Greenwitch

This is so cool, i was looking for some inspiration and decided to go to Rawreform, havent read what Angela Stokes has been up to in a while and this is what I found......Ok, so here’s smthg I wrote a while back about another very moving experience I had on Brighton beach back in summer 2005, while I was helping out at ‘Raw Living’...“After another whirlwind day with Raw Living, I felt over-stimulated on super-fast energy and a great need to get out of the house and down to the beach. I went there and reached out to the sea and stones to help me ease the intensity I was feeling in my life. I laid down on the pebble beach and released my chakras to the stones and the sky. Something amazing started to happen. A huge amount of energy began to be sent into my being, through my third eye chakra. It came in waves, pulsating into my being, crashing into and onto and through me like the waves of the sea were crashing onto the shore below me. It was an extremely intense experience, yet liberating too and would be the start of a greatly increased connection for me with my energy body. I stayed there, letting the waves flow into my being, for quite some time, exploring this new sensation. When it became too cold to remain there on the beach, I headed home again in a new altered state. I was blown away by the intensity of this new feeling and unsure what to do with it…it was a little hard to even explain what had happened to Kate when I got home…In the days that followed, the energy kept on coming into my body, with the same intensity and it was a challenging time for me. I simply didn’t know what to do with it all back then…I felt very ungrounded and this powerful force was crashing continually into and through my body. It felt something like being continually electrocuted for a few days. I was very unbalanced with it and needed guidance. I asked my older 'fairy godmother' friend for guidance and she helped me understand that it was a Kundalini awakening – a new level of energy being opened to me and I needed to integrate it and learn to ground it, to feel more at ease. I needed to allow it to become a whole body experience – allow the energy to flow through my whole being as it came in, rather than it just bounding into me and my system kind of freaking as it didn’t yet know how to handle it. This was what I needed to know and as I worked with those principles, it did indeed become a more integrated and whole-body experience. Rather than it feeling like my energy field was being boomed apart by the waves, it started to feel like an amazing and hugely enriching experience. The energy flowed now in through my third eye chakra and dissipated through my whole system. Other dramatic events of that time also conspired to help me learn to access and ground greater energies...”
I LOVE BRIGHTON :)))on June the 1st I had:1 quart water1 cup pau d’arco tea3 cups celery/cucumber/spinach/watercress/ginger/apple juice1lb cherriesyummy little meal of hemp seed/flax oil/Himalayan salt/kelp powder mixture stuffed in nori rolls with mixed sprouts & spinach leaves3 cups water3 cups celery/cucumber/spinach/lettuce/watercress/ginger/apple juice½ a delicious large papaya2 cups waterI also love the raw community that is manifesting around Brighton. There are SO many incredible, vibrant beings here, sharing raw fun and creating beautiful things. I was at a raw potluck last week and as I looked round the room at the attendees, I was just awestruck at all the wonderful things everyone is manifesting...here are just some of the raw-friendly businesses in this area (in alphabetical order ;) :*Hunab Ku – Twinkle and Lucifer’s ‘Portal to the Immortal’ – they are also helping organise a retreat with David Wolfe later this year...*Raw Chocolate Company – Linus’ phenomenal big-scale project to bring raw chocolate to the masses :)*Raw Gaia – Lisa and Hector’s GORGEOUS line of raw skin-care products – NOTHING compares ;)*Raw Kitchen – the uber-lovely Shell’s site with recipes, raw catering services and more...*Raw Living – Kate’s magical long-standing website with store, books, recipes etc.*Space of Love – as mentioned recently – Matt (and Lara’s ;) site for the festie in August (plus the Anastasia books).*Total Raw Food – newlyweds Jess and Tom’s vibrant online store, with articles, recipes and more.Are there more that I’ve missed...? Probably – I’m sure someone will remind me if there is ;) ...and these are just the people who are ‘officially’ doing raw things here – there are so many more magical raw beings around here involved in this scene...what a blessing :)Incidentally, Kate Magic also wrote a very sweet MySpace blog this week about how much she also loves Brighton – CLICK HERE to see more ;)All love,Angela

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Thursday, May 29, 2008

I LUV BRIGHTON
When I first moved here, I walked around the streets thinking "we've won, we've won." For the first time in my life I didn't feel like the odd one out; I felt there were more people on the streets who looked interesting enough to stop and talk to than didn't. Brighton is where all the odd ones go; and it doesn't matter if you're dripping with piercings, or a nerdy dj, or a neon-raver, or a rockabilly, or a stoned hippy, or a devoted yogi, or an art student, or on your hen night, nobody cares. Generally, everyone is just happy that they can be who they are, and they are getting on with exploring who that is, more concerned with pushing the limits of freedom than judging the other weirdos.
At one point, I started thinking, it's just like a festival. In May it actually literally is a festival, one of the best festivals in Europe. Often I feel I should be going back to my tent.
I love dressing up and when I moved here, I realised that I could get away with quite a lot. It dawned on me recently that every day I dress as outrageously as I can be bothered, and no-one particularly stares, and that is tremendously liberating.
I love that American Apparel is at one end of my street and Red Mutha at the other.
I love that I see more cute boys out my window in a day than I would in a month anywhere else.
I love that I can be in central London quicker than I could when I technically lived in London.
I love that in the last six months I have seen virtually all my favourite djs play within five minutes walking distance of my home.
I love that the tramp that sits outside uses the money he gets to buy batteries for his ghetto blaster so he can play 70s disco anthems, and today he stopped me to ask how the cats are.
I love that the heavily tattooed guy who was pissing at the bottom of the stairs zipped up his flies and came over to help me with the rubbish.
I love that the boy we bumped into outside my door the other night was there because he had stashed his whisky on my steps and offered us some.
I love that at 3 am last week a car stopped outside my window and three women and one man got out, left the car doors open and started playing house music really loud and dancing in the street. After about ten minutes they got back in the car and drove off with two of the girls leaning out the windows whooping, arms in the air.
I love that I can see some of the UK's best graffiti right here from where I'm sitting in my living room.
I love that Brighton lays claim to the UK's best vegetarian restaurant, best gift shop, best tattoo studio, best wholefood store.
I love that Brighton is the gay capital AND the buddhist capital AND the vegetarian capital of the UK.
I love the Guarana Bar, where I can get a wheatgrass and have a great conversation about dubstep.
I love that there are three yoga studios within five minutes walk of my flat.
I love the sea.
I love that I could go on and on.
I love Brighton.


This is just what i needed, I really believe us moving here is destiny !