It had been my birthday the weekend before, my 50th to be precise !  Now that doesn't bother me in the slightest, 50 is only a number afterall.  I had ordered a taxi to take me and my birthday cake to my party, the taxi arrived, a people carrier sized taxi - me, being a little economic on ground clearance - got one leg in and then grabbed the seat infront to help haul myself in. Hand slipped and I came crashing out of the people carrier, backwards, and landed on my backside on the hard road - ouch !! and I hadn't even had a had a drink !!!  I did enjoy my party, although couldn't dance at all due to my discomfort which made me a bit sad.

Having spent the next week in pain, I wondered whether I should go to Eastbourne due to the time sitting on my sore backside. Also I had been upset by a friend so was feeling a bit emotional and a bit down if I am honest.  In the end,  I did decide to go and I am so glad I did as I was meant to be there I felt.

Nicky very kindly drove me down to Eastbourne, she is good company and always cheers me up bless her, so it was a good start.  Met up with some old friends and felt much better again.  Offered my services to Gill for healing but she told me "No, you just have healing this time and relax"  would go with that as I badly needed it. 

Nicky and I found out that we were to be in Darren Brittain's group, Darren is young and new but seemed a really nice honest guy so we looked forward to being in his group.

We found our way to our workshop room and met the other members of the group, a couple of them I had met before and we discovered pretty quickly that we were in a special group.  The amount of love was overwhelming which I could feel everytime I walked into it.

Darrren was fantastic, a lovely energy, very nurturing kind of person.  We started our first couple of exercises which were to be on a psychic level.  Darren got us to stand up and change places, when then were to partner the person we were standing next to.  We speak about ourselves for 5 minutes, the other person had to listen without speaking back. We then swapped, the other person spoke and we listened.  Then Darren got us to tell the group about what we had learnt.  The object was to show our listening skills, the strange thing was that my partner had more or less the same interests, we were both into Numerology.  Darren also got us to write down what the person was wearing, that one totally passed me by as I had made no effort to look at my partner as I was bending forward to hear him. .

We also did an exercise where Darren gave us each a piece of string that had a loop at one end, that was to represnet our birth.  We were told to put knots in the string to represent a significant event in out lives, it could be happy or sad but we had to put our energy into each knot as to how that event made us feel at the time.  We then were paird off again, totally at random, Darren gave us each a piece of paper and told us just to drop our string onto the paper and then each read each others knots !! 

My partner got my knotty bits on the string so spot on and I also got her knotty bits spot on, even got her birthday from that little bit of sting laying on the white paper.  What was really strange is that we both had a couple of mirrored life experiences.  I found it quite spooky how most of the group had been paired off, at random, with someone who shared the similar experiences as themselves with regards to their knots !!!!!

For the evening optionals, I decided to do the Human Ouija Board with Tracy, that was pretty amazing and provided those that were there with some giggles. Enjoyed that and some were lucky enough to get a message from the loved ones.   Did visit the bar after but did not stay too long as back was now aching quite badly.

Had healing on Saturday morning which was wonderful then into class where our group exercise was to do  some blindfold readings and then get a spirit link, sadly I didn't get time to have a go at that as lunchtime arrived.  I decided to give the optional afternoon choice a miss and go and seek out a relaxing hot bath om the hotel to ease my aching muscles. Felt much better after that and my group even said I looked a bit easier too.

After tea break we were back into our groups, when we did some psychometry from people hotel keys or a personal item if they didn't have their keys with them.  Did OK on that one, picked up a few bits from the ladies watch but found it difficult to get a spirit link.

I also missed the evening optional class which had a Titanic theme, we were left a photo of 3 elderly ladies on our dinner table, it turns out that those ladies are survivors from the Titanic. I later heard that it was a very emotional evening so in a way I'm glad I missed it because I would have been weeping again.   Reason I missed it was to go and watch the Rugby World Cup Final match at a hotel just down the road.  Well, that only happens every 4 years and England were defending the title !!!!!

After the match finished Russ and I headed back to our own hotel bar.  Late on in the evening (actually, it could have been early hours of the morning) Darren suggested that we go down to the sea, for a reason I know not - anyway, a couple from our group plus some that were sat with us at the table all headed off to the seashore.  It was flipping freezing cold, but 3 (including me) of us were brave enough to get as close as we could to the sea without getting wet !  Then one of our numbers decided that we should join hands and do 'Ring-a-ring of Roses !!!!!   Then we trudged back as it was so cold.  Good fun at the time and it gave me a much need giggle  

Sunday was optional classes in the morning, I choose Darren's The Importance of Language in Psychic & Spiritual Development, that was interesting as it was mainly focusing on the being positive side of things and the use of positive affirmations which of course, made perfect sense to me.

Before lunch, there was a Devotional Get Together which was truly beautiful.  Tony did one of his 'from the heart talks', which started my tears off again, was very emotional as usual from Tony.  Followed by Natalie who also gave an emotional reading, again from the heart, truly inspirational the both of them. I don't know how he does it but every time Tony gives one of his 'talk's, it feels like he is talking to me.   There were healing prayers and healing thoughts sent out. Then Tony said we would each give a name of someone out for healing, and we went around the entire room, one by one, giving the name of someone we knew who needed healing.  I have to admit that I was in tears during the majority of this Devotional Get Together as Tony and Natalies words seemed to straight to my heart.   You could literally feel the healing in that ballroom, it was such an immense feeling of love. I know that others were weeping too, it was one of the most emotional hours I have ever spent, fabulous.

Back to our groups after lunch, when we had a kind of an open circle where we had to get up if we felt we had somone with us or just needed to speak.  After the week I had experienced before I came and following the Devotional Get Together I was feeling very emotional, as were most of the group, but I managed to babble a few words about healing myself and others as I'm destined to do and how determined I am to reach my destiny.

All in all, I am so glad I decided to attend, there was a different feel to this Easbourne that I can't quite put my finger on, but it was different.  It was a beautiful feel to the weekend, lots of love and healing that I will never forget.

Darren is a lovely engergy, very nurturing and a real nice guy and I hope to meet him again in another class sometime in the future. Our group was full of lovely, caring and kind people, I made some new friends this weekend that I will never forget.  I obviously needed to be there this weekend, I certainly needed the love and healing that was around in that hotel that's for sure.  Fantastic !!!!!

Have emailed the studio with my booking form for Eastbourne October, 2008