Celia Roberts Yoga and Meditation Retreats

Vedic Psychology for Mental Health Insight Retreat

There are so many ways to meditate for your unique mind and way of being…

Join me for an introduction to and practices. Discover how your unique mental constitution influences the practices most suited to you, and learn practical tools to cultivate clarity, resilience and emotional balance.

Friday 24 July | 9.30 am to 12.30 pm https://biyome.com.au/meditation-classes-brisbane/

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Celia Roberts

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Meditation for Radical Healing from Illness, & Other Diseases (Evidence-Based)
Friday, June 12, 9.30am-12.30pm, AEST.

train themselves in how to heal through touch, eye gaze, mantra and breath, and throughout the ages rishis and sadhus with these cultivated siddhis. You can too.

This retreat explores practices backed by research that support wellbeing during or life challenges. Drawing on Kelly Turner’s evidence-informed principles, participants cultivate hope, emotional resilience and lifestyle practices that complement clinical care.

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I revere this teaching by Ramana Maharshi which describes Shakti movements before ecstasy, samadhi occurs.

“The fear and quaking of one’s body that you may experience while one is entering samadhi is due to the slight ego consciousness still remaining. But when this dies completely, without leaving even a trace, one abides as the vast space of mere where bliss alone prevails and the quaking stops.

In samadhi itself, there is only perfect peace. comes when the mind revives, at the end of samadhi, with the remembrance of the peace of samadhi. In , the ecstasy comes first.

It is manifested by tears of joy. A hair standing on end and vocal stumbling.
When the ego finally dies and the is finally one these symptoms and the ecstasies cease.”


Be as you are
chapter 12

Retreats on Fridays
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Paying close attention to cause and effect is a definitive sign of true spiritual realisation.

Our thoughts, words and actions will always be turned to us until we truly see.

Go gently with your good heart. Create everything from a genuine place and it will be returned to you, ten fold.

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The first sentence is a teaching by great master Chokgyur Dechen Zhikpo Lingpa - where the law of cause and effect is emphasised as the indispensable baseline of all genuine spiritual practice. 🕉️

Upon giving up all thoughts and identifications, the realisation comes: 'I am the unmanifest self, and I am also the whole of manifestation.

Words by Annamalai Swami

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Not long ago, a gifted healer in Cambodia said to me, “Stop dreaming. Your mind is too busy.”

It seemed like a curious instruction for a yogini practising Dream Yoga during a period of navigating change. Yet something shifted. My mind settled, my sleep deepened, and deep dreamless sleep returned. It was a gift.

The yogic tradition teaches that waking, dreaming, and deep sleep are three states arising within one awareness. Beyond them is **Turiya** — the ever-present consciousness underlying all experience.

Join me for an online Dream Yoga retreat exploring lucid dreaming, clear light awareness, meditation within the dream state, deep dreamless sleep, and the path to awakening.

Deep sleep. Deep rest. Deep realisation.

Online Dream Yoga Retreat
Saturday, June 13, 5.30pm-7.30pm $108 https://biyome.com.au/biyome-dark-grey-retreats/

Celia Roberts
BIYOME

Over the last four days with our BIYOME practitioners, we explored the shared human heart; our pain, our stories, and our capacity to heal together:
Trauma Informed Meditation Teacher Training.

We immersed ourselves in somatic experiencing, somatosensory-informed approaches, and contemplative inquiry.

We even engaged in a spirited Tibetan-style debate: Is trauma stored in the body? Or are we ultimately beyond the body altogether?

We wandered through conversations about evidence-based versus evidence-informed trauma work, eventually arriving at a simple truth: some of the most important evidence is found within direct experience itself.

We practised many methods for helping people move toward greater regulation, presence, and wholeness. Yet again and again, we returned to the understanding that healing is not primarily about technique. It is about who we are, what we have healed within ourselves, and the quality of presence we bring to another human being.

At a certain point, the techniques can fall away.

What remains is presence.

Right hemisphere to right hemisphere meditative compassionate healing.
Human to human.
A meeting in stillness.
A meeting in yoga — total union, or samadhi.

We explored the possibility that the body itself may be rendered within consciousness, rather than consciousness being produced by the body.

And to close, I was reminded of a few teachings that have guided me:
“Consciousness is awareness with a choice.” — Tom Campbell

“We are in this together.” — my mother, whose simple wisdom helped carry her children through suffering.

And perhaps one of the most compassionate teachings of all, from Paul Gilbert:
“It’s not your fault.”

Even while discussing pain, trauma, and suffering, there was lightness, laughter, connection, and joy.
Because healing is rarely found in perfect answers.

More often, it is found in being fully present with one another (whatever that means and however that presents)
Yoga - a state free of concepts and words.
The state.

What belongs to you shall come to you.

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Yesterday my card went walkabout.

I was literally wandering my street calling the bank about “suspected fraud,” only to discover a work friend had accidentally been having a fabulous time using it in sheer innocent error. The funniest part? I didn’t even realise I would soon physically loose the card.

Then, by chance, a lovely young man who once helped me with the gardens found it and popped it in my letterbox. He told my midwife, who told my best friend at the shops today.
Thank you for the amazing grapevine of good people I know!

It reminded me that nothing truly meant for you is EVER lost, and what belongs to you somehow finds its way back to you. TRUST.

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