CURRENT MISSION

Mission: explore, play, be...

ABOUT ME

**I work in the world of FESTIVALS**
I co-manage 2 spaces at Jai Thep festival in Chiang Mai. Check it out here http://jaithepfestival.com/
Are you interested in volunteering at Jai Thep? Send me a message if you'd like to help out too ;)

I've been living in Thailand with my husband since september 2016.

**Trabajo en el mundo de FESTIVALES**
Co-manejo 2 espacios el festival Jai Thep. Mira aqui: http://jaithepfestival.com/
¿Está interesado en ser voluntario en Jai Thep? Envíame un mensaje si quieres ayudar también;)

He sido viviendo en Tailandia con mi marido hace 2016.

PHILOSOPHY

It is important to be positive and remember that love is everywhere, even when it seems like this is not the case.
To change the world all we need to do is change what we are.

Si queremos cambiar el mundo, sólo tenemos que cambiar nosotros mismos

For more about my ideas you can check out my website: https://abundancedancegarden.wordpress.com/ideas/

Por qué estoy en Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I enjoy using this website for what it was designed for - to stay for free in other people's homes and to welcome guests into my home.

Couchsurfing is marvellous. It's got all kinds of people, which means that it's possible to meet really amazing, kind, generous friends, hosts and guests, maybe even who share my interests and worldviews. It also means that it's possible to meet people who are not like this, which is fine, though I have had some weird experiences with this site. There are already thousands of dating websites so we don't need to use couchsurfing as one, please don't contact me if you are trying to use couchsurfing for dating or sex.
And it's very strange when people who I got in contact with through couchsurfing but never actually met leave me a reference saying that I stayed with them. But whatever, you have to have darkness to enjoy light :)

I am MORE LIKELY to respond to LAST MINUTE couch requests - for tonight or tomorrow. Give it a try, you never know ;)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfing - when hitch-hiking around Europe
-when I first arrive in a new place
-to explore!

Hosting - Leeds 2010-11 - all positive
-Brighton 2014 - very chaotic as I was living with 9 other people, all musicians and artists with odd habits, in a 4-bedroom house! So my respect to all the lovely surfers who managed to find some peace while staying with me then!
- Puglia 2016 - My husband and I hosted 2 surfers in our apartment in a tiny town in Salento, which was very positive.

I have 'officially' couch surfed (using this website) in:
Budapest, Hungary

Istanbul, Turkey

Nairobi, Kenya

Milan, Italy

Hoek van Holland, Netherlands

Manchester, UK

Bournemouth, UK

Javea, Spain

Valencia, Spain

Lorca, Spain

Granada, Spain

Padua, Italy

Brighton, UK

Oxford, UK

Rouen, France

Issoire, France

Vendeville, France

Pamplona/Iruña, Basque Country

Bilbao, Basque Country

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Zagreb, Croatia

Couchsurfing is a fantastic website for creating links and there are many other ways in which I have been treated to the hospitality of others.

From hitch-hiking off a ferry in the middle of the night where the driver insisted on driving us home to her house to sleep, to being put up for free in a Turkish hotel by its owner, who also gave us breakfast and a tour of his city, and staying in the many weird and wonderful communities, camps and festivals where the weary traveller can find food, singing companions and a corner to curl up in... Plenty more, the tribe is everywhere and I love it.

I enjoy surfing and hosting equally; hosting is such a good way to feel fulfilled...

BEST OF ALL I love when people are spontaneous enough to accept my often very short notice couch requests!
***Most of the time I try to plan well in advance but sometimes spontaneity takes over and it's great when hosts are flexible enough to accommodate this :)

Intereses

Music, which has shaped my life massively ( as I'm sure it has for lots of people, whether they know it or not..)
I am very interested in creation of peaceful societies; peace in the positive sense.
As a professional circus performer, I am interested in anything to do with the circus, and dancing. I adore dancing and practise yoga every day, which is a beautiful relaxing dance! To see more of my performance check out my website: https://freyapleya.wordpress.com/fire-coloured-lights-and-more/
And my circus group's facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/topspincircus

With my husband I run free-expression dance workshops with cacao. You can see more here: https://danceinspiracy.wordpress.com/

Anything to do with permaculture or holistic agriculture (basically, living sustainably and with consideration of everything around you...)See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn6iS20BAbE for more.
As a writer I have a lot of published articles on these subjects. You can read some here: http://permaculturenews.org/author/charlotte%20haworth/

Partying, swimming in the sea or river, spontaneous activities, jamming (of all kinds), singing, open-air ice skating, skill-less mountain climbing, punk cabaret, evolution, partying, oh yes and...party?

I am always interested in experiencing new things!

• writing
• singing
• performing arts
• festivals
• dancing
• flamenco
• dining
• cooking
• breakfast
• yoga
• partying
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• hiking
• surfing
• sailing
• rock climbing
• swimming
• agriculture
• medicine
• hitchhiking

Música, películas y libros

Music-all kinds, I like music that tells a story but loads of kinds really. Psychedelic culture is very important to me so I listen to a lot of psychedelic music like Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, The Doors, Pink Floyd and more recent psy music like Shpongle, Ott, Infected Mushroom, 1200 Mics...

Some other favourites: Bjork, Esma Redzepova, Gogol Bordello, Beethoven, The Clash

Books- anything by Joseph Campbell!
Also 'The Spell of the Sensuous' by David Abram

Some other favourites:
Stranger in a Strange Land (Michael Heinlein)
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Trainspotting (Irvine Welsh)
As Used On The Famous Nelson Mandela (Mark Thomas)
Homage To Catalonia, 1984 (both George Orwell)
The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy series (Douglas Adams)
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (William Blake)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas (Hunter S Thompson)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman)
The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
The Chronicles of Narnia (CS Lewis)
Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
The Earthsea Cycles, The Lathe of Heaven (both Ursula K Leguin)
The Moral Imagination (John Paul Lederach).

Films: Animations like Studio Ghibli especially Princess Mononoke; Fern Gully, The Nightmare Before Christmas...the film of Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus.

Algo increíble que he hecho

Got married in a field in a shamanic ceremony and then had a big party!

Also, the beautifully twisted way in which the patterns of the world become clearer and clearer is more amazing every day

Enseña, aprende, comparte

I can teach:
- how to hula dance
- basic guitar
- the English language
- Basic Thai language
- General advice about growing/collecting plants
some ideas and theories about:
-conflict transformation,
- non-violent communication,
- permaculture,
- holistic agriculture..and some practice too if we are together for more time!

Probably much more, I don't know, it depends what you want or need! Let's meet and find out together.

I want to learn - whatever you want to share! But particularly if you can help me with these I want to meet you!
- Aerial Silks!!!!
- Building tree houses
- Playing Spanish guitar (and Flamenco!)
- Hitch-hiking on sail-boats - especially between Europe and the USA
- Creating free energy devices
- Any kind of knowledge of how to use plants, for medicine, food and general health, preservation, etc...

Puedo enseñar:
- Como a bailar con aro
- guitarra basica
- el idioma ingles
- Consejos generales sobre como a crecer y recoger plantas
Algunas ideas y teorías sobre:
- transformación de conflictos
- comunicacion sin violencia
- permacultura
- agricultura holistica...y alguna practica tambien si estamos juntos para mas tiempo!

Probablamente mucho mas, no se, es dependiente a que quieres o necesitas! Quedanos y averiguamos...

Quiero a aprender: cualqier quieres a compartir! Pero especialmente, si
puedes ayudame con esos quiero a conocer ti:
- Tocando guitarra española (y Flamenco!)
- Hacer autostop en barcos de velar - especialmente entre Europe y los Estados Unidos
- construyendo dispositivos de energía libre
- Cualquier conocimiento sobre el uso de plantas - para medicamentes, comida etc.

Qué puedo ofrecer a los anfitriones

Stories, music, my cooking skills, interesting company...I guess we have to meet to find out more

Historias, musica, habilidades de cocinar, acompañamiento interesante...Supongo que debemos encontrarnos a averiguar mas

Países que he visitado

Australia, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Ghana, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Laos, Malawi, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Países en los que he vivido

Italy, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom

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