Uma Dinsmore-Tuli PhD ADHD
Co-Founder, Author & Lead Teacher
Uma Dinsmore-Tuli PhD ADHD is one of the world’s leading voices on cyclical wisdom, yoga nidrā and the rematriation of feminine power. She met yoga in 1969, at the age of four, and fell in love. She’s been practising ever since, sharing cyclical, therapeutic yoga since 1994. Uma has written six books, including Nidrā Shakti: The Power of Rest – An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Yoga Nidrā and Yoni Shakti: A Woman’s Guide to Power and Freedom through Yoga and Tantra, and trains specialist teachers in Total Yoga Nidrā and Yoni Shakti.
Recovering intuitive embodied and cyclical wisdom is at the heart of her writing and her approach to yoga therapy, which always includes yoga nidrā: the power of rest. In 2020, she established the Yoni Shakti The Movement – Campaign to Eradicate the Abuse of Women in Yoga. Following a two-year court case, she defended her right to publish details of abusers named in Yoni Shakti.
Uma offers 1-1 sessions both on Zoom and in person, and is the lead teacher for the Yoni Shakti and Total Yoga Nidrā offerings, as well as hosting her Circle of Seers and The Nest communities. She is an internationally respected teacher, educator and keynote speaker, bringing her expertise in yoga nidrā, cycliteracy and rematriation to events, conferences and retreats worldwide.
Uma dedicates her life’s work to her three children and to the future of a rested humanity, reconnected to intuition and to land.
Nirlipta Chaitanya Naveen Tuli MA
Co-Founder, Sacred Artist & Teacher (1964–2026)
Nirlipta Chaitanya Naveen Tuli MA (1 February 1964 – 18 July 2026) was co-founder of the Yoga Nidra Network and a maker of visionary sacred art. Born in Luton to Indian parents in 1964, Nirlipta first encountered yoga in 1987 in HMP Blantyre House. Teaching yoga since 1989, he held an MA in Indian Religions, a diploma in clinical hypnotherapy and a degree in art history.
Working at the powerful intersection of dream visions and the traditional devotional art forms of his Indian heritage, Nirlipta uniquely reimagined South Asian sacred art on a grand, powerful scale for the twenty-first century. He created all the illustrations for Uma’s book Yoni Shakti: A Woman’s Guide to Power and Freedom through Yoga and Tantra.
From 2022 until his passing, Nirlipta embarked on an undertaking that he felt had been assigned to him: to begin and complete 108 complete sets of the ten images of the Mahavidyas: 1,080 paintings based on images of the Wisdom Goddesses recovered from around the tenth century. These works were not intended as decorative paintings, but as objects of power and portals for the energies of the Mahavidyas to come from there to here, from their reality to ours.
These foundational images continue to inspire and inform the Yoga Nidra Network’s many bodies of work. Although the full remit of 1,080 paintings was not completed before Nirlipta’s passing, many were completed and remain available to buy. His legacy lives on through his art, his teaching and the countless lives touched by his extraordinary vision.
Together
Together, Uma and Nirlipta founded the Yoga Nidra Network and devoted their lives to sharing therapeutic yoga and yoga nidrā. Proud to make their home in Stroud, a funky rural town in the Cotswold Hills of England, they shared the family home with an ever-changing constellation of family, friends and cats. Their three children were all born at home in the Sitaram South London Yoga Centre where, for ten years, they shared therapeutic yoga and yoga nidrā with thousands of local families. Proud to make their home in Stroud, they shared a deep reverence for dreams, Indian food and the goddess Nidrā Shakti.
