YONI SHAKTI TRAINING - AN INVITATION TO CYCLITERATE REMATRIATION

An 8-night training retreat at Tara Nature Retreat, Italy, 90 min from Rome, yet in deep Nature.

with the teachers' teachers, Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and Sivani Mata Francis

This is an intense, extraordinary and liberating UN-training rooted in deep restfulness. It restores you to wholeness. It welcomes you home to the rhythmic cycles of your natural self. It calls on ancient feminine wisdom and calls our feminine power back within us.

Welcome Home to Your Self

You have arrived in exactly the right place at exactly the right time.

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 intuitive healing arts for female health and vitality?

The Yoni Shakti Training gives you the keys to power and freedom. This is an intense, extraordinary and liberating experience rooted in deep restfulness. It restores you to wholeness. It welcomes you home to the rhythmic cycles of your resting self. Yes, this is a training but really it is an un-training, it is a remembrance and a returning to that which your body already knows.

It enables you to recognise, confront and dismantle the limitations that disconnect you from Source, so that you can reclaim your wholeness and power, and help others to do the same.

This training retreat guides you back to your deep intuitive knowing through a programme of intuitive healing arts for lifelong female health, wellbeing and empowerment. This is a rematriation, a multi-dimensional nurturing of embodied wisdom. Yoni Shakti is our textbook, and our bodies are our guides. This programme is more than a training course: it is a call to action for all ready to reclaim their vitality and wisdom in a nurturing and supportive environment.

The Cycliterate experience offers you a reconnection to your intuition and embodied knowledge, a restoration of pelvic energies, and menstrual and peri/menopausal health. It restores your capacity to draw from the regenerative wellspring of your own deeply rested vitality, through a delicious reclamation of pleasure and an understanding of the links between fertility, Cycliteracy, restfulness and wellness, for lifelong vibrant health through every stage of experience.

In capitalist cultures that overlook and exploit the profound power of feminine energy, it is 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.

This 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 wellbeing, held with love and nurture by Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and Sivani Mata Francis.

The YONI SHAKTI CYCLITERATE REMATRIATION: AN UN-TRAINING enables you to recognise, confront and dismantle the limitations that disconnect you from Source, so that you can reclaim your wholeness and power, and help others to do the same. The Cycliterate experience offers you a reconnection to your intuition and embodied knowledge, a restoration of pelvic energies, menstrual and peri/menopausal health. This course restores your capacity to draw from the regenerative wellspring of your own deeply rested vitality, through a delicious reclamation of pleasure and understanding of the links between fertility, Cycliteracy, restfulness and wellness, for life long vibrant health, through every stage of experience. 

Who is this for?

This is for yoga practitioners, yoga teachers, yoga therapists and other professionals 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. You do not need to be a yoga teacher to do this training but some experience of yoga is necessary. 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.

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.  

This is a reclamation and honouring of the ancient roots of cyclical living and yoga therapy in service to the power of life in you. 

This is a down to earth, radical breath of fresh air. It’s a no-bullshit approach, deeply compassionate and a bit rude. It is actively encouraging of unpoliced authenticity and vulgarity in the service of your complete freedom to be yourself. It is joyful, humorous, shocking and profoundly decolonial, it is de-neuro-colonising. It is loving, welcoming and warm.

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 through 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.

Your facilitators:

Uma Dinsmore-Tuli

Uma has been teaching yoga for over 3 decades and is a yoga therapist with special expertise in yoga therapy for women’s health. Uma is a mother of three, and has written four books on yoga for women, including the massive Yoni Shakti, and two books on Yoga Nidra.

Uma trains specialist teachers in Total Yoga Nidra and Yoni Shakti Well Woman Yoga Therapy for menstrual and menopausal health, pregnancy, birth, and postnatal recovery. Uma is certified as a Yoga Therapist by the International Association of Yoga Therapy.

Sivani Mata Francis

Sivani Mata is an artist who is moved by a sensory and elemental exploration of life through practice that evokes the liminal experience of trance-like states of consciousness, and the centring of the awareness in heart. She believes in this process of deep inner work as a way to cultivate a harmonic relationship with the Earth.

Sivani Mata is a student of bhakti yoga, and shares Music as Medicine (kirtan & prayersong), Women’s Circles and Yoga Nidra amongst other offerings. Sivani Mata is grateful for this journey she finds herself on and the practices that support her path

Testimonial

Kate Codrington, Menopause Facilitator, Speaker & Author

My name is Kate Codrington, and I'm the author of Second Spring and the Perimenopause Journal. I'm a facilitator and speaker with a focus on menopause and ageing and have been a therapist for more than 30 years.

What I valued most was that both the Yogic philosophy, the physiology and the practices were woven together in a digestible way. For someone that struggles to learn on someone else's time-frame, it was really do-able and nourishing. The course also attracts a brilliant crew of like-minded people some of whom I'm still friends with a decade later.

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 Dasa Mahavidyas, powerful wisdom Goddesses. Woven throughout we celebrate the theme of reclaiming the tools of liberation and escape from internalised misogyny.

Ṣoḍasī & Tārā - Celebrating Menarche and honouring the girls we were; Menstrual cycle awareness - Freeing ourselves and others from menstrual shame.

Tārā & Bhuvaneśvarī - Menstrual cycle challenges; Yoga therapy and fertility.

Tārā, Mataṅgi & Kamalātmikā - Healthy menstruation; Positive Sexuality and Cyclical health - Making space for Creative Pleasures.

Mataṅgi & Kamalātmikā - Breast health; Heart guardianship; Sensual pleasure - Inspiring radical creativity & self-love.

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?

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.

Kālī - Integrating cyclical wisdom; Healing and dreaming the future we are together; Closings and openings.

What's Included?

• 63 contact hours of learning over 7 nights and 8 days

• 122 page printed manual with contributions from experts

• Long term access to a video library of 36+ videos (incl. Yoni Shakti practices and expert interviews) PLUS PDF content in our online learning sanctuary to consolidate and deepen your learning and teaching

• Over 30 downloadable Yoga Nidra and Yoni Nidra audio tracks recorded by Uma

• Daily devotions through bhakti song and kirtan with Sivani Mata

• Shakti yoga practice

• Opportunities for questions and discussions with course leaders

• Small mentoring groups held by course leaders

• Practical guidance

• Structured learning

• 8 real life case studies

• Access to recordings of all yoga nidras delivered live during the training retreat

• Delicious, nourishing vegetarian meals and snacks.

Upon completion of the course, you will receive:

• A certificate of graduation

• Lifetime access to our Graduate Circle

• Your listing in our Teachers Directory

• Approved Professional Development hours for C-IAYT Teachers - International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT)

Tara Nature Retreat, Italy - the venue

Hear Uma sharing the benefits of trainings at Tara Nature Retreat

Dates, Times and Location

This is an 8-night, in-person training retreat which includes long term access to video content to consolidate and deepen your learning and teaching.

Arrivals after 15:00 on Sat, September 4, 2027

Departures from 11:00 on Sat September 11, 2027

at Tara Nature Retreat, Italy How to get here: Take a Sulga bus from Rome FCO Airport or Rome Tiburtina train/bus station, and then we coordinate your taxi journeys from Todi bus station (Pian di Porto).

https://www.taranatureretreat.com/how-to-get-here

• Note: Google Maps does not give an accurate route for bus travel, use our link above instead

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

Energy Exchange

Private room 3'015 EUR

Shared room at 2'525 EUR

Private glamping at 2'665 EUR

Off-site at 2'175 EUR

Includes all meals, tuition, and access to pool and infrastructure. Does not include travel and insurance.

To book: click the 'Booking Inquiry' button below and fill in the form, or contact us at info@taranatureretreat.com

PRE-REQUISITE

To receive certification, you must have completed the on-line, pre-requisite Immersion - Yoni Shakti: Well Woman Yoga Therapy Immersion in English, French, or Italian (IT):

English - Yoni Shakti: Well Woman Yoga Therapy Immersion (£198)

French - Yoni Shakti: Immersion en ligne de Yogathérapie pour Femmes (français) (€228)

IT - Yoni Shakti: Terapia yoga per il benessere della donna - Corso intensivo online (Italiano) (€225)

Accreditation: 

Approved Professional Development (APD) with the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT).

This is the original source of Yoni Shakti. Uma Dinsmore-Tuli wrote the book.

This deep-dive training retreat is designed for yoga teachers, people working in women's health and keen yoga practitioners, ready to upskill in women's health and bring this work confidently into their own practice, classes and communities.

FAQs (link: learning.yoganidranetwork.org/p/yswwinperson-faq)