Nourished by Our Roots:
a welcoming women’s retreat, in the West of Ireland.

You are warmly invited to join our Circle of Belonging –
All women of all ages, and from every part of the world are welcome!

Come share and celebrate the initiations of womanhood, encounter the Wisdom Goddesses within, reconnect to the land and to our roots through a creative weaving of Indo-Celtic and Native American
Medicine teachings. 

Women only, girls welcome.

The retreat will be offered by Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and Yoli Maya Yeh, with contributions and support from Clare Osborne, Saraswati Bella Hancock, Fiona Tierney (tbc), Kitty Maguire, Siobhan Moylan, Eilís Vaughan and a nurturing team of powerful sisters.

Programme Includes:

• Twice daily Total Yoga Nidra
• Peace Circles
• Fire rituals
• Song, drums and devotional music
• Dance
• Women’s yoga (Yoni Shakti), Celtic Yoga
• Restorative and therapeutic yoga
• Native American teachings
• Movement in the Land
• Time to be
• Griefs and praises circle
• Dreamtime sharings
• Laughter!
• Delicious food, eating together
• Time in nature
• Quiet times
• Meditations
• Craic agus ceol!

Proposed Schedule

Starts 5pm Wednesday 24 July – closes 1pm Sunday 28 July 2019

All activities optional, allowing you take time for your own process of reconnection to the land and the women upon her!

Arrivals from 1600 Wednesday 24 July
Welcome Home to Yourself 

1700 Total Yoga Nidra with UMA  - Welcoming into the Circle - Landing and Rooting
1730 Opening our circle with YOLI and UMA
1930 Eating together
2030 Fire ritual with YOLI

Thursday 25 July from 0800 til 2100 
with lunch as our main meal together 1300 and evening meal at 1830  
Healing the Past- Meeting and Welcoming the Girls we were with Menarche Ritual, and other practices 

Exploring menarche (our first period) to reflect upon and honour all aspects of our inner girl. Through games, sharing, writing and yoga medicine we will invite a sense of empowerment that can serve ourselves as well as daughters, nieces, goddaughters, sisters, granddaughters and friends. 

6.30am Early morning yoga / meditation practice alone or together (optional)
8:00-8:30/9am Breakfast
8.30am Morning Call  – Invocations, prayers, mantra and devotional music 
9:00-11:30am Morning Session with Uma including, reflections, movement, sound, gesture and Total Yoga Nidra
11:30-12:00pm Small Shakti Circles of women, sharing internal weather report and dream share with the Yogini web
12:00-1pm Lunch (main meal of the day)
1:00-3:15pm Free time and optional activities with the team 
3:30-5:30pm Afternoon Session with Uma including, reflections, movement, sound, gesture and Total Yoga Nidra
5:30-6:30pm Light dinner
6:30-7:30pm Free time and optional activities
7:30pm Fire ceremony & kirtan (devotional music) led by Yoli
9.00pm Retire to slumber

Friday 26 July from 0800 til 2100
with lunch as our main meal together 1300 and evening meal at 1830    
Healing the Present: Honoring the Moon Inside- Meeting and Welcoming our dance with the moon cycles 

Celebrating Cyclical wisdom, Menstruality Consciousness Raising and Deepening Practices, Griefs and Praises Circle 

Throughout a woman's life, powerful rhythms are at work.  Learning to be conscious of these rhythms improves our quality of life and our fertility (which includes our creativity!). On this day we will experience practical techniques for developing menstrual awareness. For those experiencing pregnancy, we will map the menstrual seasons onto the journeys of conception and birth. For the perimenopausal, menopausal and postmenopausal women we will revisit what we learn in menstruation to acquire a crucial tool for navigating menopause. With healing yoga movement, breath, sound and gesture. 

6.30am Early morning yoga / meditation practice alone or together (optional)
8:00-8:30/9am Breakfast
8.30am Morning Call  – Invocations, prayers, mantra and devotional music 
9:00-11:30am Morning Session with Uma including, reflections, movement, sound, gesture and Total Yoga Nidra
11:30-12:00pm Small Shakti Circles of women, sharing internal weather report and dream share with the Yogini web
12:00-1pm Lunch (main meal of the day)
1:00-4:15pm Griefs and Praises circle with Yoli
4-5:30pm Afternoon Session with Uma including, reflections, movement, sound, gesture and Total Yoga Nidra
5:30-6:30pm Light dinner
6:30-7:30pm Free time and optional activities
7:30pm Fire ceremony & kirtan (devotional music) led by Yoli
9.00pm Retire to slumber

Saturday 26 July from 0800 til 2100
with lunch as our main meal together 1300 and evening meal at 1830    
Welcoming the Great Change and Healing the Future- Owning Uncertainty - Perimenopause and Menopause as initiations into power and Homecoming. Stepping into our power practices.

Welcoming perimenopause, menopause and beyond as the most challenging and rewarding seasons of our lives. We will encounter practical ways to meet and embrace the power of change as we age. This day offers nourishing movement, soulful sound and breath meditation (for temperature regulations and mood swings) practices and reflections to help us integrate the power of our later years. With evening celebration.

6.30am Early morning yoga / meditation practice alone or together (optional)
8:00-8:30/9am Breakfast
8.30am Morning Call  – Invocations, prayers, mantra and devotional music 
9:00-11:30am Morning Session with Uma including, reflections, movement, sound, gesture and Total Yoga Nidra
11:30-12:00pm Small Shakti Circles of women, sharing internal weather report and dream share with the Yogini web
12:00-1pm Lunch (main meal of the day)
1:00-3:30pm Free time and optional activities with the team 
3:30-5:30pm Afternoon Session with Uma including, reflections, movement, sound, gesture and Total Yoga Nidra
5:30-6:30pm Light dinner
6:30-7:30pm Free time and optional activities
7:30pm Fire ceremony & kirtan (devotional music) led by Yoli
9.00pm Retire to slumber

Sunday 27 July from 0800 til 1400
with lunch as our main meal together 1300  
Homecoming and Integration- realising the power of our dreams, and the delusion of the consensus reality

Closing circle of gratitude and appreciation; 12 noon.
Departures after lunch

6.30am Early morning yoga and meditation practice alone or together (optional)
8:00-8:30/9am Breakfast 
8.30am Morning Call – Invocations, prayers, mantra and devotional music
9:00-11:30am Morning Session with Uma including, reflections, movement, sound, gesture and Total Yoga Nidra
11:30-12:00pm Closing Circle with Yoli
12:00-1pm Lunch (main meal of the day) & Departures

Supporting Activities:

This is a listing of other optional indoor or outdoor activities offered from our retreat team. 

Movement in Nature with Claire, Dance with Saraswati Bella, Flow yoga with Kitty…

JAI MĀ