Courses, Workshops & Retreats

Uma asks ‘How may I be of service to you today?’ In person and online 1-1 Yoga Therapy, Mother Peace Tarot & Mentoring with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli.

Yoni Shakti: Rematriation and Training Retreat (formerly known as Well Woman Yoga Therapy Teacher Training)
with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli
at Yoga Pop, Bordeaux, France.
Content delivered in English with French translation.

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.

The Total Yoga Nidra Teacher and Facilitator Training trains yoga teachers and others to teach and facilitate yoga nidra with confidence in class settings, one-to-ones, and for a range of therapeutic applications. Uniquely amongst yoga nidra trainings, it offers Total Yoga Nidra, a comprehensive, inclusive and non-dogmatic approach to yoga nidra that respects and explores not only a range of practice methods, but also acknowledges a variety of different levels of experience during yoga nidra.
We are delighted to be offering this course in a new hybrid form; part one in person with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and Suze Retera in Amsterdam and part two online.

with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli & Sivani Mata Francis.

Welcome to this one-day retreat held in the beautiful Mahavidya Temple nestled in the Heavens Valley, Stroud; and celebrating the powerful energy of Hanumān, the monkey-man who inspires faith in the impossible. 

Are you looking for a healing circle to reconnect to your cyclical wisdom?
Would you welcome companionship and affirmation on your menstrual and menopausal journey?
Would it nourish you to be held in a circle of compassionate listening?
Would you love to be heard and seen by your sisters on all stages of our journeys, including menstruation, fertility journeys, postnatal recovery, perimenopause and menopause?
Then you are invited to join Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and Sivani Mata Francis in this friendly circle of belonging to nurture our well being.
Future circles also available to book: Lammas: Wednesday 29 Jul 2026, Samhain: Thursday 29 October 2026

An online, weekend retreat-style course for facilitators of yoga nidra with 12 hours of expert tuition, guidance and practice.

Do you teach/facilitate yoga nidra live and/or online?
Do you wish to become more creative in your guiding of this practice live and/or online?
Do you want to become more intuitive and responsive in the ‘scripts’ you share with your
clients and yoga nidra classes live and/or online?
Then this is the course for you. It’s a practical , inspiring and grounded approach to accessing more intuitive and creative methods of sharing yoga nidra. It shares methods for offering creative and intuitive yoga nidra both live and online.

This immersive retreat offers yoga therapy, Total Yoga Nidra, sound healing, meditation, nature immersion, forest bathing, dreamshare, and Tarot reading with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and Myriam Bartu, all designed to nurture the wisdom of your inner teacher. Held at the beautiful Shima retreat space, surrounded by mountains, rivers and forests in the Dischma Valley outside Davos, Switzerland, this retreat offers deep rest, restoration and inspiration. It also includes the full Total Yoga Nidra Immersion, a pre-requisite for the Yoga Nidra Network’s Total Yoga Nidra Teacher & Facilitator Course.

Reconnect to your intuition, creativity and dreams through daily Total Yoga Nidra and fluid, nourishing yoga. This retreat is open to anybody who is interested in reconnecting to intuition and enhancing creativity through the experience of Total Yoga Nidra, deep relaxation and nutritious yoga therapy with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, PhD.

The focus of the retreat is to nurture intuitive knowing and dream connection through deep rest, yoga nidrā and yoga therapy to nourish well-being. Uma welcomes complete beginners, as well as regular yoga practitioners, yoga teachers, yoga therapists, and anybody who would enjoy daily cosmic naps and individually tailored therapeutic yoga.

Reconnect to your intuition, creativity and dreams through daily Total Yoga Nidra and fluid, nourishing yoga. This retreat is open to anybody who is interested in reconnecting to intuition and enhancing creativity through the experience of Total Yoga Nidra, deep relaxation and nutritious yoga therapy with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, PhD.

The focus of the retreat is to nurture intuitive knowing and dream connection through deep rest, yoga nidrā and yoga therapy to nourish well-being. Uma welcomes complete beginners, as well as regular yoga practitioners, yoga teachers, yoga therapists, and anybody who would enjoy daily cosmic naps and individually tailored therapeutic yoga.

Uma will be back at Buddhafield for the 10th year running offering daily, morning Yoga Nidra. Buddhafield Festival is a joyful gathering of people who come together to celebrate community and connection with the land. The festival offers diverse activities, including song, dance, arts and crafts, yoga, meditation, and play, all without alcoholic drinks or recreational drugs, creating a loving and life-affirming space.

Under the sun and stars, there are workshops, Buddhist teachings, and rituals, making it an open and inclusive event for everyone, regardless of their background or beliefs. The festival is family-friendly, and the theme for 2026 is Waves of Stillness.

Join Uma on the stunning island of Crete, hosted by our friends at Yoga Rocks, for a week of deep rest. There will be twice daily sessions of yoga, yoga nidra (the yoga of sleep), mantra, song, breath and meditation for all levels, special time for intuitive reflections, with one day off to bask in the stunning surroundings. Uma teaches a fluid variation of yoga therapy movements during this retreat. This retreat is suitable from complete beginners to advanced, and for all ages, and all levels of fitness and experience.
Book by 10 December 2025 and get a 10% early bird discount.

Are you looking for a healing circle to reconnect to your cyclical wisdom?
Would you welcome companionship and affirmation on your menstrual and menopausal journey?
Would it nourish you to be held in a circle of compassionate listening?
Would you love to be heard and seen by your sisters on all stages of our journeys, including menstruation, fertility journeys, postnatal recovery, perimenopause and menopause?
Then you are invited to join Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and Sivani Mata Francis in this friendly circle of belonging to nurture our well being.
Future circles also available to book: Samhain – Thursday 29 October 2026

In Person Retreat led by Yoga Nidra Network co-founder Uma Dinsmore-Tuli PhD with contributing teacher and co-founder of Tara Nature Retreat Timothy Patey PhD. EARLY BIRD – register by Mar 1, 2026 to receive a 100 EUR discount.

Join us in the beautiful Tara Nature Retreat for this 9 night training retreat. The Total Yoga Nidra Teacher and Facilitator Training trains yoga teachers and others to teach and facilitate yoga nidra with confidence in class settings, one-to-ones, and for a range of therapeutic applications. This training will be delivered in English.

Uma is delighted to be returning to Om & Bass Festival 2026 top share radical rest in the form of Total Yoga Nidra. Om & Bass was the UK’s first wellness and musical festival! Spreading wellbeing and joy to the masses!

This Professional Development course offers practical, trauma informed strategies for yoga nidra facilitators to co-create therapeutic yoga nidra for women’s health, with groups and with individuals. This a 12 hour live, online course led by Uma Dinsmore Tuli.

with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, Lisa White and guest teachers.

In this unique 75 hour online training, you will learn practical and effective yoga therapeutic techniques to nurture healthy pregnancy, support empowered birth from the author of Mother’s Breath and Teach Yourself Yoga for Pregnancy and Yoni Shakti.
We only run this online training once a year, so now’s your chance!
Earlybird – save £108 if you book before 21 March 2026. Payment plans available.

Yoni Shakti Bookclub Online with Uma Dinsmore Tuli PhD, author of the seminal Yoni Shakti: A Woman’s Guide to Power and Freedom Through Yoga and Tantra.
Meet online on Wednesday 23, 30 September & 07 Oct 2026 7-8.30pm (UK Time).
Have you read Yoni Shakti? Have you read a bit of Yoni Shakti and would like to read more? Would you like to hear some of the stories read to you by Uma Dinsmore Tuli on an audio file? Would you enjoy to discuss the ideas with Uma and with other readers? Then the Yoni Shakti book club is for you.

Yoni Shakti: Rematriation and Training Retreat (formerly known as Well Woman Yoga Therapy Teacher Training)
with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and Sivani Mata

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.

In Person Total Yoga Nidra Immersion Retreat led by Uma Dinsmore-Tuli PhD, author of Nidra Shakti.

Join us in the beautiful Amara Valley for this 3 night retreat. Everyone is welcome to join us in this nourishing residential retreat in nature. A unique chance to take the Total Yoga Nidra Immersion in person, in a retreat setting at the stunning Amara Valley Nature and Wellness Retreat Centre in the heart of Catalunya.

with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli & Sivani Mata Francis.

Welcome to this one-day Yoni Shakti retreat exploring intuitive healing arts for female health, vitality, wellbeing and empowerment; and held in the beautiful Mahavidya Temple nestled in the Heavens Valley, Stroud.

This retreat is a call to reclaim your feminine power.
This is a call to come home to your rested self.
This is a call to restore your rhythmic cycles of wellbeing.
This is a call to come home to your intuition.
This is a call to revitalise your embodied feminine essence.

This is not just a retreat day, this is a rematriation, a multi-dimensional nurturing of embodied wisdom. Re-awaken your intuition and reclaim your vitality. Reconnect to the wellspring of deep intuitive knowing. Welcome wholeness and cyclical wisdom.

Are you looking for a healing circle to reconnect to your cyclical wisdom?
Would you welcome companionship and affirmation on your menstrual and menopausal journey?
Would it nourish you to be held in a circle of compassionate listening?
Would you love to be heard and seen by your sisters on all stages of our journeys, including menstruation, fertility journeys, postnatal recovery, perimenopause and menopause?
Then you are invited to join Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and Sivani Mata Francis in this friendly circle of belonging to nurture our well being.

Are you feeling the seasonal call to rest? To resist the forced excitement of commercial festivities, and instead to pause and truly be Wintering?

Join us on this specially created wintering retreat – welcoming you home to your own resting self through multiple practices of the deep relaxation practice of yoganidra – the yoga of sleep. No physical movement required, just a willingness to be snuggled up and reconnect to your intuition, to your creativity and to your own rested self.

Experience being nurtured and nourished, restore your rhythmic cycles of healthful well being and participate in radical acts of collective restfulness.