Update 2024 : It has been many years before I open this app again and it is very interesting to check out the previous self introductions. Some of them are still valid and some are not. In the meanwhile, I have become a middle aged mediocre middle-path person, having worked as a therapist in the past eight years has definitely helped me to be more grounded. yet still interested.

LATEST UPDATE:
I am migrating to BeWelcome and trustroot, so i prefer to be contacted there: BW:
http://www.bewelcome.org/members/anqi
trustroot:
https://www.trustroots.org/#!/profile/anqi

PHILOSOPHY

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting --
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

Wild Geese
Mary Oliver.

Interests

-tears and laughters
-allegies and philosophy
-words and feelings
-ridicule and horror
-electrical and cultural shocks
-starry nights and pink moons

• dogs
• books
• dancing
• cooking
• chocolate
• cheese
• meditation
• gardening
• traveling
• dumpster diving
• hiking
• sociology
• hitchhiking
• mountains
• spirituality
• esoterism
• contact improvisation
• sacred geometry
• feldenkrais
• sacred plants
• bodywork
• therapy
• somatics
• sacred sites
• pachamama
• honest conversations
• touches

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
Dostoyevsky, krishnamurti, Buddhist phisolophy, Haruki Murakami, Lord Byron, Oscar Wild, Shakspear, Franz Kafka, Milan Kundera; Foucault, Revolution of Everyday Life, Hannah Arendt, Susan Sontag, cave in the snow, The Aquarian Conspiracy ,cutting through spiritual materialism, crazy wisdom, journey to ixtlan, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Movies:

A Story of Yonosuke
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Searching for Sugar Man

Music:
"Smelly Cat" by Phoebe Buffay, gypsy kings, Haya, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, ,sevillana, New Pants, Faye Wong, The Doors, Frente! Velvet Underground, Stephen Micus, Jonna Jinton, Özgür Baba, Beethoven, Hun Hur Tu

opera, chantings, icaros

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

LIVING

-without phone for one year

-nunnery life in Daramshala

-sunrise at Gibraltar Strait

-English countryside sunsets

-sacred plants

-free hugs

-couchsurfing

-hitchhiking

Teach, Learn, Share

I am interested in learning local culture and mythologies, in the commonalities and the colorfulness of human existence.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can share my skills of Chinese traditional medicine if needed. Or a listening heart.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mongolia, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Austria, China, Germany, India, United Kingdom

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