Unbelievably cheerful, optimistic, creative, kind, humorous dancing creature

I believe that music is the Divine power . So I love to listen and to sing with my whole heart

and also that nature, especially water brings love and healing to any living being

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love people, I want to meet new friends and share deep talks and silence
I love Earth, so I want to see more of her beautiful places
I love languages, so I want to explore and learn more of them
I love brains! So I want to develop my neural networks by travelling and feeding my mind with new infomation so I can create more deep things through the open mind and dancing body
I love life and I want to dive into all the different ways it is embodied in the world
I love music, so I want to listen to all kinds of sounds, songs, melodies of different places and humans

Interests

I am open-minded and my main interest is the mystery of present moment

I have studied abit of neuroscience and cognitive psychology in my university. Brain is an unfathomable miracle for me and I love to meditate on it.

I practise Soto Zen Buddhism.

I work as a beginner BodyMind Gestalt therapist, which I`ve been learning for two years. I believe in body wisdom and want to explore different ways we can heal ourselves by just listening what is there right now in our bodies. I am interested in osteopathy, biodynamics, somatics, ideokinesis... and also I absolutely love art-therapy. Also I am inspired by biology and anatomy.

I am into dancing! Especially contact improvisation. This is my favourite way of playing, relaxing, exploring myself and other people. I visit contact festivals and jams and I have a bit of teaching experience. Also I love Eastern martial arts, like aikido and thai-chi, though I have not yet a chance to study them thoroughly.

I used to dance lindy-hop, this is pure joy for me, but now I just don`t have time for that.

I used to work as a tutor nice with children in an alternative school.

Now I am a cook in an inclusive workshop-place "Простые вещи", where people with mental differences learn and work together with neurotypical people to cook, make ceramics, sew and draw.

I love cooking healthy food with no meat.

I am a beginner cello-player, and also I sing Russian and Ukranian folk songs, play a bit on ukulele.

I sometimes love to translate texts and work as an interpreter (English-Russian) on dancing workshops. Actually languages are my passion, so I am going to study Spainish and Hebrew when I have enough time.

Nature and music are my main resourses and inspiration. I`d like to travel more and to learn to survive into the wild. I love water...And would like to learn freediving. Now I am into practising dancing contact impro underwater.

And I love to laugh!

soooooo...loads of interests! ... nature, animals, writing, poetry, teaching, drawing, freewriting, thai-chi, video-art, anthropology, brain, neuroscience, anatomy, ideokinesis, somatics, psychosomatics, psychology, psycholinguistics, ecology, Dragon Dreaming, theta-healing, arts, massage, mysteries of the world, bookshops and dozens of other fascinating things!

• animals
• arts
• writing
• poetry
• performing arts
• dancing
• cooking
• vegetarian
• yoga
• meditation
• traveling
• drawing
• buddhist
• anatomy
• anthropology
• ecology
• history
• languages
• neuroscience
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

Music means soooooo much to me, but my preferences are quite eclectic. I love ethnics, throat-singing, rock music, indie, folk (especially Russian folk!), funk, trip-hop, instrumental, ambient, electronic, mantras, classic, experimental, reggae. My favourite bands are Aquarium, Radiohead, The Smiths, Brainstorm, Sigur Ros, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Nic Cave and the Bad Seeds, Oasis, Atoms for peace, Massive Attack, Cat power, Depeche Mode, Portishead...
I also love music by David Bowie, Nina Simone, Sergei Prokofiev, Petr Chaikovsky, Modest Mussorgski, Neil Young, Iggy Pop, Pierre Van Dormael, Bob Dylan, Mgzavrebi, Bobby McFerrin, B.B. King, Moby, Dead can Dance...the list is enormous and never-ending!

I love such movies as "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ...and Spring ", "Mr Nobody", "1+1", "The Black Swan", "The Fountain", ,"Fight club", "I heart Huckabees", "The Dehli Dance", "Salvation", "Kin-Dza-Dza", "Eternal shining of spotless mind", "Stalker", "Andrei Rublev", "The Deadman", "Coffee and cigarettes", and so on and so forth :)

I can not live without books! My favourite authors are Jack Cerouac, Herman Hesse, Vladimir Nabokov, Gabriel Garcia Maquez, Jonathan Safran Foer, Viktor Pelevin, Ken Wilber, Jack London, Leo Tolstoy, Vladimir Shukshin, Kurt Vonnegut', Ray Bradbury...and other wise outstanding men and women!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I participated in dance performance(s)
danced contact improvisation in the night in the ocean

Teach, Learn, Share

Well, I have not yet understood what is the difference between this question and the next one, so I`ll better answer the second.
I can practise English and Russian speaking, and would like to learn new languages myself, especially Spainish and Hebrew!
want to learn any kinds of dances, except Irish :D
learn folk songs and traditional dishes without meat
learn freediving
hear your travel stories
see your eyes and listen to you just as you are
dance together
laugh

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can give intuitive bodywork sessions
teach some Russian
give BodyMind Gestalt sessions
practice Quantium listening technique
cook something vegetarian
tell something from Russian history,
teach some Russian folk songs,
give lessons of contact improvisation
teach intuitive dancing
practise Authentic movement
practise meditation
just share some of my insights verbally or just by being together

Countries I’ve Visited

Belarus, France, Spain, Thailand, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation