Womb Yoga
Womb yoga: London and Bristol workshops and Thirteen Mooons Tour (Southwest of England and Ireland)
In celebration of the completion of my new book, I am honoured and delighted to bring Womb Yoga to share around the country. This therapeutic and delicious approach to yoga especially for women integrates rhythmic asana (postures) with breath, sound, mudra (gesture) and bandhas (pelvic floor locks and seals) to enhance awareness of our inner woman’s wisdom and elemental connections.
Suited to all women, with or without previous experience of yoga.
This integrated and harmonious approach to hatha yoga is especially developed to bring comfort and joy to women. It is suited to all women, with or without previous experience of yoga. Women of all ages are welcome, whether you are complete beginners or super-experienced yoginis or yoga teachers. In fact, any woman who would like a feminine, nourishing and fluid practice with elegant movement flows, delicious breath work, resonant sound, and deep healing relaxation is invited to join her sisters for this women-only class.
Perhaps you are seeking to conceive, and would like to optimise our womb’s well-being? Perhaps you are in your moon-time and would like to enjoy a class where the teacher asks you how you are, listens to what you say, and then teaches practices that responds to how you or your womb feel this evening? Perhaps you are in a place where there is no regularity to your cycle and you would like time to connect with the rhythmic unfolding of feminine lunar consciousness in your body? Maybe you are coming to the end of your menstruating years and are seeking to embrace the heart seed of feminine wisdom as you enter menopause? Perhaps you have passed through menopause and would like to experience the delight of yoga which responds kindly to a woman’s body? Or maybe you just enjoy practicisng luscious yoga with your sisters? Pregnant, menstruating and menopausal women are all welcome.
Whatever your reasons, It’s time to honour the feminine wisdom of your womb with womb yoga. You can sign up for the whole series of five workshops, or come to just one or two workshops. We look forward to welcoming you this season. Jagadambe mataki jai!
Your tutor is Uma Dinsmore-Tuli PhD, yoga therapist, yoga teacher-trainer and author of Mother’s Breath, and Teach Yourself Yoga for Pregnancy and Birth.
These workshops are offered in London during the times when Uma is leading teacher training courses there for Yogacampus. They can also be offered at other locations for teacher development, in-service training, or for other groups of yoga students and women interested in this powerful form of self care and spiritual growth
Workshop dates for 2011
Two hours to explore further the renewing and revitalising effects of flowing asana with mudra, mantra and bandha. With superdeluxe savasana and yoga nidra.
Download the flier for the full tour dates, London, Bristol and the Southwest
All the London sessions are at the beautiful new Yogacampus Training Centre, The Life Centre, Islington:
1 Britannia Row, London N1 8QH
http://www.thelifecentre.com/islington/our-islington-location/
Sessions start promptly. You are warmly welcome to arrive up to half an hour before the start time to settle in, or have some tea and time to chat. Location details can be found online through the links provided.
There is an ONLINE BOOKING service for the London workshops so that you can reserve your place in advance.
For all other dates please mail directly to Mariella at
Womb yoga in Stroud and Bristol:
Weekly sessions, and also bi-monthly, lunar yoga sessions for women only
The weekly sessions in Stroud are open to all women on Monday evenings 1930 til 2100 at The Subscription Rooms, George Street, Stourd GL5 1AE. The Subsrciption Rooms are two minute’s walk from the railway station right in the centre of Stroud town. Please note these sessions don’t run on bank holiday Mondays, and also that during April there is only one session on 4th April. I do have some mats and
bolsters at the venue, but it is nice if you are able to bring your own mat and blanket. It costs £7 per clas drop in.
The weekly sessions in Bristol are open to all women on Wednesday mornings 1000 til 1130 at the truly wonderful community co-operative yoga studios, Yogasara, 10-12 Picton Street, Montpelier, Bristol BS6 5QA. Yogasara is half way along Picton Street. There are plenty of blankets, mats and bolsters at the venue, so just turn up. It costs £9 per clas drop in.
The bi-monthly, lunar sessions are really special, responsive and nurturing classes, held at New Moon and Full Moon only, from 1830 til 2030 in the Sitaram Yoga Studio in Stroud, with the focus on the lunar cycle, and upon the seasons of a women’s months and years. Each class begins with deep rest time using well propped and supported restorative poses, followed by time to check in, share, and discover the mood and energy of the group. The class focuses on practices which are suited to the time and place that the women who are attending find themselves in that week. A two hour asana, pranayama and yoga nidra session followed by meditation, satsang and shared supper at Sitaram Studio in Stroud. The teachers are either Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, Frances Lewis or Lucy Clarke. Booking: Places limited to 13 each week. Please email Uma if you would like to attend:uma@sitaram.org or txt only ‘Womb Yoga Stroud’ to 07595322779
Dates for lunar womb yoga sessions for the first six months of 2011
Tuesday 4th January New Moon
Wednesday 19th January Full Moon
Thursday 3rd February New Moon
Friday 18th February Full Moon
Friday 4th March New Moon
Saturday 19th March Full Moon
Sunday 3rd April New Moon
Monday 18th April Full Moon
Tuesday 3rd May New Moon
Tuesday 17th May Full Moon
Wednesday 1st June New Moon
Tuesday 15th June Full Moon
Friday 1st July New Moon
Friday 15th July Full Moon
Saturday 30th July New Moon
Cost: By donation, or by energy exchange. £9 minimum donation suggested for each class
Booking: Places limited to 13 each week. Please email Uma if you would like to attend:uma@sitaram.org or txt only ‘Womb Yoga Stroud’ to 07595322779
There will be much Womb Yoga at Summer and Spring Santosa Yoga Camps, and at the Santosa Ireland camp so if you would like to attend, please visit the Santosa page.