01/09/2026
September feels like such a liminal time for me, the summer not yet quite forgotten but sensing that changes are imminent with the kids going back to school, the gradual loss of the light and the trees and hedges full of nature's bounty ready for the winter ahead. It already feels like a slowing down with a gentle invitation to start turning inward.
Summer has been busy, despite this I've somehow managed to spend days resting, enjoying the sunshine and sleeping, a lot! Its like my body has just been in a phase of catching up or upgrading somehow.
Today has been a crash back to reality (oh there goes gravity) with 2 kids at home, trying to work my other job and having to go source a new pair of PE trainers last minuite for a boy who seems to be growing at the rate of knots and only had a new pair a few months ago 🙈
I've noticed this evening how much all this 'frazzlement' (as I like to call it ) has sat in my chest, around my heart space and how I've just been holding it all in my body, despite absolutely caning it in the gym this morning!
What have I done to shift it? I've lit a candle, burned some incense and sat with my drum. The slow steady rhythm allowing me to notice where in my body I've been holding this, to acknowledge it, and to just simply allow the drum beat to bring me back to centre, to my breath, to a softening in all the spaces that I've been holding from my day. As much as I enjoy meditation, my mind often wonders but the drum, the drum holds a special space. A space that allows entrainment to call you home, to shift the brainwaves from a busy beta state into a more relaxed alpha and theta state.
This for me is why the drum has formed an integral part of my forthcoming womb drum circles. The founding autumn Equinox circle is now full but dates for the rest of the year are available in the booking link.
