Closing Day of the 2011 Vilcabamba Raw Food Gathering...

WELL...today marked the official closing day of the 2011 Vilcabamba Raw Food Gathering - and what a packed, eventful, inspiring couple of weeks it's been here in the Valley of Longevity ;0

Major THANKS to all who came down here to play, share, co-create and enjoy the flow...today I posted some more of my pictures from the last few days to Facebook - you can check those out HERE if you like...
For now, we are encouraging anyone drawn to the energy of this event to visit http://rawinecuador.grouply.com to connect and stay connected with other like-minded beings - enjoy ;)


on May the 11th I enjoyed:

1 quart water
a yummmmmers mango and little bag of strawberries
2 cups greeeeeeeen juice mixed with pineapple juice
little pot of hemp seeds mixed with hemp oil and salt, spread on nori sheets with chlorella flakes, followed by a few macadamia nuts with green raisins
water of a young coconut
3 cups water


on May the 12th we had a HUGE raw potluck at our house and I appreciated:

1 quart water
1.5 cups mandarin/passionfruit juice
2 cups greeeeeeeen juice mixed with pineapple juice
water of a young coconut
potluck party food ;) Various delicious salads, some *amazing* raw pie from Mr. M, banana ice cream - yummmmmmm ;)
water of a young coconut

Now, while my pictures from the last couple of weeks here in Vilca might be nice, if you want to see some *really* beautiful shots of the gathering here, I'd strongly recommend you hop on over to dear si*star* Katrina Rainoshek's Flickr account HERE to get your eyeballs fixed on some lush imagery from this latest Vilca Raw Gathering - such beautiful pictures - as her husband David remarked, Katrina seems to be rapidly creating a niche for herself here as the community photographer - enjoy :)


on May the 13th I loved:

1 quart water
1.5 cups mandarin/orange/passionfruit juice
2 cups greeeeeeeen juice mixed with pineapple juice
a mango
yummmmers gourmet raw Mexican meal from Sambuca Cafe at their gorgeous Yoga Studio - soup, enchiladas and frozen strawberry cake - wow :)
water of a young coconut


on May the 14th I was blissed with:

1 quart water
1.5 cups mandarin/orange/passionfruit juice
3 granadillas
1 quart greeeeeen juice mixed with pineapple juice
samples of new "coconut sugar" product and "pili nuts", followed by little nori rolls stuffed with hemp seeds/hemp oil/salt mixture, chlorella flakes and sauerkraut; a few macadamias with green raisins
2 cups water
2 cups yummmmmy fruit smoothie and slice of amazing raw birthday cake at Madre Tierra :)
water of a young coconut

...and if you prefer some video action of the recent events here, Mr. M posted a couple of videos in the last two days from the huge raw potluck we hosted at our place a few days back - glorious food, wonderful people, fabulous live music and dancing - a feast on all levels - check out those videos below:

Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa_ScmV8IdI

...and here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C6V5HDulws

THANKS again to all the Gathering paticipants - we appreciate you :)

All love,
Angelalalalalaaaaaaaaaaaaa. xxx

Best of Raw 2009 Award Winners :)

WOW...are you feeling the INTENSE energy today? Full Moon, Blue Moon, New Year’s Eve, an Eclipse and Mercury Retrograde are combining into a powerful catalyst, seemingly catapulting us into the new year ;)

Yeeeeeee-HAH ;)

Well, as we bid a hearty farewell to 2009, I’m delighted to say that yesterday the winners of the 2009 “Best of Raw” Awards were announced and Mr. M and I were the happy recipients of *7* award placements:

Favourite Raw Food Company: (TheRawFoodWorld - number 1)

Favourite Raw Food Online Store: (TheRawFoodWorld.com - number 1)

Favourite Raw Radio Show: (TheRawFoodWorldRadioShow.com - number 1)

Funniest Raw Woman (Angela Stokes-Monarch - number 1)

Favourite Community Outreach (The Raw Food World TV Show - number 2)

Favourite Raw Vlog/TV Show (TheRawFoodWorld.tv - number 3)

Favourite Raw Food Event (Raw Union - number 5)

:) THANK YOU to everyone who voted for us – we were very excited and grateful for this sweet recognition – we posted a little video last night to share our glee:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecV3oZOLJLM

THANKS :)

On December the 29th I enjoyed:

1 quart water
1 cup green juice
2 cups greeeen juice from the Tree of Life Café
2 cups greeeen juice from the Tree of Life Café
3 cups greeeeen juice
2 tbsp bee pollen/probiotics mixture
2 cups greeeen juice from the Tree of Life Café
30 chlorella tablets
2 cups greeeen juice from the Tree of Life Café
2 cups water

Important Reminder:

For those of you who signed up for the “Organic Acres” organic garden opportunity (mentioned a while back in THIS blog post), you only have until JANUARY the 2nd – this Saturday - to upgrade your account in the Organic Acres system, to claim your garden and “Pioneer Position”.

There are 6 easy steps to confirming your garden and ‘Pioneer Position’ at Organic Acres.

1. Go to the back office: https://myorganicacres.com/plexum.php and
sign in with your username and password.
2. On the page that opens, you’ll see where it says near the top, in
the middle of the page: “For a Garden you must click here.” Click that
link.
3. Read the Terms and Conditions, check the box to say you’ve read
them, enter your email & name, press submit.
4. On the next screen that pops up, the first words are ‘Click here’ –
click that link.
5. On the next page, choose which kind of garden/membership you’d like
(full garden, half garden, 12 month general store membership, etc),
then choose if you’d like to pay by card or Paypal. Enter your payment
details into the fields that pop up beneath.
6. Click ‘Proceed’ and the transacton will process. All being well,
you will then see a screen that says “Transaction approved and account
upgraded successfully.”

CONGRATULATIONS, you now have your own organic garden :)

If you have any issues/concerns/questions about this process, you can contact Organic Acres on admin@myorganicacres.com.

Happy Organic Gardening :)

on December the 30th I loved:

1 quart water
1 cup green juice
shot of wheatgrass juice
2 cups greeeen juice from the Tree of Life Café
mug of herbal tea
water with sole (Himalayan sea salt dissolved in water)
3 cups greeeen juice from the Tree of Life Café
3 tbsp bee pollen
3 cups greeeen juice from the Tree of Life Café
2 tbsp bee pollen with probiotics
3 cups greeeeeen juice
3 tbsp bee pollen
2 cups water

As I send this out to you all, I know that some of you are already IN 2010 ;) CONGRATS and Happy New Year to you and…indeed to all of us… Here at the Tree of Life there will be a ceremonial Sweat Lodge tonight to mark the transition into the new year – exciting :)
It is also our 16th Day of Green Juice Feasting today – wow, what a way to see in the new year ;) Don't forget to send in any JUICY Juice Feasting questions you may have for David and Katrina Rainoshek and we'll ask them in our interview on January the 7th. Just email Qs for them to angela@rawreform.com...thanks :)

Sending love, light and myriad blissings to all for a sublimely superb 2010 :)

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson

All love,
Angela. xxx

2009 in Raw-view ;)

WELL...what a year 2009 has been for us...I’ve been thinking back over the last 12 months with a mixture of joy and amusement the last couple of days... ;)
We started the year in Mexico, launching the LiveLightly Plan and rescuing two dogs, from whom we contracted canine scabies...hmmmmm... I went back to the UK to do USA Immigration interviews, heal from scabies and finish writing “Raw Emotions”. After 2 months or so of self-imposed “quarantine” to help heal afore-mentioned scabies and finish afore-mentioned book, I emerged joyfully in the spring with a scabies-free body, a completed book and a fiance visa for the US, after nearly 2 years in the immigration system – YAY :) Swiftly exited left, to Ecuador, to meet future husband and our land in Vilcabamba for the first time – LOVED it all so very much.
Back to the USA after 10 days and almost immediately straight into raw food talk tour which pretty much ran from April to November this year, allll over the US, with little breaks here and there. Also, finding ourselves under obligation to marry within 90 days of me entering the US, as a condition of my visa, we set about formulating wedding plans immediately too, for the Raw Union Festival ;)

Raw Emotions arrived in printed form, my first printed book – VERY exciting...and onwards we travelled, far and wide all over the US, doing talks, festivals and interviews until June, wedding time for Mr. M and I, in Oregon. Enjoyed a spectacular love-fest of a wedding at the Raw Union festival, on organic farm with 400+ people in attendance and Dr. Wolfe as our minister ;) Morphed into the “Stokes-Monarch”...

On December the 27th I was blissed with:

1 quart water
1 cup greeeen juice
1 cup reishi tea
shot of wheatgrass juice
2 cups greeeeen juice from The Tree of Life Café
2 cups greeeeen juice from The Tree of Life Café
2 tbsp coconut oil with 40 chlorella ‘nuts’
1 quart water
2 cups greeeeeen juice
1 tbsp bee pollen
2 cups greeeeen juice from The Tree of Life Café
2 cups water

The rest of the summer seems a blur in my memory of travel, talks, events, boxes, books, people, conversations, in and out of hotels, motels, people’s houses, talk venues and so on...we probably did 100+ talks in around 30+ states this year...we also started the monthly Raw Food World Radio Show in the summer…
We finished our talk tour on November the 22nd and the very next day, on November the 23rd, our car was ‘totalled’ in a pretty intense car accident in Pennsylvania ;O Immediately started 7-day Juice Feast to help expedite healing from shock, cuts, bruises, whiplash, aches etc... As I was due back in California very soon afterwards for my NEXT Immigration interview, we welcomed a second hand jeep into our lives and jiggled gratefully back to CA for interview, only to be thwarted by the question “what colour is the carpet at your mum’s house?” lol ;) Case put on hold for ‘next 6 months’...ho-hummmm...thankfully the interviewer seemed to have a change of heart in the following week and I got a letter shortly afterwards announcing that I am now welcome in the US, as a “permanent resident” – yeeeeeee-HAH ;)

December saw us help our warehouse staff in Ojai expand the premises to three times the size and I also pieced together the free “Profoundly Raw” ebook as a Christmas gift to all...
Then we dallied off to Arizona, where we currently find ourselves resting ooohhhhhhh soooooooo gratefully and joyfully in the kind embrace of The Tree of Life centre, Juice Feasting, parasite cleansing, getting body work and mainly just RELAXING ;)
It’s felt like an amaaaazing journey this year – thank you SO much to all of you who have been a part of this flow in some way – those who came to talks, watched the TV show, listened to the radio show, read this blog, sent in messages, sent healng and love after our car accident, came to our wedding and so on – however you connected, thank you :)
I am really excited for 2010 and send you all the very best wishes for an expansive year of joy, love and wonder too – enjoy :)

on December the 28th I enjoyed:

1 quart water
shot of wheatgrass juice
2 cups greeeeen juice from The Tree of Life Café
1 cup green juice
1.5 cups DELICIOUS coconut kefir :)))
2 cups greeeeen juice from The Tree of Life Café
2 tbsp coconut oil with 40 chlorella tablets
3 cups water
samples of spirulina crunchies and new bee pollen – yummm ;)
2 cups greeeeen juice from The Tree of Life Café
3 tbsp bee pollen with probiotics
2 cups greeeeen juice from The Tree of Life Café
2 cups water

So, we’re on day 14 of our current intended 30-Day Green Juice Feast here at the Tree of Life in AZ and all is flowing AMAZINGLY well... :)

Alongside this juicy flow, I’m excited to say that on January the 7th, we’re going to be connecting with the lovely David and Katrina Rainoshek of JuiceFeasting.com, for an interview on TheRawFoodWorld TV Show via Skype, alllll about Juice Feasting...and YOU get to ask all the questions... ;)
So, if you have any juicy questions you’d love to have answered by the king and queen of JF-ing, just email those Qs in to angela@rawreform.com by Jan 6th and we’ll aim to get them all answered on Jan 7th with the Rainosheks – FUN :)

All love,
Ms. Stokes-Monarch. xxx

Introducing: The "Profoundly Raw" E-Book :)

Very Special Announcement:

I am absolutely THRILLED to say that my new project is ready to share with y’all :)

Introducing: the Profoundly Raw e-book :)

This FREE ebook contains 12 chapters, contributed by 12 well-known raw food authors, combining to offer an inspiring overview of a raw food lifestyle...
I asked 12 raw author yumsters to contribute one of their favourite chapters from one of their books for this free ebook and here is the resulting selection on offer:

Alissa Cohen on Protein, Calcium and Fats

David and Katrina Rainoshek on “Deep Food”

Angela Stokes-Monarch on Emotional Eating

David Wolfe on The Sun

Jinjee Talifero on The Yoga of Nursing

Gabriel Cousens on Vitamin B12

Kate Magic on Raw Magic

Kevin Gianni on Overcoming Potential Stumbling Blocks

Shazzie on How to Start a Child on Raw Food

Matt Monarch on Sensitivity and Stabilizing Out

Tonya Zavasta on A Perfect Bowel Movement

Paul Nison on The Daylight Diet

I’m SOOOOOO excited to share this ebook with you all – it is ready now and you can download it for free HERE...

I have always LOVED giving people special gifts, especially at Christmas time...I remember one yuletide for example hand-making a unique, customised Christmas gift for every one of my classmates at school ;) lol...I LOVE gift-giving, so please consider this free ebook a little Christmas-time offering from me to you – ENJOY :)

I really hope you DO enjoy it – there’s some wonderful information shared in there, generously offered by all the lovely authors...I have had such a GLOW in my being, piecing this together for the last 10 days or so...

In fact this whole project started to manifest a couple of weeks back when I asked the Universe one night to show me a way I could give a valuable, lovely gift to everyone at once...and this ebook is what it IMMEDIATELY suggested back to me...and here we are now with this 118 page ebook to enjoy as a result – it all just floooooowwwwwed as a beautiful co-creation – capped with a gorgeous original piece of artwork as the cover, specially designed for this project by the lovely Dustin Kellogg...and his wife Meredith wrote a very sweet little poem to open the collection too :)

So...there’s a LOT of love in this book...please enjoy hopping over HERE right now to collect your free download of “Profoundly Raw” and enjoy your OWN unfolding into this glorious path… ;)

Happy Holidays :)

All love,
Angelalalalalaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. xxx

Educational Experiential Opportunities :)

OoOOoooo la la, would you perhaps love to get a little juicier this autumn? WELL, Mr. David 'Juice Feasting' Rainoshek has some fun news for you. He will be hosting his first ever Juice Feasting private group session, for a month from October the 2^nd to November the 2^nd. He's taking on just 12 juicy people to share this experience, which will involve one–on–one coaching and group support for the whole month...marvellous ;)

For all the details and to become one of the blessed juice disciples, visit HERE and enjoy...

on September the 10^th I adored:

1 quart water

2 cups goji juice blended with Greener Grasses – interesting ;)

1 Tbsp bee pollen

bowl of energy soup with a piece of Lydia's Sunflower Bread on the side, followed by a little handful of Incan berries

1 quart water

3 cups greeeeeeeeeeeen juice: celery, cucumber, parsley, spinach, ginger

2 apples, a little handful of Incan berries, 2 Tbsp AMAZING Wilderness Poet hemp/pistachio/halva spread – WOW :)

3 cups water

...and in other 'educational–experiential–opportunities' news, dear Elena from Birth Into Being has a 10–DAY Apprenticeship Training coming up soon over on the east coast. Elena only goes to the east coast once a year and this year's dates are October 14–23^rd. There are three ways to participate: for 2 days, 4 days or the whole 10 days. The full course description can be found HERE and you can reserve your place by contacting info (at) birthintobeing.com or calling 530-566-0199.

WOW. I would LOVE to do this whole training with Elena sometime...the amount of life–shifting info I absorbed via this woman in just 2 days last weekend was phenomenal...and with I think around 27 years of experience in this field, she has SO much to share...if you haven't yet seen the six YouTube videos of Elena we put up on TheRawFoodWorld TV Show this week, I would thoroughly encourage checking those out at the links below – it's like accessing an hour's free download from the goddess of birthing – enjoy ;)

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJZMIq9Zgb0

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nob6sNRkn8

Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGgL4PDrbh0

Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwDLjZFAyDQ

Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHew3OnNFJA

Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzSvQHTWkX4

on September the 11^th I loved:

1 quart water

shotglass of orange juice

2 cups greeeeeeeen juice: celery, cucumber, endive, fennel, romaine, zucchini, lemon

½ bowl of energy soup with new cracker samples on the side, followed by 2 Tbsp Wilderness Poet halva spread

cup of soooothing herbal tea

2 cups water

double shot of aloe vera juice

½ bowl of energy soup with new cracker samples on the side, followed by some apple–cinnamon dehydrated 'snappers'

1 quart water

The 'Women Go Raw' team came to visit me in Ojai a few days back, on their biodiesel solar–powered RV tour ;) Love it...these lightworker women are doing some wonderful movin' and shakin' to spread this healing message...we went to play in a park together and below is a little video of my interview with them – enjoy ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxTaVyfbofA

Mr. M and I are officially back on tour again now too – first stop is Vegas today and we'll be meandering onwards from here, aallllll over the place again...across the south, into Florida, up the east coast, back across the middle...you can see the full schedule HERE and email us at angela@rawreform.com if you'd love to help set an event up with us in your area ;)

Thank you lovelies and all blessings for your joyous unfolding...

All love,

Ms. Angela. xxx

Greens and Salads...

Quite a few of you have been writing in to ask about E3 Live, after I was drinking so much of it recently ;)
Well, simply put, it's an algae collected from Klamath Lake. E3 Live is a freshly frozen product: the algae is collected, bottled, frozen and shipped out to customers with cold packs...
Here's what I like about it: it’s nutrient-packed, a quick way to get smthg greeeeeen into your body without making veggie juice ;) (Can be great for any ‘reluctant relatives’, who might not be into preparing fresh green drinks...there are even new flavoured E3 Live bottles with agave, mint and so on, to make it more easy to slide down your greens ;) It's also GREAT supporting nourishment apparently for pregnant and nursing women, I hear...
People usually keep the bottle of E3 Live in their freezer, then transfer it to the fridge, let it defrost for a while, pour off enough of the defrosted liquid to drink for the next few days and replace the rest in the freezer for later (OR: defrost the whole thing, pour it out into ice cube trays and refreeze, so that whenever you want, you can pop out a little chunk of chlorophyll-rich goodness ;). That’s my quick summary - you can read all about E3 Live on our site HERE.

on September the 16th I had:

1 quart water
mug of blackberry tea
3 cups green juice: cucumber, celery, ginger, lime with a handful of fresh leafy greens from the garden: kale, lettuces, chard, nettles, dandelion, mint
2 cups ‘energy soup’ with coconut chips stirred in, followed by a little bowl of sweet yum: hazelnut butter, lucuma, maca and carob powders hand-blended with water
3 cups water
glass of creamy green smoothie: almond milk, lucuma, maca, vitamineral green, vanilla, cinammon, with a square of goji-lemon-chocolate fudge – WOW :)
2 cups water
mug of ‘choco’ tea
1 cup water

MmmMmmmmm, here’s an interesting possible opportunity for someone out there...would you LOVE to take a road trip soon, from Michigan to California...? Mr. Monarch is on the lookout for someone who would be excited to drive his Rav4 from Brighton, Michigan, back to Ojai, California, starting this Sunday, the 21st. Mr. M. will be speaking at the Midwest Living Foods EcoFest this Saturday in Brighton, Michigan and then would be delighted to hand his car keys over to someone else who can drive over to Cali, while he sets off for Canada...does this sound like an adventure YOU’D love to co-create? Well, if so, then email me at angela@rawreform.com and we’ll get you hooked up with some wheels ;) Yeeeeeeeeee-HAH ;)

on September the 17th I had:

1 quart water
3 cups green juice: cucumber, celery, handful of fresh greens from the garden, ginger, lime
2 cups ‘energy soup’ with coconut chips stirred in, followed by a little bowl of sweet yum: hazelnut butter, lucuma, maca and carob powders hand-blended with water
3 cups water
2 cups green juice: cucumber, celery, followed by another cup of mystery green juice ;)
6 gorgeous Italian plums straight from the tree
2 cups water


on September the 18th I had:

1 quart water
2 cups green juice: cucumber, celery, handful of fresh greens from the garden, ginger, lime
shot of peagreens juice – WOW ;)
jar of creamy green smoothie at Café Bliss: almond milk, lucuma, maca, vitamineral green, vanilla, cinammon, with a spirulina bliss ball on the side
6 fresh plums from the tree
2 cups water
2 teaspoons bee pollen
2 cups veggie juice: cucumber, celery, carrots, kale, romaine lettuce, ginger
2 cups ‘energy soup’ with coconut chips stirred in, followed by a little bowl of sweet yum: hazelnut butter, lucuma, maca and carob powders hand-blended with water
mug of sweet/spicy tea
2 cups water

WOW – I have just been watching a comedian on You Tube who had me laughing so hard I was crying...his name is Jim Gaffigan and I was just introduced to him this evening by the uber-delicious Rainosheks, who I have the divine fortune to be visiting at the moment in the Gulf Islands... I know nothing more abt Mr. Gaffigan other than that I find his musings on modern food very very amusing – below is a clip of him talking about salad. Check out his other videos on cake, vegetarians, lactose intolerance and...cinnabons...lol...love it – ENJOY :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhCvNqHm0nY

All love,
Angelalalaalalalalalalalaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. xxx

Simply Raw Bliss ;)

WOW – a couple of nights ago we watched the new ‘Simply Raw’ DVD, which follows 6 diabetics as they reverse this condition naturally, with raw food, at the Tree of Life centre in Arizona. I was SOOOOOOO happy to finally see this documentary – it has been a long time coming and it was definitely worth the wait ;)
I found myself nodding my head, laughing out loud, exclaiming ‘YES’, ‘WOW’ and so on countless times throughout the 90-minute presentation. It is SO gratifying and exciting to see six people who have all been told that they will be ‘on their medication for life’ not only COME OFF all allopathic meds, but also lose weight, shift through emotional stumbling blocks, get more physically active and start SHINING with healthy skin and eyes...in just 30 days...
I am very excited to see the impact this film will have in the world...diabetes is at pandemic levels now and this film clearly shows how easily it CAN be reversed, if people are willing to let go of that ever-sticky relationship to processed ‘foods’ and eat more simply, moving more into alignment with nature...
There is a fabulous part at the end of the film where one of the participants goes back to her home community and visits her doctor there, who is so bowled over by her recovery that he announces smthg along the lines of ‘wow – how do we ship ALL of my patients out to Arizona for treatment?’. LOVE it ;) I sit here grinning just relaying this story – OoooOoOooo it’s so exciting when people get the message and pass it on – love it, love it, love it... You can get hold of a copy of Simply Raw HERE to enjoy for yourself and hopefully share with many loved ones (after all, who DOESN’T know someone dealing with diabetes or obesity...? ;) Gabriel Cousens also released the accompanying book ‘There is a Cure for Diabetes’ recently, which would surely be another very wise investment for anyone currently dancing with diabetes issues ;) You can see that book HERE.
ALL blessings for the amazing, unfolding healing of all ;)

on September the 14th I had:

1 quart water
1 quart veggie juice: celery, cucumber, kale, lettuce, zucchini, carrot juice
2 cups green smoothie: peaches, spinach, lettuce, water
handful of blackberries
a little avocado with a yellow bell pepper, dulse seaweed and a little sunflower seed pate, followed by a little bowl of hazelnut butter mixed with lucuma powder, maca powder and carob powder
1 quart water
1.5 tbsp wheatgrass powder
tbsp of yummy mixture: almond butter with lucuma and carob powders
3 cups water

As those of you who shop at the RawReform Store may know, we are extremely blessed to have a WONDERFUL customer service rep named Lindsey :) ...and if you were at Raw Spirit Fest this weekend in Arizona, you may well have met the lovely Lindsey at our booth :) Recently she sent through this great quote – thought I’d pass it on – very sweet ;)
THANKS, Lindsey, we love you :)

"One farmer says to me, 'You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with'; and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plough along in spite of every obstacle."
~Henry David Thoreau, Where I Lived And What I Lived For.


on September the 15th I had:

1 quart water
2.5 cups green juice: cucumber, ginger and lemon with all kinds of greens straight from the garden: kale, chard, lettuces, cabbage, dandelion, nettles, mint – WOW ;)
2 cups energy soup with coconut chips stirred in and a flax cracker on the side, followed by a little bowl of hazelnut butter mixed lucuma, carob and maca powders
3 cups water
fresh fruit picked straight from the garden: raspberries, strawberries, blackberries and Italian plums
2 cups water

I am feeling SO blessed right now...I am back in Victoria, BC, staying with the family of the gorgeous Katrina Rainoshek, whose equally-yummable sister Heather has just recently opened a raw café here, called Café Bliss (very appropriately named – I’ll be speaking there this Wednesday, the 17th – details HERE ;).
This house and garden where I’ve been welcomed to stay are AMAZING: a living, loving, vibrant food forest and I am SO enjoying it...nothing compares to walking out into the garden barefoot, gathering nutrient-packed, organic, loved-up greens by hand with gratitude and then welcoming them into my body...today I also had a meal of fresh seasonal fruits, straight from the bushes/trees – absolutely DIVINE...this is EXACTLY the kind of set-up I was envisioning when I wrote last time about how wonderful it will be to go out for a walk and all around you are ‘domains’ of lush edible gardens... Well, this is one family who are definitely living the dream already and I am very grateful to share this beautiful space with them for a few days – thanks, guys :)

MUAH,
All love,
Angela. xxx

Raw Videos, Talks and Events - Get Your Raw Kicks Here ;)

Ooo, check out this new Google Vid of myself and the dear Rainosheks having a JUICY chat a few days ago, on my second Juicy Monday and their 9th day of the Global Juice Feast. We had a little pow-wow on Skype for the first half of this video, talking about juicy adventures, ‘Raw Emotions’ and more - check out Katrina’s lovely thoughts about the obstruction to energetic flow that solid foods create in the system, before they’re assimilated into the body – love it ;) See HERE:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5177119038302350951

The Rainosheks have been posting videos to Google every day of the GJF so far – you can check them out by going to http://video.google.com and typing ‘Global Juice Feast’ in the search box.


On March the 11th I had:

1.5 quarts water
1.5 cups wild berry tea
3 mandarins
16oz celery/cucumber/cilantro/lettuces/spinach/beetroot/carrot juice
celebration lunch – raw Monarch cake – base of dried mulberries soaked in blended bananas/vanilla powder, mixed with ground flax, sauce of blended soaked goji berries, accompanied by a cacophony of outrageous raw cracao creations – eeeeeeeeek ;)
2 quarts water
24oz celery/cucumber/cilantro/lettuces/spinach/beetroot/carrot juice
bowl of cucumber yum: grated cucumber mixed with pumpkin seed pate, avocado, finely sliced onions, mixed sprouts and karengo seaweed, served in lettuce wraps and nori sheets
1.5 quarts water

TALKS UPDATE :)
I’m delighted to say that the details of our next few upcoming Raw Food Transformation Talks are now up on the RawReform site – see here: http://www.rawreform.com/content/view/350
We’ll be speaking in Christchurch on April 4th, Wellington on April the 19th and Melbourne on April the 26th.
We hope to see you there if you’re around those areas ;)

on March the 12th I had:

1.5 quarts water
3 cups watermelon/orange juice
16oz celery/cucumber/cabbage/beetroot/carrot/lettuce/dandelion juice
little bowl of cucumber yum: grated cucumber mixed with pumpkin seed pate, avocado, finely sliced onions, mixed sprouts and karengo seaweed, served in lettuce wraps and nori sheets, followed by a few slices of yacon root – MMMMMmmmmMMMmmmm :)
2 quarts water
5 gorgeous little nectarines and 2 ‘blackboy’ peaches
20oz celery/cucumber/cabbage/beetroot/carrot/lettuce/dandelion juice
cake leftovers from yesterday: base of dried mulberries soaked in blended bananas/vanilla powder, mixed with ground flax, sauce of blended soaked goji berries
1 quart water

Talking of events, I just realised I haven’t bigged up the Raw Lifestyle Film Festival here yet – and it’s just days away now – eeeeek. Well, I’m sure many of you have heard anyway about this yummy event kicking off from March the 21st to the 23rd in LA.
It’s the second year for the festie this year, which started as a simple little idea from dear Jinjee to get some people together and show some raw-related flicks, to being a HUGE, action-packed, internationally attended event in Hollywood ;) LOL... It was muchos fun last year – I’d just got back from Costa Rica and the Monarch and myself attended the whole film festival; we met many fabulous beings, absorbed many hours of incredible footage and sampled some delicious treats. My favourite film last year was, as I’ve said before, ‘Birth As We Know It’ – absolutely PHENOMENAL...essential viewing for any pregnant women or those intending to parent, methinks...
This year the line-up looks GLOWING too – you can see info abt the festie HERE, including a key-note speech from world-renowned transformational worker, LOUISE L. HAY - WOW :). Other presenters will include Viktoras Kulvinskas, Victoria Boutenko, Matt Amsden, Happy Oasis, Patricia Bragg, the Rainosheks, Cherie Soria and many more...
I’m especially excited to see Valya Boutenko’s offering, 'Reversing the Irreversible' - she apparently interviewed 37 different people who have all healed various ailments and diseases by going raw – YUMMY :)
I would, as ever, LOVE to be there to play out with all the shiny creative yumsters – we’re quite a trot from LA at the moment though...so, next year for us ;) In the meantime, ENJOY if YOU are going to play out at the festie – and do let us know what you enjoyed if you do attend... ;) Discounted tickets for the event are only available until MARCH 15th - so get in soon, before the prices go up - PLUS, please note that one tree is planted for every ticket purchased - tres cool ;)

All love,
Angela. xxx

Raw Emotions and Juices Flowing...

I’m excited to announce that the latest RawReform ‘book baby’ is nearly ready for delivery ;) Raw Emotions was given a ‘due date’ originally of March the 1st...well, for now, that’s looking a little premature for this particular baby – however, we’re expecting arrival by no later than March the 7th though now ;) Which just happens to be the day for the new moon in compassionate, transcendent Pisces – how ideal :) Apologies for any inconvenience, for those who have been patiently awaiting this arrival...Raw Emotions will be gracing the inbox of those who have pre-ordered it, very soon...we’d just love to fully polish up the last details in the next few days for you, so that you get the best version to enjoy...If you’re unfamiliar with this new impending arrival, Raw Emotions is my latest e-book, exploring the emotional and spiritual transformations people tend to experience when they go raw and is packed with tips for easing your own transformation along... So, thanks again to all who have already pre-ordered and if you would like to see more info and perhaps place your order now, if you haven’t already, please see HERE. :)

on February the 28th I had:

1.5 quarts water
2 big handfuls of blackberries, straight from the bushes
little bowl of cherries
20 oz celery/cucumber/parsley/arugula/cabbage/carrot juice
little bowl of salad: finely sliced romaine lettuce, grated cucumber, karengo seaweed, sundried tomatoes, sunflower seed pate
1 quart water
10oz celery/cucumber/parsley/arugula/cabbage/carrot juice
bowl of fruit salad with chia gel: babako/raspberry/blueberries/nashi pear/apple
1 quart water

Tomorrow - March 1st - is the official kick-off day for the Global Juice Feast – yeeeeeeeeeeee-HAH :) (ALL the more reason to let ‘Raw Emotions’ unfold a little slower for now and shine some more light into juicy joys instead ;)
SO, I’m very excited to say that on the eve of this worldwide foray into feasting we’ve just managed to put up a new set of Juice Feasting Calls for download. ;) This ‘Juice Feasting Conference Call’ series, comprises 4 one-hour calls, which were recorded live in May 2007, after my own 92-day Juice Feast was completed. This is a new way to access in-depth information about Juice Feasting - these calls go deeper into the 'knitty-gritty' than my 'Juice Feasters Handbook'.
In this call series, I discussed many different aspects of Juice Feasting with our wonderful interviewer Michelle, based on the questions sent in by listeners.
Here were the call themes:

Week 1. JUICE FEASTING PRACTICALITIES
Week 2. HOPES AND FEARS
Week 3. SOCIAL ISSUES
Week 4. COMING OFF A JUICE FEAST

If you didn't join us at the time and would like to listen in to these calls, you can now gain access to them all, right HERE. You can download all four calls, to listen to and access at your convenience. Hurray :)
ENJOY ;)

on February the 29th I had:

1.5 quarts water
blackberries straight from the bush, plus wild strawberries, concord grapes and a couple of little apples, all straight from the plants in the orchard – blisssssss :)
1 tbsp green powders
bowl of salad: finely sliced romaine lettuce, grated cucumber, karengo seaweed, sundried tomatoes, sunflower seed pate, served in lettuce wraps and nori sheets
1 quart water
30oz celery/kale/cucumber/zucchini/ginger/radish/lettuce/carrot juice
bowl of outrageously divine raspberry pudding – fresh raspberries blended with soaked dried mulberries, with LSA stirred in (ground linseed/sunflower seeds/almonds), plus more whole fresh raspberries and dried mulberries, to chew on
1 quart water

Ahhhh, the Global Juice Feast... I can hear the sound of juicer motors kicking into action the world over ;) I am so excited for all of you out there in liquid wonderland at the moment...or just about to dive in ;) It’s such an incredible journey to take...and indeed, so many people out there are JF-ing at the moment already...it’s truly phenomenal. In fact, I was delighted to discover this evening that there’s even now a COMMUNITY site, which has been set up my masters of the juicy ceremonies, David and Katrina Rainoshek. It's just like GiveItToMeRaw.com – for JFeasters :) There are already over 250 members, supporting each other and tuning in to the global flow...if you’re already a member of GITMR, it’s even easier to join this ‘sister’ site, as your info, friends etc can be transferred over with your ID – very cool – you can see my profile HERE.
I still haven’t decided what my participation in this feast will look like ;) LOL...yet I think, considering the fact that the event officially kicks off in less than 24 hours as I write this – it’s highly unlikely I’ll be in the game for 92 days again this time round...it just doesn't feel like my calling right now...I may indeed dip in and out a bit though – especially with the equinox coming up soon in March (Autumn for us down in this part of the world – Spring for those of you up there ;)
So, happy juicy journeys to all of you about to foray out into fluidity... Oh and if you need any last minute juicy supplies, remember to check out the Juice Feaster’s Epicentre in the RawReform store, HERE.

ENJOOOOOOOY :)
One love,
Angela. xxx