Starshine Roots

17/10/2025

Medieval stone architecture + primal rhythms = pure sonic alchemy.

Brillo of NowTime and I would love to journey with you at The Mount Without. Receiving the beats can synchronise heartbeats, quieten minds, and connect us to something larger than ourselves.

We weave ancient and modern together - in this reel primordial drums and shruti box meet electric guitar tuned to the healing frequency of 432Hz.

🥁 The Primordial Drum: A psychedelic drum journey
📅 7PM Monday, 20th October
⛪️ The Mount Without

More info and tickets: https://fb.me/e/5rpMzdLPL

16/10/2025

I used to think deep meditation required years of practice.

But then I discovered the power of the drum.

In just 10-15 minutes, its rhythms guided me from stressed-out beta waves to profound theta states.

I've seen it time and again in my clients and how the drum is such a simple yet powerful way to altered consciousness.

Not through effort, but through simple, potent beats that our minds naturally follow.

Let the drums do the work as you journey alongside Mongolian throat singing, flutes, strings, and singing bowls.

If you're seeking creativity, wisdom, or a break from endless thoughts, I invite you to join Brillo and I for this drum journey experience at the The Mount Without. I've witnessed its power firsthand, and I can't wait to share it with you.

More info and tickets: https://fb.me/e/5rpMzdLPL

14/10/2025

"I thought you were standing right next to me with the drum."

I was 30 feet away on the other side of the room 🪨✨

This keeps happening at the Anglican Chapel at Arnos Vale Cemetery and The Mount Without

Sound bending around bodies. Circling. Arriving from directions that shouldn't be possible. People feeling the crystal bowls moving around them when I'm standing completely still.

The stones are doing this. The sacred geometry. Shaping what moves through it.

I've been unwittingly following this thread my whole life. From crawling over Neolithic stones as a wee girl at the Giant's Ring in Northern Ireland, making sounds I had no words for, to now bringing drums, bowls, gongs and more into Bristol's oldest buildings and experiencing what unfolds.

Stone and sound in conversation. The ancient ancestors knew stones as active participants, not just witnesses. And that old understanding still holds true.

I've shared more of this journey on my blog - the childhood memories, the medieval churches, the stone circles. Here is the link if you are curious: https://starshineroots.org/blog-1/stone-sound-and-altered-states

We'd love you experience it yourself. And let the stones do half the work 🥁

** Next sound journeys **

🥁 The Primordial Drum - A Journey into Sound and Self
7pm, 20 October at The Mount Without
More info and tickets: https://fb.me/e/5rpMzdLPL

🌙 Celtic Tree Moon Sound Bath - Under the Reed Moon
Anglican Chapel at Arnos Vale Cemetery30 October, two sessions: 6pm & 8pm

More info and tickets: https://fb.me/e/957eVbLWe

Exploring why stone circles, castles, and ancient churches transform sound healing journeys. From Stanton Drew to Bristol's Goddess Temple, Arnos Vale Chapel, and The Mount Without - discover how stone amplifies consciousness, why archaeoacoustics confirms Celtic shamanic wisdom, and why I love to f

13/10/2025

In the first few weeks of having my first drum, an ancient medicine woman from my lineage showed up when I played.

I've witnessed people experiencing the same thing at our drum journeys. In my women's circles. And also in my 1-1 work.

People drop into the rhythm and suddenly they can be there. The healthy ancestors.

We all carry them in our bones. They're waiting to resource us, hold us, help us heal what we're carrying.

The drum supports us to connect with them, it knows the way back.

So simple; yet so powerful.

If this speaks to you, this is your invitation to experience the drum. Either to lie down and receive the rhythms or to drum in circle.

🥁 The Primordial Drum (psychedelic drum journeying) - Oct 20, 7-8:30pm | The Mount Without

🔥 Women's Drumming Circles at Boiling Wells of St Werburghs City Farm, Bristol Goddess Temple and Conham River Park

🥁 Wild Joy Women's Ceremony - Feb 8, 2026 | Super Early Bird ends Oct 22 Trinity Centre

All events here: https://starshineroots.org/events

11/10/2025

The wind on Trooper's Hill was wild.

After my Celtic shamanic training, I went to the oak on the Hill, still buzzing with what we'd worked with. I wanted to hold onto that feeling - the land alive, speaking.

When I watched it back, there was my wonky smile for a split second.

Most people don't see it, but I do. And I am proud of it.

Because at 17, during A-levels, my face became paralysed with Bell's palsy. One side of my mouth dropped all the way down. I couldn't eat, couldn't drink without a straw.

My left eye stayed open - I had to wear a patch at night just to sleep. It was devastating.
The neurologist was delighted to see me.

Fascinated, really - "I've never seen Bell's palsy in someone so young!" They said it would probably last the rest of my life.

But my dad's from County Tyrone, where paganism and Presbyterianism mix in the most interesting ways. He sent me to a healer who'd helped him countless times.

Within three weeks of her working with me, the droop went back. My eye closed again. Just this little wonky smile remained. The neurologist couldn’t explain it.

That young woman's body was screaming what she couldn't say - the pressure, the desperate need to escape Northern Ireland, the weight of it all.

The body remembers what we try to forget. Years later, my jaw found new ways to hold the same silence. TMJ. A different kind of paralysis with terrible pain- slower, chronic, clenching.

The pattern was clear - my throat, my voice, my truth, all gripped tight.

And this is the work I do now with women. So many come with tight jaws, clenched teeth, holding everything in. We work somatically to release what the body has been gripping for years.

Your body isn't broken. It's brilliant. It kept you alive.

The land knows this. The wind knows this.

And slowly, we're learning to know it too.

If you’d like to find out more about how we could work together, please DM me and we can arrange a free 20 minute discovery call without any obligation.

09/10/2025

On Tuesday, I had been in busy beta brain waves all day launching my new women's drum circle at Boiling Wells of St Werburghs City Farm (my neurodivergence makes setup especially hard). Often I need support too.

Brillo of NowTime helped me set up, and part of that setup included taking me into the woods to drum first. Because holding space is so much more than logistics. It's about grounding myself so I can be present for others.

The woods are still giving us the hawthorn berries from the heart tree. Protection + openness growing together. Exactly what my own heart needed.

We're nature, temporarily forgetting. The drum, the land, each other; we resource ourselves back to remembering.

I needed this sacred connection to nature and rhythm in that moment. The land supported me. The spirits of the trees and plants supported me. Brillo supported me. So I could hold space from wholeness.

And this medicine is for everyone. It is our birthright!

We'd love to see you at The Primordial Drum. Our journey into sound and self, open to all.

We'll guide you through drumming with other ancient instruments and voice, nature connection, and the remembering.

Come exactly as you are and leave feeling deeply connected to yourself and to the web of life.

🥁 The Primordial Drum - psychedelic drum journeying
📅 7pm, 20 October
📍 The Mount Without

More info and tickets: https://fb.me/e/5rpMzdLPL

08/10/2025

Last night, we launched the Women's Hearth drum circle at Boiling Wells of St Werburghs City Farm

From the moment we walked the candlelit path through the grounds to the barn glowing with warmth, something ancient was already stirring.

The meditation took us back. Past the recent ancestors, through mist and memory to a time before women were told who to be. To the ancient healthy ancestors who can resource us now.

And then we drummed what needed to emerge.

Even the tea break became ceremony. Women gathering around the old kettle in the outdoor kitchen, waiting for water to boil under candlelight. Just like we always have.

This is what can happen when we return to the hearth. We soften, we connect, we activate something ancient within us. When we remember who we were before the shrinking. When we drum our medicine into existence.

Feeling so much gratitude today! 🔥

These will take place on the first Tuesday of each month. Next one is 4 November!

05/10/2025

Growing up in Ireland, the hearth was where women gathered. To share stories, to simply be together.

There was something magical about those moments around the fire.

That's what we're creating at Boiling Wells of St Werburghs City Farm - a return to gathering around the hearth to share, express and connect. 🔥

Just 4 spaces left for the first Women's Hearth Drum Circle on Tuesday 7 October (first Tuesday of each month)

More info and tickets: https://fb.me/e/5XIC6cDIe

03/10/2025

Thank you to everyone who came last night, it was such a powerfully beautiful evening in the gorgeous Anglican Chapel at Arnos Vale Cemetery.

Brillo of NowTime and I are feeling very grateful today and we are already looking forward to the next one on Thursday 30 October.

More info: https://fb.me/e/957eVbLWe

30/09/2025

In the days before Sunday's breathwork ceremony, mushrooms kept appearing.

Not just one or two - everywhere I walked, they seemed to emerge. Turkey tails cascading down ancient logs, golden caps pushing through moss, whole colonies fruiting from the earth. I wasn't looking for them. They were showing up for me, preparing me for something I didn't yet understand.

Mushrooms are threshold beings. They exist between worlds, composting death into life, bringing what's hidden underground into visible form. In shamanic traditions, they're bridges to the ancestors, and they appear at liminal times when the veils grow thin.

At the breathwork ceremony at Ashton Court Mansion, surrounded by ancient trees and old stone, the ceremony was about ancestral connection, and the moment the meditation began, my Dad and Grandfather were there - Irish land protectors, connected to the spirits and beings of the land. They were so happy with the work I'm doing now, bringing and nurturing the ancestors and the land into my practice. I cried. I felt relief wash through me.

Then the breathwork started, and everything shifted. The building itself seemed to breathe with me - that massive hearth, the fire I could feel moving through my own body, sovereign and strong. But what surprised me most was the safety. I dropped into something primordial, ancient, like floating in the womb of the world itself. Protected. Held. And from that place of absolute safety, I accessed power I didn't know I carried.

My ancestors were there, the mushrooms had prepared the way, and the stone, the trees and the land held it all. Thank you Lizzie and Kat of Wilda for holding the space with such tenderness.

This Thursday, I'm bringing this energy into our Celtic Tree Moon Sound Bath - another threshold, another invitation to drop into that liminal space where anything can happen.

Tickets: https://fb.me/e/2zOxYfoGA

🌙 Celtic Tree Moon Sound Bath
🕕 Thursday 2 October 6pm & 8pm
⛪️ The Anglican Chapel at Arnos Vale

29/09/2025

🍄✨ Mushroom Magic & Sound Bath

Autumn is here. The mushrooms know it.

They're popping up everywhere, those otherworldly messengers between realms.

In shamanic traditions, they've been guides to liminal spaces - those threshold moments where magic happens.

Brillo and I stumbled upon a whole mushroom city when playing in the woods at the weekend. Already deep in that between-space before we even realised it.

That's exactly the energy we're bringing to Thursday's Celtic Tree Moon Sound Bath.

The trees, the stones, the sound, and intention. This potent mix takes us to that place where ordinary becomes extraordinary.

Ready to step into the liminal with us? We look forward to journeying with you!

🌙 Celtic Tree Moon Sound Bath
🕕 Thursday 2 October 6pm & 8pm
⛪️ The Anglican Chapel at Arnos Vale Cemetery

More info and tickets: https://fb.me/e/3xOEa7qkW