Celia Roberts Yoga and Meditation Retreats

In India the traditions of kundalini revolve around interior lightning. These are cultures that know trance + truly know rapture.
Understanding the
Psychophysiology of divine experience - transforming the body into a vessel that can handle a steady flow of lighting.



We will study the secret practices surrounding the kundalini and samadhi states together next year in India.

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I found these words above in my diary and off memory I am pretty sure they belong to this podcast - words by Joshua Schrei on kundalini.

It’s a VERY important practice.
1. Lucid Dreaming
2. Clear light dreams
3. Dream Yoga

Then, beyond the dreaming, waking, deep sleep state - understanding turiya and ultimately your eternal Self.

WHO ARE YOU?
Friday meditation classes on the website. Book yourself in.
Sleep well.

Let’s do this! Compassion-Focused Yoga Therapy 🙌🙌🙌

Join us on 5 September at UQ to explore the latest research and developments in Compassion-Focused Yoga Therapy.

Discover how yoga therapy, compassion and evidence-based approaches can come together to support mental health and wellbeing.

More information
UQ event information
Day conference 5th Sept UQ Brisbane $120 includes lunch, morning and afternoon tea.

“We have no moral right to take someone’s suffering away.”

Ram Dass

This image was taken at a monastic pharmacy in Florence.

There is something about this image that brings me back to why I wanted to study complementary in the first place.

As a young woman, I really planned to study medicine after completing my biomedical science degree. I read a book about studying medicine in the USA, the enormous costs, the debt, and the cost to students’ health. In fact, the health of medical students declined by 70 per cent, and it didn’t get much better after they left medical school. The stress started and never stopped. Perhaps the nervous system had learned how to suffer on, or simply how to navigate its way through a system that demands too much from our doctors and health workers.

What I didn’t know then was that there were other traditions of medicine, much older, in which healing was never completely separated from the inner life of the healer.

Ayurvedic medicine is one example of this. In the Vedic tradition, medicine, herbs, contemplation, prayer, service, discipline and care of the whole person could exist together. The pharmacy was not simply a place where medicines were prepared. Many doctors lived in the nooks and their herbs were gathered from the forests in which they lived. Healing was part of a larger understanding of life and alignment with nature.

When I found complementary health through Yoga, Ayurveda and Psychosomatic medicine, something began to make sense to me. I knew this was going to teach me how to look after myself on every level, unlike the Western medical system which may have stolen my health. From that true place of embodied medicine, it also included a contemplative spiritual understanding of health: faith, trust and spirituality.

From this place of true self care and inner work, I knew I could offer this to others.

We often treat people in medicine who aren’t willing to heal, and without their genuine desire to take responsibility for their healing journey, the patient may struggle to heal. This is often different in my line of work. My clientele and students tend to have a deep intrinsic care for themselves and their own path.

This is helpful, because in Ayurveda we learn about Karma, and we must be very careful not to take someone’s Karma away without their genuine intent, for their suffering can be their grace. As Ram Dass says, we have no moral right to take someone’s suffering away. These teachings encourage us to be the witness, consciousness, “Saksha Bhavi”, not the doer, nor the healer, but the .

Perhaps this is one of the great differences between simply treating illness and understanding medicine as a path of healing.

In , we treat the underlying causes. We build up the system so it can cope with any intervention we give it. WE NEVER just treat the symptom.

I feel we have reached a time in medicine where we are waking up to something new.

It’s happening in , , and general practice.

The needs to do the inner work. The patient does too.

Perhaps we are remembering something that traditional medicine and the monks and rishis understood long ago: healing is not only about what we give to the body, but about how we live, how we relate to pain and suffering, how we understand ourselves, and the intention with which we care for another.

It’s a union of sorts.

A true Yoga.

Embodied Medicine Training - , , Ayurveda, Therapy https://biyome.com.au/course-pages/350emt/

In Benares, or Varanasi, there is an ancient teaching that our old karmas are burned away.

India has this overall power, but Varanasi is especially potent.

For thousands of years, people have come here seeking liberation, particularly at the end of life. The Smashan, the cremation grounds, is a place where the we can find enormous power or Shakti -
the energy of transformation and healing.

You will have your own experience of that Shakti.

India has a remarkable way of taking us exactly where we need to go.

BIYOME India Pilgrimage | March–April 2027

A journey into Ayurveda, Yoga, Meditation, sacred pilgrimage and the living spiritual traditions of India.

Come with us and discover what India has to teach you. You must have a very good reason to go! A strong intention or !

Tour and training combined 🍀🤍🍀

Training imperative for all who attend https://biyome.com.au/course-pages/350yatt/

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The longer I work with people, herbs, medicines and gardens, the more I find myself returning to one simple truth.

It does not matter so much what medicine we hold in our hands. What matters even more is the intention we hold in our hearts for the person or plant being helped. Our overall intention, or sankalpa, for this very life is equally paramount.

Recently, I heard a beautiful Vedic teaching that honours this very idea.

It is said that the healer's right hand should carry a certain amount of healing power, or Shakti, when offering medicine. This is considered an important part of the healing process. Shakti is the vital healing energy that brings life to the medicine being offered.

Traditionally, this mantra is recited as a reminder that healing lies not only in the substance itself, but also in the consciousness, compassion and presence of the one offering it.

To give some context:
"This Rigveda mantra declares the human hand divine, holding healing powers through the sacred touch of Shiva. It signifies the supreme sanctity of action and devotion, identifying the hand as a vessel for universal healing."

Whether or not we work with herbs or medicines (or with our hands alone), it is a beautiful reminder that the greatest gift we can offer another person may be the quality of our presence, our intention and the love we bring through our hands and our hearts.

Here is the mantra to empower your hands 🕉️

These hands are blessed; infused by Bhagavan, blissful are my hands; they are the vessels of healing, through the grace of the Divine.

ayam me hasto bhagavăn ayam me bhagavattarah | ayam me viśvabheșajo
'yam śivābhimarśanah II
Rg Veda 10.60.12


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🌬️ Are You Vata? What yoga is for you?

In Ayurveda, Vata is the principle of Vāyu (air) and Ākāśa (space). It governs movement, creativity, perception and the flow of prāṇa.
Vata types are naturally drawn to Hatha Yoga, Kriya Yoga, prāṇāyāma and meditation.

They love exploration and subtle experience.

Yet the sages taught that the true journey of Vata is from movement to stillness, from the restless mind to Sthira Sukham: steady, effortless ease.

When Vata is balanced, it becomes intuitive, inspired, joyful and deeply connected to higher consciousness.

The vata (air and ether) type mind is drawn to deep spiritual practice as they are the most ethereal of the three doshas. This is their true delight.

Join us to explore the timeless wisdom of Ayurveda, Vedic Meditation and Eastern Psychiatry.

This includes what type of meditation and yoga is right for you, and ultimately your clients.

CPD25 – Vedic Meditation, Ayurvedic Psychology & Eastern Psychiatry
PACFA Endorsed • Registered with Yoga Australia
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In India - it’s said that all your thoughts, prayers and sankalpas have more power, more Shakti.
A world class psychic taught me this.

So your bring your to and let’s get this mind power of yours truly working for you - in the , the and in the most holy city in the world where many choose to leave this world and the body -
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Training and tour https://biyome.com.au/course-pages/350yatt/

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The most compassionate people often have the clearest boundaries, research by Brené Brown shows.

The people with the greatest capacity for compassion are most comfortable saying no when they need to. And when they say yes, they genuinely mean it.

Healthy boundaries don't reduce compassion. They protect it by preventing resentment, burnout, and emotional exhaustion.

Join Professor James Kirby and myself for an immersive 4-day Compassion Focused Yoga Therapy and Meditation Teacher Training.

The program combines 2 days exploring the latest compassion-focused research with James 2 days of experiential Compassionate Mind Training with myself (Celia Roberts), giving you practical tools to cultivate resilience, self-compassion, and compassionate care for others.

Next Face-to-Face Training
Friday 13 November – Monday 16 November 2026
9:00 am – 5:00 pm daily

CPD10 Compassion Focused Yoga Therapy and Meditation Teacher Training with Professor James Kirby.
https://biyome.com.au/cpd-pages/cpd10-compassion-focused-yoga-therapy-meditation-teacher-training/

It all begins very soon...

Imagine having the skills to use the breath to support stress, anxiety, resilience, sleep, performance and overall wellbeing.

Our 200 Hour Breathwork, Pranayama & Somatic Yoga Teacher Training is almost here.

Designed for health professionals, psychologists, counsellors, allied health practitioners, yoga teachers, meditation teachers and wellness professionals, this unique training combines the latest neuroscience with the timeless wisdom of yoga and pranayama.

Whether you're looking to deepen your own practice or add powerful evidence-informed tools to your professional work, this course will transform the way you understand the breath, the nervous system and human wellbeing.

Starting soon. Secure your place today.

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200BPTT Breathwork, Pranayama & Somatic Yoga Teacher Training – The BioMedical Institute of Yoga & Meditation The training blends practical skills with advanced theory, incorporating deep consciousness research, non-ordinary states of awareness, and transpersonal Yogic and Vedic psychology, the contemplative sciences, empowering you to facilitate transformative, trauma-informed sessions with confidence and....