Shakti Rising Womens Yoga with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli

July 13th – 19th 2012

We have reduced the price of all our week long courses back to the 2007 prices

We realize that many people are having financial difficulties and now more than ever need to get away for a stress free week of yoga in the Burren.

Reduced to €690 (€650 unwaged)

For unwaged, please read Unwaged further discounts

This course is being registered with BWY to count as in-service for BWY

Possible to book a weekend or less than whole week of this July special women’s yoga retreat

The course begins with dinner on Friday 15th July 2011.

Stay	Cost	UnwagedCost
Leave Sunday	€340	€330
Leave Monday	€440	€420
Leave Tuesday	€540	€510
Leave Wednesday	€640	€600
Leave Thursday	€690	€650

Description of course

Shakti Rising Yoga for Women

This retreat is about yoga for women’s health and vital energy. It shares techniques to feel, nurture and build the feminine energy of Shakti for the practical healing and benefit of women in all stages of life. The course presents therapeutic and enlivening yoga practices to support all experiences of femininity throughout a woman’s life.

It is for beginners to yoga as well as those who are regular practitioners and also suitable for yoga teachers who sense that yoga could be of more practical use to all women in managing health, vital energy and well-being.

This week is especially for all women: it offers hatha yoga practices for women of all ages: women in their menstruating years, women in or beyond the menopause, women who are pregnant, women who are seeking to conceive, and women who no longer have a womb.

Yoga teachers will find this retreat to be an excellent opportunity to deepen their skills and understanding of how to respond to the needs of women's health issues in their classes. Uma will provide tutorial support and professional development for teachers wanting to grow their skills in this area.

The programme includes morning Shakti yoga and meditation, mudras and mantras for lunar practice, restorative yoga, yoga nidra, and also theory classes. The morning hatha class will be a fully integrated practice of asana, (postures), pranayama (breathing), mudra and bandha (energy locks and gestures) threaded with mantra (sound). Every hatha class will be specifically tailored to meet the needs and abilities of the women attending, with particular attention to respecting the different points in the menstrual cycle, or the cycle of life (postnatal, perimenopausal, menopausal) which each woman finds herself in that day.

As an experienced yoga therapist, Uma will be tailoring the practices to meet the needs and abilities of every student. There will also be opportunities for one-to-one yoga therapy consultations on women's health issues, and sessions of restorative yoga for vitality and peace: supported postures using props, to enable everyone to access the deep essence of poses with zero effort. This approach to yoga is deeply restorative and reviving.

The usual amazing vegetarian food is prepared by Paddi the chef, and daily organised outings into the Burren hills and by the sea with Dave Brocklebank who runs the centre.

The course is presented in an enjoyable experiential way, and there are also theory classes which will give you background information and understanding of the principles behind the enjoyable yoga classes and the use of yoga to manage women's health issues including menstruation, pre-menstrual tension, fertility, sub fertility, optimal fertility, assisted conception, feminine sexuality, and perimenopausal mood swings, headaches and hot flushes. Yoga practice will also address health issues related to the pelvic floor, including postnatal recovery and prolapse, and other issues of concern to women.

Devi puja (goddess worship through mantra) can be a very heart warming and empowering part of yoga for women; recognising and acknowledging the presence of the goddess within! So if you are interested, and the other course participants are interested, Uma can also lead sessions of mantra (chanting) focusing on the many aspects of the divine feminine energy within each and every woman.

The retreat combines theory and practice to offer you fresh perspectives, new understandings and a deep appreciation of the healing power of yoga as therapy to optimise your health and delight in feminine energy and vitality.

Cost of the course

The cost of the course is reduced to €690 and includes accommodation and vegetarian meals.

Further reduction to €650 for unwaged.

For unwaged, please read Unwaged further discounts

The food is cooked by Paddi the gourmet vegetarian chef who ran Seventh Heaven the well known restuarant in Galway city.

A single room costs €120 extra.

We eat lunch out locally and you will need to pay for this yourself.

Prices to attend part of a course

Additional nights stay at the centre

To avail of a cheaper flight you may like to stay an extra night or two. Cost is €35 per night. No meals included.

Availability of staying an extra night will only be known 1 week before the course start date, and will depend on the numbers attending the previous weeks course.

If the centre is full, you could always stay that night in Kinvara village with one of the many b&b’s.

Who is the course suitable for

This week is suitable to all levels and all ages and this particular week will be for women only.

Instructors


Uma Dinsmore-Tuli was first introduced to yoga at the age of four, and has been teaching yoga and meditation since 1986 and training yoga teachers and therapists since 2001.



" Uma has lovely soft energies, and is a very inspiring and caring yoga teacher with an abundant ‘motherly warm caring nature’ " - Dave

Her smile and laugh in infectious, and i know that she will have you beaming and smiling within 10 minutes of meeting her ;-)



She has a PhD in Communications from London University, a diploma in Yoga Therapy from the Yoga Biomedical Trust and is a recognised teacher of the British Wheel of Yoga.



Before yoga and mothering took over her life completely, Uma spent seven years as a journalist and ten years working as a lecturer, tutor and course designer in higher education. She draws on her experience as writer, educator and mother to create positive learning experiences and high standards of teaching, training, appraisal and support on all her courses.



Uma teaches the British Wheel of Yoga Module in Pregnancy Yoga, designed the British Wheel Module in Postnatal Yoga and is a member of the British Wheel of Yoga's Child Protection Steering Group. Uma is also a Breastfeeding Counsellor for the National Childbirth Trust. She co-organises the annual Yoga Gathering Santosa, and teaches the family yoga sessions at the Healing Field Gatherings and other festivals. As well as the pregnancy yoga teacher training module, Uma also designed and leads the Yogacampus early years yoga training course, covering family yoga sessions for parents and children from birth to four years.

Uma is a tutor on the Yoga Biomedical Trust/Yogacampus Yoga Therapy Foundation Course, and the Well Woman Yoga Therapy module. She has also worked as a tutor and assessor for Birthlight and British Wheel of Yoga training courses in pregnancy yoga, postnatal yoga and baby yoga.



Together with her husband, clinical hypnotherapist Nirlipta Tuli, she founded Sitaram Partnership in 1998 in order to promote the further education of yoga teachers, and to make yoga more accessible through classes in St Thomas's and King's College Hospital and other places in central and south London.



Uma is the author of three books about yoga therapy for women's health: Mother's Breath (a definitive guide to yoga breathing and awareness practices for pregnancy, postnatal recovery and mothering); Teach Yourself Yoga for Pregnancy and Birth (Hodder and Staughton) and Yoga for Living - Feel Confident (Dorling Kindersley). She has also produced a number of CDs and DVDs to support the practice of pregnancy, postnatal recovery yoga and yoga for the relief of stress.



Uma practices what she preaches: she is mother to three children: Tejomaya, Abhisheka, and Rajakumari Prayaag, who were all born at home in the Sitaram yoga rooms.

Timetable for the week

Friday arrival

Time	Activity
6:00 - 7:00pm	Arrival & Registration
7:00pm	Dinner by Paddi
8:00 - 8:30pm	Karma Yoga
9:00 - 10:00pm	Introduction & Deep relaxation

Typical day timetable

Time	Activity
7:30 - 9:45am	SHAKTI YOGA for women's health
10:00am	Brunch
10:45	Karma Yoga
11:30 – 5:00pm	Outdoor trip into the Burren
2:00pm	Lunch out locally
4:30pm approx	Return to centre
7:00pm	Dinner
7:45 - 8:15pm	Karma Yoga
9:00 - 9:45pm	Shakti Yoga and theory

Alternate days
Every second day, as well as the usual classes listed on the typical day's timetable above, we have an additional afternoon class. On these days we have morning, afternoon and evening classes.

Time	Activity
5:00 - 6:30pm	Restorative Yoga and theory class

Thursday departure

Time	Activity
7:30 - 9:45am	SHAKTI YOGA for women's health
10:00am	Brunch
11:00	Karma Yoga
12:00 noon	Depart

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