Speaker Bio

Author Uma Dinsmore-Tuli PhD ADHD is an advocate for intuition and rematriation. She met yoga in 1969, at the age of four, and fell in love. She’s been practicing ever since, sharing cyclical, therapeutic yoga since 1994. Co-Founder of the Yoga Nidra Network, Uma has written six books, including Nidra Shakti: the Power of Rest - An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Yoga Nidra and Yoni Shakti: A Woman's Guide to Power and Freedom through Yoga and Tantra.

Recovering intuitive embodied and cyclical wisdom is at the heart of her writing and her approach to yoga therapy, which always includes yoga nidrā. Her work intersects intuitive healing arts with yoga nidra and yoga therapy (including dream decoding and Motherpeace Tarot reading).

A yoga therapist with special expertise in yoga therapy for women’s health, Uma holds diplomas in Yoga Therapy from the Yoga Biomedical Trust, and Mukunda Stiles. In 2020, she established the Yoni Shakti 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 co-created the annual community Santosa Living Yoga and Bhakti Camp which ran for 17 years, with five daily yoga nidra practices at the heart of the camp schedule.

Umā trains specialist teachers in Total Yoga Nidra and Yoni Shakti Yoga Therapy for menstrual and menopausal health, pregnancy, birth, and postnatal recovery. She is certified as a Yoga Therapist by the International Association of Yoga Therapy and her diplomas in Yoga Therapy are from the Yoga Biomedical Trust, and the late Mukunda Stiles (Structural and Ayervedic Yoga Therapy). She has developed Total Yoga Nidra, Wild Nidra, Yoni Nidra and Nidra Shakti: radical creative and intuitive approaches to sharing yoga nidra.

Uma’s passion as a writer and as a teacher is to transmit clarity of awareness, creativity and profound vitality. She identifies these teachings as radical acts of rematriation, rooted in intuitive arts and in yoga tantra, drawing on a variety of yogic traditions to share deeply nourishing and enlivening practices appropriate for contemporary life. Her practice and teaching respects the cyclical powers of the living earth, and honours human life cycles as spiritual initiations (including menarche, conscious menstruation, menopause, birth and postnatal recovery). Uma dedicates her life's work to her three children, and to the future of a rested humanity, reconnected to intuition and to land.