Celia Roberts Yoga and Meditation Retreats

Celia Roberts Yoga and Meditation Retreats Yoga teacher training, Meditation teacher training, Restorative Yoga training, Trauma Sensitive Yoga Yoga and meditation weekly classes.

Yoga and meditation retreats. Ayurvedic natural health consultations, and holistic massage.

YOGA IN PSYCHIATRY. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists ( ) This congress workshop in Melbourn...
04/05/2026

YOGA IN PSYCHIATRY.

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists ( )

This congress workshop in Melbourne on Informed & , holds personal meaning.

For many years I have sought to complement the medical system with yoga to integrate both worlds after my sister was prescribed a fatal antidepressant Zoloft at the age of fifteen, a drug later linked to suicidal tendencies in young people. She died from that pharmaceutical intervention, and that loss shaped my path.

Over time, through teaching and healing as naturally as possible, I have met psychiatrists who embody compassion, restraint, and wisdom, using medication only when necessary and valuing somatic interventions such as breath, yoga, and meditation. This integration feels significant to many, I know.

I have gratitude to the many doctor’s I have met for exemplifying this union of medicine, somatics and natural healing through consciousness.

You will continue to meet these amazing educators through BIYOME to help unite these two fields - Yoga in psychiatric care.

Thank you to for being an exemplary Doctor and an amazing mindful ripple in the profession I still respect the most in the world —- Psychiatry 🦋

Psychiatrists do such intricate work and in my mind they are Yogi’s too.
Yoga is the science of the mind.
Raj Yoga is the mastery and control of the mind and is considered the highest yoga.

May this Yogic and ripple continue to grow within .
It’s very important to me and perhaps to you.

Future training - , , breath, yoga, .
https://biyome.com.au/course-pages/200bptt/

The best thing about yoga is that is self empowering practice. You learn to do it all on your own. This is what clearly ...
30/04/2026

The best thing about yoga is that is self empowering practice. You learn to do it all on your own.

This is what clearly sets it apart from allied health. You take ownership and you heal. You don’t need anyone else to do it for you.

🦋🦋🦋

For those who may fondly remember - Ailsa Gartenstein - recently died in her 90s. Ailsa was my Mothers introduction to , almost 60 years ago.

Mary-Anne Roberts (my Mum) wrote these words many years ago: 😊

“I started the practice of yoga at age 17 in 1969 when yoga was very new to Australia and to Brisbane. I was living at one of the colleges at the University of Qld and began attending the Ailsa Gartenstein school of yoga - which was upstairs in a dimly lit, and very modest room.I remember feeling very good after the sessions so a friend and I went to considerable trouble to get there weekly on Wednesday evenings (with our rolled up beach towels to put over the carpet) for our practice. Over the years, I have had 5 exercises which I am committed to do very frequently, if not daily. My idea is that if I can still do these today (saving some catastrophic event) I will be able to do them on all of my tomorrows. My plan is to improve my and . Meanwhile, I love the weekly class with Celia. It spices up the daily 5 practices and I now have a couple of extras, which are a must- do" practices- to help with specific health issues. Yoga is a form of physical exercise. Ultimately, it encompasses an entire . That is its enormous appeal to me.”

Thank you to Josh Pryor - president of Yoga Australia - for letting us know.

Yoga Tuesday and Thursdays https://biyome.com.au/yoga-classes-brisbane/

Thursday yoga class https://biyome.com.au/livestream-yoga-classes/

I’m currently preparing to deliver trauma-informed yoga, breathwork, and pranayama at the Congress in .It will be a v...
29/04/2026

I’m currently preparing to deliver trauma-informed yoga, breathwork, and pranayama at the Congress in .

It will be a very different audience.

If you’re reading this, you’re likely already a believer in this somatic and consciousness-based approach to healing; what I recently heard described as “ .” I love this term.

Because yoga therapy often works differently, not always through words, personal stories, or biography…

I’m genuinely curious:

What has helped you most therapeutically through , , , , , or ?

What truly created change for you?

🦋

(Pictured here with - the fabulous nun - who imparts the teachings (the ) through words of the masters and scriptures)

Leonard Cohen on Zazen.“ is not what you think. You sit in absolute silence and your mind starts going through all your...
26/04/2026

Leonard Cohen on Zazen.

“ is not what you think. You sit in absolute silence and your mind starts going through all your movies. During that process, you become so familiar with the scripts you keep in your life that you end up getting sick of them. Then you realize that the person you think you are is just a complicated script you spend most of your energy on. After a more thorough examination, you'll find out that your personality has had enough of you. And that's because it's not really you. If you feel terrified enough by that personality, spontaneously allow it to fade away. And then, if you're lucky, you can experience yourself without the distortion of that personality. That's basically the process."

“I'm a , Mum, who likes to disappear…🫥,” she says over dinner. She is the , apparently with the !It’s a VERY wise ski...
25/04/2026

“I'm a , Mum, who likes to disappear…🫥,” she says over dinner.

She is the , apparently with the !

It’s a VERY wise skill to learn how to be humble and small - to learn to disappear in certain situations.


QANTAS magazine recently contacted me about DARK RETREAT.Here is the story by Cleo Hyde. “Psychologically, the experienc...
24/04/2026

QANTAS magazine recently contacted me about DARK RETREAT.

Here is the story by Cleo Hyde.

“Psychologically, the experience aims to be a reset, with emotional release and existential reckoning.

"A sensory [DARK] retreat can be called
'meditation on steroids'," says founder and senior teacher Celia Roberts from The BioMedical Institute of Yoga and Meditation (BIYOME; https://biyome.com.au/biyome-dark-grey-retreats/).

"It's a yogic tradition that's hugely beneficial to melatonin production (the hormone that regulates our sleep-wake cycle]." BIYOME's three-hour evening immersion sessions are held four times a year in the hills of Upper Brookfield, 20 kilometres west of Brisbane. Thẻ classes encompass stillness, gentle movement, guided contemplations and dream-yoga techniques. And the participants?

"Overstimulated and overworked beginners, as well as experienced meditators," says Roberts, Dark retreats aren't about deprivation for deprivation's sake. The challenge is to manage the under-stimulation and boredom so at odds with ourtimes.

"Reduced sensory input is a purification practice that helps us explore the 'emptiness' or true nature of the mind," says Roberts.”

Coming up Grey online and Dark retreat https://biyome.com.au/biyome-dark-grey-retreats/

Grey retreat online
Saturday, June 13, 5.30pm-7.30pm $108

Dark retreat in person
Saturday, September 12, 5.30pm-8.30pm $148



Thank you to David Gopurenko for the photos, found inflight ✈️

Laugh at your problems, your ailments, your mental afflictions, your worries.Laughter opens up the , the granthis, th...
21/04/2026

Laugh at your problems, your ailments, your mental afflictions, your worries.

Laughter opens up the , the granthis, the knots of the psyche that bind you.

Laugh until you set yourself completely free.

Never stop laughing.Laugh and laugh and laugh until you are free. 🇯🇵 ,
16/04/2026

Never stop laughing.
Laugh and laugh and laugh until you are free.

🇯🇵 ,

Walking the philosophers path. Walking meditation. Zazen.Kyoto, Japan.
08/04/2026

Walking the philosophers path.
Walking meditation.
Zazen.
Kyoto, Japan.

✨Preparing in twilight for Dark Retreat 🌒 What can the dark teach us?How to prepare for Dream Yoga - acknowledge the cle...
29/03/2026

✨Preparing in twilight for Dark Retreat

🌒 What can the dark teach us?

How to prepare for Dream Yoga - acknowledge the clear light dreams that guide us between realms?

Who are we beneath waking, dreaming, and deep sleep?

Turiya, the fourth and most precious state of yoga, underlies all three. It is the subtle awareness that connects everything. It is who we are.

The dark holds a wise, yin, feminine energy. Its greatest teaching is silence.

Step into the darkness, with reverence.

Dark retreat, grey retreat (online) and Dream Yoga https://biyome.com.au/biyome-dark-grey-retreats/


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Upper Brookfield Retreat, 166 Pacey Road
Upper Brookfield, QLD
4069

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