Therapy, Meditations, as well as specific processes for Mindfulness CBT pain rehabilitation. The liberation of body and mind comes with deep presence and the ability to attune to your bodily sensations.
Read MoreHLL05 BioMedical Yoga Therapy for YogaBrain: The Brain that Changes Itself (Online)
Yogabrain is the integration of body, mind, and nervous system into full presence – the basis of a balanced, strong, and resilient nervous system. It has been shown now for multiple decades that cultivating mindfulness through awareness, the breath, and active yoga practice have the ability to strengthen our tenth cranial nerve, and thus the vagal tone, which untimely has the capacity for a regulated, stable, and resilient central nervous system.
Read MoreHLL06 BioMedical Yoga Therapy – Restorative Yoga Therapeutics (Online)
Restorative yoga therapy has the capacity to completely tone the nervous system, developing deep interoceptive awareness and attention to the present moment. Restorative yoga is a magnificent and empowering therapeutic tool that awakens the energetic systems of the mind-body developing a heightened sensitivity and a gentle self-compassion; this then, intrinsically enhancing holistic wellbeing making it incredibly accessible to many people.
Read MoreHLL07 BioMedical Yoga Therapy – Compassion Focused Therapy (Online)
In this retreat, you will learn about yoga postures to open the heart, build self-compassion & cultivate compassion towards others. Helping you bring compassion focussed therapy into yoga therapy practice, and how to apply the core compassion-based skills and qualities in private therapy sessions.
Read MoreHLL08 Body Reading, Psychosomatic Therapy & Ayurveda (Online)
We endorse this Evidence-Informed course as an avenue to bring about deep somatic awareness in both the therapist and client. This course is designed to help us diagnose and care for an individual through compassionate inquiry using the body, its language, bodily posture, tone of voice, face reading, facial microexpressions and finally, the breath.
Read MoreHLL09 Yoga Therapy & Yoga Nidra for Superhuman Executive Brain, Body & Memory Function (Online)
Do you ever feel like you're not functioning at your best? That your brain is foggy and your memory isn't what it used to be? If so, this retreat is for you. If you're looking for ways to improve your brain function and immune system, yoga therapy combined with the science of yoga nidra is the answer for you.
Read MoreHLL11 Nutritional Psychiatry (Online)
Consumption is at an all time high in our world, our nation, our families, even in our bodies. Often, many of us find ourselves emotionally eating or eating when emotional. With mindful attention and a mindful living plan we can learn to savour the moment and we can find a way out.
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At BIYOME, we believe in offering experiences that build upon students’ unique fields of interest, experiences that captivate innate teaching styles and areas of specialty. For this reason, we offer “Specialty Intensive Training” designed to truly develop and enhance learning in specific yoga and meditation methodologies.
These Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses have been designed to develop your knowledge, experience, skills, understanding, and professionalism in both yoga and meditation teacher training. Please select from the list below to view more information or to purchase your course.
If you are wishing to attend the course in person, please go to our sales page here.
Online materials are extensive and offer prerecorded sessions and some post-event recordings. However, please note that some post-event recordings are sometimes not available after the event due to the sensitive nature of some topics and copyright issues.
CPD01 Meditation as Lifestyle Medicine: Mind-Body Therapy (Online)
Meditation and Mind-Body Medicine Teacher Training has been specifically designed to give you an opportunity to experience lifestyle medicine as attainable practices of compassionate connection with ourselves and others. While there is an explicit focus on mindfulness and meditation processes, this specialty intensive training elective shall cover both Yogic and Buddhist practices, making it perfect for those beginning their journey in either yoga or meditation teacher training.
Read MoreCPD02 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)
This second trauma informed teacher training course has been designed to enrich evidence-based practice and methodology by providing you with adept understanding of the gut-brain axis (GBA) and how stress affects our digestive system, microbiota and its relationship to wellbeing, as well as how to influence the GBA for holistic 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)
Founded in state-of-the-art science and lived experience, mindfulness for a meaningful life offers you a chance of learning proficiency in the teachings that have been personally effective within Celia’s life. Moreover, you will have the opportunity to create deepened embodied meaning within your life.
Read MoreCPD07 Therapeutic Application of Kundalini Yoga (Online)
Known as the “Yoga of Awareness” Kundalini Yoga is considered most comprehensive and combines meditation, mantra, pranayama, and posture (asana) within each single practice – there is a flow of energy and consciousness within Kundalini that cannot be sourced from other yogic techniques. More specifically, Kundalini Yoga Therapy offers a range of exquisite and various techniques for creating lasting mental and physical change - a process of integrative medicine that combines intuition and science; a Yoga Therapy that cultivates lasting mind-body change.
Read MoreCPD08 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)
The last decade has seen considerable research showing that cultivating compassion has a major impact on emotional states, social relationships and even physical processes. This course represents a unique opportunity for yoga teachers and mental health professionals to gain a strong foundation in CFT for yoga teachers and therapists alike.
Read MoreCPD11 The Yoga of Relationships – Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for Yoga & Meditation Teachers (Online)
In this course, you will be thrilled to learn there are evidenced based interventions for improving professional relationships, intimate relationships and even the relationship you have with yourself. These interventions are coupled with mindfulness and compassion practice, yoga breathing practices and somatic experiencing.
Read MoreCPD16 Music Yoga Therapy and Sound Meditation (Online)
This four 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)
Breath is medicine. Pranayama (meaning the extension of life force or Prana) is ‘controlled’ yogic breathing, having many benefits. Scientific research on the subject is now vast, with a plethora of health benefits discovered. With many experts pioneering the field, such as James Nestor, Dr Sundar Balasubramanian and Patrick McKeown at the forefront of scientific research, it is undeniable that the science of breath is the gateway to holistic well-being.
Read MoreCPD19 A Kundalini Yoga Approach to Cultivating the Therapeutic Space with Siri Bhagvati (Online)
This intensive training will be an explorative process for participants to experience and learn the multi-faceted approach of Kundalini Yoga Therapy. We will look at why we use movement, from the subtle to the manifest and embodied, and how we apply this to various health conditions. There will be space created for self reflection and group work to cultivate presence, through Svadhyaya, so that we can skillfully share yoga therapeutically in a safe and inclusive manner.
Read MoreCPD21 Evidence-Based Kundalini Yoga Therapy with Dr Shanti Shanti Kaur Khalsa (Online)
We will explore eight modules: depression and anxiety, trauma and PTSD, inflammation, pain relief, addictions, sleep health, gut health, and cardiovascular health. Each module will have a recording of the face-to-face session with Dr Khalsa, complemented by online learning evidenced based learning and home practice.
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 MoreCPD23 Certificate in Psychedelic Integration Therapy for Allied Health Professionals (Online)
This 50hr Psychedelic Integration Therapy course combines traditional wisdom and modern research, educating health professionals, counsellors, teachers, and therapists on integrating the post-psychedelic journey. The course is offered out of the growing need to assist the many who turn to psychedelic medicine needing supportive practices to integrate their journey with lifelong meditation skills, yoga, mindfulness, creative therapies, embodiment practices and deep listening skills to bring about similar states of consciousness.
Read MoreCPD25 Vedic Meditation, Ayurvedic Psychology & Spiritual Counselling (Online)
Join Celia Roberts BSc, Founder, and Director, on a profound journey of self-discovery and spiritual growth. In this course, you will learn the art of teaching Vedic Meditation, explore the depths of Ayurveda for the Mind, and master the Vedic technique of Self-enquiry. Join us in this unique setting, where ancient wisdom converges with contemporary learning and intersects with modern neuroscience. Immerse yourself in the transformative power of Vedic Meditation and Ayurveda—an experience that is bound to be absolutely brilliant.
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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