Starshine Roots

19/12/2025

I've been quiet here lately because I've been deep.

Two somatic women's Morrighan circles.

Sixteen women doing the hard work. The kind that doesn't bypass, that doesn't stay surface.

I haven't marketed the next Brigid Circle at all. Yet one circle is fully booked and the other has one space left.

Women know what they need. They're finding this work because they're starving for depth. For somatic practices that land in the body. For work that respects their own journeys, that doesn't shy away from what's hard.

This is what Kate who attended the Morrighan Circle wrote after six weeks:

"Over the years I have paid thousands of pounds on therapy, self-help books, workshops, etc. I achieved more, healed more and grew more in these six weeks than through anything I have done previously. There’s no way to say, ‘it was this,’ or ‘it was that,’ that helped most. It was all of it.

I’m not a great lover of group work but it felt safe in this circle.

One very unique thing about the work that I feel embedded the lessons for me was the sensory element. The scents of incense and anointing oils. The sights of the changing altar. The sweet and savoury tastes of the snacks, the smokiness of the tea. The sounds of instruments and our voices. The feel of our stones. These things, for me were very powerful.

I am a keen bolter - when things feel uncomfortable, I run away. Now I am slowing right down and listening - to myself, to the other person, to the messages in my dreams. This has made a profound difference in my life. I’m now growing roots instead of pulling them up every five minutes.

Often when we do this kind of work, the magic and realisations only last for the duration of the group or event. With this circle, however, I’ve experienced a real transformation. The ripple effect from the work continues on in my life even now, weeks later. I know I will use what I gained for the rest of my life.

Thank you again for all you do, Ruth!"

- Kate

If this calls to you, there's one space left on Thursday's circle

🕯️ Thursday 29 January for 6 weeks
🕯️More info and application form: https://starshineroots.org/events

04/12/2025

Woke well before dawn again this morning. Bleed coming, body doing that thing where I'm just... unmoored.

So I went to the harmonium.

G drone. Always G for me at the moment. There's something about it that just lands. And then working with the perfect fifth. Pythagoras discovered these ratios thousands of years ago. The mathematical relationships that create harmony. He knew sound was medicine.

And I feel it. The perfect fifth helps me release and open at the same time. There's joy in the letting go, in the surrendering. My body softens and I begin to come back to myself.

I love working with the bellows and letting the breath move slow, playing with the dynamics, the air creating these shifts in the sound. It's nearly like letting the instrument breathe with me.

This has been my medicine since I was 13, sitting at my organ in Northern Ireland. Playing and playing, working things through my fingers that I couldn't speak. Later I learned clarinet, got to grade 7, played in orchestras and wind bands - loved it all. But it was always other people's music. Always the "proper" way.

Now I get to bring all those years; the theory, the training, the hours of playing with others into how sound actually works as medicine. The perfect fifth does something. I feel it. My clients feel it at the sound baths, and in the one-to-ones. It moves through the body, shifts things, opens things.

This morning, after maybe 2 minutes with the harmonium, I started to yawn, things started to move through me. Grounded again. Connected to the earth.

I am so grateful for this work.

If you'd like to experience this with Brillo of NowTime and I; our last sound bath of the year is in the Anglican Chapel at Arnos Vale Cemetery on Friday 12 December.

Just three spaces left at 6pm, and 10 spaces at 8pm.

More info and tickets: https://fb.me/e/73yePTwE9

03/12/2025

✨ Let yourself be held at our last sound bath of 2025 in the beautiful Anglican Chapel at Arnos Vale.

🌙 A few spaces remain - three at 6pm, ten at 8pm.
Friday 12 December

More info and tickets: https://fb.me/e/73yePTwE9

✨“Beautiful, atmospheric space. Warm, thoughtful hosts. Very relaxing experience. Great sound. We were well looked after.” - Karen Bowles

The days are short, the cold goes deep, and everything in nature is turning inward.

Your nervous system may be asking for the same thing - to rest, to drop down, to let the darkness hold you for a moment.

Join Ruth and Brillo of Starshine Roots s for a Sound Bath in the Anglican Chapel. Let ancient stone walls and sacred acoustics create a space where sound does what winter asks of us - slow down, sink in, restore.

Two sessions to choose from:
6pm - as twilight fades
8pm - in the embrace of full darkness

📅Friday 12 December
📍The Anglican Chapel

To find out more and book, visit our website: https://lght.ly/h2l2a98

27/11/2025

🌿 As we approach the end of the year, I'm feeling deeply grateful for this community and the healing journey we've shared.

Before we step into a new cycle, Brillo of NowTime and I invite you to gather with us one last time (this year) for a Celtic Tree Moon Sound Bath in the chapel at Arnos Vale Cemetery

Let's root into our own wisdom and release what no longer serves.

If you feel called, come immerse yourself in the chapel's powerful acoustics and allow the sounds to guide you home to yourself.

With much love! Ruth x

An extraordinary sound experience brilliantly curated by Ruth and Brillo. Very definitely the best sound bath I have ever been to. Amazing!' - Clare Hughes

Experience the power of sound in the breathtaking acoustics of our Anglican Chapel. Join Ruth and Brillo of Starshine Roots for their final Sound Bath of 2025.

Immerse yourself in the chapel's soaring space as the phenomenal acoustics amplify the power of sound, making this an unparalleled sonic experience.

An evening of deep connection, inner exploration, and acoustic wonder in the magnificent Anglican Chapel.

🌳 Celtic Tree Moon Sound Bath🌙
📅 12 December, 6PM & 8PM
📍 Anglican Chapel, Arnos Vale

Find out more and book your place: https://lght.ly/i4381lo

26/11/2025

This is why we journey at The Mount Without. These stones have held nine hundred years of prayer, grief, celebration, surrender.

The drum opens the door. The space carries you through.

We called in the ancient healthy ancestors. They came. People went deep; the kind of deep you can't plan for.

There's a moment in one of these photos with Brillo and I catching each other's eyes mid-journey. That silent recognition of *oh, this is actually happening*.

The veil had thinned some more.

I'd been in agony all weekend. Chronic pain flaring, jaw locked tight. Somewhere in that nave, between drumbeats and the song of my harmonium, it dissolved.

Grateful for this extraordinary venue, for Brillo of NowTime, for everyone who showed up and surrendered.

What a way to close with our last drum journey of the year. So much gratitude for this community. Thank you and see you in 2026!

25/11/2025

I've witnessed the profound power of the drum to call us home to our bodies, our intuition, our creativity, our sovereign selves.

In a world that often leaves us disconnected and disembodied, drumming with women can be a potent remedy, gently shaking us awake, stirring ancient remembrance in our bones.

This is the medicine I offer at these drum circles: a sacred space to p*el back the layers of conditioning to rediscover our true selves.

Whether you're craving ecstatic release or reverent stillness, this is a space to come as you are, with your shadows and your radiance. Held by the shelter of the hearth and sisterhood.

I understand the courage it takes to show up and allow yourself to be seen and held. I'll meet you with compassion, honouring you where you are at.

🥁 Women's Hearth and Drum Circle 🥁
🕰️ 7pm, Tuesday 2 December
🔥 Boiling Wells of St Werburghs City Farm

Spaces limited in the cosy barn and it fills up quickly. Drums and rattles available to borrow.

Can't wait to drum with you!

24/11/2025

Beloved community, if you feel called to p*el back the veils, clear heavy imprints, and journey deep within, I invite you to join us for our last freeing drum journey of the year.

As many of you know, it's a full-body, full-spirit experience designed to reverberate through your life long after the final beat.

We'll traverse ancient realms of wisdom together, guided by the potent rhythms of the drum, shamanic chants, and other traditional instruments.

This is an opportunity to:

🔥 Ignite your inner wisdom
🌿 Clear stagnant energies
🔮 Receive intuitive guidance

No prior experience is needed - simply an open heart and a willingness to go deep.

If it's your first time, and if you feel called to give it a go we'd love to meet you. If it's your second, third, or tenth time, you know the profound shifts that await you in this sacred space.

We can't wait to welcome you to this sacred one more time before the year finishes.

** 5 places left **

More info and tickets: https://fb.me/e/3yBNfwjd0

20/11/2025

I've been walking this healing path for nearly two decades now.

20 years of seeking, of journeying inward, of trying to come home to myself. And for a long time, I thought I had to do it the way the "enlightened" ones did. Those aesthetic monks sitting in silence in their mountaintop monasteries, far above the messy emotional beauty of the world, emptying their minds into nothingness.

So I tried. I tried to still my thoughts, and to find peace in the silence. But all I found was more disassociation, more distance from the wisdom of my body. I was already so disconnected, and this practice just seemed to make me abandon myself even more. It just didn't make sense in my bones. But of course, I thought there was something wrong with me!

And then, in a moment of grace, the drum found me. And everything changed. The drum, with her primal rhythms and ancient wisdom, called me home. Home to my body, to the truth of who I am.

And so I finally understood - meditation isn't just stillness. It's aliveness. It's vibration, sound, movement. It's the wild poetry of our bodies, the untamed art of our souls. It's the voice that sings us back to ourselves.

So I invite you to join Brillo of NowTime and I for a very special drum journey - the last one of this year to carry us home to ourselves.

Let the drums guide you effortlessly into the profound depths of your own wisdom and knowing.

No experience needed, just a willingness to show up and reclaim the magic that's your birthright.

🥁 The Primordial Drum - Psychedelic Drum Journeying
📅 7pm, Monday 24 November
📍 The Mount Without

**LAST journey of 2025!**

More info and tickets: https://fb.me/e/3yBNfwjd0

19/11/2025

Someone pulled me aside after the drum circle.

"Ruth, I need to talk to you about your drum circles."

My stomach dropped. Oh god, what?

"They're like an or**sm. The way you build it up... and up... and then it EXPLODES... and then comes down..."

Best feedback I've ever received.

This was Sunday at the Bristol Goddess Temple Community Day. I hold monthly drum circles there, but I've been wanting to give back properly so first time in a couple of years the stars aligned and I was able to offer a circle in support of giving to the Temple for our community.

So grateful I finally got to do that.

Then I desperately needed a p*e. My perimenopausal brain completely forgot there were toilets downstairs even though I'd been told twice by lovely attendees. So I went outside and squatted behind a car.

The owner appeared while I was mid-flow.

I literally could not stop. I have painful bladder syndrome so when I need to go I have to go.

She thanked me for blessing her car with my wild p*e. We got chatting and she's doing a PhD on abuse in paganism.

Would I consent to being interviewed as a leader working in this field? Absolutely! This is something I have experienced and I witness other women experiencing this too.

I bumped into Sandra and Sophia of Love All Ways Yoga. We met years ago in the Sound Healing Shop in Glastonbury, geeking out over chimes. I was admiring their robes. We swapped: a robe for a sound bath.

Then I saw Monica of Rainbow Vibrations for the first time in ages, her jewellery absolutely stunning. But I'm so broke right now, couldn't afford anything. But I did buy a wee raffle ticket for the temple. Won one of her bracelets!

I also have my eyes on one of Hinterland Healing UK smudging fans when the time is right!

When you show up, the threads find each other. One connection leads to another, and another, weaving something you never could have planned.

Thank you to the Priestess of the Veiled Hinterland for organising this day!

18/11/2025

Last night at our women's drum circle at the Bristol Goddess Temple we unleashed a wild tempest of rhythm and raw energy. It was a battle cry, a love song, a primal scream of liberation.

We dared to be loud, messy, and unapologetically alive.

And in that glorious cacophony, I felt a portal opening - a gateway to our deepest authenticity.

Our joy is a revolutionary act. Every time we gather to drum, to dance, to heal, we are dismantling the old paradigm.

I am so grateful to witness women come home to themselves with the drum.

Last one of the year is on Monday 15 December!

More info and tickets: https://fb.me/e/3IFi9oqnH

With so much love

Ruth ###

16/11/2025

Women gathering to drum is one of the most ancient healing practices known to humanity.

We tap into the power of rhythm to restore balance and wholeness.

This circle is a sacred space for women to freely express themselves, to connect to their ancestral roots, and experience the wild, transformative magic of drumming in sisterhood.

If you feel called, I invite you to join us and rediscover this timeless practice that is so needed in these times.

The drum is calling us home to ourselves.

No experienced needed and drums are available to borrow.

🪘 Gaia Rhythm: Women's Drumming Circle 🪘
🕰️ 7.30pm, Monday 17 November
🌀 Bristol Goddess Temple

More info and tickets: https://starshineroots.org/events/womens-drumming-circle