About Julie Ann
Julie Ann was born in Macclesfield on the edge of the stunning Pennine Hills,Know as the backbone of England.She comes from a long line of weavers in the silk and cotton industries. Her mum Shiela was a fashion designer in the 60s and 70s for Pipa Dee. Grandparents Freda and ken,met and taught Sunday School together, her Grama Kathleen was The Silk Queen who's husband John now 92, was a British Steel Manager. Julie Ann feels a strong connection to her ancestory and  to her nothern roots. Her love of nature, beauty, colour, textiles, creativity, ability to organise and spirituality are great gifts from her bloodline woven into her DNA and recieved with emense gratitude.

After fashion coledge during the 80's Julie Ann joined the 'yuppy cult',working for high street chains such as Next & M&S. Disillusioned by the corporate world she set up on her own bespoke bridal wear shop,which soon evolved into an extremely successful interior design company,which she ran for 10 years. However now she had  some satisfaction creatively and financially,she began to realise that there was still something missing.

Until she discovered the rave scene in the late 90s and began to access higher states of consciousness.This connected her to her divinity,personal power and to God, within a few months she gave up her day job to organise increadably sucessfull free and illegual parties called Freewheelin.Stiring up the energy in her home town she left for Manchester in 2000, where she created Hubble Bubble,an ultra violet stall business, Julie Ann began to make an exclusive range of jewellery and clothes and became a well known body artist in the northern dance scene.

In 2002, she emerged out of the darkness of the rave scene with her discovery of rebirthing breathwork,and moved south to work for the Bournemouth based Artemis Foundation. In 2004 as a Drama, Dance and Voice Therapy tutor. This evolved into acting, dancing and costume making with The Artemis Theatre Company. Costume making on a budget inspired her to make one-off recycled clothes, and simultaneously, her own style of handmade clay crystal jewellery evolved. In 2005, she fly-pitched selling her unique metaphisical crystal on the back of two cardboard boxes, taking over £1,000 in 3 very muddy days.

Within 3 yrs the boxes grown into a large stall at festival like Glade Sunrise and the Bigg Green Gathering with my then Partner Paul.I evolved the recycled clothes  styles and leared more and more about crystals and  2007 I opened Baraka a shop in Boscombe Bournemouth, baraka retail was loved by local people, selling a wide range of ethical and spiritual products, from smudge to fairy dust,

And an amazing collection of clothes, I love to be colourful and to dress to express my uniqueness.I believe that fashion is an outer expression of how we feel and that we need different clothes to reflect our moods. I love selecting clothes for Baraka that celebrate our individuality. 

I am so great full for the 'family' that evolved around Baraka and The Moontree, the friendships, mutual support, healing and growth and challenges we all shared

From Drug Addict to Self Mastery in 3 years

by Julie Ann Horrox

Three years ago I was living in Moss Side Manchester where there were regular shootings. I had consciously let go of my home, my business, my car and pensions. Both of my children had been taken off me by social services. I was taking ecstasy, acid, speed and coke every weekend, smoking and drinking like a bastard and I thought that this was freedom.

Around Christmas time 2000 I found myself in a second hand bookshop in Manchester. In one hand I held a David Ike book and in the other hand Leonard Ore and Sondra Ray. I was ready to try something new so I took 'Rebirthing In The New Age' home with me. I didn't put it down for 2 days, reading it and re-read it, integrating all of the concepts by relating them to my own life experiences. WOW this was it! I had finally found what I had been searching for since I gave up my business 2 years before.

But where on earth was I going to find a rebirther in Manchester, this book had been written in LA in the 1970s. I dragged myself back out into reality, and went to see my friend Andrea for coffee. We chatted about the usual stuff partying and club scene gossip. Then suddenly she reached over and handed me a brown envelope folded in half, "Here's the name of that rebirther you wanted , she said. I was gob-smaked, but how did you know? Oh my God! It is a miracle!

She had given me Christine McCallem's phone number. Christine became my rebirther, she was amazing, she listened to me, and she was my friend, my councillor, my mother, my sister, and my therapist. She never judged me or criticised me, always supporting me in making choices for myself. For the first time in my life I was experiencing unconditional love for myself, without the use of chemicals.

The first illegal drug I took was ecstasy (pills); it was so perfect for me because I love dancing. For the first time in my life it felt safe to feel pleasure in my body, and for other people to see me enjoying it. I got hooked on pills because they reconnected me to my divine energy, to my intuition and inner knowing. Every Friday and Saturday night I felt connected to mankind to God and Goddess, I felt a sense of belonging, of unity with humanity, part of a family and that I fitted in. For the first time in what felt like eons I knew that had a purpose, and that no matter how small a part I played that my life did make a difference.

As if by telepathy through the atmosphere and the music created at techno and trance parties all of this knowledge began to flow into my being. I recognised universal truths and instantly integrated them into my consciousness. When I was opened up by drugs magic and synchronicity flowed all around me. However back in the real world, I found it a struggle to sustain my new magical reality. I felt like I was living inside and outside of the matrix at the same time, life became more and more confusing.

Drugs freed my mind temporarily, but it didn't last. I yearned for freedom from the pain, misery and monotony of everyday life. I had already tried to find it in Religion, Marriage, TV, Money, sex, drink, and now drugs. But in vain, the search continued!!!!! A very common chill out room comment was: "Why can't we feel like this all the time".

Because I was experiencing feeling so great temporarily, with all my blockages removed by chemicals. My frustration grew because my inner being knew the eternal truth; it was possible to feel like that all the time. I knew that heaven and hell were only states of mind; the highs and lows of drug use had shown me that. One thing I have to praise my Sunday school education for is that I never lost faith in getting to heaven; I was not going to give up until I made it. My undying belief in utopia inspired by the best pills in Manchester finally lead me to intuitively pick up 'that book' and to discover Rebirthing.

Although 3 years ago intellectually I understood all of the new age concepts. For example, go with the flow, stop looking to hard, or leap and the net will appear. This being so I was still lacking the tools to integrate this knowledge into my life permanently. I was ready to change and Rebirthing has supported me in making it all possible.

I thought that drugs had opened me up and changed my life but Rebirthing has done so much more, and the changes are permanent. The Rebirthing community have become my true family and they have supported me in healing the huge rifts in my own family. I now have a gorgeous new daughter Daisy who is completely my responsibility, with no involvement from social services.

My pauper mentality has shifted massively; before I started Rebirthing making money was such hard work. Now I do what I love and I have more money than I’ve ever had. The power of the breath has assisted me in removing the patterns that blocked me from receiving money, love and sex.

I have cleared huge amounts of energy around my sexuality; I now enjoy sex at least 100 times more than before I started Rebirthing. I went out and bought myself sexy underwear for the first time in my life after completing Self Mastery One training, now I can't imagine life without it.

The Rebirthing community has loved and supported me to be me. I didn't know who that was 3 years ago because I was so used to doing stuff to please others. It was very scary in the beginning accepting that I was 100% responsible for creating my story. And my god what a tangled web of dramas I had created. Through the breath I was able to accept my colourful history as being perfect for me.

Rebirthing works on multidimensional levels and the glittering inner crystal of who I really am has become polished by the breath to reveal my true self, beautiful, glamorous and sexy, as you can now see.  The connection to God and Goddess that I felt off my face on drugs a few hours every weekend I now feel 'the majority' of the time. The breath is my new drug, it's free, there are no side effects and you don't have to go to Columbia to get it.