CURRENT MISSION

Love. Learn. Travel. Live.

ABOUT ME

I love bikes and I love adventures. I helped start a bicycle co-op in Charleston and spent a summer bike touring in Europe through Belgium, Holland, France and Ireland! Yay velos!

I run a business called Soul Vibration Wellness. I teach yoga, wellness workshops and offer international retreats. Other side hustles include photography, event planning and I have several music projects: Drea Mae & Co., and Marxist Jargon.

I love to play music! I write my own songs and play guitar, cajon, ukelele, fret toi and love to sing harmonies. Let's teach each other some songs!

I'm also very much anti-capitalism and anti-patriarchy. The DIY culture is very important to me as is a ecologically friendly life style.

PHILOSOPHY

Finding the sunshine in a scoop of ice cream.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I want to meet new people on a local level where I can get a realistic feeling of what the community is like and what is really going on in the cities I visit. It is a vital part of experiencing and connecting with a place because what I have discovered through my travels is it is the people who make the world that which it truly is.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

A friend of mine opened her apartment and couch to this site and I met so many great people! I want to be able to do the same and it's been one of the greatest choices of my life. I've seen the world through the eyes of local and it has made traveling all the more fun!

Interests

Bikes! House shows, womens collectives, writing and playing music, recycled art, picnics, hiking, flying kites, sailing, meeting new people, learning new languages, ink stamps, cooking dinner with friends, sunday potluck brunches, photography, Critical Mass (it's such a blast!), DIY culture, baking bread, mate on the beach, yoga, feminist theory, bellydance (any type of dance!), Reiki, holistic forms of healing, organic gardening, compost, yurts and alternative building

• arts
• culture
• photography
• diy
• dancing
• cooking
• potluck
• baking
• yoga
• running
• flying
• gardening
• traveling
• knitting
• stamps
• cycling
• hiking
• sailing
• teaching
• languages
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

I love to dance! Salsa, merengue, tango, hip-hop, or just acting like a fool with my friends so music is really important to my life! A few artists I can't seem to get enough of right now are: Junip, Sister Nancy, Old Crow Medicine Show, The Royal Tin Foil , The Blow, Buena Vista Social Club, Beny More, Gotan Project, Velvet Undergroun, Macaco, Mano Negra, Parliament, Os Mutantes, OICHO KABU, Meagan Jean and the KFB, Smallpox, and so on and so forth....

I don't watch many movies but I love foreign films. My favorites include Y Tu Mama Tambien, Volver, Amelie, Un Chien Andalou, Noi, Kabuki Girls, Belle Epoque, and many others. I enjoy indie films and strange, abstract creations such as the movie Alice. Surrealist film is really interesting to me...

I love to read when I have the right book. Lately I've been obsessed with Sappho and Anne Carson's translations as well as her novel Autobiography of Red. I also can't get enough of Rumi, Kahlil Gibran, and Hakim. I enjoy reading about holistic healing, herbalism and other natural remedies of healing. Feminist literature, such as the books Cunt and The Vagina Monologues, are also a huge part of my personal education.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I marched with the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo in the streets of Buenos Aires to express resistance to oppressive governments and support those in the world who fight against them.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you Spanish, knitting and how to bellydance. I can teach you a few chords on guitar or a cajon beat! I would love to learn more languages and how to play the sitar. I will also give you be glad to share reiki, Thai yoga massage or sit in meditation with anyone who is interested.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Adventures, stories, a well cooked meal and lots of laughs!

Countries I’ve Visited

Bahamas, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, France, Greece, Guatemala, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Belgium, Spain, United States

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