BioMedical Yoga Therapy™ for Gut-Brain Health

20hr Higher-Level Learning

Certificate in BioMedical Yoga Therapy for Gut-Brain Health

Saturday 27 April & Sunday 28 April

Early Bird $399

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This fulfilling course is offered to all those who are seeking to understand more about digestive gut health. Aimed to bring awareness of the link between mental health and gut health via the gut-brain connection, this 2 day training is for health professionals and yoga teachers alike to harness their skills and assist others. The training will give you a deep understanding of yoga therapy tools and meditation techniques to enhance your professional development. Together, we shall explore the gut-brain axis in depth as well as the fascinating importance of the body’s microbiome.

This weekend will also bring together the disciplines of Ayurvedic wisdom, neuroscience and the evidence-based benefits and practice of mindful eating, as well as the power of Kundalini Yoga for complete digestive wellbeing.

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Saturday 27 April 2019

Hosted by Celia Roberts BSc

BioMedical Yoga Therapy for Gut-Brain Health

9:30 – 1:00

Microbiome, though not entirely “us” are an influential part of us. As holistic beings, we are a complex system in which we, much like the rhino needs the oxpecker, have a symbiotic relationship with the microorganisms (microbiota) that live in us and on us. The full array of these microorganisms being called the microbiome, and they affect us in many more ways than you may first expect. (Read more here)

This complete morning will immerse you in yoga therapy tools for enteric nervous system health and microbiome diversity. As such this session will bring an enlightening awareness toward the brain-biome interaction.

We recognized that many have digestive health issues can have an alienating experience and this weekend we come together to assist one another and to seek further assistance from Celia, who will foster your wisdom in wellbeing.

We will be exploring:

• Meditations that will assist in bring about good gut health, vagal tone and more
• Yoga Therapy tools will be taught for specific areas of digestive health, including the lower colon, and enteric nervous system
• Within the scope of practice, basic Ayurvedic food and herbs will be mentioned, both as prebiotics and probiotics.
• Simple Ayurvedic nutrition remedies will be combined with modern nutrition guidelines to provide you with some new ways to repair your gut health.

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Saturday 27 April 2019

Hosted by Samantha-Lindsay German

Yoga for Healthy Digestion

1:45 – 4:45

Kundalini yoga therapy for great gut health as described by Yogi Bhajan references a common Ayurvedic understanding: that the health of the Gut is the source of all systems becoming aligned, resilient and healthy. Kundalini yoga promotes both radiance and vitality stemming from our navel and digestive centre. Experience a fulfilling practice, developing strength, stability and confidence in which life’s energies are drawn through your inner most being to aid in re-aligning and balancing the digestive tract. Though not often overtly recognized in western society, the digestive system, and the nerves that are embedded within it, is an instigator of either health or disease. And ultimately the way in which we digest life, view and treat the body comes from intuitive awareness which we must cultivate daily.

This Kundalini Yoga training workshop is designed to enrich your mental, physical, and nervous energies in order to bring balance as well as to nurture knowledge for future practice.

We will explore the basic use of sattvic foods and lifestyle choices as prescribed by the kundalini yoga tradition.

We will be exploring: 

• Kundalini Yoga postures for digestion and the application of kriya’s to generate digestive vitality
• A range of Kundalini Yoga Kriyas and meditation techniques that carefully support the gut health with precision and awareness
• Meditation techniques as taught by Yogi Bhajan tailored to creating stunning digestive health within you
• Meditations to reduce stress and anxiety, reduce depressive tendencies and addictions which can lead to disordered gut health
• Pranayama techniques to bring the digestive fire into good health the vital use of body's bandhas to assist internal organ tone
• Using Naad and the conscious Power of sound and mantra to raise the Kundalini and improve digestion
• Drawing on the subtle body energies to improve physical health

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Sunday 28 April 2019

Hosted by Celia Roberts Bsc

Meditations for Brain & Biome

9:30 – 1.00

This is an immersive experience of body, mind awareness and connection though the practice of meditation. Though much of what we do is vital to our existence in this life, so too is paying attention to how we do it. There are many times within our culture of busy that we choose to rush through the processes of our daily living, and it is no secret that this is not only detrimental to holistic health, so to it deprives us of vital presence in relationships.

Celia will take you through what it means to cultivate a healthy brain through the biome, to truly experience presence, and to wholly understand what it means to enjoy the essence of nourishment and nutrition for the body and mind.

We will be exploring:

• Understanding the physiology behind practice including concepts such as stress, trauma and the epigenetics of trauma on the digestive system, the imperative nature of the body’s microbiome, and the transformation of biome and genome from a neurobiological perspective.
• Understanding the psychology behind practice including state-of-the-art evidence-based research validating a multiplicity of mindfulness and meditation paths of practice.
• Explore yoga therapy tools, meditation tools, and applications in practice and teaching methodologies of brain and biome health with research, understanding, awareness and mindfulness.

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Sunday 28 April 2019

Hosted by Celia Roberts BSc

Mindful Eating & Neuroslimming

1:45 – 4:45

Foster your body-mind awareness and connection though the practice of mindful eating. Mindful eating is the process of paying attention at each and every meal. Though what we eat is vital, so too is how we eat. There are many times within our culture of busy that we choose to “eat on the run” or, we sit, scoff, and then leave (Read Celia’s article here). This way of living not only detrimental to holistic health, so to it deprives us of vital presence in relationships.

Mindful Eating and Neuroslimming can greatly assist with the serious obesity crisis we now face in Australia. We understand that the most key factor in successful weight management has been ignored: the brain. The brain is our control centre. The following refers to the work and writings of Dr Helen Popovic, which Celia will refer to within the meditation practice.

“Every part of the body follows the signals and instructions sent out by the brain. It doesn't matter if you have a slow metabolism, a frenetic lifestyle or a genetic predisposition to fat gain, because NeuroSlimming addresses the underlying source of the issue and gives you a Mind Plan, not a meal plan.

NeuroSlimming brings the latest discoveries in brain science to the field of weight management.

NeuroSlimming provides the missing piece in the weight loss puzzle.

NeuroSlimming sets you free of dieting, struggling, worrying, wishing, craving and emotional eating. Free of guilt and anguish about what, when and how much to eat. Free to make peace with your body and live life to the full. Free to enjoy food because you'll learn how to feed your spirit, not starve your body.”

We will be exploring:

• How use meditation practices and brain hacks to assist you in reducing self-sabotaging behaviours and get the result you want.
• What it means to mindfully eat, to truly experience presence in food, and to wholly understand what it means to enjoy the essence of sustenance
• The health benefits of mindful eating - from improved vitality and digestion, weight loss, improved outcomes for diabetes type 2 patients and reduction in disordered eating habits

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