New "Raw Emotions" Course at The Academy for Optimal Living :)

I am *SUPER*-excited to announce that I have been invited to teach a course based on my book Raw Emotions this coming autumn for The Entheos Academy for Optimal Living :)  
This Academy is the brain-child of the delightful Brian Johnson of PhilosophersNotes.com and his radiant goddess Alexandra Jaye Johnson of MyGoddessLife.com. I think this Academy is SOOOOOOO COOL :))) ...and I am so thrilled to see how effortlessly this project seems to be unfolding for this dynamic duo - it feels like there is very strong energy from the Universe behind this one... The basic idea of "The Academy" is to serve as a place for people to learn about truly useful information for creating their Optimal Lives for themselves...forget a crusty old university schedule sagging under the weight of physics classes, history lectures and tedious maths tuition and other left-brain blah-blah...this Academy is all about useful, practical, insightful sharing of the yummiest kinds - think classes on nutrition, positive psychology, health and well-being, creativity, meditation, parenting, relationships, spirituality, money, conscious business, sustainability and much more - YEEEEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAH :) ...and all under the loving guidance of various "experts" in each respective field...
The "Raw Emotions" course is set to start on September the 27^th at 7pm Eastern and to run for 8 consecutive Tuesdays at the same time... If you can't make the sessions live, everything will be archived for later access. This course will dive into all of the key concepts of "Raw Emotions", including:

• The Raw Lifestyle and Emotional Healing
• Seven Ways of Eating - The Role of Consciousness in Food Choices
•  Examining Physiological and Psychological Addiction
• Tell-Tale Signs of An Overeater and Creating Our Optimal Vision
• Three Steps to Restructure Emotional Connections to Food
• Exploring the Emotional Detox Process
• Top Tips for Healing
• Maintaining Maintenance

You can check out aaaaaaaaaaaaall the juicy details and get signed up for this autumnal joy class HERE: http://www.entheosacademy.com/course/Raw-Emotions and you can see a short intro video from Brian on the Academy here: http://www.entheosacademy.com - see you "on campus" ;)


on July the 28th I appreciated:

1 quart water
1 cup mandarin/naranjilla juice
2 cups coconut water blended with Elixir of The Lake
bowl of grawnola with fresh apple and coconut water
cup of rooibos tea
bowl of kelp noodles with a yummy carrot-hemp sauce, chunk of Mr. M's *amazing* Pili Nut "Chocolate":)
water of two young coconuts

I am delighted to let y'all know abt some of the upcoming summer programmes at the beautiful Ronora Lodge "Rawnora" raw retreat centre in Michigan, run by our dear friend Deej and co... 

They have a Raw Food Detox Camp opening soon on August the 12^th for 5 or 7 days, a Green Juice Feast starting September the 9^th for 5 or 7 days, plus Yoga Camps in August, September and October, all with raw catering :)
Check out all the yummy deeeeets over at http://www.rawnora.com - and if you're not yet familiar with the beautiful Rawnora site, it is a joy to explore: over 350 acres of gorgeous private land including a private lake, forests, wetlands, trails, gardens, a horse sanctuary and greenhouses...enjoy :)

on July the 29th I enjoyed:

1 quart water
3 cups watermelon/mandarin juice
2 cups coconut water blended with Moringa Powder
bowl of kelp noodles with a yummy carrot-hemp sauce, chunk of Mr. M's *amazing* Pili Nut "Chocolate":)
2 cups water
water of two young coconuts
chunk of fresh papaya
2 cups water


on July the 30th I loved:

1 quart water
3 cups orange/naranjilla juice combined with coconut water :)
bowl of energy soup straight from the garden, with a few little nori pockets stuffed with Sea Clear, cucumber salad and Brazil Nut Butter on the side, followed by a chunk of Mr. M's *AMAZING* Pili Nut "Chocolate" :)
water of two young coconuts, juice of a couple of yummy fresh oranges
chunk of fresh papaya, a dragon fruit
2 cups water


NOTE: You have abt *12 HOURS* left to grab at-cost goodies from *BOTH* the July specials and August Specials lists over at http://www.TheRawFoodWorld.com - get in there quick if you'd love to double your bargain shopping before we switch months again later tonight - check out aaaaaalllll the deals HERE and...enjoy :)))

All love,
A. Stokes-Monarch. xxx

In Harmony...

We watched a very cool little 20 minute video yesterday on TED.com, by a chef called Mark Bittman. (If you haven’t visited TED yet, you’re in for a treat – MASSES of free speeches by incredible people, all usually 3-20 mins long, more or less – great lunchtime viewing if at a ‘puter ;) Thanks to our friend Marie for sending this link...
In this video, Mark speaks very eloquently, interestingly and convincingly on the impact of the overproduction & overconsumption of meat, dairy and junk food, how to lessen your carbon footprint through food choices and the effect cattle farming is having on the world – both in terms of individual health and the health of planet. Something VERY worthwhile passing on to doubting, burger-munching friends and family alike, methinks... ;) See here:

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/263

on May the 19th I had:

1 quart water
2 cups celery/Jerusalem Artichoke/cucumber/carrot/cilantro juice
3 tangerines
1 custard apple, 2 persimmons
wakame seaweed, pumpkin seeds, baby spinach leaves, alfalfa sprouts, followed by a few pieces of dried apple rings
3 cups water
2 cups celery/Jerusalem Artichoke/cucumber/carrot/cilantro juice
handful of cherries, 1 banana, 1 persimmon
1 quart water


on May the 20th I had:

1 quart water
2 cups veggie juice: celery/bok choi/cucumber/parsley/Jerusalem artichoke/carrot juice
3 persimmons
pumpkin seeds, wakame seaweed, baby spinach leaves, a couple of macadamia/flax crackers
2 cups veggie juice: celery/bok choi/cucumber/parsley/Jerusalem artichoke/carrot juice
2 cups water
3 persimmons
2 bananas mashed with spirulina, with 2 apples and a few almonds
3 cups water

REMINDER: Looks like this is the last week to get hold of a copy of the new Ann Wigmore Home Study Course. There were fewer than 500 copies available and they’re very nearly sold out. So, if you didn’t invest in a copy yet and you’re waivering on whether to invite Wiggie into your world, now might be the time to take action ;) You can see more about the course HERE.
I think I might actually start growing wheatgrass again this summer...I used to grow it in Iceland very successfully – one guy I was living with actually took care of his Hepatitis drinking the good green stuff, plus his hair started to turn from white to black again – pretty impressive ;)...that was all YEARS ago now though...travelling really isn’t very conducive to growing things like wheatgrass...sprouts I can handle on the road, wheatgrass is trickier...hmmmm, well, we’ll see how green my fingers get the next few weeks, along with my inside... ;)

on May the 21st I had:

1 quart water
4 little mandarins
2 cups celery/bok choi/parsley/cucumber/carrot juice
3 persimmons
1 quart water
2 cups celery/bok choi/parsley/cucumber/carrot juice
lettuce leaves stuffed with avocado, tomato slices, mixed sprouts, karengo seaweed, baby spinach leaves, with a couple of macadamia/flax crackers
1 quart water


on May the 22nd I had:

1 quart water
2 persimmons
3 cups water
bowl of smoothie: banana/coconut meat/water/spirulina/vanilla powder/maca, with a little slice of coconut crème pie and a cracao ball - uh-oh, WATCH OUT ;)
3 cups water
2 cups celery/parsley/lettuce/spinach/carrot juice
romaine wraps stuffed with avo, Karengo seaweed, finely sliced spring onions, tomatoes, with a few flax/macadamia crackers on the side, pumpkin seeds and wakame seaweed
1 quart water

Finally for today, if you’re able to make it to Santa Rosa in California on the weekend of the 6th-8th June, I’d strongly recommend you make your presence felt at the Harmony Festival. This year (which is the 30th anniversary of the festie), the ‘Eco Village’ area is being managed by dear raw goddess herself, Ms. Laura ‘Foxy’ Fox. Yeeeeeeeee-HAH :) The line-up looks FABULOUS :) She has pulled together all kinds of raw food funsters to head up the Eco area - Matt + Janabai Amsden of Rawvolution, Victoria Boutenko, Cherie Soria, Bruce Horowitz, Rainbeau Mars + the owners of Cafe Gratitude will all be presenting.
The festie attracts over 25,00 people and there will be a huge range of things on offer, within and beyond the ‘Eco Village’ area – music, talks (including...Danny Glover…;), healing therapies, vendors, workshops, kids’ playland, art and all sorts of marvellous offerings...
Passes for the whole weekend seem to start at $119 and the festie plants a tree for every ticket purchased, in collaboration with Trees for The Future. They are also taking volunteers to help out and they have carpooling set up too...you can see all about it at www.harmonyfestival.com.

ENJOY,
All love,
Angela. xxx

Raw Home Study Course Out Now...

Today is the day that the Ann Wigmore Home Study Course I mentioned last week goes on sale, at 12pm EST. Apparently there are fewer than 500 copies of the programme for sale and I think I heard that the last time they did a print run like this, they sold out in 48 hours...Oooo la la ;) SO, if you’re interested in getting into details with Wiggie’s ways, you might wanna click over HERE and get your hands on a course while they’re available again...
Or if you missed my blog post last week abt this new course, you can read all about it HERE.

ENJOY :)
One love,
Angela. xxx

(P.S. We went on an AMAZING elephant trek in the jungle today – more details and hopefully a video aswell to share soon... :)

With Gratitude...

We’re on Koh Chang now, a little Thai island near Cambodia. After arriving and spending our first night in a slightly bizarre place here, where the windows didn’t open, the air conditioner blasted smoke and I woke up with a cat next to me in bed...we moved on today ;) The universe graciously led us instead to a simply GORGEOUS raw food/health spa resort...WOW...green juices, a whole raw food menu, colema boards in the bathrooms, salt water swimming pool, massage & steam room onsite, meditation/yoga classes, free bikes to borrow, videos such as ‘What The Bleep’ and ‘The Secret’ showing daily – this place is a modern raw foodist’s dream ;) YUM. The eatery here was actually featured as one of the ‘Top 50 Restaurants in the World’, in the international magazine Restaurant. Yeeeee-HAH :)
I’ve been reflecting a lot the last few days on how Thailand often appears to me like a country caught between ‘tradition’ and a more ‘Western’ culture that seems to permeate in many-fold manifestations... It is a land RICH in interesting raw foods, for example – durian, mangosteen, rambutan, coconuts, various greens and so on, yet there are shops everywhere RAMMED with ‘plastic’ packet foods, candies, cakes and so on. I ventured into one supermarket to discover an ENTIRE AISLE of boxed baby milk/formulas… :O Literally DOZENS of different pasteurised, packeted, homogenized, filler-packed brands of expensive, mucus-forming cow’s products to clog your kids up with. Shocking. Familiar big-name company logos abound and there seems to be a national fascination with plastic bags. Pretty much anything you purchase will be handed to you in a plastic bag, even if it’s already IN a plastic bag to begin with... ??? ;) People even drink their SODAS from plastic bags...lol...vendors like to keep hold of the glass soda bottles, to send them for re-filling (hmmmm...nice, kind-of ;), so they pour out the customer’s sugary acid-forming concoction into a little plastic bag, throw in some ice and a straw and off they go...quite remarkable... At the same time, you’ll see roadside stalls and markets STACKED with fruit, everywhere you go. One thing I personally find a little challenging to integrate is that in the fresh street markets, there rarely seem to be specific areas set up for different kinds of food products, e.g. a veggie stand area, a meat/fish area etc – everything is just intermingled all over the place, so in-between the luscious jack fruits and mangosteen, one readily comes face-to-face with live frogs, eels, crabs and so on, along with various entrails and untold macabre scenes (to me), from which I avert my eyes and nose...just really not my kind of thang ;) Hence I’m feeling very grateful and blissed to have landed up today in a place that serves yummy, organic raw vegan foods and juices and seems to be more eco-focused than other places we’ve stayed so far...yummm... :)

on April the 30th I had:

1 quart water
water of 2 young coconuts
big bag of rambutan with a few pieces of papaya, jack fruit and a lady-finger banana – YUMMMMMMM :)
2 cups water
water of 2 young coconuts with wheatgrass powder
6 durian pods, 2 mangosteens and 1 rambutan
2 cups water
little bowl of 2 mushed lady-finger bananas with spirulina and a small handful of pine nuts/goji berries mixed in = yummm :)
1 quart water

on May the 1st I had:

1 quart water
water of 2 young coconuts with wheatgrass powder
a handful of rambutan, 4 mangosteen a lady-finger banana
2 cups water
smoothie of coconut meat, lady-finger bananas and spirulina
2 cups watersmoothie of coconut water/meat, leftover dried mulberries, karengo seaweed and spirulina – YUMM :)
1.5 quarts water

Some of you wrote to say that you had difficulties with the links for the ChiDiet site that I posted a couple of days ago – I’m sorry to hear that. If you would still like to enter the giveaway contest to win one of the two free ‘Raw Food Home Study’ kits, you can click HERE.
Better get over there quick though, methinks, as I suspect they’ll be choosing the winners soon...

on May the 2nd I had:

1 quart water
water of 3 young coconuts with green powder
bowl of smoothie: banana/coconut meat/spirulina, with karengo seaweed on the side ;)
1.5 quarts water
½ a small durian, 6 mangosteens, a lady-finger banana and a dragon fruit
1.5 quarts water


on May the 3rd I had:
1 quart water
water of one BIG young coconut with spirulina
big bag of rambutan
glass of greeeeeeeeeen juice
shared meal of raw dishes – lasagne, veggie terrine, nori rolls, followed by banana ice cream with cinnamon/honey sauce = YUM
1 quart water
INTENSE shot of gotacalla juice (said to be GREAT for aiding memory/brain-function)
Yum bowl of blended bananas/coconut meat with spirulina and a little karengo seaweed
1.5 quarts water

BTW, for anyone who has never seen the Monarch and myself speak in public and is maybe wondering what our events are like, here are a couple of sweet little recent reviews from 2 yumsters who attended our Melbourne event:

Here’s a snippet from Helena’s post:

"When I first heard that Matt and Angela were coming to Melbourne I did what most people do and googled them. After watching Matt’s vids on YouTube, and reading about Angela on her blog. I was doubtful about spending an entire afternoon listening to a young guy from California, sporting dreadlocks and a tanned body, talk about his great adventures eating raw. Angela; well, her story sounded good, but I didn’t have a weight problem and have always been wary of D*** word..."

You can find out what she thought of our talks and read her whole in-depth piece HERE:

It was lovely to meet Joanne from RawMom.com too at this event – here is a snippet from her write-up:

“The afternoon was utterly inspiring. Matt was down-to-earth, intelligent and intense, telling us of his experience and that of others, but also going into the science behind eating raw. He didn’t hold back from frank discussion about – ahem – colonics and gas, and other not-oft-mentioned unmentionables! Angela glowed (as evidenced in the photo of her and I), and gave a personal account of the physical and emotional changes she underwent on her raw journey, during which she lost 160lbs/72kg and gained a whole lotta health and happiness. Gosh, they’re really a lovely couple, and I just love that they want to make the world a better place.”

Awwwwww ;) You can read all of Joanne’s musings HERE:

THANKS to you both for sharing your reflections, lovely ladies ;) ...and hopefully one day we will connect with YOU too, dear reader, at another venue in space and time, if thou dost desireth it...

One love,
Angelalalalalaaaaaaaa. xxx