Sleeping Outside...

Some of you have been emailing with confusions and questions about herbal elixirs – what they are, how to make them, why to consume them and so on...I realised that I forgot to post for y'all here the videos of Daniel Vitalis actually MAKING an elixir, when I was writing abt his ElixirCraft Program recently. So, here are the videos below – check out Daniel making a delicious, nutrient–packed, power–punching, easily assimilated beverage...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QR-axCp48U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDirnv75eJE

I hope that helps make things a bit clearer for y'all...and remember that you can also always check out my elixir ice cream video HERE, if you never tried that amazing concoction out too... ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9r8xuSAZ0M

YUmmmmmMmMmMMmmmmmmmm... ENJOY...

on August the 17th I loved:

1 quart water
2 cups coconut water with green powder and Merlin's Elixir
lettuce wraps stuffed with avo, dulse, sauerkrauts and sprouts with a red bell pepper and crackers on the side, followed by a few apple cinnamon snappers from Aimee's ;)
1 quart water
big bunch of green grapes
2 cups coconut water with green powder and Merlin's Elixir
1 quart water


on August the 18th I enjoyed:

1 quart water
2 cups goji juice with Marine Phytoplankton
1 Tbsp bee pollen, 25 chlorella 'nuts'
feast of durian and fresh figs with Shazzie and Philip
1 quart water
water of 2 young coconuts with green powder and Merlin's Elixir
3 cups water

Dear ones, I would value your sage guidance, please, on the matter of sleeping outside. Here's the situation: Mr. M and I live on the road and mostly travel from raw food host to raw food host, to motel, to host and so on...and we'd be very excited in all this flow to be sleeping outside more. We'd love to be connecting more intimately with the energies straight from the stars, planets and so on...AND we have some desires about how this would be put together, which include the following:

*We'd like to have a 2-person sleeping bag/cover to keep us warm.
*We'd like to have some kind of netting over us to stop people such as mosquitos biting us. We do NOT want to be enclosed inside a tent.
*We'd probably love to have something under us for some level of comfort/preventing creeping cold/wetness etc from the ground...
*We travel all over the place to warmer and cooler climes, so equipment that is user–friendly in lots of different environments would be nice.
*It would also be great to have things that are easy to put together and not very bulky ;)

SO, those are the identified preferences so far and we'd LOVE to hear your suggestions on these themes/recommended equipment and so on...so far I have liked the look of THIS netting structure (please overlook the classic '70s catalogue posing ;) ...and have also seen quite a few different 2-person sleeping bags...any further suggestions excitedly welcomed ;) Please email us at angela@rawreform.com – thank you :)


on August the 19th I loved:

1 quart water
shotglass of orange juice
2 cups goji juice with Marine Phytoplankton
lettuce wraps stuffed with a mixture of avo/sauerkraut/dulse with crackers, a red bell pepper and sun–dried tomatoes on the side, followed by a few lucuma slices – yummmmmmmm ;)
1 quart water
2 cups greeeen juice: celery, cucumber, spinach, parsley, ginger
bowl of persimmon ice cream with Noniland coconut chips on the side – WOW, LOVE them :)
3 cups water


on August the 20th I had:

1 quart water
double shotglass of orange juice
1 Tbsp bee pollen
water of 2 young coconuts with Greener Grasses and Merlin's Elixir
a gorgeous little cantaloupe melon
3 cups water
30 chlorella 'nuts'
2 cups goji juice with Marine Phytoplankton
water of 2 young coconuts with Greener Grasses and Merlin's Elixir
3 cups water


We're on the last leg of our current tour right now. We're back in California again and just arrived to the Living Light Festie in Fort Bragg this weekend – YAY :)
Then on Monday the 24th we'll be doing a talk at Café Gratitude in Healdsburg, organised by the lovely Shea Lynn Baird. Wednesday 26th is our last date for this tour and we'll be found at the Natural Foods Co–op in Sacramento. You can see ALL the details for these talks AND our upcoming autumn/winter talk dates HERE.
Yes, we'll be on tour again from mid–September to December and this may very well be the LAST tour we do here in the US, depending on how things unfold...so, catch us while you can – lol ;) If you'd love to help us set up a talk in YOUR area in that time frame, just drop us an email to angela@rawreform.com and let us know ;)
THANKS :)

All love,
Ms. StoM. xxx

See Me on The News Again... ;)

Ooooo, I was on the News on TV today in N. California – on the KCRA 3 Channel, who came to film us in Sacramento recently. You can view the piece below – they were NICE :) It’s abt 1.30 mins long – enjoy :)


On July the 6th I had:

1 quart water
2 cups greeeeen juice
big bowl of YUMMY elixir ice cream, slice of raw pumpkin pie
3 cups water
25 chlorella ‘nuts’
water +meat of a young coconut, 3 raw almond butter cookies
2 peaches and a little basket of fresh figs
1 quart water

Get ready to get a greeeeen mouth with this month's RawReform Giveaway ;) We're giving away a bag of our SUPER-popular, SUPER-tasty Chlorella 'Nuts' - one of my absolute favourite raw food snacks :) (I usually can't STAND the taste of chlorella, yet these crunchy tasty little tablets of pressed chlorella powder are delicious - to my taste buds at least, lol ;)
Chlorella is a yummy algae with massive amounts of chlorophyll, protein and B vits to share with you...eating it is also a great way to get the classic raw food 'green mouth' look - see evidence to the left.
To be in with a chance of winning a bag of these yummable munchables, we'd love you to send in your best creative raw green mouth picture; yes, get out your spirulina, your blue-green algae, your green smoothies, your wheatgrass or whatever other greeeeeeens you love to green yourself up with and show us your most outstanding green face...here is another favourite from my personal album:


You can send your entries in to rawreform@gmail.com before August the 5th to be in with a chance of winning the chlorella tablets - enjoy ;) The winner will be drawn at random and with a giggle around the start of August. We look forward to seeing your entries...


on July the 7th I had:

1 quart water
2 cups greeeen juice: celery, cucumber, zucchini, endive, parsley, ginger
handful yummy cherries
2 cups water with Marine Phytoplankton
3 romaine wraps stuffed with pine nut butter, sea lettuce and mixed sprouts, followed by 2 raw almond butter cookies
3 cups water
water &meat of a young coconut, 1Tbsp coconut butter
2 ‘donut’ peaches, a clamshell of blueberries
1 quart water


on July the 8th I had:

1 quart water
big bowl of Elixir ice cream – YUMMMMMMMMMMMY :)
24oz greeeen juice: cucumber, celery, parsley, spinach
3 cups water
20 chlorella ‘nuts’
big bowl of salad: greens, sea lettuce seaweed, grape tomatoes, herbed olives, dressing made of pecan butter and acv, fresh okra on the side, followed by 2 raw almond butter cookies
1 quart water

So many people keep asking for the exact recipe for the elixir ice cream creation we put on the TV show recently that I thought I’d post it here below for y’all... Please DO experiment with flavours/ingredients though – there are no rules ;) Play with what you have/what you like/what feels good to you...I just made this recipe up on the spot on the TV show – you can see the video again HERE if you like...ENJOY :)


Herbal Raw Ice Cream Superfood Elixir Recipe


1.5 trays of ice cubes
3 Tbsp lucuma powder
1 Tbsp mesquite powder
1 tsp maca
½ tsp vanilla powder
1/16th tsp stevia powder
1 Tbsp Vitamineral Earth
½ tsp cardamom powder
½ tsp cinnamon powder
few drops of Icelandic Nature Essences
5 drops pau d’arco liquid
7 drops immune boosting liquid
3 drops raspberry fruit extract
2 Tbsp Go! Almond Butter
½ cup water
pinch of Himalayan crystal salt

Blend everything together in a high–speed blender and ENJOY :)


All Love and Abundant Blissings,
Ms. Angela Stokes–Monarch. xxx

...and the WINNER of the Raw Food Chia Pet Contest is...

ALRIGHTY, the results of last month’s RawReform Giveaway Contest are in and I’m excited to announce the results of who YOU all think would make the best raw food chia pet...ahEM, drum roll pleeeeeeeaaaaaaaase...

*In 3rd place, with his curly–headed ways, is Mr. Kevin Gianni, with 9% of the votes.

*In 2nd place, with his tousled lion’s mane, is Mr. Matthew Monarch, with 20% of the votes

*...and in 1st place, heading up the raw food chia pet party is the corkscrew–headed bishop of cacao himself, Dr. David Avocado Noni Propolis Phytoplankton Wolfe, with 30% of the votes.

(: YAAAAAAAY :)

I’m delighted to say that the winner of the chia seed goodies is the super–talented Eranah, who even sent in this fantastic mock–up version of what a Wolfie chia head might look like – BEAUTIFUL :) Thanks Eranah – your chia goodies are shimmying their way across the country to you in celebration right now ;)
This was such a fun contest :) Thanks for all the answers sent in, which included an eclectic range of suggestions, from Annmarie Gianni or Jonny 5 (lol) to Ann Wigmore, Anthony the Raw Model, Mike Adams and even...me ;)
My personal favourite suggestion though for a raw chia pet model was sent in by a few people and would be a ‘face–off’ model of the durian eating contest between Mr. M and Wolfie, with a durian between their heads – LOL ;)
I would truly LOVE to see any of these figurines made in pottery, if anyone would love to make them professionally – we could even sell them through our webstores ;) So, let us know if you’re a talented raw potter with a passion for chia pets and we can maybe create some classic memo–raw–bilia for all the raw family ;)

On July the 4th I had:

1 quart water
1 cup coconut water
2 cups ‘Green Potion’ ice cream at Erewhon, followed by shared ‘Cookie Dough Ice Cream’
2 cups water
2 cups hemp milk with cardamom, cinnamon, stevia, maca, pinch of salt
25 chlorella nuts
2 Tbsp bee pollen
2 cups energy soup with 2 flax crackers, little handful of yacon slices
3 cups water

Yesterday I was doing an interview and I really enjoyed one of the questions asked – I thought I’d re–post it here for y’all, if you’d like a little extra insight into the patterns of a Stokes–Monarch:

Q: What is in your purse at this very moment?
A: Great question ;) Now that is going to be quite a long answer ;) lol...I have a rather large, abundant bag of tricks (and I'm not even a mother yet ;)... Here we go: Rescue Remedy, seven sacred stones, my pendulum, my timepiece, lip balm, bottle of water, wallet, camera, my organiser (stuffed full of papers and business cards ;), bag of bee pollen, chlorella tablets, yacon slices, ReddRox powder, hairclips, rubber bands, 2 pegs, Tooth Swish, pair of earplugs, MANY pens, MSM lotion, spoons, binoculars, tissues. Quite an eclectic mix ;)

I like that question...this is actually smthg I generally find very endearing about women – the little bags of STUFF they carry around with them everywhere – I can remember being in rooms full of women at meetings and glancing around with a swelling heart as I noticed the little sac of goodies slumped on the floor next to each Goddess – I love women ;) So, what’s in YOUR bag, baby...?

on July the 5th I had:

1 quart water
3 cups watermelon juice
3 cups coconut water/GreenerGrasses powder/Marine Phytoplankton
2 cups home–made yummy raw elixir ice cream :) Tasted like TOFFEE – so good – see the video of me making it below.
3 cups water
30 chlorella ‘nuts’
3 durian pods and a clamshell of blueberries
1 quart water

Mmmmmm, so I’ve become uber–excited about raw elixir ice creams after we were hanging out with Mr. Truth Calkins at the Tonic Bar in Erewhon...the ice cream I made myself yesterday was OFF.THE.HOOOOOOOK good :) It tasted like TOFFEE and I’m not really sure why yet – I was just adding stuff to the blender and it turned out SOOOOOOOOOOO good :))) Mr. M caught the whole thing on camera, so you can re–create your own ice cream wonders with whatever goodies YOU have around – see the video below and ENJOY :)

YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9r8xuSAZ0M

All love and ice cream wonders,
Ms. Sto-Mo. xxx