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SUMMARY:CPD05 Restorative Yoga Teacher Training: Restorative Yoga Therapy (October 27-30\, 2023)
DESCRIPTION:Sleep deprived\, exhausted\, and over-worked 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. \n\n\n\n\nPractice is not about what you get\, it is about what you give. Whether you are driven or resistant\, the medicine is the same: do what is truly possible with unwavering commitment to giving yourself to the moment. Without this intention\, practice becomes another task to be completed\, and it loses its ability to transform. And\, transformation\, or freedom\, is the reason for all discipline. \nJudith Hanson Lasater\n\n\n\nWhat You Will Learn\n\n\n\n\nUnderstanding the philosophy behind practice principles including an exploration of the healing power of savasana in its many forms.\n\n\n\nUnderstanding the physiology behind practice including the body’s response to stress as well as how and why intentional relaxation is imperative for holistic wellbeing. Moreover\, a deeper understanding of the HPA-Axis and the Vagal Complexes will be provided.\n\n\n\nUnderstanding the psychology behind practice including interpersonal neurobiology and the therapeutic relationship\, understanding the connectivity the conduits of mind-body connectivity – the neurobiology of relaxation and the effect of restorative yoga on well-being.\n\n\n\nUnderstanding from a complete immersive experience the foundations\, applications\, and teaching methodologies of restorative yoga – including an experiential\, hands-on approach to learning the nuances of long-hold restorative poses\, the adept use of props\, sequencing\, and practicalities of working within the group environment.\n\n\n\n\nBIYOME’s Specialty Intensive Teacher Training can be undertaken as Continuing Professional Development (CPD) with Yoga Australia and/or the Meditation Association of Australia\, as well as obtaining Continuing Education (CE) recognition with Yoga Alliance. The course contact hours\, and non-contact hours (CPDs and CEs)\, allocated across Meditation Australia and the two registering yoga bodies do\, however\, differ. Please contact us for more information. Should you wish to complete a full meditation certification (110 hours – 1000 hours) or yoga certification (150 hours – 650 hours)\, please view this Specialty Intensive Training as an elective within our full course offerings.  Details are available here. \n\n\n\nUpcoming course dates: \n\n\n\nOctober 27 – 30\, 2023  \n\n\n\nOctober 25-28\, 2024 \n\n\n\nAbout the teacher \n\n\n\nMarian Cavanagh \n\n\n\nRegistered Relax & Renew Instructor  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarian Cavanagh is a senior yoga teacher with a wide range of training. Marian is a registered Relax and Renew Trainer\, certified by Judith Lasater and is passionate about sharing this nurturing\, healing practice.  \n\n\n\nMarian specialises in long\, deep\, quietly held poses. She has been teaching yoga for over 10 years\, and restorative yoga for over 6 years\, with hundreds of hours of restorative teaching practice.  \n\n\n\nWith BIYOME Marian provides workshops that emphasise the need for deep internal rest. Her practices incorporate a focus on long-hold\, quietly held spaces\, with the use of props to truly support holistic relaxation.
URL:https://yogaaustralia.org.au/event-course/cpd05-restorative-yoga-teacher-training-restorative-yoga-therapy-october-27-30-2023/
LOCATION:Brookfield Retreat\, 166 Pacey Road\, Upper Brookfield\, QLD\, 4069\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Approved Professional Development for Yoga Teachers,Registered Courses
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SUMMARY:HLL09 Yoga Therapy & Yoga Nidra for Superhuman Executive Brain\, Body & Memory Function (October 21-22\, 2023)
DESCRIPTION:The antiquity of the tradition of yoga demonstrates that with dedication to practice\, the path of purification and clarity\, we can develop superhuman powers and siddhis. Modern science references this as executive brain\, memory and bodily function. The five senses become incredibly heightened with incredible accuracy\, and the body becomes a divine conduit of healing prana\, mystical grace or kundalini shakti energy.  \n\n\n\nDo 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 upcoming retreat will be 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. \n\n\n\nStudies have shown yoga as a therapy can help improve executive function\, memory and other cognitive abilities. Yoga also helps to reduce stress and promote relaxation\, and helps with immune system functioning. It is a spiritual practice with profound effects on the awakened brain and overall heart function.  \n\n\n\nMeditation and yoga are fundamentally important in the modern age so that we all find time to relax the body. Our health is greatly influenced by our ability to find time to let it rest and heal. This is\, of course\, related to sleep\, our major restorative habit. So\, is there a way to combine the powers of sleep with the rich history and importance of yoga? The answer is found within the practice of yoga nidra. \n\n\n\nYoga Nidra\, also known as “yogic sleep”\, is a powerful meditation practice that can help to improve executive brain function and memory. Studies have shown that Yoga Nidra can help to increase high amplitude alpha brain waves\, which are associated with relaxation\, improved mental clarity and transcendence. Yoga Nidra is worth studying and applying to your everyday waking life. \n\n\n\nIf you are looking for a way to supercharge your brain and immune system\, a weekend retreat of education combined with restoration may be the perfect solution for you! This retreat is open to the public and allied health professionals\, yoga teachers and all who are interested in learning more. \n\n\n\nContact BIYOME today to learn more about this fascinating two day course and how we can help you develop Superhuman yogic function or sign up below! \n\n\n\nOver the two days you will learn from expert Senior Educators in four distinct sessions (outlined below): \n\n\n\n\nYoga Therapy for Enhanced Body & Immune Function\n\n\n\nYoga Nidra for When the Body Says NO! (Psychoneuroimmunology)\n\n\n\nYoga Therapy for Executive Brain Function and Memory\n\n\n\nYoga Nidra for Superhuman Brain Function & Transcendence\n\n\n\n\nRead more about each session breakdown onsite: https://biyome.com.au/retreat-pages/hll09/ \n\n\n\nAbout the teachers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCelia Roberts BSc  is the Founder Director of BIYOME Celia has a deep dedication and embodied understanding of the practices of yoga\, meditation\, Ayurveda combined with Western Medicine. Celia imparts this experiential understanding to others with deep joy and generosity of heart. Celia is fascinated by the deeper dimensions of yoga and wishes to bring this light in the modern practice of yoga.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFuyuko Toyota  is an outstanding educator\, a Senior Teacher\, Retreat Leader\, a certified Yoga Therapist (IAYT) and Meditation Teacher (Association of Meditation Australia). You will be guided by her approach for experiential learning and you will gain an embodied understanding of how Yoga Nidra fosters the integrated and healthy whole person.
URL:https://yogaaustralia.org.au/event-course/20hll-yoga-meditation-higher-level-learning-integrative-practice-for-continued-professional-development/
LOCATION:Brookfield Retreat\, 166 Pacey Road\, Upper Brookfield\, QLD\, 4069\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Approved Professional Development for Yoga Teachers,Online,Registered Courses,Yoga Therapy Courses
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SUMMARY:CPD09 Meditation & Yoga Therapy for Pain Management – Neuroscience of Pain (November 17-20\, 2023)
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\n\n“Mindfulness meditation trumps placebo in pain reduction.” \n\n\n\n\n“The research\, published in the Nov.11 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience\, showed that study participants who practiced mindfulness meditation reported greater pain relief than placebo. Significantly\, brain scans showed that mindfulness meditation produced very different patterns of activity than those produced by placebo to reduce pain.” \n\n\n\nOne in five people in Australia suffers from persistent pain. \n\n\n\nIn 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. \n\n\n\nWith fascinating examples found within the latest research\, science is showing there are complementary and/or alternative approaches to drugs in the recovery from chronic pain. We now have evidence-based alternative recovery options to the increasingly widespread problem: the overuse of opioids in Australia and the US for many chronic pain sufferers. \n\n\n\nUndertaking this course\, you will be able to offer some of these alternatives: helping others to understand pain\, re-engage with evidence-based biopsychosocial treatment protocols\, and retrain the brain to harness adaptive neuroplasticity. \n\n\n\nRecent studies are beginning to understand the complex nature of pain and how\, at a neurological level\, the experience of pain is influenced by much more than just tissue damage\, including anticipatory processes and emotional responses. From an evolutionary perspective\, pain is about protection\, however when pain becomes chronic\, these signals are no longer all about such protection and survival instincts. \n\n\n\n\n“This is a critical idea because the science clearly says that overprotective pain systems mean the painful body part is actually a lot safer than it feels like it is. Over time\, we slowly get more and more into an overprotected state in which things other than the tissues that hurt can become significant contributors to pain”\, says pain scientist\, Professor Moseley.   \n\n\n\nThe research is that pain doesn’t necessarily correlate with tissue damage. \n\n\n\n\nThrough the practice of mindfulness and non-judgmental awareness of our own bodies\, we can learn to change our expectations\, even our anticipation or fear of pain.  With mindful training of the mind and body\, we can learn to overcome stress\, fear\, PTSD\, depression and anxiety which have a strong correlation with pain and one’s perception of pain. Stress makes pain worse and pain usually makes the stress worse. However\, the research also shows that meditation not only shifts such cognitive and emotional processes\, but also directly targets the pain at a neurological level. \n\n\n\nMeditation assists by calming highly reactive nervous systems\, which\, when left untreated\, can lower the pain threshold and maintain pain\, even after an injury has healed. Retraining our mind and body through yoga and meditation can lower our stress levels\, reduce anxiety and high reactivity of the nervous system and improve general well-being. \n\n\n\nThrough learning to sit mindfully in breath and body\, we acknowledge thoughts and note what the mind perceives as ‘danger’. \n\n\n\n\n“Repetitive thoughts about danger contribute to pain. That’s the thing with pain – any credible evidence that you are in danger has the potential to make pain worse. So stress\, fear\, anxiety\, depression all correlate with pain.”  – Professor Moseley \n\n\n\n\nIn yoga therapy and meditation practice we start to see that pain is memorised and anticipated\, possibly even somewhat illusory. If we refer to the latest research\, pain is “entirely in consciousness”\, considering that “pain is always the result of the brain making its best guess about what would be most helpful for us as an organism”. \n\n\n\nAcknowledging this\, we can re-train the body and brain to once again experience ease or safety\, often called neuroception. Acknowledging that muscle tension is almost a reflex reaction to stress\, we can understand that it is the body’s way of guarding against injury and pain. \n\n\n\nExperientially\, and with good guidance\, we can use both meditation and yoga to re-explore appropriate muscle tonus for our bodies. We can reduce inflammation which is a disease process that gives rise to pain and helps patients or students to understand when their pain is protecting body tissue that actually needs to be trusted\, loaded and retrained. \n\n\n\nThrough mindfulness\, meditation and yoga-based therapy\, we have the extraordinary ability to cortically remap the body in the brain\, within the somatosensory cortex or the homunculus. We also have the ability to rebuild function in the body. With attention and practice\, we begin to experientially understand change within and the emerging science of “bioplasticity”\, connecting mind to body and body to mind. We integrate the mind and body with an experiential understanding of bottom-up neurophysiological processes and top-down neurocognitive mechanisms. We come to understand experientially and cognitively that “Bioplasticity got us into this and bioplasticity will get us out of this”. \n\n\n\nWe can also use mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) to retrain the brain and movement or yoga to assist our recovery\, acknowledging the latest in pain research. The empirical data clearly shows us that if people learn how persistent pain works\, its overprotective nature and the multiple contributors to pain and the ways in which they could retrain their system\, then “excellent outcomes are possible”. \n\n\n\nPain and its neuro-physiology is fascinating. \n\n\n\nLet us learn… \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the teachers\n\n\n\nFace to face teachers:  \n\n\n\nCELIA ROBERTS BSc \n\n\n\nHead Senior Yoga & Meditation Teacher \n\n\n\nYoga Therapist & Ayurvedic Practitioner \n\n\n\nDirector of BIYOME \n\n\n\nCHANTHALAH WEBSTER-TIGHT \n\n\n\nSenior Physiotherapist \n\n\n\nSenior Yoga Teacher \n\n\n\nDR MELISSA DAY \n\n\n\nAssociate Professor\, UQ \n\n\n\nOLIVER CROSSLEY \n\n\n\nB. Physiotherapy / APAM \n\n\n\nOnline teachings and recordings by Biyome Founder and Senior Teacher\,  \n\n\n\nCELIA ROBERTS BSc \n\n\n\nHead Senior Yoga & Meditation Teacher \n\n\n\nYoga Therapist & Ayurvedic Practitioner \n\n\n\nDirector of BIYOME
URL:https://yogaaustralia.org.au/event-course/cpd09-meditation-yoga-therapy-for-pain-management-neuroscience-of-pain-november-17-20-2023/
LOCATION:Brookfield Retreat\, 166 Pacey Road\, Upper Brookfield\, QLD\, 4069\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Approved Professional Development for Yoga Teachers,Online,Registered Courses
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SUMMARY:CPD03 Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher Training: Compassion based Yoga Therapy (May 17-20\, 2024)
DESCRIPTION: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 too 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. \n\n\n\nAny experience of fear and/or pain that doesn’t have the support it needs to be digested and integrated into the flow of our developing brains. \n\n\n\nThis definition encourages us to look into the neural and interpersonal aspects of experience for an understanding of how we become traumatized rather than toward the nature of the experience itself or a list of symptoms. We might consider the embedding of trauma to be a rupture in the inherent process integration of our ongoing experience\, with healing arising through the initiation of and experience of repair so that the journey toward integration can follow its natural course. Badenoch\, 2017\, pp.40-41 \n\n\n\nIn terms of yoga’s personal contribution to the mental wellness of people who suffer from trauma and other psychological conditions\, yoga therapy is now known to be one of the best therapies available. \n\n\n\n\nThe Boston Trauma Center director\, Bessel van der Kolk states:‘We had better results with yoga in people with chronic PTSD than any medication that I or anybody else had ever studied\,’ he says. ‘That\, of course\, is pretty interesting and exciting\, and not so good news for psychiatry\, because psychiatrists are unlikely to transform themselves into yoga instructors. But is yoga helpful? Absolutely.’ \n\n\n\n\nTrauma is a prevalent sociological health ailment. Adverse child experiences\, inept assistance\, or compassionate connection in the face of suffering and levels of disconnect that impact the inability to feel safe\, significant\, or to make sense and meaning in life have affected our society in ways that are quite often too vast to fully fathom. Clients seek well-being through various primary or secondary treatment methodologies that include (albeit not limited to) therapy\, yoga\, or meditation. \n\n\n\nIt is our role as both yoga and meditation teachers to always ensure the safety of our clients while promoting increasing levels of wellbeing. This stems from understanding ailments and suffering from a multiplicity of perspectives in many ways. This includes the neurobiology of trauma\, interpersonal relationships\, the role of the practitioner\, and various practices of meditation. \n\n\n\nMoreover\, in learning to become more trauma-informed in your teaching\, you will be focusing not only on the emotional and physical state of your student but helping them on a path towards regaining their sense of control and ownership over their own body and their own experience. \n\n\n\nIt is now a known scientific fact that trauma is stored in our bodies. According to the ancient yoga sutras\, our face\, body\, and posture hold the history of our lifetime and the generations that precede us. Metaphysically and scientifically proven\, our past is stored in our cells\, genes\, and DNA. Trauma affects our cells and changes our body\, our gut\, our brain wave patterning\, our nervous system\, and our brains. \n\n\n\nIn this course\, we will use traditional yoga therapy techniques to explore how grief\, shock and trauma can affect the nervous system\, mind\, muscles\, organs\, and fascia. Furthermore\, we will bring presence to body and breath\, bringing the freedom of movement and mind into the present. Breathing together\, moving together\, and making eye contact with trusted others help us dissolve the past in our bodies\, even our genes. \n\n\n\nThis intensive is intended to support yoga and meditation teachers or therapists to make their classes more trauma-informed. Please note that this course is not a qualification or certification to provide trauma therapy or trauma treatment. Moreover\, its practices and theories discussed and taught are not intended as interventions for those who have experienced trauma. \n\n\n\nWhat You Will Learn\n\n\n\n\nUnderstanding the philosophy behind practice including the historical roots of the meaning of suffering within the yoga tradition in combination with the ethics of teaching trauma informed practice.\n\n\n\nUnderstanding the physiology behind practice including concepts such as heart rate variability\, plus the latest neurophysiological research based theoretical models of trauma for personalised yoga.\n\n\n\nUnderstanding the psychology behind practice including how to build safe and trusted relationships before taking someone to the state of yoga in combination with how to apply research within the classroom.\n\n\n\nUnderstanding from a complete immersive experience the foundations\, applications\, and teaching methodologies of trauma informed practice with awareness and mindfulness.\n\n\n\n\nBIYOME’s Specialty Intensive Teacher Training can be undertaken as Continuing Professional Development (CPD) with Yoga Australia and/or the Meditation Association of Australia\, as well as obtaining Continuing Education (CE) recognition with Yoga Alliance. The course contact hours\, and non-contact hours (CPDs and CEs)\, allocated across Meditation Australia and the two registering yoga bodies do\, however\, differ. Please contact us for more information.  \n\n\n\nShould you wish to complete a full meditation certification (110 hours – 1000 hours) or yoga certification (150 hours – 650 hours)\, please view this Specialty Intensive Training as an elective within our full course offerings.  Details are available here. \n\n\n\nAbout the teachers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCELIA ROBERTS BSc \n\n\n\nHead Senior Yoga & Meditation Teacher \n\n\n\nYoga Therapist & Ayurvedic Practitioner \n\n\n\nDirector of BIYOME \n\n\n\nEDWINA KEMPE \n\n\n\nLicenced TCTSY Specialist \n\n\n\nSocial Worker \n\n\n\nSAMANTHA LINDSAY-GERMAN \n\n\n\nKundalini Yoga \n\n\n\nLEANNE DAVIS  \n\n\n\nYoga Australia Past President  \n\n\n\nViniyoga Yoga Therapist & Senior Yoga Teacher
URL:https://yogaaustralia.org.au/event-course/cpd03-trauma-informed-yoga-teacher-training-compassion-based-yoga-therapy-may-17-20-2024/
LOCATION:Brookfield Retreat\, 166 Pacey Road\, Upper Brookfield\, QLD\, 4069\, Australia
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SUMMARY:CPD06 Mindfulness for a Meaningful Life
DESCRIPTION:(Year-round monthly Fridays 9:30-12:30; 11 consecutive classes for a 50hr course) \n\n\n\nFounded 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. \n\n\n\nSpread over the course of the year\, and available for entry at anytime\, mindfulness for a meaningful life will cultivate an accessible energy of healing\, compassion\, altruism; ultimately you will come away not only with continued professional development to assist your clients\, so too you will attain your own sense of freedom built upon sustained resilience. \n\n\n\n2023 schedule\n\n\n\n3 February 2023 – Insights in the Night: How to Meditate in Your Sleep with Celia Roberts3 March 2023 – 5 Steps to Achieving Enlightenment (Evidence Based) with Celia Roberts31 March 2023 – How Your Thoughts Shape Your Digestion (Evidence Based) with Celia Roberts28 April 2023 – Meditations for Inducing Tears & Reducing Stress (rui-katsu ‘tear-seeking practices’) The Spiritual Effects of Crying with Celia Roberts26 May 2023 – Meditations for Mastering Your Dopamine Release ~ Focus\, Motivation\, Conscious Manifestation & Fulfilment14 July 2023 – Meditation & the Neuroscience of Pain Relief with Melissa Day11 August 2023 – Meditations for Inducing States of Bliss and Transcendence (research based) with Celia Roberts8 September 2023 – When the Body Says NO: Meditations for Understanding PsychoNeuroImmunology (PNI) with Celia Roberts & Alisa Craig6 October 2023 – Trauma is Stored in The Body – Move your body out of the Past with Celia Roberts\, Alisa Craig and Samantha Lindsay-German3 November 2023 – Vedic Meditation & Ayurveda for Your Mind with Celia Roberts & Anita Cassidy Bowman1 December 2023 – The Science and Practice of Mantra Meditation & Marma Point Sound Healing with Celia Roberts\, Anita Cassidy Bowman & Tumul Dubey \n\n\n\n2024 schedule (Topics TBA)\n\n\n\nFebruary 2\, 2024March 1\, 2024April 5\, 2024May 3\, 2024May 31\, 2024June 28\, 2024July 26\, 2024August 23\, 2024October 4\, 2024November 1\, 2024December 6\, 2024 \n\n\n\nAbout the Teacher\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCelia Roberts BSc is the Founder Director of BIYOME Celia has a deep dedication and embodied understanding of the practices of yoga\, meditation\, Ayurveda combined with Western Medicine. Celia imparts this experiential understanding to others with deep joy and generosity of heart. Celia is fascinated by the deeper dimensions of yoga and wishes to bring this light in the modern  practice of yoga.  \n\n\n\nInsights in the Night: How to Meditate in Your Sleep\n\n\n\nThis retreat will teach you how to bring your sleeping hours into a valuable resource for deep meditation.Many of us receive valuable insights in the night that must not be ignored. The Tibetan yogis promote that we are truly awake in the night and asleep during the day. In fact\, there are many practices that span across the Eastern traditions that see these 8 hours of the night as a valuable opportunity to awaken\, receive insight and peer into another reality. \n\n\n\nHow do we turn towards this truth and really practice meditation throughout our slumber? \n\n\n\nLet us merge the science and spirituality and explore: \n\n\n\n\nSurrender into Śavāsana\n\n\n\nMaster Śavāsana\, the corpse pose\n\n\n\nThe Mysteries of Deep Dreamless Sleep\n\n\n\nThe Yoga Sutras on Dreaming and Deep Sleep\n\n\n\nYoga Nidrā: Psychic sleep\n\n\n\nDream Yoga: More Than Lucid Dreaming\n\n\n\n\nWe welcome you to attend face to face\, livestream or online post event. \n\n\n\n5 Steps to Achieving Enlightenment (Evidence Based)\n\n\n\nIt is my pleasure to invite you to come along and learn how to experience for yourself transcendence and enlightenment states based on the work of Dr. Andrew Newberg\, cognitive neuroscientist and neurotheologist. In his book\, “How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain\,” Dr. Newberg discusses the five steps that are necessary for achieving enlightenment. \n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, you will actively learn and meditate upon the five steps to achieving enlightenment. These steps are based on evidence from brain imaging studies that look at the brains of people who have experienced transcendence and enlightenment. \n\n\n\nHow Your Thoughts Shape Your Digestion (Evidence Based) \n\n\n\nYour thoughts shape your digestion. The way you think about food\, the way you think about your body\, and the way you think about your health all have a profound impact on how well your digestive system functions. This is why it’s so important to learn how to meditate and to understand the role that your thoughts play in your digestion. \n\n\n\nAt our meditation retreat\, we will teach you how to use meditation to better understand your digestion. We will also provide evidence-based information on how your thoughts can shape your digestion and nurture your body-mind. With this information\, you will be able to better support your digestive health through meditation\, thought power\, pleasure and other healthy habits. \n\n\n\nMeditations for Inducing Tears & Reducing Stress (rui-katsu ‘tear-seeking practices’) The Scientific Effects of Crying \n\n\n\nThe retreat will be led by two expert Senior Teachers and based on the work of Master Rui-Katsu\, a world-renowned expert in the field of rui-katsu. They will guide you through a series of meditations and exercises to help you release your tears and reduce stress. You will leave the retreat feeling refreshed\, relaxed and with a better understanding of the spiritual effects of crying. \n\n\n\nCrying has a physiological effect on the body\, such as releasing neurochemical substances that can improve mood. Crying also helps to remove toxins from the body and increases heart rate and blood pressure\, which are beneficial for the body. In addition\, crying is associated with enhanced social support and increased feelings of connectedness. According to scientific research\, crying has a number of health benefits\, including the following: \n\n\n\n\nCrying helps to relieve stress and anxiety.\n\n\n\nCrying releases “feel-good” hormones that can improve moods.\n\n\n\nCrying allows us to express our feelings and emotions.\n\n\n\nCrying can help us to connect with others.\n\n\n\nCrying can boost our immune system.\n\n\n\n\nPlease come along to our retreat to learn all about the spiritual and health benefits of tear shedding and experience this amazing practice for yourself. \n\n\n\nMeditations for Mastering Your Dopamine Release ~ Focus\, Motivation\, Conscious Manifestation & Fulfilment\n\n\n\nThe meditation retreat could be heralded as a “Dopamine Masterclass”. You will work towards better understanding the neural circuitry of dopamine in the brain and body and ignite your inner pharmacy with powerful practice. Learn how to master your dopamine release with Meditation and Lifestyle Medicine tools to improve motivation and focus. We will explore the role of dopamine control in addiction and depression and the outcomes of dopamine depletion. Learn practices and tools to affect sustained increases in baseline dopamine and protect dopamine neurons. \n\n\n\nFollowing this\, we shall explore evidence-based mindsets behind good health and well-being\, including the attitudes and mindsets of high achievers. \n\n\n\nFinally\, the retreat will bring back the element of spiritual practice merged with the science of attention\, contentment and fulfilment. You will explore how to find purpose with a simple method. Conscious Manifestation as a spiritual practice will close the retreat. \n\n\n\nWhat we shall explore:\n\n\n\n\nNeural circuitry of dopamine\n\n\n\nDopamine depletion\n\n\n\nUnderstanding dopamine’s role in addiction and depression\, underwhelm and poor performance\n\n\n\nMastering dopamine for motivation\, focus\, reward\, satisfaction and contentment\n\n\n\nMindsets behind good health and well-being (Evidenced based)\n\n\n\nMindsets of high achievers (Evidenced based)\n\n\n\nScience of fulfilment and contentment\n\n\n\nHow to find your purpose in 5 minutes\n\n\n\nConscious Manifestation as a Spiritual practice\n\n\n\n\nMeditation & the Neuroscience of Pain Relief with Associate Professor Melissa Day\n\n\n\n“In this 3-hour workshop I will present the latest research and theory on the neuroscience of pain and mindfulness meditation to demonstrate how meditative practice harnesses processes of neuroplasticity to work for you\, rather than against you\, to retrain the brain to more adaptively respond to living with persistent pain. I will then provide theoretical and experiential training in several of the mindfulness meditation techniques that have been empirically demonstrated to harness this neuroplasticity to reduce pain and improve function. I welcome questions and discussion along the way\, and by the end of the three hours I hope you will leave with a new understanding of the brain in pain\, as well as additional “tools for the toolkit” for more effectively managing it.” ~ Associate Professor Melissa Day \n\n\n\nMeditations for Inducing States of Bliss and Transcendence (Research based)\n\n\n\nI am inviting you to a special meditation retreat that will be focused on inducing states of bliss and transcendence. The retreat will be based primarily on the research by Andrew Newberg\, who is a world-renowned expert on the neuroscience of religious and spiritual experiences. Other research work in this area will also be explored.  \n\n\n\nThe neuroscientific and transcendent qualities of meditation are well-documented and offer you a chance to improve overall well being and state of mind. If you are looking to improve your mental state\, or if you are interested in learning more about the benefits of meditation for your spiritual heart and enlightened brain\, consider attending our upcoming meditation retreat. ~Celia Roberts \n\n\n\nWhen the Body Says NO: Meditations for Understanding PsychoNeuroImmunology (PNI)\n\n\n\nIs your body saying NO? \n\n\n\nBased on the emerging research in the field of PsychoNeuroImmunology\, this is an opportunity for you to personally experience how to use meditation as medicine. Using research from many thought leaders in the field\, Celia uniquely brings the research into a meditative\, bodily-based experience. Meditations for Understanding PsychoNeuroImmunology (PNI) will explore our body language\, facial micro-expressions\, posture and ultimately\, how stress & depression is stored in our body. Alisa Craig\, an accredited Breathwork Therapist\, will join Celia to guide you through this journey. Alisa helps people use the restorative power of their own breath to improve emotional health and release subconscious programmes in the mind and body from negative past experiences. \n\n\n\nGabor Mate’s work has inspired both Celia and Alisa. Gabor is a thought leader in psychiatry and PNI\, and his teachings continue to inspire the medical world to understand how our thoughts and emotions can affect our physical health. Yoga and meditation have explored this truth in mind-body medicine for over 5000 years. Can we merge ancient mysticism and medicine? Can we integrate science and spirituality for better health outcomes for ourselves and those around us? \n\n\n\nThe retreat is an experiential moving meditation exploration with Celia\, combined with an extended group breathwork session with Alisa Craig\, who will both combine their wisdom to teach you how to bring somatic experiencing\, breathwork and compassionate self-enquiry into your everyday life to achieve liberation from everyday health conditions and limiting beliefs that the body may be holding onto. Celia and Alisa warmly invite you to attend to improve your emotional intelligence and health while creating loving\, secure relationships with yourself and those you love. \n\n\n\nTrauma is Stored in The Body – Move your body out of the Past\n\n\n\nThis will be a fascinating self-exploratory retreat\, noting where our past is stored in our body. \n\n\n\nIt will include acknowledging where we store emotions in our body and you will develop heightened psychosomatic awareness and free your body of the trauma\, the memories of the past. \n\n\n\nWe will be looking at six ways to bring unification and harmony through moving meditation. Using a healing life force (Prana\, Qi\, Chi\, Ki) as a solution to liberate yourself from the body and past. \n\n\n\n‘Who we are’ is a complex combination of evolution\, ancestry\, experience\, chemistry\, chance and the choices we make. \n\n\n\nIt is now a known scientific fact that trauma is stored in our body. According to the Ancient yoga sutras; our face\, body and our posture store the history of our lifetime. Metaphysically and now proven scientifically\, our past is stored in our cells\, our genes and our DNA. Trauma not only affects our cells\, but it changes our body\, our gut\, our brain wave patterning\, our nervous system and our brains. \n\n\n\nIn this course\, we will use meditation techniques to explore the way grief and trauma can affect the nervous system\, the mind\, our muscles\, organs and fascia. Furthermore\, we will bring presence to body and breath\, bringing the freedom of movement and mind into the present. Breathing together\, moving together\, touch and eye contact with trusted others help us to dissolve the past that lies in our body\, even our genes. \n\n\n\nThis 3-hour workshop will introduce the theory and research behind this evidence informed meditations for grief\, shock and trauma. \n\n\n\nJoin us to find freedom within your heart\, acknowledging with deep respect and humility the unbreakable human spirit within. \n\n\n\nVedic Meditation & Ayurveda for Your Mind\n\n\n\nA Friday Morning 3hr Special event retreat will be exploring Vedic Meditation as it pertains to the Vedas\, as an ancient practice that we often use in yoga asana and meditation classes today. \n\n\n\nWe will be looking at the Bija mantras\, sound vibration and more Vedic practices to inspire your mind and body into meditative states. \n\n\n\nMost importantly\, have a look at the science and how Vedic Meditation could really work for you! \n\n\n\nVedic meditation unlocks many health and wellness benefits using sound\, rhythm and music. Mantra is used to bring the mind to deep focus and the sound to vibrate and touch all sacred areas of the body. \n\n\n\nThe benefits of this kind of mind and sound healing include: \n\n\n\n\nDecreased pain\n\n\n\nImproved heart health\n\n\n\nLessened symptoms of depression\n\n\n\nLower blood pressure\n\n\n\nReduced PTSD & Trauma\n\n\n\nDeeper and more restorative sleep\n\n\n\nReduced anxiety and stress\n\n\n\nStronger vagal tone and heart rate variability — key measures of your resilience to stress.\n\n\n\n\nThe event will be conducted by Celia Roberts\, who is an experienced Vedic meditation teacher and Ayurvedic practitioner. She has been teaching meditation for over 15 years and has a wealth of knowledge about how to use this practice to improve your health and well-being. \n\n\n\nThe upcoming Vedic meditation retreat will help you practice the scientific and transcendent practices behind Vedic Meditation. \n\n\n\nThe event will be a great opportunity to learn more about how Vedic meditation can help you manage stress and anxiety\, and how Ayurveda can help you maintain balance in your life. You will also have the opportunity to ask questions and get advice from Celia about how to incorporate these practices into your own life. Do join us for a wonderful morning of meditation practice that falls under the banner of Ayurveda for the Mind or Ayurvedic Psychology. \n\n\n\nThe Science and Practice of Mantra Meditation & Marma Point Sound Healing\n\n\n\nMantra meditation is a form of concentration in which the object of contemplation is a word or phrase\, called a mantra. The research about the use of Mantra for the mind is wonderful and ever-growing. The vibrational pattern of our mind is based on sounds and words. Each word is associated with certain emotions\, experiences\, feelings and thoughts. Feelings and thoughts give additional meaning to words\, rooting them in a deeper memory. Moreover\, the inner voice also controls the mind. Therefore\, the calm inner sound\, which can be achieved through mantra\, can still the mind. Unlike the inner thoughts or words\, the repetition of mantras does not evoke emotional responses; instead\, it causes a unidirectional reduced activation of cortical networks leading to a basic state of rest (Berkovich-Ohana et al.\, 2015). \n\n\n\nMantra also allows us to connect the mind\, external and internal speech\, and ultimately achieve connection with the environmental and universal sound vibrations. \n\n\n\nSound is the vehicle of Transcendence that we will explore for this meditation retreat. Here\, we shall use Mantra to facilitate the flow of prana through the marma points\, an important tool of marma therapy. Mantras protect marma points\, called “kavacha” in Sanskrit and so we use Mantra or sound to heal and protect certain vulnerable areas in the body. \n\n\n\nThis retreat will introduce you to Mantra Purusha\, a daily practice that can be used to implement Mantra and the ancient Sanskrit alphabet into the body’s sound vibration and to heal each marma point.This Ayurvedic practice can be used to achieve many different goals\, such as greater self-awareness\, inner peace\, spiritual growth\, and enlightenment. Do join us for this very special end of year retreat. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCourse Video Preview \n\n\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=849751372522668
URL:https://yogaaustralia.org.au/event-course/cpd06-mindfulness-for-a-meaningful-life-year-round-monthly-fridays-930-1230-11-consecutive-classes-for-a-50hr-course/
LOCATION:Brookfield Retreat\, 166 Pacey Road\, Upper Brookfield\, QLD\, 4069\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Approved Professional Development for Yoga Teachers,Online,Registered Courses
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SUMMARY:CPD22 The Science and Art of Awakening Human Consciousness – Meditation Training
DESCRIPTION:Together\, we will explore the science of consciousness by turning our attention inwardly. The teachings will be understood experimentally\, 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 an heart to all that IS. \n\n\n\n\n“Things that are real are given and received in silence.” \nAvatar Meher Baba\n\n\n\nThis course is predominantly delivered as a silent meditation course with guidance and teachings offered throughout. Silence is the most challenging practice\, yet the most potent. Silence requires great depth and stillness of mind to transcend thought\, the thinking mind\, to reveal the infinite silence and pure grace within you. Silence is considered the loudest form of prayer and the highest form of grace. Silence IS the teaching and the deepest transference of truth. \n\n\n\nIn this course\, you will explore how you are not the mind\, the body\, nor the self and ultimately beyond all three. It is liberating\, freeing and enlightening. \n\n\n\nTogether\, 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. \n\n\n\nFall gently into grace. \n\n\n\nSession 1: Consciousness\n\n\n\nThis session will initially explore consciousness through the five level panchamaya yoga model. We will also experientially and briefly touch upon the science of consciousness in meditation with reference to the work of cognitive neuroscientists Dr Anil Seth and Dr Donald Hoffman. Most importantly\, we will explore the field of consciousness that is beyond body\, mind\, birth\, life & death. This field of consciousness is what the great yogis have explored throughout the ages\, taking us to a deeper understanding of what science has not yet proven: the recognition that consciousness and energy are the same and not separate. \n\n\n\n“The whole universe\, inside and out\, are manifestations of the same Universal Force: ChitShakti.” \n\n\n\n~ Michael Singer \n\n\n\nOn a more personal level\, we will explore both resistance and acceptance within\, noticing how the mind dictates heavily what we do and don’t want. The deep spiritual teaching lies in the recognition that the World isn’t always going to give us what we want. Our minds are constructing a reality of what we think we want. Therefore it is wise that we remain open\, without expectation\, to the moment unfolding right in front of us. What is unfolding in front of us is the reality of where our consciousness meets the moment that just is. \n\n\n\n\n“You attract and manifest whatever corresponds to your inner state.” \nEckhart Tolle\n\n\n\nLet us explore the radiance behind all that is… \n\n\n\nSession 2: Surrender\n\n\n\n\n“Accept the purification power of life’s flow.” \nMichael Singer\n\n\n\nSurrender or letting go is vital in all spiritual disciplines\, religions and philosophies. When we learn to surrender to the moment in front of us\, we accept all just as it is in its complete perfection. Whatever previous thoughts or beliefs we have about an experience or situation\, we learn to completely let go. Ultimately\, we let go of old mental and bodily patterns and self-identification with form. True surrender in everyday life is initially challenging but finally possible within you in this lifetime\, and neurotheology research shows this practice leads to permanent change. When you must genuinely surrender due to a new level of insight\, it is critical to the enlightenment experience. This retreat will offer vital instructions for new-level insights and draw from practices outlined by yogic and Buddhist traditions to invite you into the states of Samādhi. We shall also explore the science of the brain and body in surrender\, peering through Maya\, the illusive reality\, whilst leaning into the experience of Samadhi. \n\n\n\nSession 3: Oneness\n\n\n\nOneness – Oneness is experienced through many spiritual and religious practices and is part of the awakened brain experience. The experience of oneness occurs when we become one with the rhythm of life. Here\, the parietal lobes tend to show a reduction in blood flow as we experience oneness or unity. The parietal lobes are responsible for our sense of self in relation to the world. The parietal lobes have a significant reduction in blood flow as we experience oneness and loss of separate self. The parietal lobes are affected during prayer or spiritual practice\, which gives rise to a loss of self\, time and space\, opening the mind into states of samadhi. We become one with all. To have a deeper spiritual understanding is to realise that we are all one. Not only is this philosophically beneficial\, but the evidence here shows how it can be mentally and physically beneficial. Spirituality is not just an idea but a deeper alignment with our truest nature. \n\n\n\nWe will explore one-ness in its truest form with meditation practice and explorer the following self-enquiry questions to awaken human consciousness: \n\n\n\n\nWho is thinking\, seeing\, observing?\n\n\n\nDo we create our reality?\n\n\n\nDo our pain and our past create our present moment?\n\n\n\nIf we do not create our ultimate reality\, who does?\n\n\n\n\nLet us explore a level of enlightened consciousness….oneness with all. \n\n\n\nSession 4: Emptiness\n\n\n\nThe concept of emptiness\, or shunyata\, in yoga and Buddhism is often associated with the realisation that energy is not bound to form\, and that there is a spaciousness or still point underneath all the chaos of the world. This emptiness is not a void\, but a zero point that connects everything and is the essence of all energy. Through deep personal exploration\, we can come to accept impermanence and the gift it brings\, leading to deep internal freedom and a truer understanding of love. We can let go of our attachment to the forms and manifestations of the people we love\, realising that they are still present in different forms\, and that nothing is truly lost or destroyed. The teachings of emptiness remind us of the interconnectedness of all things and offer a path to peace and acceptance in the face of loss and change. \n\n\n\nIn this session we shall explore the science of emptiness both inside and outside the body\, exploring the following line of enquiry: \n\n\n\n\nThe Spiritual Teachings of Emptiness or Shunyata\n\n\n\nThe science of black holes\n\n\n\nHow deep personal exploration and insight can lead to deep internal freedom\n\n\n\nThe acceptance of impermanence within our bodies\, even our breath\n\n\n\nHow impermanence is indeed a miracle\, not something to be feared or resisted\n\n\n\nBecause of the gift of impermanence\, anything is possible\n\n\n\n\nSession 5: Compassion\n\n\n\nCompassion is a state of being that goes beyond sympathy and understanding. It is about being the witness consciousness and recognising that behind every human suffering\, there is a being of light. By being aware of our suffering and questioning its necessity\, we can gain insights into the impermanence of all things and the removal of egoic self-identification. Suffering serves its purpose until we realise it is unnecessary. Compassion on the spiritual plane allows us to recognise that attachment to thoughts and emotions about the past and future is the root of suffering. Compassion is a state of complete non-judgmental awareness with no agenda\, and it can be transmitted through silence\, which is the most profound form of raising consciousness. \n\n\n\nCompassion is generously offered in the highest state of truth\, which is silence\, free of mind-based communication. It is a potent therapeutic relationship that raises consciousness. Compassion is a teaching that is silently conveyed through the example we set\, rather than through words. By being compassionate to someone who is suffering\, we are not getting down there with them but helping them through our example. Compassion is the most powerful tool for raising consciousness and connecting with others in a meditative right hemisphere to the right hemisphere way\, as supported by research and neuroscience. \n\n\n\nSession 6: Liberation\n\n\n\nLiberation is a concept that has been explored by many different cultures and religions throughout history. In general\, liberation refers to the release or freedom from something that is limiting or confining. It can be a physical\, mental\, or spiritual release\, and it is often associated with the idea of enlightenment or transcendence. In the spiritual context\, liberation usually means the release from the cycle of birth\, death\, and rebirth\, which is known as samsara. This release is often achieved through spiritual practices such as meditation\, yoga\, or prayer. \n\n\n\nResearch conducted by Lisa Miller has identified five observable traits of the awakened brain that are common across different religious and spiritual traditions. These traits include altruism\, love of neighbour as self\, a sense of oneness\, the practice of sacred transcendence\, and adherence to a moral code. By consciously practising these traits\, individuals can strengthen and build the “muscle of transcendent awareness\,” leading to a more profound spiritual experience. Miller’s research suggests that spirituality and religiosity are innate and heritabletraits that can be nurtured through environmental factors across a person’s lifetime. Ultimately\, the concept of liberation involves transcending the limitations of the ego and connecting with the deeper spiritual essence that lies within each person. \n\n\n\nLet us liberate consciousness together in meditation. \n\n\n\nSource The Awakened Brain – Become One with the Rhythm of Life – The BioMedical Institute of Yoga & Meditation \n\n\n\nSession 7: No-Self & Permanent Change\n\n\n\nDr. Andrew Newberg’s research on the spiritually awakened brain emphasises the concepts of no-self and permanent change. Permanent change refers to a transformation that can take place in an individual’s brain\, body\, and life\, leading to a profound shift in relationships\, sense of self\, and worldview. This transformation often brings about a new understanding of the self and the world\, which is usually for the betterment of humankind. \n\n\n\nThe changes in the brain resulting from spiritual awakening are characterised by long-lasting changes in the dopaminergic-serotonin system\, associated with happiness and well-being. Additionally\, increased baseline oxytocin levels are a marker of this change\, a hormone related to social bonding and empathy\, and the ultimate sense of interconnectedness. Dr. Newberg’s research highlights the concept of no-self\, where the self is a constantly changing process rather than a permanent\, fixed entity. The awakening of the spiritually awakened brain leads to a shift in this understanding of the self and a greater awareness of the interconnectedness of all things. \n\n\n\nIn conclusion\, the concept of no-self and permanent change in the spiritually awakened brain can lead to a more profound sense of purpose and connection to the world around us that is no longer limited by the egoic sense of form-identity. By exploring the world with freedom from self-identification and separateness\, we can experience our oneness in ultimate creation\, both scientifically and spiritually. \n\n\n\nCourse Schedule \n\n\n\nThis course is designed to develop a sacred sense of mysticism and unity with all\, hence the need for cultivation of silence within and without. Periods of discussion\, questioning and learning are invited throughout the day to develop depth and comprehension of the practice. Guidance in meditations is offered to assist the inward journey of connecting with the sacred\, transcending boundaries\, and realising our profound interconnectedness with the universe. \n\n\n\nDaily 9.30am-2.30pm schedule \n\n\n\nSession 1Welcome and Introduction30 minutes Seated Meditation (Guided) 9.30am-10.00am10 minutes Walking Meditation (Guided) 10.00am-10.10am30 minutes Seated Meditation (Silent) 10.10am-10.40am20 minutes Theory & Discussion (Spoken) 10.40am-11.00am \n\n\n\nSession 230 minutes Seated Meditation (Silent) 11.00am-11.30am10 minutes Walking Meditation (Silent) 11.30am-11.40am30 minutes Seated Meditation (Partial Guidance) 11.40am-12.10pm \n\n\n\n10 minutes Lying Meditation (Guided) 12.10pm-12.20pm20 minutes Evaluation of Methods\, Theory & Discussion (Spoken) 12.20pm-12.40pm \n\n\n\nSilent lunch (Eating Meditation) 12.40pm-1.20pm \n\n\n\nSession 330 minutes Seated Meditation (Partial Guidance) 1.20pm-1.50pm10 minutes Walking Meditation or Lying Meditation (Silent) 1.50pm-2.00pm20 minutes Seated Meditation (Silent) 2.00pm -2.20pm10 minutes Theory & Discussion (Spoken) 2.20pm-2.30pm \n\n\n\nBIYOME’s Specialty Intensive Teacher Training can be undertaken as Continuing Professional Development (CPD) with Yoga Australia and/or the Meditation Association of Australia\, as well as obtaining Continuing Education (CE) recognition with Yoga Alliance. The course contact hours\, and non-contact hours (CPDs and CEs)\, allocated across Meditation Australia and the two registering yoga bodies do\, however\, differ. Please contact us for more information.  \n\n\n\nShould you wish to complete a full meditation certification (110 hours – 1000 hours) or yoga certification (150 hours – 650 hours)\, please view this Specialty Intensive Training as an elective within our full course offerings.  Details are available here. \n\n\n\nAbout the teacher\n\n\n\nCelia Roberts BSc is the Founder Director of BIYOME Celia has a deep dedication and embodied understanding of the practices of yoga\, meditation\, Ayurveda combined with Western Medicine. Celia imparts this experiential understanding to others with deep joy and generosity of heart. Celia is fascinated by the deeper dimensions of yoga and wishes to bring this light in the modern  practice of yoga.  \n\n\n\nCourse Video Preview \n\n\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/100063500893569/videos/1143858566029355/?__so__=permalink
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LOCATION:Brookfield Retreat\, 166 Pacey Road\, Upper Brookfield\, QLD\, 4069\, Australia
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SUMMARY:CPD17 Yoga Therapy Foundations with Leanne Davis (November 29 – December 2\, 2024)
DESCRIPTION:Yoga Therapy Foundational Training is for everyone wanting to take their yoga teaching further or for those who wish to become yoga therapists. Learn from Leanne Davis how to structure the delivery of seeing a client\, taking an entire client history and assessment. You will study yoga therapy course planning and sequencing throughout this foundational course under the traditional viniyoga therapy model. \n\n\n\nThis four-day course is compulsory for all students studying Biyome’s Yoga Therapy Training and is delivered either via Livestream or Face to Face.Yoga Therapy Foundational Training is for everyone wanting to take their yoga teaching further or for those who wish to become yoga therapists. \n\n\n\nLeanne Davis (Bachelor of Health Science in Acupuncture) has spent 40 years continuously working and studying in eastern health sciences\, including internships and training in Chinese hospitals and yoga therapy centres in India. Leanne is a Member of the expert advisory panel for the Australian Government’s Natural Therapies Review\, a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) certification committee\, a member of the council for teachers for Yoga New Zealand\, a council of advisor with Yoga Australia and has 33 years of yoga teaching and private practice experience. \n\n\n\nOver the duration of this whole four-day intensive\, you will broaden your mind and understand the true origins of Yoga whilst also bringing this into a modern-day one-to-one or clinical setting. The course design offers you fundamental structure and complete confidence in your ability to develop programming as a yoga therapist\, with a strong focus on course planning and sequencing for the individual. The course follows a structured and traditional healing paradigm\, teaching you how to deliver a Yoga therapy program with an ongoing review. \n\n\n\nYou will learn how to perform observation (Darshana)\, perform palpation (sparshana)\, questioning (Prashna)\, touch (Sparshana)\, including basic pulse assessment\, (Nadi Vignan). \n\n\n\nOver the duration of your training\, you will come to understand the appropriate application of Heyam\, Hetu\, Hanam and Upayam on various levels and dimensions: exploring the root cause of the problem (Heyam-Hetu) before deciding collaboratively what the goal of the practice is (Hanum) and what the actual Yoga therapy practice (Upayam). \n\n\n\nYoga Therapy is defined by the governing body\, Yoga Australia\, as ‘the process of empowering individuals to progress toward improved health and well-being through applying the teachings and practices of Yoga.’ \n\n\n\nWe highly encourage you to embark upon this long-held traditional form of healing. \n\n\n\nDefinition of Yoga Therapy: https://www.yogaaustralia.org.au/about-us/registered-yoga-therapist/ \n\n\n\nWhat You Will Learn\n\n\n\n\nYoga Therapy Program Design and Review\n\n\n\nKnowledge of the application of the 8 limbs of Yoga\n\n\n\nInterpret assessment findings as a Yoga Therapist\n\n\n\nOrderly sequencing of practices and Vinyasa Krama\n\n\n\nApplying an appropriate range of therapeutic interventions\n\n\n\nDeveloping multiple goals and knowing how to progress a course.\n\n\n\nWhy do we course plan?\n\n\n\nSutra references from 8 limbs\n\n\n\nVyuha model: heya (the symptoms)\, hetu (the causes)\, Hana (the goal)\, upayam (the tools).\n\n\n\nUnderstanding the concept of function over form\n\n\n\nHow to teach Yoga to the individual\n\n\n\nWhat is vinyasa krama?\n\n\n\nWhat is viniyoga?\n\n\n\n3 stages of the course planning\n\n\n\nDissecting and understanding techniques to know what is the function of each pose and what prepares us for the next stage of course\n\n\n\nUnderstanding the concepts of rest and counterpose\n\n\n\nLearn how to:\n\nCreate asana course plans\,\n\n\n\nCreate course plans for pranayama\,\n\n\n\nCreate course plans for mantra and meditation\n\n\n\nApply theory into experiential practice (Application of yoga therapy to the individual)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStage 1: Client Assessment Principles\n\n\n\n\nAssessing Client\, Client history and intake form\n\n\n\nKnowledge of appropriate use of Darshana\, Prashna and Sparshana\n\n\n\nUnderstanding and appropriate application of Heyam\, Hetu\, Hanam & Upayam\n\n\n\nKnowledge and appropriate use of structural and functional assessment\n\n\n\nKnowledge and appropriate use of lifestyle assessment\n\n\n\nHow to treat the person and not the disease\n\n\n\nHow do we take the person into the state of Yoga? Do we strengthen or stretch\, pacify or expand?\n\n\n\nSetting priorities: symptoms/pacification (shamana [short term]) and purification/strengthening (shodhana [long term]).\n\n\n\n\nStage 2: Set the goal (including the possibility of asana\, pranayama\, dhyana\, mantra)\n\n\n\n\nUnderstanding the goal: realise what part of physiology we want to affect\, using which model\, and what tools to use e.g. guna\, a mental state\, a spiritual quest\, pranavayu\, Pancha Maya\n\n\n\n\nStage 3: Preparation for goal and finalise\n\n\n\nBIYOME’s Specialty Intensive Teacher Training can be undertaken as Continuing Professional Development (CPD) with Yoga Australia and/or the Meditation Association of Australia\, as well as obtaining Continuing Education (CE) recognition with Yoga Alliance. The course contact hours\, and non-contact hours (CPDs and CEs)\, allocated across Meditation Australia and the two registering yoga bodies do\, however\, differ. Please contact us for more information. Should you wish to complete a full meditation certification (110 hours – 1000 hours) or yoga certification (150 hours – 650 hours)\, please view this Specialty Intensive Training as an elective within our full course offerings.  Details are available here \n\n\n\nAbout the teacher\n\n\n\nLEANNE DAVIS \n\n\n\nFormer Yoga Australia President  \n\n\n\nViniyoga Yoga Therapist\, Senior Yoga Teacher \n\n\n\nLeanne undertook teacher training in 1988 with Sivananda Yoga and Vedanta academy in India and commenced her second teacher training in the tradition of Krishnamacharya in 1996. \n\n\n\nLeanne is honoured to have the opportunity to serve\, along with the wonderful team of Committee members and office staff\, as the former President of Yoga Australia.  She has great enthusiasm for contributing to the profession of yoga teaching and helping to foster the practice and understanding of yoga in our community. Leanne brings a level of training to BIYOME that is second to none: her interest in preserving the authenticity of yoga from its cultural and textual roots whilst embracing the evolution of yoga into contemporary Australia provides teacher training that truly encompasses BIYOME’s values.
URL:https://yogaaustralia.org.au/event-course/cpd17-yoga-therapy-foundations-with-leanne-davis-november-30-december-2-2024/
LOCATION:Brookfield Retreat\, 166 Pacey Road\, Upper Brookfield\, QLD\, 4069\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Approved Professional Development for Yoga Teachers,Registered Courses
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SUMMARY:HLL01 BioMedical Yoga Therapy – Mental Wellbeing (February 24-25\, 2024)
DESCRIPTION: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. During this weekend yoga retreat you will be guided in understanding and applying state-of-the-art science and traditional wisdom to practices that assist the self and other in releasing and overcoming states of stress\, anxiety\, insomnia\, and depression. \n\n\n\n\nPeople have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown\, they prefer suffering that is familiar. \n~ Thich Nhat Hanh\n\n\n\nSuffering is grace. \n\n\n\nSuffering is optional. \n\n\n\nSuffering exists to wake us up. \n\n\n\n\nWhen you begin to see that your enemy is suffering\, that is the beginning of insight. \n~Thich Nhat Hanh\n\n\n\nIf the above teachings speak to you in any way\, then it might be a consideration to attend this 2-day retreat weekend training. Some people attend primarily for professional development\, others for personal development. However\, it is your own personal inner work\, the transformation of your own suffering that allows us to hold another’s suffering with both gentility and compassion. \n\n\n\nThis 2-day retreat on Yoga for Mental Health will merge science & spirituality and assist us to ease the suffering within ourselves. \n\n\n\nBy developing insight into the teachings of oneness and impermanence\, we can hold and embody these teachings for others. \n\n\n\nWe learn to engage fully in the moment\, the breath\, our bodies to truly observe and see the miracle unfolding in front of us. \n\n\n\nThis moment is an utter miracle unfolding in front of us. \n\n\n\nWhat You Will Learn\n\n\n\nOver these two days you will cover the following:  \n\n\n\nBioMedical Yoga Therapy for Mental Health: Anxiety\, Stress\, Irritability\n\n\n\nTime & Date: Saturday 24 February 2024\, 9:30am – 1:00pmHosted By: Celia Roberts BSc Senior Yoga Teacher and Yoga Therapist \n\n\n\nThis retreat and training is an immersive experience of evidence-based science and evidence-informed practice combined with ancient applications for overcoming suffering and moving towards physical and mental liberation through the art of clinical yoga therapy. Celia’s session introduces the theory and research behind the neuroscientific link between meditation\, yoga\, and natural therapeutic remedies to the body’s reactive states. Clinical yoga therapy for mental health offers practical wisdom for overcoming anxiety\, stress and irritability. \n\n\n\nWe will be exploring: \n\n\n\n\nHow stress\, anxiety\, addiction\, depression\, and the like are in the body\, not just the brain\, as well as how adverse mental health affects the microbiome and vice versa\n\n\n\nHow and why the size of the amygdala and its connectivity to the rest of the brain is linked to high levels of prolonged anxiety\n\n\n\nHow and why inflammation is connected to mental health\n\n\n\nThe neuroscientific foundation of how meditation positively affects in the body and the brain\, including the biological and karmic fate in our genes (epigenetics)\n\n\n\nHow and why traditional yoga has always explored neuroscience through the sutras and philosophy\n\n\n\nHow and why some dietary changes can often show more significant improvement than psychological treatment while still acknowledging the imperative nature of utilising the two together in a successful manner\n\n\n\nPractical application of breathing for heart rate variability\n\n\n\nEliciting nervous system control (vagal tone)\n\n\n\nInviting yourself to explore a pose with mindfulness of the internal perception of pleasant or painful sensation\n\n\n\nExploring consciousness beyond thought\n\n\n\n\nTraditional Yoga Therapy for Mental Health: Viniyoga\n\n\n\nTime & Date: Saturday 24 February 2024\, 1:45pm – 4:45pmHosted By: Leanne Davis\, Past President of Yoga Australia \n\n\n\nThis immersive experience of true yogic wisdom encapsulates what it means to be in a state of mental health and holistic well-being\, that is\, the state of yoga. This session aims to understand and cultivate states of peace\, equilibrium\, and evenness of mind through the philosophy of practice and the eastern yogic perspective. \n\n\n\nWe will be exploring: \n\n\n\n\nWhat yogic states of mind are (exploring Rajas\, Tamas\, and Sattva)\n\n\n\nWhy yoga therapy is not about treating a condition\n\n\n\nWhy assessment of state is vital in underpinning the application of yoga therapy tools\n\n\n\nHow one assesses the activity of the mind\n\n\n\nHow we establish what is taking a person away from the state of yoga and clarity\n\n\n\nHow we know what tools to use in accordance with an individual’s needs and wants\n\n\n\nLooking at intelligently placed steps for the practises according to the yoga sutras\n\n\n\nOverall assessment\, selection\, sequencing\, and application of yoga therapy tools\n\n\n\n\nBioMedical Yoga Therapy for Mental Health: Depression\, Low Mood\, Melancholia\n\n\n\nTime & Date: Sunday 25 February 2024\, 9:30am – 1:00pmHosted By: Celia Roberts BSc Senior Yoga Teacher and Yoga Therapist \n\n\n\nThe morning session is an immersive experience of understanding the innate energetic connection between body\, mind\, emotional states and breathing. We will together be exploring BioMedical Yoga Therapy for Mental Health\, particularly looking at depression\, low mood\, melancholia. \n\n\n\nIn this session\, Celia will assist your scientific exploration of breath to cultivate alertness\, concentration and qualities of the ‘sattvic’ state: calmness\, tranquillity\, lightness\, comfort and attentiveness. \n\n\n\nYou will come to understand the deep mind-body connection through the science of psychoneuroimmunology. We will explore our posture and stance along with facial posture\, microexpressions and vocal tones as avenues to overcoming low mood or negative mental states. \n\n\n\nCelia will then offer guidance in asana on cultivating certain states of mind and body through top-down and bottom-up processing\, using sankalpa and bhavana in yogic terms. \n\n\n\nFinally\, we shall explore overcoming the mind with the heart. We will learn about the heart-brain and Anahata Akash (yogic term for heart space)\, which can also be translated to mean ‘unstruck or unbeaten’. We will use meditations relating to the yoga sutra\, “vishoka va yotishmati” through practice\, which can be understood as concentrating on the ‘everlasting light of the heart’. \n\n\n\nWe will be exploring: \n\n\n\n\nUnderstanding how the body\, mind\, breath complex relieves stress-related conditions and depression\n\n\n\nUsing breathing practises to influence our psychology and physiology\n\n\n\nTop-down and bottom-up processing\n\n\n\nDepression and Psychoneuroimmunology\n\n\n\nDepression and Epigenetics\n\n\n\nDepression and the Biome\n\n\n\nYoga Asana for low mood & depression\n\n\n\nCultivating a whole heart-orientation toward life\n\n\n\nStrength training through asana for depression and low mood\n\n\n\nHeart-Brain training\n\n\n\n\nKundalini Yoga Medical Model for Addictions and Mental Health\n\n\n\nTime & Date: Sunday 25 February 2024\, 1:45pm – 4:45pmHosted By: Samantha Lindsay-German\, Kundalini Yoga \n\n\n\nThis is an immersive experience of understanding the Kundalini Yoga Medical Model by David Shannahoff-Khalsa and the protocols for use for addictions and mental health issues. \n\n\n\nThis session aims to understand addiction as a way in which we view and process life – not as a specific attraction to a harmful substance. \n\n\n\nThis session aims to see addictions and mental health issues from a different perspective in accordance to Yoga sutra 2.16\, creating a “future free from suffering”. \n\n\n\nWe will be exploring: \n\n\n\n\nHow and why Kundalini yoga is proven to work for addictions and mental health\, building a resilient brain\n\n\n\nHow to strengthen the nervous system – parasympathetic and sympathetic\n\n\n\nHow to challenge and reprogram the nervous system through the Kundalini Yoga Medical Model\n\n\n\nUnderstand the Medical Model of kundalini yoga techniques by David Shannahoff-Khalsa and the protocols for use\n\n\n\nLearn to practice and teach the 40-day Kundalini yoga program for healing addictions and incorporate everyday short meditations for healing addictions into practice\n\n\n\n\nCourse Video Preview\n\n\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/100063500893569/videos/1143858566029355/?__so__=permalink \n\n\n\nBIYOME’s Higher Level Learning can be undertaken as Continuing Professional Development (CPD) with Yoga Australia and may obtain Continuing Education (CE) recognition with Yoga Alliance. The course contact hours non-contact hours (CPD’s and CE’s)\, allocated across the two registering yoga bodies\, do however differ. Please contact us for more information.  \n\n\n\nShould you wish to complete a full yoga certification (150 hours – 650 hours)\, please see details available here. \n\n\n\nAbout the teachers\n\n\n\nCelia Roberts BSc Senior Yoga Teacher and Yoga Therapist \n\n\n\nLeanne Davis\, Senior Teacher\, Yoga Therapist \n\n\n\nSamantha Lindsay-German\, Kundalini Yoga\, Senior Teacher
URL:https://yogaaustralia.org.au/event-course/hll01-biomedical-yoga-therapy-mental-wellbeing-february-24-25-2024/
LOCATION:Brookfield Retreat\, 166 Pacey Road\, Upper Brookfield\, QLD\, 4069\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Approved Professional Development for Yoga Teachers,Online,Registered Courses
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SUMMARY:HLL04 BioMedical Yoga Therapy – Pain Relief (March 23-24\, 2024)
DESCRIPTION:This captivating weekend provides you with a combination of evidence-based knowledge and traditional Buddhist and Yogic practice. You will learn processes of Biomedical Yoga Therapy\, Mindfulness Cognitive Behavioural Therapy mCBT\, as well as specific processes for pain rehabilitation that focus on the healing capacity of the mind and body. \n\n\n\nIn the beautiful surrounds of the Upper-Brookfield Sanctuary\, experience first hand what it means to be at one in body and mind in order to rejuvenate.  \n\n\n\nThis 2 day workshop is a professional development program for those wishing to incorporate yoga therapy tools and mindfulness into pain management programs and for interested members of the public. \n\n\n\nChronic pain is a growing concern in Australian society; more and more people are suffering regularly with moderate to intense pain. If you have ever experienced any type of body aches and pains\, whether that be from physical fatigue\, mental exhaustion\, or perhaps you simply feel that your body is not performing in the capacity you would like it too: this is the weekend workshop for you! \n\n\n\nLearn how to work with pain and discomfort in your own body and the science of pain rehabilitation to assist others.  This weekend 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. \n\n\n\nBIYOME’s Higher Level Learning can be undertaken as Continuing Professional Development (CPD) with Yoga Australia and may obtain Continuing Education (CE) recognition with Yoga Alliance. The course contact hours\, non-contact hours (CPD’s and CE’s)\, allocated across the two registering yoga bodies do however differ. Please contact us for more information.  \n\n\n\nShould you wish to complete a full  yoga certification (150 hours – 650 hours) please see details available here. \n\n\n\nWhat You will Learn\n\n\n\nBiomedical Yoga Therapy for head\, neck\, shoulders\n\n\n\nTime & Date: Saturday 23 March\, 9:30am – 1:00pmHosted By: Celia Roberts BSc Senior Yoga Teacher and Yoga Therapist \n\n\n\nIn this informative morning of experiential learning\, Celia focuses on head\, neck\, and shoulder pain\, and the afternoon session shall focus more specifically on the neuroplasticity of pain. Both morning and afternoon sessions will offer an immersive experience of body-mind medicine and yoga therapy\, based on the latest research in pain science combined with the ancient practice and philosophy of yoga. \n\n\n\nIt has been discovered that when we understand the true nature of pain we are able to focus on re-training our brains neurochemically in a manner that reduces the negative pain feedback loop and has a significant impact as opposed to just tissue repair and pain killers (Lorimer Moseley). We shall be exploring the connection between chronic pain\, anxiety\, PTSD\, trauma and depression\, looking deeply into the neuroscience of pain and the Embodied Brain.the yoga poses; this in combination with the breathing and relaxation techniques for upper body pain and misalignment\, will allow us to learn that the key will not necessarily be tissue repair\, rather brain training and understanding the biopsychosocial nature of pain. \n\n\n\nLiberation of body and mind comes with deep presence and the ability to attune to your bodily sensations. Learn how to manage emotional and physical pain through yoga therapy and meditation. \n\n\n\nIf you experience any amount of pain\, whether it is mild to chronic\, yoga therapy and meditation are therapies that can offer you relief where modern medications may not. In healing pain\, the research clearly points to one very good fact: “Movement is king”. \n\n\n\nWe will be exploring: \n\n\n\n\nA personal bodily focus based in Ayurvedic emotional body work\n\n\n\nThe neuroscientific basis for why yoga and meditation is an effective treatment\n\n\n\nYoga therapy practices that have been proven to provide pain management and to cultivate holistic well-being\n\n\n\nTechniques of internal and external rotations\, mobilisation for shoulder joints\, triggers of relaxation\, as well as resistance work\n\n\n\nBody alignment and protection for reduced head\, neck\, jaw\, temples\, eye and shoulder pain\n\n\n\nWhy movement is king in treating pain\n\n\n\nUnderstanding the biopsychosocial nature of pain and brain training for pain relief\n\n\n\n\nNeuroplasticity of Pain & Meditations for Pain Relief\n\n\n\nTime & Date: Saturday 23 March\, 1:45pm – 4:45pmHosted By: Melissa Day and/or Celia Roberts BSc Senior Yoga Teacher and Yoga Therapist \n\n\n\nAt BIYOME we believe in treating pain as a mechanism of the brain\, not just the body; treated first by understanding pain and secondly\, by using positive competitive neuroplasticity\, mindfulness and CBT. \n\n\n\nWe shall endeavor to discover the true nature of pain\, asking questions such as: \n\n\n\n\nIs pain a symptom of emotional disturbance or fear?\n\n\n\nIs pain even real or a construct of mind?\n\n\n\nWhat exactly are pain pathways\, and do they exist?\n\n\n\nWhat is the placebo effect?\n\n\n\n\nUtilising these questions to see the true nature of our beliefs and the relevance of cultural context assists many in understanding that if one is raised in a culture where pain is surrounded by shame\, there is the potential for pain to take on manifestations beyond its true purpose. And\, when we come together to learn and to speak about pain\, we begin to experience the fundamental healing effect that lies in the benefits of pain externalisation: making sense of suffering emotionally and intellectually with words\, images\, art and sound begets breaking the negative cycle of chronic pain. Together we can learn to ‘suffer better’ by learning about the way we feel pain which can and may be affected by social conditions and our perceptions. \n\n\n\nSo let us come together to meditate and truly understand pain\, using the most up to date science and research to understand its phenomenal and fascinating existence in brain\, mind and body. Rest assured\, there is no such thing a pain receptor or even a pain pathway. \n\n\n\nWe will be exploring: \n\n\n\n\nNeuroscientific research into pain in the brain (Dr Sylvia Gustin)\n\n\n\nHow the brain understands and interprets pain\n\n\n\nExploring the “phantoms in our brain” and cortical mapping as first described by neuroscientist\, Dr Ramachandran.\n\n\n\nWhy physical and mental pain cannot be separated and treated as separate symptomatology\n\n\n\nHow and why meditation works as a therapeutic practice including research into Mindfulness CBT for pain management (Dr Melissa Day)\n\n\n\nBiomedical based meditations for brain training and understanding pain (Dr Lorimer Moseley)\n\n\n\n\nBioMedical Yoga Therapy for Back and Spinal Health\n\n\n\nTime & Date: Sunday 24 March\, 9:30am – 1:00pmHosted By: Celia Roberts BSc Senior Yoga Teacher and Yoga Therapist \n\n\n\nJoin Celia once again for a morning focused on the healing capacity of the mind and body through understanding the core principles of Yoga Therapy; “breath and spine”. \n\n\n\nComplementary therapies for back pain have an abundance of evidence-based literature asserting their effectiveness. Indeed\, a recent Victorian article in The Age urged to prescribe yoga and mindfulness to fight back pain\, such antidotes are being encouraged more and more world-wide as research uncovers more and more of what tradition has taught for centuries. As such\, there is growing awareness of the body-mind connection as it relates to the inflammatory response – this is a vital link when considering treatment for issues such as lower back pain\, which is the most common complaint in complementary medicine. \n\n\n\nWe will be exploring: \n\n\n\n\nTraditional yoga therapy wisdom behind the body-mind-pain connection and how this relates to holistic well-being.\n\n\n\nYoga Therapy for Back pain and Spinal Heath from a Physiotherapy perspective\n\n\n\nProcesses of poses that assist in back pain management\n\n\n\nThe advantages of practice\, as well as their psychological benefits\n\n\n\nPain as it relates to body alignment\n\n\n\nProtective practices for reduced back pain and spinal health\n\n\n\nBreathing practice to assist with pain management\n\n\n\nTools and techniques for the release of tension from Myofascial Connective Tissue\n\n\n\nAffecting the subtleties of the human constitution to facilitate optimal results in the practice of classical yoga and yoga therapy for the individual.\n\n\n\nMoving with the nature of the spine in relation to intelligently placed steps (sequencing a practice)\n\n\n\n\nMindfulness and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Pain relief\n\n\n\nTime & Date: Sunday 24 March\, 1:45pm – 4:45pmHosted By: Melissa Day Associate Professor\, UQ \n\n\n\nYou will be taken through research work and protocols for pain management using mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. \n\n\n\nWe will be exploring: \n\n\n\n\nChronic pain – Assessment and management of chronic pain\n\n\n\nPain – Understanding the mechanisms of pain and its relief\n\n\n\nMindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy – Efficacy and mechanisms for chronic pain management\n\n\n\nCognitive-Behavioural Therapy – Efficacy and mechanisms for chronic pain management\n\n\n\n\nCourse Video Preview\n\n\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/100063500893569/videos/1143858566029355/?__so__=permalink \n\n\n\nAbout the teachers\n\n\n\nCelia Roberts BSc Senior Yoga Teacher and Yoga Therapist \n\n\n\nCelia Roberts BSc is the Founder Director of BIYOME Celia has a deep dedication and embodied understanding of the practices of yoga\, meditation\, Ayurveda combined with Western Medicine. Celia imparts this experiential understanding to others with deep joy and generosity of heart. Celia is fascinated by the deeper dimensions of yoga and wishes to bring this light in the modern  practice of yoga. \n\n\n\nMelissa Day \n\n\n\nAssociate Professor\, UQ \n\n\n\nDr. Day completed her MA(Clin) and PhD at the University of Alabama\, followed by her Clinical Psychology residency at the University of Washington. Dr. Day then undertook a post-doctoral research fellowship in pain psychology\, also at the University of Washington. She is now a licensed Clinical Psychologist and Health Psychologist in Australia\, and works as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at The University of Queensland. Dr. Day’s program of research has focused on implementing randomised controlled trials to evaluate the efficacy and mechanisms of cognitive-behavioural and mindfulness-based interventions for chronic pain conditions. She recently (2017) published a sole authored book with Wiley titled\, “Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Chronic Pain: A Clinical Manual and Guide”.
URL:https://yogaaustralia.org.au/event-course/hll04-biomedical-yoga-therapy-pain-relief-march-23-24-2024/
LOCATION:Brookfield Retreat\, 166 Pacey Road\, Upper Brookfield\, QLD\, 4069\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Approved Professional Development for Yoga Teachers,Online,Registered Courses
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SUMMARY:CPD21 Evidence-Based Kundalini Yoga Therapy with Dr Shanti Shanti Kaur Khalsa (August 16-19\, 2024)
DESCRIPTION:Over these four days\, August 16-19\, 2024 we will explore Kundalini Yoga Therapy for depression and anxiety\, trauma and PTSD\, inflammation\, pain relief\, addictions\, sleep health\, gut health\, and cardiovascular health. Each module will have a face-to-face session with Dr Khalsa\, complemented by online learning evidenced based learning and home practice. \n\n\n\nWelcome to BIYOME’s Evidence-Based Kundalini Yoga Therapy course with Dr Shanti Shanti Kaur Khalsa from the USA! In this course\, we will explore the many benefits of Kundalini Yoga Therapy for various health conditions. \n\n\n\nKundalini yoga is an ancient practice that has been shown to be effective in treating a variety of mental health conditions. Kundalini yoga and meditation can also be used to treat traumatised children\, adolescents\, and adults; anger (chronic\, “deep long-lasting variety”); bipolar disorders (one for the manic phase\, one for the depressed phase\, and one to resolve the condition in general); chronic fatigue syndrome; impulsive behaviours; ADD; multiple complex personalities; mental illness in general; and nightmares. This system also has many non disorder-specific meditation techniques that can be used to improve overall mental health. (Khalsa\, 2004). \n\n\n\nOver these four days\, 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 face-to-face session with Dr Khalsa\, complemented by online learning evidenced based learning and home practice. \n\n\n\nDepression and Anxiety\n\n\n\nIn this session\, Dr Khalsa will discuss the definition of anxiety and depression\, causes and symptoms and we will also learn about the kriyas and meditations that can help alleviate these conditions. Kundalini yoga has been shown to alleviate generalised anxiety disorder more than the typical treatment conditions (Gabriel et al.\, 2018). Randomised control trials that span years have also supported the idea that Kundalini yoga is very efficacious in treating anxiety (Simon et al.\, 2021). \n\n\n\nTrauma and PTSD\n\n\n\nHere\, Dr Khalsa will discuss the definition of trauma and PTSD\, causes and symptoms and we will also learn kriyas and meditations that can help alleviate these conditions. Research suggests that the attunement of mind and body\, alongside the self-awareness promoted by Kundalini yoga\, is powerful in treating PTSD (Jindani & Khalsa\, 2015). This course will explore these techniques and ideas further. \n\n\n\nInflammation\n\n\n\nWe will discuss the definition of inflammation\, its causes and symptoms\, and how inflammation can be thought of as one of the significant physiologic changes that occur from stress. Chronic inflammation hinders healthy bodily activity and can lead to poor health and dysfunction. Discipline through yoga and meditation & the practice of lifestyle medicine tends to reduce inflammation. Though not specific to Kundalini yoga\, research from a meditation retreat involving yoga\, meditations\, and kriyas has been shown to alter inflammatory markers (Cahn et al.\, 2017). For example\, after a 3-month practice\, participants had increased anti-inflammatory IL-10 levels while decreasing pro-inflammatory IL-12 levels (Cahn et al.\, 2017). Certain meditation practices and kriyas will also be explored in this section\, with a focus on the reduction of inflammation via the vagus nerve & HPA axis. \n\n\n\nPain relief\n\n\n\nChronic pain is common\, especially in the lower back\, and can be debilitating worldwide. Often\, the symptoms of this pain are considered untreatable and a necessary part of life. However\, plenty of research suggests that mindfulness can help alleviate the suffering of such pain. Kundalini is one such method that can help. For example\, a randomised control trial suggests that practising Kundalini yoga twice a week can significantly reduce chronic back pain that keeps someone from showing up to work (Brämberg et al.\, 2017). Additionally\, neck pain and stiffness due to cervical spondylosis are also alleviated through a kundalini practice (Sugumar & Ponnuswamy\, 2018). The concept of hormesis and resilience will be explored in practice for the reduction of pain in day to day life. \n\n\n\nAddictions\n\n\n\nWhen studying meditation and yoga\, one may reflect upon the mind and our ability to observe it without necessarily giving into its direction. Addiction is the inability to resist the mind’s temptations. Kundalini yoga has long explored addictions and techniques to alleviate these tendencies.Teaching Kundalini Yoga therapy for addictions can be both a rewarding and challenging experience. It is important to remember that each person’s addiction is unique\, and therefore each person’s recovery will be unique as well. In order to be an effective teacher\, you must be patient\, compassionate\, and understand the different stages of addiction and recovery. Dr Khalsa will explore with you the evidence surrounding using kundalini kriyas for healing our addictive tendencies. \n\n\n\nSleep health\n\n\n\nSleep is an essential part of a day that allows our body to conduct critical rejuvenating physiological processes. In this session\, we will discuss the definition of sleep deprivation\, its causes and symptoms\, and the various treatment options available. A recent randomised control trial has revealed that Kundalini yoga increased sleep efficiency\, decreased sleep onset latency\, and increased sleep time\, resulting in an overall decrease in sleep insomnia scores (Khalsa & Goldstein\, 2021). This course will explore yoga techniques that will aid in improving one’s sleep health. \n\n\n\nGut health\n\n\n\nIn this session\, we will discuss the definition of gut health problems such as leaky gut syndrome\, their causes and symptoms\, and how Kundalini yoga therapy may assist in recovery. Kundalini yoga therapy is an effective way to improve gut health. This therapy uses a combination of techniques\, including breath work\, to help increase the good bacteria in the gut. This can help improve digestion and reduce inflammation.Gut health is vastly underappreciated in many people’s eyes. Not only are most of the cells that make up our foreign body species\, such as gut microbiota\, but they affect aspects of our health beyond digestion. For example\, gut bacteria content is related to the development of mild cognitive impairment (Wei et al.\, 2020). The gut microbiome may affect the mind\, however mind training also can affect the microbiome. Mindfulness meditation techniques\, which alter vagal tone\, have alleviated symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBD) (Breit et al.\, 2018; Househam et al.\, 2017). Though not precisely mindfulness meditation\, Kundalini and meditation share fundamental similarities. Though no direct studies have been made\, it has been postulated that Kundalini yoga may have similar effects on microbiome-related diseases such as IBS (Shannahoff-Khalsa\, n.d.). It is also very important to note that the breath of fire that is so often employed in kundalini yoga\, may be giving a certain pattern of intense stimulation of the abdomen that can liberate immune cells and counter infection. \n\n\n\nCardiovascular health\n\n\n\nIn this final module\, we will discuss some of the different types of cardiovascular diseases\, what they are\, how they develop\, and what the risk factors are for each. Kundalini yoga may also help alleviate various forms of pulmonary or cardiovascular issues\, possibly also having a distinct effect on the electromagnetic field of the heart. Research involving a 12-week Kundalini yoga routine showed a statistically significant decrease in hypertension\, suggesting a natural positive effect on cardiovascular health is possible through yoga (Wolff et al.\, 2013).  \n\n\n\nEach module is packed with valuable evidence based practice and learning that can help you improve our health and the health of many. Biyome is thrilled to have the expertise of Dr Shanti Shanti Kaur Khalsa\, whilst she is in Australia and we welcome you to attend. BIYOME’s Specialty Intensive Teacher Training can be undertaken as Continuing Professional Development (CPD) with Yoga Australia and/or the Meditation Association of Australia\, as well as obtaining Continuing Education (CE) recognition with Yoga Alliance. The course contact hours\, and non-contact hours (CPDs and CEs)\, allocated across Meditation Australia and the two registering yoga bodies do\, however\, differ. Please contact us for more information.  \n\n\n\nShould you wish to complete a full meditation certification (110 hours – 1000 hours) or yoga certification (150 hours – 650 hours)\, please view this Specialty Intensive Training as an elective within our full course offerings.  Details are available here. \n\n\n\nCourse Video Preview \n\n\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/BiomedicalInstituteYogaMeditation/videos/biyomes-evidenced-informed-yoga-meditation-teacher-training/849751372522668/ \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the teacher\n\n\n\nDr Khalsa \n\n\n\nKundalini Yoga \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Kundalini Yoga teacher since 1971\, Dr. Khalsa began to specialize in teaching Kundalini Yoga and Meditation to people with chronic or life threatening illness and their family members in 1986. \n\n\n\nDr Khalsa teaches globally and resides in the USA and is a Certified Yoga Therapist\, a Mentoring Lead Trainer for Levels 1 and 2 Kundalini Yoga teacher training\, a Medical Family therapist\, and a charter member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists. Her Kundalini Yoga program for people living with HIV is featured in the book\, Yoga as Medicine by Timothy McCall\, MD\, and her groundbreaking work as a Kundalini Yoga Therapist is featured in the book\, Yoga Therapy and Integrative Medicine: Where Ancient Science Modern Medicine.
URL:https://yogaaustralia.org.au/event-course/cpd21-evidence-based-kundalini-yoga-therapy-with-dr-shanti-shanti-kaur-khalsa-august-16-19-2024/
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