In-person sessions take place in a dedicated healing space in St George, Bristol, looking out onto the garden. There's a small flight of stairs to access the space.

Online sessions are available for women anywhere in the world. All you need is a quiet space, somewhere comfortable to lie down or settle in, and headphones. Before your session I'll send simple preparation guidance so you arrive ready to receive.

It’s best to book by email but if you want to find out more about how we can work together, please schedule your free 15 minute discovery call with me.

For the benefit of all, I operate a 48 hour cancellation policy. If you are unable to keep the appointment, please let me know at least 48 hours beforehand. A fee of half the treatment charge is required for same day cancellations; and payment of the full treatment charge will be required for missed appointments.

Comfort is key to making the most of your experience. The more comfortable you are, the more you will be able to relax and fully engage in the sound. Loose, non-restrictive clothing is a good choice. If you tend to feel the cold, make sure to bring some extra layers with you. And please don’t forget your socks! Blankets will be provided.

Ideally, try not to have any stimulants such as coffee beforehand to ensure you get the most out of the experience.

We start by talking about what's brought you here - what's asking for attention in your body, your life, your patterns. Then we move into the work itself, which is different every time because it responds to what you need that day.

Sound healing creates the foundation - the vibrations speak directly to your nervous system, helping you feel safe enough to let go. From there, we might move into gentle somatic practices, breathwork, voice work, or parts work, depending on what your body is asking for. Sometimes we work with ancestral patterns that have been inherited through your lineage. Sometimes we focus on releasing what's held in your tissues.

You'll be lying down or seated comfortably throughout. I follow what's emerging rather than sticking to a script. Sessions last 75 minutes, which includes space to talk about what came up - though you're welcome to share as much or as little as you choose.

The work often continues in the days following. That's when insights land, when your body integrates what shifted, when you notice patterns starting to loosen.

Sound baths are beautiful for relaxation - you lie down, receive sound, and leave feeling calmer. They're passive, restorative, lovely.

This work goes deeper. We're not just relaxing your nervous system (though that happens too). We're working with the places where trauma has been stored, where old patterns live, where your body has been holding tension for years - sometimes generations. The sound creates safety so that deeper work can happen.

It's also responsive rather than prescribed. In a sound bath, everyone receives the same experience. In our sessions, I'm reading what your body is telling me, adjusting the work moment by moment. If sound alone isn't enough, we bring in movement, breath, voice - whatever doorway your system is ready to walk through.

If you've been stuck in your head despite years of talk therapy, this work might be what you need. If your body carries chronic pain, tension, or patterns that won't shift through conventional approaches. If you're curious about healing that feels like remembering rather than fixing.

This work is particularly powerful if you're dealing with trauma, grief, chronic health conditions, or those moments when you know something needs to shift but you can't think your way through it.

It's also right for you if you want a guide who's walking this path herself. I'm in PTSD recovery. I live with chronic health conditions. I understand what it's like when your body won't cooperate, when healing feels impossibly slow, when you need someone who gets it without you having to explain.

That said, this isn't a quick fix. Real change asks something of us - time, vulnerability, the willingness to feel what we've been avoiding. If you're ready for that, book a free 15-minute discovery call and we'll explore whether this is the right fit.

Women's Woodland Drumming Circle at Conham River Park

Fire, trees, stars. This is the wildest of the three. We drum outdoors by the fire, connecting with the land and the seasons. I provide spare rattles. Monthly on Sundays.

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Gaia Rhythm at Bristol Goddess Temple - Indoors in a beautiful sacred space. Free-flowing drumming with intention-setting and tea breaks where real connection happens. Drums available to borrow. The third Monday of each month.

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Women's Hearth & Drum Circle at Boiling Wells - Intimate fireside gathering. Smaller, cosier, honouring the ancient tradition of women gathering around the hearth. Drums available to borrow. The first Tuesday of each month.

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Each has its own medicine.

Not at all!

What surprises women most is that your hands know what to do. Even if you've never touched a drum before, something takes over. It's in our DNA.

Sometimes women arrive anxious, worried they'll get it "wrong." Then the drumming starts and their arms just... go. The rhythm finds them. Some women weave intricate patterns without thinking. Others hold a steady heartbeat that grounds the whole circle. Your body remembers even when your mind doesn't.

There's no pressure to perform or get it right. Some nights you might drum standing, voices rising. Other nights you may sit quietly, just letting the vibrations from the other drums move through you. Every expression is welcome.

We hold space for each other without judgment.

Read Amy's story of healing through drum circles →

We gather. I guide you into your body with a somatic meditation - inspired by the season we're in, the folklore of the land, the nature around us. This supports with forming your intention and what your body needs to express.

Then the drumming begins. It's not structured or choreographed. It's organic, responsive, alive. The rhythm builds naturally between us - sometimes gentle, sometimes fierce. Women start to move if they want to. Voices emerge. The wild woman who's been kept locked away starts to remember herself.

The tea breaks matter too - that's when we connect as women, share, witness each other's journeys. Then we return to the drums.

By the closing circle, something may have shifted. You may feel more centred. More yourself. It's hard to explain until you experience it, but the vibrations travel through your hands, up your arms, and reach places inside you that words never could.

Fair warning: drumming can put you into a deep meditative state. Take a minute before you drive home.

Read what participants say about drum circles →

Both. And neither.

Yes, it's joyful. Women laugh, dance, sometimes cry with laughter driving home because something's been released. But it's not forced fun or performative joy.

The physical effect of drumming is deeply somatic - it's a mind-body-heart connection. The vibrations don't just relax you; they reach trauma stored in your tissues, places talk therapy can't access. Women with ADHD who struggle with sitting meditation find the rhythm actually quiets their minds. Women with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue have described waking the next morning with no anxiety for the first time in months.

It's primal in a world dominated by technology. You feel collective consciousness in a society designed for individualism. The drumming breaks down modern conditioning and lets the women we were thousands of years ago rise to the surface.

So is it healing? Yes. Is it fun? Also yes. But really, it's remembering. And that remembering does its work whether you're laughing or letting go or simply sitting with your drum, taking it all in.

All women are invited to come as they are.

There's something about rhythm that speaks directly to our cyclical nature. We live in a culture that demands linear productivity, but our bodies know a different truth - we wax and wane like the moon, move through seasons, cycle and return.

Women's physiology is fundamentally different. Studies show we experience higher emotional intensity, our nervous systems respond more strongly to emotional stimuli, and we're twice as likely as men to develop PTSD after trauma. We hold multiple emotional states simultaneously in our bodies that need to be felt and expressed, otherwise we can become ‘stuck’ with depression and anxiety.

And when trauma gets stored in the body (which research confirms it does - Bessel van der Kolk's "The Body Keeps the Score" revolutionised our understanding of this), we can't think our way through it. We need to move it. We need vibration. We need to express what's been held.

That's why sitting meditation fails so many women. Our bodies are carrying too much. We need the physical release that drumming provides - the vibrations travelling through hands and arms, reaching tissues where trauma has been stored for years, sometimes generations. This is why women report effects that talk therapy never touched: the chronic pain that finally shifts, the grief that moves through rather than staying stuck.

Drumming entrains our brainwaves into theta states - deep meditation and REM sleep frequency - but it does this while giving your busy mind something to do. Your hands are occupied, the rhythm carries you, and your nervous system can finally drop.

When women drum together, we tap into collective consciousness. We feel the primal connection our ancestors knew. Modern society has trained us toward individualism, competition, isolation - and that's making us ill. Drumming together breaks that conditioning. We remember we're not machines meant for constant output. We're cyclical, powerful, wild.

It's reclamation of what our bodies have always needed to heal.

Read more about the science of drumming →

Bone Deep circles are where ancient wisdom meets your living, breathing body.

This isn't a talking circle where we sit and discuss concepts. It's not heady, intellectual work about spirituality. It's embodied. We work with Celtic archetypes and folklore through your nervous system, your voice, your sensations, your creative expression.

Each six-week series follows one archetype through the season - Brigid's creative fire in spring, Áine's embodied sovereignty in summer, the Morrighan's fierce boundaries in autumn.

We’re not learning about these figures. We embody their medicine.

Every circle weaves together:

• Guided somatic journeys into your body's wisdom

• Sound healing to release what's held

• Movement practices that bypass the thinking mind

• Creative expression through writing, art, ritual

• Sacred witnessing with women doing the same deep work

• Somatic ritual that arises from YOUR body, not prescribed or performed by rote - honouring each woman's unique journey

The folklore is the map. Your body is the territory. The ritual emerges from what's alive in the room, from what each woman's body is asking for, not from some script we're following.

This is why women say things like "I achieved more healing in six weeks of circle than years of therapy." Because we're not thinking our way through. We're letting your body remember what it already knows.

Read Libby's transformation story →

If you're reading this, there's a good chance you already know.

This work calls to women who are tired of surface-level approaches. Who may have done talk therapy and know there's something deeper asking to be touched. Who sense they need more than understanding - they need change that lives in their bones.

You might be ready if:

• Your body is holding something that words can't reach

• You're exhausted from trying to think your way through healing

• You sense there's a wild, authentic part of yourself that's been locked away

• You're willing to feel, to move, to let emotions rise from places you've kept quiet

• You know what needs to shift but it hasn't shifted yet

You don't need experience with circle work, Celtic traditions, or embodied practices. You don't need to have "done enough healing" or be "spiritual enough."

What you do need: willingness. To be witnessed. To let your body lead. To trust the process even when it feels uncomfortable. To show up for six weeks and let something build.

Fair warning: this isn't gentle self-care. It's powerful, deep work. Women cry. Women rage. Women laugh until they can't breathe. Women discover parts of themselves they forgot existed. If you're looking for relaxation, the drum circles are better suited for you.

But if something in you is saying "yes, this" - trust that knowing. Your body already recognises what it needs.

Explore the seasonal circles →

Think of the archetypes - Brigid, Áine, the Morrighan - as older sisters who've walked the path before you. They're not deities to worship or figures requiring belief. They're patterns of power, possibility, and change that live in the land beneath your feet and the stories in your bones.

The Celtic folklore from these islands offers us something Christianity's narrow view of femininity never could: women who are fierce and tender, creative and destructive, sensual and sovereign, wild and wise. The Morrighan doesn't apologise for her rage. Brigid doesn't ask permission to create. Áine defends her territory without hesitation.

These aren't lessons to learn intellectually. They're invitations to feel what it's like when your boundaries are unshakeable, when your creative fire burns without apology, when your body is recognised as sacred land.

We work with them somatically - through your nervous system, your breath, your movement, your expression. The stories give us language and permission, but your body does the remembering.

One woman might feel Brigid's fire as warmth in her solar plexus. Another might experience the Morrighan's sovereignty as a straightening of her spine. Your body translates the archetype into exactly what you need.

You don't need to "believe in" these figures any more than you need to believe in spring to feel the season changing in your body. The wisdom is already there. The archetypes just help you access it.

The circles build on each other week by week, with each session deepening what came before. Your body needs time to integrate, and the container we create together strengthens through consistency.

That said, life happens. If you need to miss one session, that's okay - just let me know. We'll find ways to support your journey and help you reconnect with what the circle explored in your absence.

Missing more than one session means we need to reassess together. This is to protect the energy of the circle and the container we're all holding. When women commit and show up, we create safety and depth together. When attendance becomes sporadic, it impacts everyone's ability to go deep.

Because real change needs time to root.

Here's what happens over six weeks that can't happen in a standalone circle:

• Your nervous system learns to trust the container

• Patterns have time to surface, be witnessed, and actually shift

• Integration happens between sessions - your body continues the work while you sleep, while you move through your week

• Defenses soften slowly, naturally, safely

Six weeks builds something that lasts because your body has time to rewire, and to remember.

Something shifts when women gather to heal.

When women who share the lived experience of navigating the world in female bodies come together, a specific kind of safety emerges. The chronic pain or anxiety that doctors dismissed? Others know that frustration. The way your energy cycles with the moon or the seasons? That's understood here without explanation.

We hold trauma differently in our tissues. Our bodies remember what happened to us, to our mothers, to our grandmothers. In mixed spaces, we often edit these truths, translate them, make them more palatable. Here, we don't have to.

In women-only circles, we can fully relax into our actual experience. No performing, no protecting, no making ourselves smaller. When one woman begins to let go - to cry, to rage, to laugh - it gives the rest of us permission.

This is ancient practice. Across every culture, women have gathered - around fires, at sacred wells, in birth rooms, in kitchens after dark. Places where we could speak what couldn't be said elsewhere, where our cyclical bodies made sense.

The circles I hold honour women who carry this particular knowing. Who understand what it means to bleed, to carry invisible labour, to have your body questioned and dismissed. This shared embodied experience creates a depth of witnessing that can be difficult to find in this modern world.

All women are invited to come as they are.

Read more about why women's circles matter now →

I've been walking the path of my own healing journey with trauma, chronic illness and pain, and neurodivergence for two decades. I know what it's like when your body won't cooperate, when healing feels impossibly slow, when well-meaning practitioners offer solutions that work for other people but not for you.

This changes how I hold space.

"Trauma-informed" has become a buzzword in wellness spaces.

Everyone claims it. But there's a difference between learning trauma theory in training and living in a body that carries hypervigilance, that remembers what happened in ways that bypass thinking.

I understand what happens when talk therapy reaches its limits. When you've analysed your patterns endlessly but your nervous system still responds with panic. When you intellectually know you're safe but your body hasn't gotten the memo. When professionals tell you to "just breathe" or "think positive" and you want to scream because if it were that simple, you'd have done it already.

Somatic work meets you where words can't reach. Your body holds what happened - in your tissues, your nervous system, your breath patterns, the way you move through space. We work with that directly. Not talking about the trauma, but releasing what's been stored.

I create spaces where whatever you're carrying is witnessed - chronic pain, grief, ancestral wounds, the weight of simply being a woman in this world. Your need for accommodations is met without question. Your pace is honoured.

This work is about remembering. We have an innate capacity to heal. My role is to create the conditions where that healing can unfold - through sound, through somatic practices, through being truly seen.

When I guide you through this work, I'm drawing on both training and lived experience. I've learned to notice the subtle signs - a shift in breathing, a softening in the shoulders, when someone needs more space or when they're ready to go deeper. Because I've paid attention to these rhythms in my own body for years.

This is the work of someone still walking the path, not someone who's "arrived." And that matters.

I can't hold space for women if I'm not doing my own work.

Every month, I meet with my supervisor - a space where I process what's emerging in my practice, examine my own responses, and ensure I'm holding the work with integrity.

I'm a qualified sound therapist, but the learning doesn't stop with certification. I'm currently completing my Celtic Shamanic Practitioner training, deepening my understanding of the ancestral and folkloric practices that inform this work. I study, I practice, I let my own healing continue to unfold.

I also show up to my own healing sessions. I drum. I move. I let myself be witnessed by practitioners who hold space for me. Because if I'm asking you to be vulnerable, to let your body lead, to trust the process - I need to be living that too.

This work asks a lot. Holding space for women to move through, their grief, their rage, requires me to stay resourced, grounded, clear.

The women I work with deserve someone who understands that healing isn't linear, that we're all works in progress, that the path continues to spiral deeper. Someone who practices what she teaches. Someone who knows that the moment you think you've "arrived" is the moment you've stopped growing.

I'm committed to this ongoing work; not just for myself, but because it directly impacts the quality of space I can hold for you. When I'm doing my own healing, I can meet you more fully in yours.

Because these stories and practices belong to this land. The earth beneath your feet.

Celtic folklore offers us something precious: connection to the ancient practices of these islands. Britain and Ireland. The land many of our ancestors walked. The stories, the seasonal markers, the sacred sites we reference - they're here. Sacred wells. Ancient groves. The folklore speaks to this land.

And the stories? They offer us women who are nothing like the Virgin Mary or the temptress Eve. The Morrighan doesn't apologise for her power. Brigid doesn't ask permission to create. Áine defends her body as sacred territory. These archetypes show us the full spectrum of what women can be - fierce, tender, wild, wise, creative, destructive, sexual, sovereign.

The folklore isn't something we study from a distance; rather, we embody these patterns. The stories give us permission and language for what our bodies already know.

Working with the celtic wheel reminds us of something our culture has tried to make us forget: women are nature. Not separate from it. Our bodies cycle like the moon. Our energy wanes in winter and peaks in summer. We bleed, rest, bloom, harvest, let go, begin again.

When we reconnect to these rhythms - honouring winter's rest as deeply as summer's radiance - we stop fighting ourselves. We stop seeing our cyclical nature as something to override and start recognising it as ancient wisdom.

This is an act of resistance against a culture that demands constant productivity, that pathologises our need for rest, that treats our natural rhythms as inconveniences.

This work supports you to come home - to your body, to the land, to the knowing that lives in both.

I'm a space holder. I create the conditions for your healing to unfold, but you're the one doing the work.

I don't have all the answers, and I'm not here to fix or cure you. Your body holds its own wisdom, and my role is simply to hold safe, sacred space where you can access that and allow your own healing journey to unfold in whatever way is right for you.