For over thirty years, she has been sharing the work of cyclical wisdom, yoga nidrā, yoga therapy and radical truth speaking. As a neuro-divergent, post-menopausal writer, mother and carer, her work is neurodiverse friendly, trauma-informed and body-positive. 

Uma was first introduced to yoga in London 1969 by her Dublin-born mother, and has been practising ever since. She has been teaching therapeutic yoga since 1986 and co-founded the Yoga Nidra Network in 2011, guiding thousands back into the intelligence of deep rest. A member of the International Association of Yoga therapists for over twenty-five years, Uma has been training teachers for nearly thirty years. She has trained thousands of specialist yoga therapists in yoga for women’s health and Total Yoga Nidra.

She began her devotional and prayerful journey as a pilgrim in 1974, when she was brought to the shrine of the Holy Mother at Fatima by her maternal grandmother. Her practice and teaching of yoga and tantra are the foundations of her life as a mother of three and a carer for four elders with many life limiting health conditions. 

Uma holds a PhD in Communications from Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, and two diplomas in yoga therapy. Her trauma informed approach to yoga nidra and yoni shakti yoga is rooted in lived experience of sharing this work with hundreds of people at home and abroad, in person and online, individually and in community. 

As a post-menopausal woman with ADHD, and a mother to autistic children with a variety of neuro-spiciness, Uma’s approach to teaching and learning is neuro-diverse friendly. 

Uma is mentored and supported by a wide range of elders and wise women, bringing a depth of knowing to this work that is unique in the field. As a whistleblower and activist, she is willing to speak the truth even if she ends up in trouble because of it. Check out her contribution to Twisted Yoga and the Yoni Shakti: The Movement campaign to eradicate the abuse of women in yoga that she founded in 2020.

Author of six books, including Nidra Shakti : An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Yoga Nidra (2024), Yoga Nidra Made Easy (2022), co-author of The Celtic School of Yoga (2016) and and Yoni Shakti (2014/ 2020); Uma’s writing integrates scholarship, mysticism and inter-sectional eco-feminist activism. She wrote the textbooks that others use in their courses. This course is the place for you to come to the source of the wisdom Uma shares so that you can learn and be nurtured by it.