Inside Menopause Activism with Uma Dinsmore Tuli

This is a deliciously sweary episode, so if explicit language is not your thing, please choose a different interview. But I have to say it’s very juicy.

Uma Dinsmore Tuli is a force of nature, a yoga therapist with special expertise in women’s health, mother of three, and has written four books on yoga for women, including the massive Yoni Shakti now in its fourth printing and updated.

 Uma is co-founder of the Yoga Nidra Network and has developed Total Yoga Nidra, Wild Nidra and Nidra Shakti: radical creative and intuitive approaches to sharing yoga nidra. More recently she’s initiated Yoni Shakti The Movement whose purpose is to Eradicate abuse of women in yoga: take action to reclaim yoga as a tool for planetary healing and justice. 

 Stitching together our conversation as Uma sewed I asked her about her experience of her menopause so far, about rage and tenderness, about her childhood and of course Yoni Shakti The Movement

 We talk about:

• How menopause is stuffed full of opposites – urgency + timelessness
• Mental health – menopause mood swings from high as a kite to darkness
• How we demonise and pathologise these emotions
• Being a menopausal mother to teenage kids
• How nuclear family has been designed to drive women mad
• The origins of Uma’s activism and how it’s been part of her life 
• How the menopausal rage would not be silenced
• How she instigated the campaign to end the abuse of women and girls in yoga
• How Intersectional feminism has enabled her to use her anger for good
• Uma’s self-care for menopause
• The holy combination of tenderness and fierceness as an expression of the deep feminine

 And of course Uma’s top tip for staying unstuck and vibrant inner life.

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