Yoni Shakti: Rematriation and Training Retreat
(formerly know as 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 31 July - Wednesday 06 August 2025
Do you feel the call to reclaim your feminine power?
Do you feel the call to come home to your rested self?
Do you feel the call to restore your rhythmic cycles of wellbeing?
Do you feel the call to come home to your intuition and revitalise your embodied feminine essence?
Do you feel the call to practise to intuitive healing arts for female health and vitality?
Welcome to this training retreat experience to guide you back to your deep intuitive knowing through a programme of intuitive healing arts for life long female health, well-being and empowerment. This is a rematriation, a multi-dimensional nurturing of embodied wisdom. Yoni Shakti is our text book, and our bodies are our guides. This programme is more than a training course - it's a call to action for all women ready to reclaim their vitality and wisdom in a nurturing and supportive environment.
Re-awaken your intuition and reclaim your vitality. Reconnect to the wellspring of deep intuitive knowing. Welcome wholeness and cyclical wisdom for yourself and others.
In capitalist cultures that overlook and exploit the profound power of feminine energy, it’s time to reconnect and embrace your whole self. Experience how trusting your embodied wisdom can liberate vitality and health for you and those you serve.
The Yoni Shakti Training is a nurturing and nourishing learning retreat where you are supported to advocate for intuition as a clear inner compass to guide you, and those you serve, back to wholeness and health. It is a profound exploration for personal and planetary well-being, held with love and nurture by our Yoni Shakti team.
Learn experientially to embody the wisdom of your deeply intuitive knowing. We share a practical programme of intuitive potent intersectional eco-feminist healing arts including primarily (but not exclusively) therapeutic yoga techniques to nourish and restore your energy and joyful connection to life:
*** You must have completed the pre-requisite Yoni Shakti Online Immersion course and before beginning this course. ***
Upon completion of this course, you will get:
• A certificate of graduation
• Lifetime access to our online Graduate Circle
• The opportunity to be listed in our Teachers Directory
What to Expect
Yoga Nidra
known as the yoga of sleep, is a guided practice that facilitates conscious sacred rest. This profound relaxation technique helps you reconnect with your inner guidance and intuition, offering deep mental and emotional restoration.
Yoni Shakti Yoga
involves gentle, rhythmic movements and therapeutic yoga practices designed to nurture the female body. These movements promote ease, strength, and comfort, helping you awaken and harmonise your vital feminine energy.
Rituals of Rematriation
is an honouring of the Earth, ancestors, and the Great Wisdom Goddesses. By integrating rematriation into your practice, you contribute to collective healing and justice, aligning with the cycles of nature and spirituality. As a part of this we include daily devotions though bhakti song and kirtan.
Cyclical Wisdom
focuses on aligning your practice with the rhythms of your life cycles, including menstruation, menopause, and seasonal changes. This approach fosters harmony with the lunar and seasonal cycles, supporting your overall well-being.
Sangha
is the practice of building a supportive community through circle time. This space allows for sharing, connection, and mutual support, enhancing your sense of belonging and collective healing.
Rematriated teaching methods
This cyclical training retreat is taught through stories, sharing and experiential learning by doing and by resting. We share wisdom through experiential anatomy, small shakti circles for connection and advocacy for intuition; yoga nidra for deep rest to recover your embodied wisdom, and bhakti (devotion) to rediscover your heartfelt connection to the pulse of life, and the flow of the life force energy through your being.
Course Dates & Times & Location
This is a 7 day in person training which includes lifetime access to video content to consolidate and deepen your learning and teaching.
Thursday 31 July - Wednesday 06 August 2025
Thursday 31 July | 09.30am arrivals, 10am start - 7pm
Friday 01 - Tuesday 05 August | 9am - 7pm daily
Wednesday 06 August | 9am - 4.30pm departures
at Yew Tree Grove, Gunhouse Lane, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 2DB, UK
*** Please note *** our three hunting cats, Artemis, Azirophel and Crowley are basically in charge of our house and garden, but they are not permitted into the yoga studio/temple space. The presence of the three cats in the garden and the house cannot be reliably controlled - because cats won’t do what we tell them to- so if you are uncomfortable around cats, or if you have a strong allergy to them, please choose an event at another venue where you can be certain of a cat-free experience. Blessings and thank you.”
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 2025
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. ***
Rhythm of the Retreat
Each day we will explore together a different theme that dives into specific siddhis (powers) of the female body and teachings of the Mahavidyas, powerful wisdom Goddesses. Woven throughout we celebrate the theme of reclaiming the tools of liberation and escape from internalised misogyny.
Day 1: Ṣoḍasī & Tārā - Celebrating Menarche and honouring the girls we were; Menstrual cycle awareness – Freeing ourselves and others from menstrual shame.
Day 2: Tārā & Bhuvaneśvarī – Menstrual cycle challenges; Yoga therapy and fertility.
Day 3: Tārā, Mataṅgi & Kamalātmikā – Healthy menstruation; Positive Sexuality and Cyclical health – Making space for Creative Pleasures.
Day 4: Mataṅgi & Kamalātmikā – Breast health; Heart guardianship; Sensual pleasure – Inspiring radical creativity & self -love.
Day 5: Chinnamastā & Bagalāmukhī – Navigating postnatal recovery and peri-menopause - the links – Shaking off the fears: encountering the power of birth and postnatal recovery; Facing ageing: How do we approach menopausal beings?
Day 6: Bhairavī & Dhūmavatī – Menopause and beyond – Liberating Menopausal Potency to Heal; Unblocking access to Passages to Power; Healing from Intergenerational Trauma; Rewilding & the Wisdom of Forgetting.
Day 7: Kālī – Integrating cyclical wisdom; Healing and dreaming the future we are together; Closings and openings.
You will get:
- 53 contact hours of live, online teaching with Uma and guest teachers
- Long term access to our friendly and accessible online learning sanctuary with over 9 hours of video practice, teaching points and interviews.
- 8 pre-recorded, downloadable yoga nidras, not available anywhere else
- Comprehensive 115 page course manual
- Development of a daily Yoni Shakti yoga practice
- Opportunities for questions and discussions with course leaders
- Small mentoring groups held by an experienced tutor
- Practical guidance
- Structured learning
- Access to recordings of all live sessions for the duration of the course
- 50% off the Yoni Shakti Bookclub
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
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! The 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: 53
Accreditation:
Approved Professional Development (APD) with the
International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT)