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Complete Integrative Lifestyle Medicine training programmeThis program is life-changing.
Expect these educational years to be up there with some of the best years of your life! Transformative, educational, enriching, and all about an absolute lifestyle change for the better. This is a complete Yoga, Meditation & Integrative Lifestyle Medicine qualification.
Designed to be completed over an 18 to 24-month time frame, this course is intended, and with your dedication, will give you the best training options for your future and personal lifestyle. The BIYOME 500 hour complete integrative Lifestyle Medicine training programme delivers immersive “present moment awareness” education transforming personal and collective consciousness. This training provides quality experiences that allow you to become truly mindful: in your work & livelihood; within your relationships; within your body & mind; this creating a life of deep sensate experience bringing resilience, meaning, joy, compassion, and hope.
Through this course, by cultivating internal change, you will cultivate the beginnings of compassionate change within the lives of many.
Training is conducted in a retreat setting, a 24-acre sanctuary designed to restore, rejuvenate, and regenerate body and mind.
Students who wish to go beyond the 500hr membership with the respective associations may want to either explore:
BIYOME’s Complete Yoga Therapy Training Programme:
650YTT Master of Biomedical Yoga Therapy, Meditation, & Allied Health
OR
BIYOME’s option for adding 150hr upgrade after completing the 350hrs in a time frame that suits you.
UP150YTT Postgraduate 150hrs
Please contact us if you wish to upgrade your existing 500hr qualification by 500 hours (UP500) to have completed 1000 hours. We access each case individually.
What You Will Walk Away With
Upon completion of this, your teaching skills will be second to none. You will walk away a changed person able to listen intentionally, compassionately, and with deep presence and resonance. You will know how to read and interpret pulse, breath, face and gait, motor skills, demeanor, and nervous system imbalance and requirements for restoration and meditation. You will be able to provide your clients with skills for significant and lasting change through all of the following certifications:
Yoga and Meditation as Transformational Lifestyle Medicine
Personalised BioMedical Yoga
Trauma-Informed Yoga & Meditation Teacher Training
Yoga Nidra Teacher Training
Restorative Yoga Teacher Training
Mindfulness for a Meaningful Life
The Neuroscience behind all practices
The Physiology, Psychology, and Philosophies behind all practices
Plus, an integrated sense of your wellbeing as a practitioner
BIYOME’s Yoga Teacher Training courses also create a unique avenue to becoming a yoga and meditation teacher registered with Yoga Australia, Yoga Alliance, and Meditation Australia.
Upon graduation, certification with BIYOME avails the opportunity to register with either Association providing you with a globally recognized membership. Yoga Australia and Yoga Alliance provide a standard of training recognition for teachers to practice with insurance worldwide. While Yoga Australia is highly regarded in Australia and the UK, Yoga Alliance may be your registration choice should you wish to teach in the USA.
This course qualifies you as a Level 2 Yoga Teacher and allows you to obtain insurance to teach yoga worldwide. You will also be eligible to register with the Meditation Association of Australia and apply for membership consideration with the Australasian Association of Lifestyle Medicine.
What You Will Learn
Introduction to Yoga and Meditation as Lifestyle Medicine
Understanding Disconnection: Suffering, Stress, & the Maladapted Mind
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
Asana: The Science of Posture and Position
Pranayama: The Science of Respiration and Regulation
Meditation: The Science of Concentration and Clarity
Sound Therapy: The Science of Vocabulary and Vibration
Introduction to Personalised BioMedical Yoga
Adept Understanding of Disconnection: Suffering, Stress, & the Maladapted Mind
Adept Understanding of the Body-Mind Connection
Adept Wisdom in Theory of Teaching-Technique
Âsana Principles
Working with The Vagal (Vagus) Nerve
Working with The Heart-Brain Connection
Working with HeartRate Variability
Working with Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Axis
Working with Psychoneuroimmunology
Working with Gut-Brain Axis
Specialty Intensive Training (CPD) of your choice
What You Will Experience
Ten face-to-face foundational contact weekends
Throughout the course, there is a foundational face-to-face face component that incorporates training tailored to your course. These will include ten weekends offered February – November.
February Intake 2024
Foundational Weekend Content
face-to-face content and teachers are subject to change
WEEKEND ONE (February)
What is the Stress Response and the HPA Axis?
Anatomy and Physiology 1: The Application of Anatomy and Physiology in Teaching Yoga in the classroom (General Population)
What is the Embodied Brain? Cortical Maps & Neuroplasticity
Classical Yoga Study & Practice: What is Yoga? Including brief history, definitions, and sutra 1.1-1.4
WEEKEND TWO (March)
Understanding Pain Maladaptions and Brain Training
Anatomy and Physiology 2: The Science of Posture and Position including strength, flexibility and the stretch response
Introduction to Yogic & Ayurvedic Metaphysics
Applied Metaphysics
WEEKEND THREE (April)
Neurophysiological Psychology: The Six Conduits of a Connected Mind 1
Hatha Yoga Text Study & Practice: including understanding the history of Hatha as it relates to modern science (Hatha Yoga Padaprika Study)
Neurophysiological Psychology: The Six Conduits of a Connected Mind 2
Classical Yoga Text Study & Practice: 1.12 Practice and detachment; 1.20 Sraddha; 1.23 Isvara; and 1.31 recognising disturbances
WEEKEND FOUR (May)
The Relational Result on Neurobiology including energetic communication (Heart-Math), epigenetics, and Polyvagal Theory
Anatomy and Physiology 3: Asana Modifications for managing common injuries in the classroom
Teaching Methodology including cultivating compassionate boundaries, touch adjustment and corrections
Trauma Informed Practice: An Introduction
WEEKEND FIVE (June)
Prânâyâma including understanding Prana the importance of linking the breath to movement in practice
Sound Therapy including an introduction to Sanskrit, pronunciation, and the use of Mantra
The art of Iyengar Sequencing 1
The art of Iyengar Sequencing 2
WEEKEND SIX (July)
Moving Meditations and the application of the Polyvagal Theory / compassion-based therapy
Teaching with Confidence and the importance of Personal Development
ASSESSMENT
Small Business Set-up for Yoga Teachers
WEEKEND SEVEN (August)
Understanding the individual: How stress and suffering presents itself / Symptomatology
The Vyûha Model: Hetu, Hayam, Hânam, & Hânopâyah 1
Yoga Therapy for the Lower Body
The Vyûha Model: Hetu, Hayam, Hânam, & Hânopâyah 2
WEEKEND EIGHT (September)
Course planning and sequencing for the individual
Mindfulness CBT research for pain management
Yoga Therapy Tools for the Upper Body
Individualised Therapy and Assessment Protocols
WEEKEND NINE (October)
Adept Theory of Teaching-Technique: Working with the Heart-Brain Connection & Heart Rate Variability
Adept Theory of Teaching-Technique: Working with the Vagal Nerve & the HPA axis
Trauma-informed Music Therapy, Somatic Embodiment, Neuropsychotherapy
Body and Face Reading
WEEKEND TEN (November)
Meditation Course Planning
Adept Theory of Teaching-Technique: Working with Psychoneuroimmunology & Gut Brain Axis
Classic Poses of Restorative Yoga for the class room environment
ASSESSMENT
Taught By
Foundational teachers are included in the list below.
Other teachers for this course will vary depending on your selected electives.
CELIA ROBERTS BSc
Head Senior Yoga & Meditation Teacher
Yoga Therapist & Ayurvedic Practitioner
Director of BIYOME
MARIAN CAVANAGH
Senior Yoga Teacher
Registered Relax & Renew Instructor
LEANNE DAVIS
Yoga Australia President Viniyoga
Yoga Therapist & Senior Yoga Teacher
MELISSA DAY
Associate Professor, UQ
KEN WARREN
Holistic bodywork
SAMANTHA LINDSAY-GERMAN
Kundalini Yoga
SWAMI MUKTI
Satyananda Yoga
CHANTHALAH WEBSTER-TIGHT
Senior Physiotherapist
Senior Yoga Teacher
OLIVER CROSSLEY
Registered Physiotherapist
Yogic Physio
The BIYOME Difference
Selection of five (5) specialty intensive training electives for continued professional development from the following (with a limit of only one meditation option) 4-day intensive retreats (some course teachers/topics may be subject to change).
2024
CPD03 Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training: Compassion-based Yoga Therapy (May 17-20, 2024)
CPD05 Restorative Yoga Teacher Training: Restorative Yoga Therapy (October 25-28, 2024)
CPD06 Mindfulness for a Meaningful Life (Year-round monthly Fridays 9:30-12:30; 11 consecutive classes for a 4-day course)
CPD10 Compassion Focused Yoga Therapy and Meditation Teacher Training (November 15-18, 2024)
CPD17 Yoga Therapy Foundations with Leanne Davis (November 30 – December 2, 2024)
CPD20 Yuan Qigong: Heal your Heart, Heal your Body (June 14-17, 2024)
CPD21 Evidence-Based Kundalini Yoga Therapy with Dr Khalsa (August 16-19, 2024)
CPD22 The Science and Art of Awakening Human Consciousness – Meditation Training (7 Fridays, February-July 2024)
CPD23 Psychedelic Integration Therapy for Allied Health Professionals (July 19-22, 2024)
CPD24 Sound Healing Medicine: Multi-Instrument Training for Whole-Body Integration (August 30 – September 2, 2024)
2025
CPD02 Yoga Nidra Teacher Training (April 18-21, 2025)
CPD06 Mindfulness for a Meaningful Life (Year-round monthly Fridays 9:30-12:30; 11 consecutive classes for a 4-day course)
CPD08 Food-Mood Yoga and Meditation Therapy (June 13-16, 2025)
CPD09 Meditation & Yoga Therapy for Pain Management – Neuroscience of Pain (November 28 – December 1, 2025)
CPD16 Music Yoga Therapy and Sound Meditation (August 22-25, 2025)
CPD18 Yoga Therapy, Pranayama & the Science of Breathing (March 21-24, 2025)
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Biyome Biomedical Institute of Yoga and Meditation, 166 Pacey Rd, Upper Brookfield QLD 4069, Australia,Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Upper Brookfield
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