April 22, 2025 5:00 PM UTC
Author Uma Dinsmore-Tuli PhD ADHD is an advocate for intuition and rematriation. She met yoga in 1969, and is also an author of 6 books and is the co-founder of the Yoga Nidra Network.
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Nirlipta Chaitanya Naveen Tuli MA is a maker of visionary sacred art. He has been creating vibrant paintings and illustrations since 1981.
Learn moreHere is your chance to lay down and meditate upon the power of rest, to encounter yoga nidrā in the comfort of your own home. This webinar gives you a direct encounter with this liminal state of consciousness, a chance to explore what it is, where it comes from, and how it feels.
This experiential, collaborative webinar introduces you to Total Yoga Nidrā. Yoga nidrā is a cosmic nap, a horizontal meditation, the sleep of the yogis. Here is your chance to lay down and meditate upon the power of rest, to encounter yoga nidrā in the comfort of your own home. This webinar gives you a direct encounter with this liminal state of consciousness, a chance to explore what it is, where it comes from, and how it feels.
All you need to do is make a comfortable nest of rest for yourself, with a mat, or a sofa, or even a bed upon which to rest and simply be supported through expert facilitation in an online community of other restful humans. There is nothing that you need to do: lie down in your comfortable little nest of rest, and listen.
This is a radical act of community rest, during which we shall collaborate to make a co-creative yoga nidrā to support the collective restoration of health and well-being of humans, and the more-than-human world, including the living earth. You will be given the opportunity to call in what you need to hear as you rest. Your expert facilitators, who have over sixty years of combined experience in sharing yoga nidrā, will work with your words, to create a uniquely collaborative yoga nidrā with acoustic instrumentation and gentle soundscape.
There will also be opportunities to learn a little about the ancient and indigenous histories of yoga nidrā and to ask questions about its contemporary relevance, at a time when most of the human species is profoundly exhausted. This webinar gives you an embodied experience of yoga nidrā, and a taste of some of the deeper issues and teachings that will be presented in the upcoming Advaya course on Yoga Nidrā: Yoga Nidrā Shakti: the power of rest - an experiential exploration of the history, philosophy, art and science of Yoga Nidrā.
Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, author of Yoga Nidrā Made Easy and Nidrā Shakti: the Power of Rest, an Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Yoga Nidrā is your facilitator for this webinar, and she will be supported by Nirlipta Tuli, co-founder of the Yoga Nidra Network. Together they will hold a restful and nurturing space to provide you with a direct encounter with the power of rest in the form of Total Yoga Nidrā.
Author Uma Dinsmore-Tuli PhD ADHD is an advocate for intuition and rematriation. She met yoga in 1969, and is also an author of 6 books and is the co-founder of the Yoga Nidra Network.
Learn moreAuthor 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.
Nirlipta Chaitanya Naveen Tuli MA is a maker of visionary sacred art. He has been creating vibrant paintings and illustrations since 1981.
Learn moreNirlipta Chaitanya Naveen Tuli MA is a maker of visionary sacred art. He has been creating vibrant paintings and illustrations since 1981. Working at the powerful intersection of dream visions and the traditional devotional art forms of his Indian heritage, Nirlipta uniquely re-imagines South Asian sacred art on a grand, powerful scale for the 21st-century. From the far boundaries of meditative and cosmic perspectives, Nirlipta draws also upon his training in art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art (BA Hons 1996), and his post-graduate studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (MA Indian Religions, 1998) Nirlipta‘s mission as an artist and illustrator is to offer a direct visual connection to the immense power of the universal life force. Since 2022, Nirlipta has embarked on an undertaking that he feels has been assigned to him, and which he is obliged to do. It is in the form of a geas, which can be a gift or a curse, in this case coming from the form of Wisdom Goddess Bhairavi; to begin and complete over the next decade or so, 108 complete sets of the ten images of the Mahavidyas, based on the images of them recovered from (what was the medieval period in Europe), around the tenth century. This will be 1,080 paintings, plus preparatory studies to be made of them over the next decade or so. They are to be of differing sizes, to be created of the best materials possible, with the finest qualities of oil paint and supports, and are to be sold to, or commissioned by, interested individuals and parties. The prices paid for them will be handsome and of substance. It has been made clear to Nirlipta that these are not decorative paintings, but are in fact objects of power and luck. Their primary purpose is to act as portals for the energies of the Mahavidyas to come from there to here, from their reality to ours. These are not paintings for everyone, but for people with some intuitive connection to these Wisdom Goddesses, who realise, respect and revere their significance. They will be unique creations, blending themes from diverse sources; from neuroscience (relating to how our eyes and brain can be affected), from traditional oil painting, to shamanic and mystical experience, to meditative transformation from yoga and the philosophy of Samkhya; and from Tantric antecedents, of power, liberation of energy and expansion of consciousness.