CPD06 Mindfulness for a Meaningful Life
(Year-round monthly Fridays 9:30-12:30; 8 consecutive classes are part of the course)
“Mindfulness for a Meaningful Life” provides a year-long immersion in contemplative practice, somatic mindfulness, meaning-making frameworks and evidence-informed meditation. This training is suitable for personal transformation and for clinicians seeking to incorporate safe, culturally respectful and neuroscience-aligned mindfulness approaches into therapeutic work.
Participants build skills in breathwork, emotional processing, movement-based meditation, mantra meditation, attentional training and contemplative inquiry. The program emphasises experiential learning, trauma-responsive practice, cultural sensitivity and the development of presence and attunement within self and the therapeutic relationship.
The training integrates Buddhist and Yogic contemplative traditions with modern psychology, clinical mindfulness research and meaning-making. It supports therapists, clinicians and wellness practitioners in applying these practices to reduce stress, support emotional regulation, enhance resilience and cultivate a compassionate therapeutic stance—while also deepening their own embodied sense of meaning, purpose and wellbeing.
For the current schedule, please visit CPD06 Mindfulness for a Meaningful Life – The BioMedical Institute of Yoga & Meditation (biyome.com.au)
About the Teacher
Celia has worked for industry leaders such as ABC Radio, the Australian Federal Police, the Clinical Forensic Medicine Unit, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan), the University of Queensland, Lifeline, Vera Women’s Wellness, Queensland University of Technology, Human Genetics Conference, and the Yoga Australia Conference to name a few. Over the years, Celia has also worked as a volunteer in leadership roles for the national governing body of yoga in Australia, Yoga Australia; these include the Queensland State Co-ordinator and Chair of The Yoga Australia Conference 2016. Celia has also been instrumental in the innovative field of yoga therapy within Australia, being a valued member of the AAYT committee 2014-15. Additionally, Celia has founded yoga by donation programs in Japan and Australia – Tsukuba Community Yoga and Grass Roots Yoga respectively.
With a passion for compassionate focused therapy, and as a registered senior yoga teacher and registered yoga therapist Celia Roberts has personally trained and privately mentored, inspired, informed, and impassioned yoga and meditation teachers for over a decade. Moreover, with qualifications in Biomedical Science, meditation, Ayurveda, nutrition and dietetics, psychosomatic medicine, counselling, and integrative medicine, and with her love and dedication for yoga teacher training, Celia Roberts opened the Upper Brookfield Retreat Centre in 2014. In the middle of the most beautiful and natural surroundings, this yoga teacher training and treatment centre now facilitates a new concept in yoga teacher training, heavily grounded in evidence-based research.
