This is the original source of Yoni Shakti. Uma Dinsmore-Tuli wrote the book.
This deep-dive training is designed for yoga teachers ready to upskill in women's health and bring this work confidently into their own practice, classes and communities.
Keen yoga practitioners are also warmly welcome to join.
For the first eight weeks, Uma guides you through the Yoni Shakto body of work live, online, so you can embody this work fully before you go on to share it with others. And because this is deep work, your enrolment now includes 10 months' membership to Uma's Circle of Seers, Uma's the ongoing community where what you learn becomes a daily, seasonal, lived practice.
'What I valued most was that both the Yogic philosophy, the physiology and the practices were woven together in a digestible way.
The course also attracts a brilliant crew of like-minded people some of whom I’m still friends with a decade later.'
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Why Learn From Uma
Uma Dinsmore-Tuli is the author of Yoni Shakti and the founder of the Yoga Nidra Network.
For over thirty years she has trained thousands of yoga teachers and therapists in women's health, yoga nidra, and embodied cyclical wisdom.
This course is the only place you can experience and learn this material directly from its source, live, by the woman who wrote the book.
Who is this for?
This is for yoga teachers who are ready to upskill in women's health, to bring cyclical wisdom, menstrual and peri/menopausal support, and embodied practice confidently into your own classes and community.
It's also open to therapists, bodyworkers, and space-holders who want these tools, and to personal practitioners deepening their own relationship with their body's cycles. If you're looking to deepen your own connection with yourself and expand what you offer, this is built for you.
Gender-expansive, transgender, and non-binary yoni owners are all welcome.
Not for you if: you don't have a yoni (the course content is anatomically specific), or you're not comfortable with direct, occasionally explicit language used for emphasis.
A Year-Long Journey
Months 1–2: Train. Eight weeks of live, intensive training directly with Uma. The full Yoni Shakti body of work, embodied and practised in real time.
Months 3–12: Integrate. Ten months inside the Circle of Seers, Uma's ongoing membership community - where the practices you've learned settle into your body, your rhythm, and your teaching, held by daily practice and seasonal ritual.
Training gives you the knowledge. Integration is what makes it yours.
What's Included?
The 8-Week Training
● 32 hours live, online delivery PLUS lifetime access to over 30 practice videos (~13 hours) covering all the practices in the book
● Over 30 downloadable Yoga Nidra and Yoni Nidra audio tracks recorded by Uma
● 16 short video lectures from Uma guiding you through the training
● Quizzes to consolidate your learning as you go
● A teaching practicum in the final weeks, practising with your Shakti Circle
● A certificate on completion, accredited by the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT)
● Eligibility to progress into The Nest, Uma's nine-month mentoring container for facilitators
Plus 10 Months in the Circle of Seers (worth £300)
This is where the training becomes a practice you actually live. Each month inside the Circle you'll receive:
● Daily Yoga Nidra Delivery — welcomed into the Circle of Seers WhatsApp group, a living space of connection and accountability with a daily yoga nidra practice (live plus rare archive recordings)
● 1 x New Moon Circle — a 90-minute live online practice with Uma, recorded for anyone who can't attend
● 1 x Full Moon Circle — a 90-minute live online practice with Uma, recorded for anyone who can't attend
● 2 x Dream Net Lullabies a month — fortnightly live co-created Nidra sessions woven from the group's own dreams
● 1 x Dark Moon Tarot Nidra a month — a Motherpeace Tarot reading from Uma, woven into a Nidra
● Seasonal Community Nidras — special circles marking the turning points of the Celtic Wheel of the Year
A held, witnessed community that's been nourishing members since 2018 - so the cyclical wisdom you learn in training keeps being lived, moon by moon and season by season, all the way through your first year of teaching it.
How it Works
Format
8 weeks, fully online, live on Zoom.
Two 90-minute live sessions weekly, plus Self-study (~4 hrs/week).
Followed by 10 months of Circle of Seers membership (included).
Dates
Tuesday 27 October – Thursday 17 December 2026
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6:30–8:00pm UK time.
Your Circle of Seers membership then continues through to October 2027.
Live Online Sessions
Each 90 minutes, in three parts — restful practice with Uma, small-group Shakti Circle sharing, and whole-group enquiry.
Attendance
Live attendance for the 8 weeks of training is required.
Circle of Seers live circles are always recorded and shared.
Pre-Requisite
Completion of the Yoni Shakti: Well Woman Yoga Therapy Immersion before the full training begins.
Required Text
Yoni Shakti: A Woman’s Guide to Power and Freedom through Yoga and Tantra by Uma Dinsmore-Tuli
The Call
This is a shared, committed journey, not just eight weeks, but a full year, one that asks for your presence, your time, and your willingness to engage.
In return, it offers depth, connection, and a way of being that continues to unfold long after the live sessions end, held month by month in the Circle of Seers.
Spaces are limited to protect the depth of the group experience. Enrolment is now open.
What if?
You may have many questions about this course, we have some answers for your queries:
What if I am perimenopausal?
Then the cyclical restfulness and small Shakti circles in our online meetings will soothe and nourish your nervous system and reassure you that you are not alone.
What if I have trauma?
Then the trauma-informed, compassionate and loving space of the online meetings will hold space for you to navigate your responses, always at your own pace.
What if I am new to yoga?
Then you will find that this approach provides a perfect and authentic introduction to a way of practice that nourishes your body and soul.
What if I am not a yoga teacher?
Then you are in good company. Many of the people in the course do not have formal qualifications in yoga. It is not necessary to be a yoga teacher to do this course. Over the years, we have found that people coming from other routes often discover that what is shared fits beautifully within their own modalities. Massage therapists, doulas, midwives, post-partum carers, physiotherapists, physical therapists, counsellors, psychotherapists, and teachers of Pilates, dance and other movement practices all find that this course nurtures their own offerings for their community.
What if I don’t have time?
If you are feeling pushed for time, then you will likely discover that making the space in your day to commit to this course could feel challenging at first.
But then the magic happens.
If you can find the hour you need for these 8 weeks, you will likely feel that the gift of time you give yourself enables you to feel more spacious in your life.
If you can commit to including the restful being and community connection on this course, you will likely discover that this actually seems to give you more time to study and to remember.
Often, the busiest people are the ones who find how much the course means to them. Making space for restful being and rematriation can have a powerful impact.
Making space for yourself to do this course can help you to reprioritise what truly nourishes you in your life.
Making time for Yoni Shakti helps you make more time for yourself, your growth and your wellbeing.
What if I haven’t read that enormous fucking book?
Yoni Shakti is a big book. She contains multitudes.
If you feel overwhelmed — by love or by fear, or just by the size of Yoni Shakti — then this is the course for you.
This is like having the author, Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, take you by the hand and lead you through the whole of Yoni Shakti, chapter by chapter, showing how to practise and integrate all that she shares in the book.
Other FAQs
What are the TWO prerequisites for the course?
Before you start the course you are required to: 1) complete the Yoni Shakti: Well Woman Therapy Immersion Online and complete the evaluation at the end of the immersion, and 2) read Yoni Shakti: A Woman’s Guide to Power and Freedom through Yoga and Tantra.
Will the course be recorded to watch at a later date?
All students are required to attend the online sessions live. Recordings of the live online sessions are made available for six months after the end of the course for reflection and learning purposes.
I cannot make all of the sessions, is that ok?
Attendance at all of the sessions is preferred. However, we understand that this is not always possible. If you miss a live session, you will be asked to watch the recording and submit the key learning points from that session before the next session.
If you know you cannot make more than two of the retreat nights, you may want to wait until you have full availability to start the course.
How much course work is there during the course?
At a minimum, we encourage you to establish a daily practice of Yoga Nidra from the time of enrolment.
In addition, for each live online session, there is approximately 2 hours of additional video or reading material in the Online Learning Sanctuary which you will need to review in advance of the live session.
How is my learning assessed?
There are mini tests in the Online Learning Sanctuary which will assess your learning as you proceed through the course.
There will also be a group review of some case study scenarios. Only students who want to gain IAYT APD credits will need to submit the case study responses in writing.
I'm pregnant, can I attend?
Yes. These practices are well adapted to pregnancy.
Does the course cover yoga for pregnancy?
The course does not cover pregnancy yoga in much depth. Pregnancy yoga is such a big topic that it warrants a training of its own. Please see our website for the Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training that we offer.
Does the course cover yoga for the post-natal period?
Yes, yoga for post-natal recovery is a key part of the course.
Will I be a qualified Yoga Therapist at the end of the course?
The industry standard for yoga therapy training is an 800 hour specialised Yoga Therapy course. This training is not a full training in yoga therapy but will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of therapeutic approaches to women's health issues.
Is this course accredited?
Yes, this course is accredited as Approved Professional Development by the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT).
Why This Matters Now
What is Cycliteracy?
Cycliteracy is a deep and respective connection to the rhythm of life, in our body’s life cycles, in the lunar phases and solar dances, in the seasonal shifts and in the cyclical patterns of our own creativity, sexuality, vitality and community.
Rematriation is Cycliterate: for once we reconnect to the cyclical wisdom within, we feel the pull to respect the natural seasons and cycles of the wider world.
What is Rematriation?
Rematriation literally means a sacred return of our bodies to the land, to earth and ancestors. It is a surrender to a deeper wisdom, a conscious, embodied decolonisation, a reclamation of our intuitive embodied wisdom that has been occupied and demeaned by patriarchal empire. Rematriation is an experience of claiming this Land Back: dismantling the barriers of internal misogyny, shame and self-hatred so that we may re-embrace the land of our body wisdom and intuitive, cyclical knowing.
What you will experience
An experience of coming home to yourself.
A true sense of being at ease in the rhythms of your body.
A renewed trust in the wise cycles of your energy, vitality and emotions.
A shift in vitality, a sense of reconnection to your intuition, dreams and hopes.
A sense of belonging and joyful community that brings a physical confidence to your daily experience.
When you complete this course, this ‘un-training’, then your perspectives will shift, you will have a more complete understanding of how everything joins up.
You will come home to a clearer sense of your place in the whole
- as a Rematriated Cyclical, Cycliterate being.
These are the methods of teaching in each module:
Six Intuitive Healing Arts
Radical Acts of Restfulness
You learn through rest and reconnection. Total Yoga Nidra is the start of every module. Known as the yoga of sleep, Total Yoga Nidra is a guided and responsive practice that facilitates conscious sacred rest. This profound relaxation technique helps you reconnect with your inner guidance and intuition, offering healing, deep mental and emotional restoration. Please note that this is not a training in how to teach yoga nidra.
Yoni Shakti Yoga
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
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 devotions though bhakti song and kirtan.
Cycliteracy: 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 as you remember how to become a cycliterate being.
Sangha: Community
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.
Reconnection to Intuition
Everything that is shared, and the way it is presented, cultivates a renewed respect for your own intuition, to help you grow in your capacity to take authentic agency, to know in your bones and blood, what is best for you at each cycle of your life.
Five Fundamental Principles of
Embodied Wisdom
Rematriated Teaching Methods
We are walking the talk so you can live this wisdom: this course is not just about cyclical wisdom - the course is a cyclical experience. Your life cycles are the structure of this course.
All teachings and learning are clearly held in a six part rematriated framework evolved over thirty years, presented in Yoni Shakti (the book), and designed to match the needs of cyclical bodies.
This Cycliterate 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 to the flow of the life force energy through you in every cycle and season of your life. Cycliteracy is a life long project that extends throughout our lives. It did not start with menstruation and it does not stop at menopause.
This is not linear learning.
We circle around again and again into the cycles of life,
exploring each stage from different perspectives each time.
Female Siddhis
A siddhi is a spiritual superpower rooted in conscious awareness, and the female siddhis are:
Menarche (first menstrual bleed),
Menstrual cycle awareness,
Sexuality and creativity, our cycles of orgasmic and creative pleasures
Fertility, Conception and Pregnancy
Pregnancy losses and terminations (the presence of life and death in the womb)
Labour and Childbirth of every form
Lactation
Peri-menopause and the journey to post-menopausal wisdom
You may have been taught that the initiatory cyclical experiences that arise in female bodies are a burden when in fact, they are actually superpowers (siddhis). The Rematriation enables you to transform your lived relationship with the initiations into power which you were taught to believe required medicating or eradicating. To live as a Cycliterate being is to encounter a deep freedom by becoming conscious of these female ‘siddhis’ (Superpowers) as initiations into power (Yoni Shakti Chapter 8).
Five Bodies in One
You do not have simply one body - you have five. Everything shared in this course is experienced as a multidimensional practice that integrates all five dimensions of being: the physical body, the energy body, the mental and emotional body, the intuitive body of wisdom, and the causal body. Experiencing awareness in all five ‘bodies’ is a fundamental part of remembering our Source Power.
Physical body (earth: Annamaya Kosha)
Energy Body (water: Pranamaya Kosha)
Mental and Emotional Body (fire: Manomaya Kosha)
Intuitive Wisdom Body (air: Vigyanomaya Kosha)
Unending dance of cosmic bliss body (space: Ananda Maya Kosha)
TEN GREAT WISDOM MOTHERS
as Guardians and Guides
The Ten Great Wisdom Mothers are the guardians and protectors of each of the female siddhis and each module of this Rematriation
Kālī Mahavidyā (the dark mother of time herself) - Being in the now. Integrating all cyclical wisdom, living Cycliterately.
Tripura Sundari/ Ṣoḍasī Mahavidyā (the sixteen year old wisdom mother) - Celebrating Menarche and honouring the girls we were;
Tārā Mahavidyā (the guiding power of our own north star) - Guardian of Cycliteracy and Menstruality Consciousness, including cycle awareness as a lifelong practice – Healthy menstruation; Freeing ourselves and others from menstrual shame.
Bhuvaneśvarī Mahavidyā (she whose body is the universe, wisdom in spaciousness) – Menstrual cycle challenges; Yoga therapy and fertility; pregnancy and encountering the power of birth.
Mataṅgi & Kamalātmikā Mahavidyā (twin goddesses of creativity and sensual pleasure) – Positive Sexuality and Cyclical health – Making space for Creative Pleasures, Sensual pleasure – Inspiring radical creativity & self -love.
Chinnamastā Mahavidyā (the self-decapitating goddess) – Grief and Thanksgiving; near-death experiences of transformation, including the postnatal recovery period.
Bagalāmukhī Mahavidyā (the paralyser) – Navigating peri-menopause – the link between peri/menopause and postnatal recovery – Shaking off the fears; Facing ageing:
Bhairavī Mahavidyā (the terrifying fierce one) – Honouring Passages into the Power of menopause; setting aside what prevents us from speaking our truth; making choices for collective liberation
Dhūmavatī Mahavidyā – Menopause and beyond – Liberating Menopausal Potency to Heal; Healing from Intergenerational Trauma; Rewilding & the Wisdom of Forgetting.
Ayurvedic Elemental
Principles in Action
We inhabit a microcosm - our bodies are made of the elements that make up the whole universe. Maintaining a healthful balance between these elements is the basis of Ayurveda. And Ayurveda is the triplet sister of yoga and tantra. Three legs to the same stool. The same elemental philosophic understanding underpins all of them. This elemental understanding is fully integrated in all the practices of Yoni Shakti yoga.
What is included in the
Online Learning Sanctuary:
When you sign up for this Yoni Shakti Rematriation, you receive lifetime access to :
Practice Videos - An online library of over thirty Practice Videos specially recorded for this untraining, plus archive footage of practices. This material covers all the practices in Yoni Shakti, providing a complete audio visual guide to every practice in the book and course (approximately 13 hours of footage).
Yoga Nidra Audios - You receive over thirty downloadable audio tracks of yoga nidra and yoni nidra practices recorded by Uma for the support and elucidation of material and experiences in this course.
Lectures and Stories - You receive sixteen short video lectures specially recorded by Uma for this course - guiding you through the un-training.
Quizzes and Checks - Most of the practice videos and lectures are accompanied by short easy quizzes to consolidate your learning as you go along building confidence step by step, so you feel secure in your remembrance and embodied knowledge.
Learning Consolidation - This course has evolved over twenty years to build an integrated series of learning processes that deepen your understanding of the topics at an embodied, emotional and cognitive level so you feel secure in what you have learnt.
Teaching Practicum - This course includes in the final weeks of the online learning experience the opportunity to share some of the practices you have learnt with the sisters in your Shakti Circles in the course.
Certification - Successful completion of the course and attendance at all online sessions earns you a certificated
Further Growth and Support: Completion of this course is a prerequisite for entering The Nest - Uma’s nine-month long mentoring container and in-person and online retreats to support facilitators supporting their own communities.
Uma Dinsmore-Tuli is an Author, Whistleblower and Advocate for Intuition, Creativity and Rematriation.
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.
If you feel the call to step into this work, you are warmly invited to join us.
This is a shared, committed journey, one that asks for your presence, your time, and your willingness to engage.
In return, it offers depth, connection, and a way of being that can continue to unfold long after the course has ended.
We begin at Samhain and move together through to Yule.
Spaces are limited to support the depth of the group experience.
Enrolment is now open.
PRE-REQUISITE
You must have completed the pre-requisite Yoni Shakti: Well Woman Yoga Therapy Immersion before beginning this course.
INVESTMENT
This is your investment in your freedom, and the liberation of your community.
This is your investment in embodied education: it is not content consumption.
This is an investment in your well being and remembered power.
It is a unique offering, with no comparable alternatives:
It is a precious sanctuary of learning to remember and reconnect, to restore your rhythmic cycles and step with renewed power and confidence back into the world.
You can not only grow in your own confidence, but support others to rematriate and grow in their own wisdom too.
Course hours: 48
Accreditation:
The International Association of Yoga Therapists