Yoni Shakti: Well Woman
Yoga Therapy Teacher Training
In person, non-residential retreat and training with
Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and Sivani Mata Francis
at Uma's Home Studio in STROUD, UK.
Thursday 05 - Tuesday 10 September 2024
Welcome home to your rested self.
Welcome home to the restoration of your rhythmic cycles of wellbeing.
Welcome to a circle of belonging that nurtures women’s health and vitality.
Welcome to yoga that honours the female body in all its rhythmic cycles.
This is the training for you if:
- you have ever wondered if yoga could truly nourish a female body, in every cycle of life.
- you have ever wished that yoga practice could be more respectful of women’s life cycles, and that yoga therapy could better nurture women’s well-being.
- you seek to experience power and freedom through yoga and tantra as you learn to facilitate circles to empower others.
- you yearn to experience spiritual empowerment, positive health, sacred sexuality, blood wisdom and womb yoga and to share these gifts with others.
In this course you will reconnect to the wellspring of your vitality and source power, to heal and thrive as you deepen your capacity to enable others to find their own ways to this reconnection.
You will learn practical simple techniques to feel, nurture and build the feminine energy of Shakti for the practical healing and benefit of women in all stages of life.
This unique experiential course integrates the healing power of women’s circles, yoga satsang, Total Yoga Nidra, mudra, mantra, bhakti and swara yoga with menstruality consciousness to create a potent intersectional eco-feminist healing mode of complete yoga therapy for women and girls of all ages.
*** You must have completed the pre-requisite Yoni Shakti Online Immersion course and before beginning this course. ***
Course Dates & Times & Location
This is a 6 day in person training which includes lifetime access to video content to consolidate and deepen your learning and teaching.
Thursday 05 - Tuesday 10 September 2024
Thursday 05 September | 11am arrivals, 11.30am start - 6.30pm
Friday 06 - Monday 09 September | 9am - 6.30pm daily
Tuesday 10 September | 9am - 4pm departures
at Sitaram Studio, Tanglewood, Gunhouse Lane, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 2DB, UK
Accommodation is not included, please find a list of local accommodation options here.
ONLINE Yoni Shakti Bookclub (included in the course fees)
Weekly on Wednesdays from 7-8.30pm for 3 weeks:
17, 24 September, 01 October 2024
All times are UK time.
Attendance at all of the live sessions listed above is a course requirement.
*** You must have completed the pre-requisite Yoni Shakti Online Immersion course and before beginning this course. ***
What to Expect
In person Stroud training with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and Sivani Mata Francis.
This 51 hour training course is delivered live in person by Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and Sivani Mata Francis. You will also receive lifetime access to pre-recorded video and audio material to support and consolidate your learning.
This is a very special opportunity to experience this course in person at Uma's home goddess temple and we are excited to welcome you.
In this course, you will:
- Sit in a circle of belonging with yoginis from around the UK and the world.
- Develop a daily Yoni Shakti Yoga practice
- Experience two Total Yoga Nidra practices a day
- Have opportunities for questions and discussions with course leaders
- Receive practical guidance for your personal practice and for utilising Yoni Shakti Yoga Therapy in groups and in 1-1 therapeutic situations
- Enjoy structured learning
- Receive a comprehensive 115 page course manual
- Be held in small mentoring groups held by an experienced tutor
- Receive access to our friendly and accessible online learning sanctuary
- Benefit from long term access to top quality teaching videos
- Get access to the Yoni Shakti Bookclub
- Be nourished by delicious, home cooked vegetarian (with vegan option) lunch, light evening meal and refreshments daily
Upon completion of the course, you will get:
- A certificate of graduation
- Lifetime access to our Graduate Circle
- The opportunity to be listed in our Teachers Directory
*** You must have completed the pre-requisite Yoni Shakti Online Immersion course and before beginning this course. ***
What will I learn?
Conscious respectful awareness of menstrual, menopausal, and other life cycles form the foundation of this approach to yoga therapy for women's health.
You will learn:
- Therapeutic and enlivening yoga practices to support all experiences of femininity throughout a woman’s life, including menstruation, fertility, sexuality, perimenopause and post-menopausal health concerns.
- Therapeutic understanding of emotional life, lunar cycles and the play of the elements in the female body.
- Practical tools from yoga therapy and tantric philosophy to help you to build programmes especially suited to the needs of women seeking full vitality and well-being.
- Asana, pranayama, mudra, bandha, deep relaxation and profound meditations including yoga nidra, sound meditations, moving meditations, visualisations and chants to the deep feminine.
- How to integrate the presence of the Dasa Mahavidyas, the ten wisdom goddesses as guardians for this work.
Is this course right for me?
Please know that you do not need to be a yoga teacher to do this course! This training is a deep retreat and empowerment for all those supporting (or wishing to support) women's health and vitality. In the past we have welcomed many people to the course who are not yoga teachers, for example: doulas, midwives, women's health physiotherapists, reflexologists, health coaches, psychologists and counsellors, doctors, acupuncturists, healers, massage therapists, medicine people and womb health workers of all traditions. If you have a personal practice of yoga and are feeling the call to join this course, please don't hesitate - you are welcome! These practices of yoga therapy are very transferrable skills and we look forward to sharing them with you. The healing we can share through these practices is rooted in self-practice and intuitive knowing.
*** You must have completed the pre-requisite Yoni Shakti Online Immersion course and before beginning this course. ***
Three Key Ingredients of Yoga Therapy for Women's Health
Hear Uma talk about the essential aspects of Yoga Therapy for Women's Health: Bhakti, Sangha and Yoga Nidra.
Testimonial
“Joining the course was the best decision I made and I cannot recommend it highly enough. My experience with traditional yoga was not sufficient enough to balance my emotions and meet my needs as a woman and mother. When I was introduced to Yoni Shakti Yoga it was a revelation and I felt validated and supported. Uma is very skilled at applying traditional Indian yoga and applying it to the modern woman. The online learning experience was very positive.I have a deep gratitude to Uma and everyone else who organised the course.”
Marie Meera Karanath
Meet the Facilitators
Uma Dinsmore-Tuli
Sivani Mata Francis
Bursaries
We are pleased to offer a limited number of 50% bursary places on this course. To find out more and to complete an application, please see here.
Course hours: 51
Accreditation:
Approved Professional Development (APD) with the
International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT)