On Yoga Nidrā Shakti with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli
In this podcast episode, I sat down with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli (she/her) to talk about all things yoga nidrā.
For those of you who know me, you’ll know this is a practice I’m very passionate about, and it truly was an honour to chat with Uma in this episode, as she’s really a pioneer in the areas of women’s yoga and yoganidrā.
Uma first fell in love with yoga in 1969 at the age of 4 and has been practicing and sharing yoga in various ways since then. She is a yoga therapist, the author of six yoga books, including Nidrā Shakti, which you’ll hear about in the episode today, as well as the Co-founder of the Yoga Nidrā Network.
Recovering intuitive embodied and cyclical wisdom is at the heart of her writing and her approach to yoga therapy, and her practice and teaching respects the cyclical powers of the living earth, and honours human life cycles as spiritual initiations.
In this episode, we speak about:
- The goddess of yoga nidrā,
- Yoga nidrā as a radical rest practice,
- If it’s really true that a short yoga nidra practice can replace hours of sleep,
- The psychological and spiritual aspects of yoga nidrā,
- How to practice yoga nidrā with an ADHD brain,
- What a feminine approach to yoga nidrā looks like,
- What it means to be post-lineage and
- Uma shares her own daily yoga practice with us (I love asking people this question!).
Connect with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli
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Join my yoga nidra workshop in Brisbane on the 26th of April 2025
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