Hola Amigos!

Currently in Putumayo ... been on the road and largely offroad 🌱 for the past 4 .5 years

Truth, Freedom, Creativity, Health, Nature, Energy

This is what i gravitate toward and aspire to maintain within myself. Always seeking genuine connections. People enrich our lives in astonishing ways! i feel at home in movement, so long as i am in amazing company.

And the labels... i am a professional artist, world champion body painter, tattoo artist, arts tutor, traveler. Love being on the road, learning about people and places, sharing, discovering the similarities that bind us, despite the miles that separate us. Surprised by the little things that make the big difference. Finding truth in its many forms, deciphering the symbols of this world, and our inner language. Learning to let go of preconceptions and keep moving with an open heart.

Top of the list of current interests: natural medicine, indigenous culture, sovereignty, exploring energy, hiking, dance, unpretentiousness, community living, real talk, wild foraging, fasting, self sustainability, bushcraft.

I'd much rather have a heart-to-heart conversation with a local and sleep on their floor, than go to tourist hotspots and stay in a comfortable but artificial setting.

In the last few years I have luckily followed my intuition and left the city to explore nature and community life, and found the beauty of simplicity. It has changed my life.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To learn about you, your way of life, what inspires you, what you like and your view of the world!

CouchSurfing offers such a valuable opportunity to hear views that are very different from ours, to learn that we all have our own version of the 'truth' and it's okay to have many different colours in the universe! It allows us to experience how others live and weave a colourful story of Life!

Interests

People
Culture
Wild Foraging
Naturism
Syntropics
Yidaki (didgeridoo)
Dragon Staff (fire spinning)
Fasting & Purification
Languages
Natural Medicine
Traditions and rituals
Body art
Painting
Dance
Meditation
Symbolism throughout the ages

• arts
• culture
• writing
• tattoos
• body art
• festivals
• organic food
• traveling
• painting
• woodworking
• languages
• nature
• naturism
• dance
• natural places
• hot springs
• nature conservation
• temazcal
• indigenous cultures
• nudismo
• native cultures

Music, Movies, and Books

Music... expresses the finesse of feelings, the nuance of moods when words just aren't enough. Music is food for the soul. I love its many forms.. from reggae to soul, funk, fusion and world music, to Drum n Bass, breaks, dub, trip hop and glitch hop. Live music is the best! Jamming, i love singing with people 💜 i play the handpan, djembe and yidaki (didgeridoo)

Books... Papillon, Shantaram, the 4 agreements...

Movies... Life is the best movie!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

solo travel finding and staying with communities in the Amazon

won the uv body painting world championship

What I Can Share with Hosts

Painting
Arts & crafts
Body painting
Natural medicine
Songs
Dance
Tattoos
Hikes (love the forest!)
Gratitude
Giggles
Exchanging life stories

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Cambodia, Colombia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, New Zealand, Romania