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Yoni Shakti (formerly known as Womb Yoga) is an evolving therapeutic approach to yoga specially deve
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Womb Yoga is about reconnecting with the deep blood wisdom of womb cycles throughout the whole of a woman’s life, from pre-menarche to post-menopause. The practice of Womb Yoga enables us to access the inner guidance of our source wisdom so that we may more readily reside in wellbeing and peace with our experiences as women. Womb Yoga is a simple, subtle and delightful route to access feminine spiritual authority, a powerful set of techniques and attitudes for all women to use on their journeys toward spiritual empowerment, self acceptance and contentment. Womb Yoga is an evolving therapeutic approach to yoga specially developed to support women’s health and healing over the past fifteen years by Uma Dinsmore-Tuli. Women’s retreats, individual sessions, training courses for yoga teachers, classes, workshops and camps all give access to the practices of Womb Yoga at many different levels of experience and connection. For more information, see: www.yonishakti.co

Take a look at Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and Nirlipta Tuli's other websites and pages:

Yoni Shakti - The fully illustrated practical guide to yoga for women of all ages. It includes an exploration of the history of women in yoga, the politics of contemporary yoga practice and vibrant and vivid testimony from many women yoga practitioners. Yoga Nidra Network - Everybody's treasure… Yoga nidra is a great treasure, a potent meditative resource for healing, insight, and empowerment. Website - www.yoganidranetwork.org
Facebook - www.facebook.com/yoganidranetwork

11/12/2025

✨💛 POV: You answered the call.

Not the loud one from the outside world — but the quiet one inside, asking for rest, reconnection, and a return to intuition.

As we move through the fullness of the holiday season, many of us feel it — that longing to step away, to breathe, to remember ourselves again. If your inner voice has been whispering “I need space… I need softness… I need me,” this is your sign.

🌿 Less than one month from now, Uma will be welcoming a small circle of travellers to Kerala, India for a retreat devoted to deep rest, Yoga Nidrā, intuitive listening, and gentle yoga therapy.

If you’re feeling the pull — even if it’s last-minute, even if life feels full — trust that. Some journeys aren’t planned. They’re answered.

✨ A few spaces remain. If your intuition is calling, follow it → link in bio: follow the link for 'Courses, Workshops & Retreats' and scroll to the January section of the calendar.

Music by from her Jasmin Garden Album: Hanumān Chālīsā

10/12/2025

✨ Free Nidra Wednesday: Yoni Shakti – Bhairavi Self-Anointing Ritual ✨

This week we share a deeply sacred 40-minute yoga nidrā created by Uma Dinsmore-Tuli to honour menopause as a powerful spiritual initiation.

Rooted in a ritual meditation from Alexandra Pope’s Women’s Leadership Apprenticeship (2012), this practice became the heart of the menopause chapter of Yoni Shakti (pp. 451–452). It is a self-anointing ritual in nidrā form — a practice of dignity, trust, and embodied power.

🌺 This nidrā has supported women in menopause and perimenopause, helping them to reconnect with their own strength and intuition. It has also been treasured by younger women, offering a profound affirmation of self-confidence, self-trust, and personal power.

Take 40 minutes today to step into this ritual of honour, and allow your body, mind, and spirit to be recognised, celebrated, and rested.

🔗 Link in bio to listen by clicking through tot he Free Nidra Library and searching using the title: 'Yoni Shakti: Bhairavi Self Anointing Ritual'

08/12/2025

💫✨ Dream Net Nidra Circle ✨💫
with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli | Online via Patreon

Step into the sacred space of our bi-weekly Dream Net Nidra Circles, where we weave together rest, reflection, and deep connection to your inner guidance. 🕊️

Led live by Uma, each circle invites you to release tension, explore your inner landscape, and open to the subtle messages of your dreams. Through guided Yoga Nidra, sound, and gentle movement, you are supported to restore balance, nurture your intuition, and deepen your connection to your feminine essence.

🌸 These circles are included in the Cycliteracy + Seers Circles Tier on Uma’s Patreon, alongside:
– Full & New Moon Yoga Circles
– Seasonal Community Nidras
– New Moon Tarot Nidra
– Access to Uma’s private archive of nidra recordings

✨ Recordings are provided if you cannot attend live, so your practice flows with your own rhythm and life’s demands.

Come as you are, and let this circle guide you back to rest, restoration, and your intuitive knowing. 🌙💛

Tag your kindred spirits and step into this circle of deep rest and connection.

🔗 Join Patreon & be part of this sacred gathering! - https://www.patreon.com/umadinsmoretuli

07/12/2025

✨ Jai Ma — A Call Towards Imbolc ✨

As Sivani Mata’s voice rises in this devotional chant, we are reminded that the turning of the seasons is always underway — even now, in early winter, long before the first snowdrop appears.

Though Imbolc is still more than a month away, its gentle promise is already stirring beneath the surface: the return of light, the slow unfurling of intuition, the soft awakening of inner fire.

🌙 Our Yoni Shakti Imbolc Day Retreat is an invitation to prepare for this threshold with intention — to honour the slow becoming that begins long before we notice it.

During this day together we will: — Welcome a multi-dimensional nurturing of embodied wisdom — Reconnect with our cyclical nature — Gather in compassionate sisterhood — Tend the embers of deep intuition and wellbeing.

If your body is craving a soulful anchor for the winter… If your heart longs for rhythm, ritual, and community… If you wish to enter Imbolc supported, nourished, and held…

✨ Now is the perfect time to say yes. Let the chant of Jai Ma guide you home.

Link in bio to book your place by following the link for 'Courses, Workshops & Retreats' and scrolling to the February section.

06/12/2025

✨ LIVE this Monday 8th Dec · 8pm GMT ✨

Join us as & go live to speak about our upcoming Reconnect to Intuition Retreat with — Kerala, January 🌴🧘‍♀️

Are you longing for deeper rest, inner clarity and intuitive reconnection before the new year? Then this could be exactly what your soul’s been whispering for.

💬 We’ll talk — what the retreat offers, who it’s for, what you can expect, and answer all your questions live.
Set a reminder, bring your curiosity, and join our circle.

We hope to see you online then to join this live discussion 🙏

02/12/2025

✨ Early Bird Ends 10 December — Last Chance to Save 10% ✨

If you’ve been feeling the call to step away from the noise of everyday life… to rest, to listen, to reconnect with your intuition in a deeply supportive space… this might be the sign you’ve been waiting for.

Next July–August 2026, Uma Dinsmore-Tuli returns to the glorious coastline of Crete for the Reconnect to Your Intuition Retreat — a week of ocean-held rest, yoga nidrā, yoga therapy movement, ritual, song, and spacious time to remember who you are beneath the busyness.

Held at Yoga Rocks, this retreat is designed to:
🌊 Nourish your nervous system
🔥 Awaken your intuitive knowing
🌙 Re-centre your cyclical rhythms
🤍 Offer genuine community and belonging
💫 Support deep transformation through rest

If you know you want to be there…
If your body whispers yes…
If the thought of a week of sun-drenched rest makes something inside you soften…

Now is the moment.

✨ Early Bird 10% discount ends 10 December. This will be the lowest price offered.

Join us next summer on the edge of the Aegean, where rest becomes revelation and intuition flows like tidewater.

Booking link in bio: Just click on the 'Courses, Workshops & Retreats' link and scroll to the July section to find the booking link via the Yoga Rocks Website

28/11/2025

🌕✨ Full Moon Yoga Circle ✨🌕
with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli | Online via Patreon

Welcome Home. 💛

You are warmly invited to join us under the light of the full moon for a circle of belonging and replenishment. Together, we begin with a restful Yoga Nidra before flowing into satsang, gentle connection, and responsive practices — rhythmic gestures, nourishing movement, sound and stillness — attuned to the needs of the circle.

This is a space to soften, to remember balance, and to restore your natural rhythms in community.

🌸 Practices are those described in Yoni Shakti, shared live by Uma.
🌸 Access is via the Cycliteracy + Seers Circles Tier on Uma’s Patreon.
🌸 Subscription includes: – Monthly full & new moon yoga circles – Fortnightly Dream Net Nidras – New Moon Tarot Nidra – Seasonal community nidra – An archive of nidra recordings from Uma’s private collection

✨ Recordings are provided if you cannot join live.

Let the full moon be your reminder: you are part of a circle that welcomes you exactly as you are. 🌕

Tag your kindred spirits and step into this circle of deep rest and connection.

🔗 Join Patreon & be part of this sacred gathering! - https://www.patreon.com/umadinsmoretuli

27/11/2025

🌿✨ India Retreat with Uma & Yoga United — January 2026 ✨🌿

Step into a sacred pause in the beginning of the year: eight nights of deep rest, intuitive reconnection, and gentle yoga with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli in the lush serenity of Kerala, India.

Together, we'll weave daily Yoga Nidrā, gentle yoga therapy, dream-sharing, and tarot into a retreat-style sanctuary — a space to come home to your intuition and the quiet wisdom your body holds. Whether you are new to these practices or a seasoned yogi, you are welcome.

This is more than a holiday — it’s a return to self. A remembering of your rhythm, your breath, and your inner knowing.

✨ Explore more, reserve your space, and journey home → Link in Bio

25/11/2025

✨ How was Pregnancy Yoga developed? ✨

"Yoga for pregnancy had developed out of the Western approach to the practice of Hatha Yoga, an ancient Indian system through which the postures of the physical body, asana, are used to direct and nourish the ultimately spiritual focus of the mind and heart. Although many of the asana common to classical Hatha yoga are basically unsuitable or at the very least very uncomfortable during pregnancy, the fundamental philosophy of yoga has a special affinity with the expanded state of consciousness experienced by many pregnant women."

— Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, Teach Yourself: Yoga for Pregnancy and Birth, Intro, pp. XXII

Pregnancy yoga honours the incredible expansion of body, mind, and heart that pregnancy brings. It’s not about perfecting postures — it’s about connecting deeply to your inner wisdom, supporting your body’s natural rhythm, and nurturing both yourself and your baby. 🌿

💛 Explore safe, gentle practices that guide you through pregnancy with presence, care, and self-trust.

24/11/2025

22/11/2025

💭✨ “Do you want to accept the world as it is? Do you want to accept it and join it and become like that? Do you want to be that? Do you want to conform? Do you know what it means not to conform with something? That means going against the whole structure of society, against the morality, business, religion, the whole culture, which means you have to stand alone…”

— J. Krishnamurti, in dialogue with students at Brockwood Park School, 1971 (Krishnamurti 2011:13, quoted in Yoni Shakti: A Woman’s Guide to Power and Freedom through Yoga and Ta**ra, p.24 by Uma Dinsmore-Tuli PhD)

🕊️ This passage invites us to reflect deeply: What does it mean to live without fear? To live in truth — not as rebellion, but as remembrance of freedom?

Within the teachings of Yoni Shakti, this question becomes embodied. To rest, to bleed, to soften, to refuse the pressure to perform — these too are radical acts of nonconformity. To listen to your intuition is to stand in your power. To rest is to resist.

📖 Discover Yoni Shakti, a text that reclaims the feminine roots of yoga and reminds us what it means to live — and love — in freedom.

20/11/2025

✨ 7 Days of Rest ✨

A global invitation to soften, slow down, and remember what truly nourishes us.

Join us for a week dedicated to rest as ritual, rest as remembrance, and rest as a form of collective healing to acknowledge the start of a new calendar year. Each day we’ll gather twice in the spirit of Yoga Nidra — honouring the cycles of nature, listening inward, and tending to the quiet places that so often go unheard.

In a world that moves too fast, choosing rest becomes an act of courage.
An act of care.
An act of reconnection.

Whether you join for one day of practice or all seven, you are welcome in this circle of restoration. May this be a time to come home to yourself, to breathe, to reclaim spaciousness, and to meet your life with renewed tenderness.

Express your interest in this FREE 7 day event to begin 2026.
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