Purple Ann's Wake Up Call

Raw Food Classes for Beginners

I have been running classes for complete raw food novices for some time and recently I decided to create a programme that would lead a complete beginner through a really easy to replicate series of recipes that would provide a solid base for transforming health levels.

It is going really well, currently there are 5 women who meet every week for a couple of hours in the evening. One week they will have hands on food preparation where they get to sample everything they make and take some home with them to share, the following week they watch a film.

The first week we made nut milks and cheeses and they went away to try a fortnight without dairy to see how that made them feel. There were some really positive results.

Week two was a film "Raw for Life", the film evenings are a small informal gathering were we have herbal teas and green smoothies and super healthy nibbles .

Week three they learned just how incredibly simple it is to make tasty and healthy pates, they made walnut pate, pumpkin seed pate, intense Italian and the all time favourite carrot and dill. 

With all of the tastings and talking we went way over time so I am going to have to rethink certain aspects of the class to make sure we don't over run because from March 21st I will be running an intermediate class immediately after the beginners .

I'm really delighted at how easy my class are finding the recipes because if they find it easy they are much more likely to try it  out at home.

You can find out more by going to http://www.sparklingenergy.co.uk

really fascinated by the Galactic Federation of Light and the implications for all of us that entails;

I realise that I havent written anything on my blog for ages but I think that i will start to do so again

I have been playing with the look of my website this morning it linked directly with my business cards but being a rusty colour i think that is was a bit overpowering so I have given it a new background and I would like to know what you think please, http://www.sparklingenergy.co.uk/

I went Segway rallying on Friday and lost focus for just a moment and so I am now recovering from a crash where I was twisted at high speed. Several things went through my mind immediately following the crash. Firstly that I needed to get straight back on like falling off a bike or a horse. This I did and completed another 3 rounds of the course after everyone else had finished.
A little while later as the swelling started and the pain kicked in I realised that I am not 20 years old any more and that maybe being flung off a vehicle onto rough ground at high speed is going to have more of an impact on my body than it would have many years in the past.
I fluctuated between the notion that I have one of the healthiest diets of anyone I know which must mean that I will recover more rapidly and I definitely do not exercise enough to have a healthy repair system.
I felt that this dichotomy wasn't going to be helpful and so I applied all of my knowledge and research abilities and set about healing myself thoroughly. As soon as I can get this laptop to see my camera I will upload a photo of me and David in out protective segway gear.

I'm trying to set up an audio podcast so that you can listen to some of the conversations that take place between David and me as I think that they are lovely, Having teething problems though so it may be some time yet. ah well that is technology for you

I recently attended a Silva Method course and have come to the realisation that i access the right side of my brain regularly when I feel inspired to put pen to paper and just write.

Often in the past I have then taken the writings and edited them to make them make more sense. However this time I have decided to scan and upload the writings just as they are because I feel that they have an inbuilt power to connect on a heart level with those who are ready to hear. So I trust that those who are destined to connect will find that my hand writing draws you in and the content will excite and delight you,so here they are; I have had trouble uploading them to this site for some reason so you will find them all on my facebook wall facebook.com/purpleann1

I recently attended a Silva Method course and have come to the realisation that i access the right side of my brain regularly when I feel inspired to put pen to paper and just write.

Often in the past I have then taken the writings and edited them to make them make more sense. However this time I have decided to scan and upload the writings just as they are because I feel that they have an inbuilt power to connect on a heart level with those who are ready to hear. So I trust that those who are destined to connect will find that my hand writing draws you in and the content will excite and delight you,so here they are;

Formentara

This was the first resort holiday that I have ever had,that is, an apartment in a busy foreign resort and I think that considering that I live in the middle of the countryside back at home I coped really well with all of the noise of the mopeds and the singing and clapping up until 4.30 in the morning!

The holiday had been organised by my oldest son James and his girlfriend Lauren who together had sorted the appartment and the flights. The appartment was for 4 people so I said that David and I would love to join them as we had seen a programme about the island on TV and it was on my list of places that I wanted to visit 

We flew over to Ibiza landing in the middle of the night and looked for a taxi to take us to Evissa. A man approached us and led us to a smallish dirty car with no eveidence of it being a taxi. We loaded ourselves and our baggage in as it was late, we wanted to get to the hotel soon and there were 4 of us and only one of him so we felt quite safe. I think that it was a local who was trying to make some money for his family so we didn't mind helping him and as he took us straight to the hotel he helped us too.

The following morning we left our bags at the hotel and went for a wander round the port, at 9 oclock in the morning it was already 33 degrees! 

I had found a couple of "raw food" cafes on the internet before we had flown out that were aparently close to the port but we couldnt find them so I don't know if we looked in the wrong place or if they no longer existed. What this meant to us was that we had no need to leave Formentara once we had got there as there was nothing on Ibiza that had any appeal for us.

The Ferry took us across to the island and took about an hour to get there passing little islands on the way, the sun beating down and the sea sparkling.

A taxi took us the short distance to Es Pujols where our "owners abroad" appartment was situated in the high street on the 4th floor with a view of the sea from the balcony

That is me on the balcony and you can see that the sea is just down the road. 

The appartment was great it had two twin bedrooms, a shower room and a living room with a sofa bed, dinning room table and chairs and a small kitchen

this is me and David in front of one of the pics in the living room

There were hundreds of mopeds all over the place as this seemed to be the primary way of getting around the island, and so we went to find out how much it would cost to hire one only to realise that neither of us had brought our driving lisences with us, which meant that the only vehicles that we could hire were push bikes and I am really glad that was the case because it is a fabulous island to cycle around as they have cycle ways next to all of the main roads and dedicated cycle paths, though those are incredibly pot holey  and dusty.

So having got instantly bored with lying around on the beach we hired two bikes for 5 euros each per day which we thought was great value as we had them from opening time till 8pm. The first place that we went was to the capital San Francisco which for a capitol was tiny. When we stopped to try and work out where anywhere was in relation the here we were a large military helicopter landed right by us and a bloke with a rucksac ran over to it and got on board and it took off with him in it, bizzare!

San Francisco it like a hippy mecca with stalls lining the pedestrian walk ways strewn with colourful wares. By the time that we left the whole area was busting with stalls but I didn't take any more photos

because when we got back to our bikes i realised that the key to the lock that had been hanging around

my wrist was no longer there!

Panic striken at the thought of what that would mean I stayed with the bikes as David retraced our steps and found where I had dropped it, phew! 

we quickly found a cycle path out of the capitol and went off in search of a cave that was marked on the map. I have got to addd some photos to face book now so I will show you photos of the caves and the rest of the holiday when I return. 

The Turkish experience continues

It is amazing how quickly the delights of a holiday fade when you return to work and discovere that the week away has piled up into 2 weeks extra work. I don't know how it manages to do that however I am determined to record the experience so that all of my friends can share in it.

As you can see from the early photos of the trip the sea was far too rough and cold to attempt to go swimming from the rocks at the eco centre so I went on the trip arranged to Olu Deniz, which appeared to be a sandy beach on the other side of the bay.

As you can see though from the distance you couldn't see the pebbles and the steep slope into the water which was just as cold as it was at the eco centre so I dipped my toes in and sat on the beach. You can see Susan and Layo who have tipped toed down to the water with the lilo that Susan had just bought. The plan was that Layo would lie on it on the water with Susan helping. It was so funny to watch that I didn't take any photos of the actual entry into the water because as layo launched herself onto the lilo on the water the waves completely turned her over and dumped her straight into the freezing sea.

Layo and I then went for a walk down to the lagoon, which was further than we thought and so when we got there we walked back again and went for an freshley squeezed Orange juice at the Buzz Bar

See how blissed out Layo looks rrelaxing on the comfy seating. We then went shopping and she bought three lovely floaty dresses and I bought two Amber necklaces.

As we left Olu Deniz I sat by the window of the mini bus and photographed the journey home as we got higher and higher up the mountainous roads.

This is looking back towards the beach with the mountains in the background, that odd reflection on the right hand side of the picture must be reflections from the window.

I love the reflection of the sun on the sea in this picture.

This is pretty high up still looking back across the bay towards the islands

And this one is looking the opposite direction towards the eco centre, which is on the promentory at the top .

On Sunday I will take you to Fetiye I know that isn't how you spell it but I have to get into town now so will look it up later.

The Turkish Saga

Hello again, I've just been watching the Moto GP race at Le Mans, amazing race; Jorges Lorenzo won in fantactic style; Marco Mellandri who was without a bike at Christmas last year took 2nd; and riding like a rocket Danny Pedrosa took 3rd in the final lap. Which is why I didn't get back to my blog this morning as i said I would.

Actually I have also been typing up some of my raw recipes which I will send out to anyone who would like to have a go at making some of the most delicious and nutritious foods anywhere. They are Tomato Curry; Spinach Cooling Nutty Curry; Sweet Creamy Super Blaster; Spinach Garam Masala Salad; Fresh Pea Salad and my all time favourite Avocado Kale Salad as inspired by Chad Sarno.

So back to my Turkish trip. I have been staying at an Eco Centre called Yuva which is on the coast along from Olu Deniz, but a long way along windy hair pin bend cliff roads. I was really pleased that it had been dark when I had arrived in the rain the first night, because I would have been pretty scarey in the wet. As it was the mini bus drivers obviously drove the roads all the time they felt safe enough.

  

If you look at the top right hand corner of the photo you will see a little lump on the end of the promentory that is where the eco centre is and the road follows the coast line. You can see how high up the road is, really exhilarating.

The chalets were clean and rustic with verandas overlooking the torquoise coast and the trees.

As you can see our veranda had a day bed on it which proved to be really popular with all the other guests which was great. I shared a room with a great woman called Susan. We got on fabulously and I know that we will travel together in the future, we have so much in common, in particular the way that we view the world

Every morning there were two sessions of Kundalini Yoga, the first one started at 6.30am which in British time was actually 4.30am. Needless to say I never made that one though i am aware that quite a few did, particularly Danya and Elaine who were in a chalet underneath the yoga platform.

I recon that the yoga platform must have one of the best views of any platform, what do you think?

Pretty amazing yes?

I thought that you might like to see what my room mate looked like so this is Susan standing in front of our chalet which has washing hanging on the line in front of it. 

In the background you can see the top of one of the amazing mountains that surounded us there. Oh I forgot to metion that I had gone on my own to a Raw Food Retreat which was organised by Suz Evasdaughter.

Suz had informed us that there were a bunch of us travelling together from Gatwick and so we had been emailing each other arranging rendezvousing prior to our arrival in Turkey. I had arrived about 2 hours earlier that the meet up time and so I had already gone through to the departure lounge and didn't meet up with them till we were about to board the plane.

That had no effect on the bonding which took place between all of us on the holiday, which was truly incredible. It didn't matter who I ended up sitting next to because everyone was wonderful to talk with. There was; Susan who I have already mentioned; Danya and Elaine who had flown in from Manchester, they were such fun to be with and made me laugh all the time; Danya is the one in the pink top.

I think they look so lovely in these two photos and such good friends.

I am going off now to make myself and Avocado Kale Salad as having typed up the recipe earlier all I can think about is eating it. However having cravings for such highly nutritious foods is brilliant.

Till next time, love and light

Purple Ann x