Current situation:
Having graduated with a BA in fine art in 2018, I am in a process of exhibiting, developing my practice both independently and in collaboration with others. Trying to expand my creative practice in music and the sonic arts.
Trying to make life functional in the material with freelancing as a tattoo artist, massage therapist and creative workshop facilitator.

Always re-calibrating my psycho-spiritual map. Learning to expand and stabilise within myself and using every too available to me to do so.
Trying to stay open to the world and people who I can share this with and so we can support and inspire each other.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

It is an incredible and much needed idea/community/practice in the world, making travel not only more affordable but much better in an whole other way, since it allows you to be more than just another tourist, offering a chance/way to get more immersed in local life through your hosts and make new international friends! Who wouldn't want that??

Interests

all forms and shapes and faces of art - the making and experiencing of it alike.... how that can be a healing and transformational process.
stories - creating and absorbing them alike.
the art of tattoing .
working with pain (both physical and mental) in a process of transcending the limits of the body and mind
dreaming practices - remembering dreams, lucid dreaming and dream manipulation
the intricacies of how the mind/body/spirit dynamo functions and how we can affect it consciously through intuitive practices but also any of the following:
Yoga, meditation, ceremony, breath-work, spinning, visualisation techniques and many many more....
Visions, words and sounds, patterns and colours, energy and movement.

• arts
• dancing
• belly dancing
• dining
• cooking
• yoga
• meditation
• reading
• traveling
• guitar
• scuba diving
• martial arts
• archery
• psychology
• spiritual practices

Music, Movies, and Books

random movies: withnail & i - fight club - the dreamers - amelie - unmade beds - Donnie Darko - the science of sleep - waking life
directors: david lynch - Atom Egoyan - tim burton - wim wenders - lars von trier - charlie kaufman - Andrei Tarkovsky.....

novels from when i used to read novels: the catcher in the rye, the bell jar, story of the eye, venus in furs, the brutal art, beach music
these days i read more education based books about art and spirituality which are too many to name at present.
writers: neil gaiman - clive barker - h.p.lovecraft - e.a.poe - anne rice - Graham Joyce
poets: sylvia plath, yeats, dylan thomas, Percy Bysshe Shelley, lord byron, lord alfred tennyson, arthur rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire and the list stretches unto infinity.

music genres: dark jazz, post rock, post/doom/black metal, dark ambient (see cryochamber), atmospheric, soundscapes, dream folk, various folk music from all over the world especially oriental/pagan, grunge, experimental free improv, psychedelic rock - rock 'n'roll - electronic - classical & baroque

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Deciding to fully engage with life before I exit....

But particularly, being there for others in assisting in organising/facilitating a few (and possibly more in the future) medicine ceremony circles and all that happened within that context.
Helping people and being helped by people in difficult situations - having each-other's backs.

Teach, Learn, Share

teach: various art related stuff and methods and techniques, music improv/voice techniques, systemic family constellations/hypno-constellations, making forts, belly dancing, butoh and free improv dancing.

learn: anything and everything all of the time. Especially languages with a special emphasis on Spanish at the moment, expanding my practice in yoga/ meditation/ massage and using using pressure points in the body, music skills (i play guitar, flute, sing, throat sing, a bit of piano, didjeridoo, various hand drums and generally want to try anything i can get my hands on beyond this point).
Interested in martial arts (done a bit of self-defence based MMA, wing chun and kick boxing), french and spanish language, archery, bushcraft. and flow arts.

What I Can Share with Hosts

My skills as they are desired or needed.
I tattoo professionally so I would be happy to do this at a discount for my host.

Ideas about life the universe and everything, any knowledge I have on any of the topics mentioned above that they are interested in, food, skills, stories, nights and days out and in.

And if you've got instruments let's have a jam!

Countries I’ve Visited

Croatia, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Greece, United Kingdom