Date: May 22th-25th, 2026
Four days, three nights retreat with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and Myriam Bartu.
This is a women's retreat. All women are welcome!
Especially anyone who wants to learn more about how yoga nidrā can support your creative process, or unblock creative flow.
Especially anyone who would like to learn more about yoga nidrā.
If you are wanting to explore yoga nidrā for your own personal practice - to inspire creativity, this is the retreat for you.
If you are considering learning to facilitate yoga nidrā for others - this is the retreat for you, because this weekend counts as the prerequisite for the Total Yoga Nidra Teacher Training.
If you are new to yoga nidrā and want to dive into the full range of practices on offer, then this is the retreat for you.
If you are an expert yoga nidrā facilitator, or you have done this course before - this will give you a fresh and inspiring perspective about the limitless possibilities of yoga nidrā for creativity. Unplug , disconnect from the distractions and noise and come back to peace and confidence. Ignite your feminine power and reconnect to your intuition.
Unplug , disconnect from the distractions and noise, come back to peace and confidence and reconnect to your intuition. All in the Shima retreat space, surrounded by mountains, rivers and forests in the Dishma valley.
Expect yoga therapy, yoga nidra, sound healing, meditation, nature immersion, forest bathing, dreamshare, Tarot reading and community to nurture the wisdom of your inner teacher whilst you deepen your understanding of Total Yoga Nidra.
A cosy yoga nidrā nest in which to rest.
10 yoga nidrā practices, with dedicated time to connect to your creative process after yoga nidrā.
Access to downloadable recordings of all yoga nidrās after the live event.
Access routes to unlimited creativity in a nurturing, community environment.
Nourishing time with the co-founder of the Yoga Nidra Network.
Time to connect to the wellspring of creative inspiration - Bring your notebooks, colours or needles. .. whatever form of creative expression you prefer!
44 page manual to accompany the teachings on yoga nidra (Total Yoga Nidra Immersion Course Manual: Creative and Comparative Approaches to Yoga Nidra).
Nutritious delicious vegetarian food served with vegan and gluten-free options.
The Total Yoga Nidra Immersion Experience is the pre-requisite for the full Total Yoga Nidra Teacher & Facilitator Training. Once you have completed this course, you will be eligible to start the full Teacher Training if you choose to.
Uma is a yoga therapist with special expertise in yoga therapy for women’s health. She has written four books on yoga for women, including the massive Yoni Shakti and two books on Yoga Nidra - Yoga Nidra Made Easy and Nidra Shakti and An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Yoga Nidra.
Uma shares yoga retreats, trainings and empowerments that support the natural arising of prana shakti: the power of life. She 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 and has been teaching yoga since 1994. She is co-founder of the Yoga Nidra Network and has developed Total Yoga Nidra, Wild Nidra, Yoni Nidra and Nidra Shakti: radical creative and intuitive approaches to sharing yoga nidra.
Uma identifies her teachings as “post-lineage” yoga, rooted in yoga tantra and 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).
Retreat Centre
Shima is a beautiful wooden retreat centre in the Dischma Valley, right by a river and forest.
Nutritious delicious vegetarian food is served with vegan and gluten-free options.
Retreat start:
Friday May 22, 2026 5:00 pm
Retreat end:
Monday May 25, 2026 2:00 pm
Retreat cost: 680 chf.-
Room & Meals at Shima:
Three nights full board
575 chf.- in a single room with own bathroom
515 chg.- in a single room with shared bathroom
500 chf.- in a twin room (with a friend)
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