CURRENT MISSION

Following the breadcrumbs home....adapting to a new but familiar melody of life

ABOUT ME

My home is all around the world. Have lived a nomadic life of and on periods in my life. Wondering where I'm gonna embark next. which new place to discover, breathe in and make friends. to love with all my being. to excel in happiness. and then to let go again. and rebuild. creating new realities. transformation of the mind.

Traveling is one of my passions.
I love the freedom of being on the road. The adventure and uncertainty of it all. Breaking through the usual patterns of life. Seeing beauty in the unexpected.
Crossing borders of countries as well as my mind. Exploring what's not known, felt, smelled, experienced, touched, seen, loved, understood, sensed yet. Pushing the borders of my own reality.
I am a free spirit and try to value every day, every experience- good or bad.
And I am grateful for all the goodness that has already come my way in this biggest journey of all called life.

I love to create and materialize dreams. Of myself and of others. In the last years I have started and run various NGO's and created and implemented development aid projects worldwide.
These projects vary from a beauty day for homeless women in Amsterdam to producing a theater play about love and peace in Israel and Palestine. Or giving workshops to Zulu's in South Africa.

My other big passion is to be in sacred ceremonies and make MUSIC. I sing, I play the guitar and I try to play the djembe. Via medicine songs I connect to the divine.

I'm passionate about the things I do in life. And love to meet people who are too.

I am feisty, witty and love to laugh lots.

"Not all those who wander are lost" - Tolkien

PHILOSOPHY

"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of the rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them, because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as crazy ones. We see genius, because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do" -Jack Kerouac

"If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits" - Don Ward

"Well behaved women rarely make history"

"which path should I take?" asked Alice
"That depends where you are going" replied the Cat
"I don't much care where..." said Alice

"As long as I get somewhere", Alice added as an explanation
"Oh, you're sure to do that" Said the Cat. "if you just keep walking long enough you always end up somewhere" (Alice in Wonderland)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I travel extensively; I surf, host when I can, meet with CS-ers and spread the CS-vibe to many people.
I have been doing a lot of hosting outside of the CS network.

Interests

Spirituality, Energy, Falling in Love, Diving, Spicy Stuff, Cuddle Puddle!, Art Installations, Riding my bycicle at night, Meditation, loving, Serendipity, Investigating my mind and multiple ways of perceiving reality, men, women, Mountain Biking, Intentional communities, Alternative ways of living, Trekking, Shin do, coriander, Tantra, Transformation, Kundalini, Indigenous cultures, Wild animals, Intuition, Mother Nature, Silence, Sharing, Road trippin', parties in the woods with barefoot dancing

I am into healthy living, which has resulted in some of the most horrible tasting veggie smoothies...

Oh, and I have a purple problem. Meet me and you see why.

• animals
• cats
• arts
• singing
• theater
• beauty
• dancing
• dining
• running
• meditation
• walking
• partying
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• guitar
• cycling
• scuba diving
• history
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

The Power of Now (Eckard Tolle)
The Urgency of Change (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
The Art of Happiness (Howard Cutler & the Dalai Lama)
Veronica decides to Die (Paulo Coelho)

The House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende), Luz (Elsa Osorio), One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez), The unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera), Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov), The Saga of Norea & According to Mary Magdalene (Marinanne Frederiksson), The last King of Scotland (Giles Foden), The Killing Fields (Christopher Hudson), The Discovery of Heaven (Harry Mulish), Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsig) The Secret History (Donna Tart), Sophie's World (Jostein Gaarder), On the Road (Kerouac)

MOVIES
Much of Almodovar and Lars von Trier. Some of Woody Allen. Mostly into cult movies and documentaries. Some examples:
Baraka, Food Matters, Alice in Wonderland, Antonia, My Life without Me, What the Bleep do we know!?, As Good as it Gets, Zeitgeist, Lord of War, One Giant Leap (What about me?), Happiness, Brutti Sporchi e Cattivi, Before Sunrise, Devil's Advocate, The Butterfly Effect, Short Bus, Das Leben der Anderen, The Matrix, City of God

MUSIC
Medicine songs. Heart songs. Spirit songs.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Other worlds in people's eyes

10 days Vipassana meditations

Got kicked out of Japan

Burning Man

Living in an experimental community of artists, yogi's, entrepreneurs and healers in a magical underground venue in Brooklyn, New York.

Hitchhiked through the US in the spirit of Kerouac

Ayahuasca ceremonies

Got lost at night by bike in a national park in Nepal and stumbled upon a Tibetan monastery where I found refuge for the night

First time diving in Zanzibar

To love and let go

The moon

Teach, Learn, Share

I can share with you what I know about energy, meditation, going from dreaming to daring to doing.
I can share a night full of dancing with you, making or listening to music, or simply share the silence.

I would love to learn more about healthy food & alternative communities.
If you have an instrument or know how to play one I would be very happy to welcome you in my home :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Ecuador, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Luxembourg, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Palestine, Peru, Portugal, San Marino, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Netherlands, Peru, Spain, United States

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