Hi :-)
I am Dounia, from Flanders, the Dutch speaking part of Belgium.
I've been living for quite a long time in France, at first I came for my bachelor and Master in Sociology and then I stayed along ;-)
I've been recently pretty much interested in psychology and decided to study Transpersonal psychology and hopefully become a therapist <3 .

READ CAREFULLY PLEASE :-) thanks

I will go to a vipassana retraite between the 11 th and 22nd of mai and I am looking for a person who want to and be able to catsit my beloved cat Michel <3 he's super sweet and nice. Of course you'll have the whole studio for yourself and for free. The most important thing to me, is that I feel I can trust, that you will be taken good care of my cat and my studio.

I haven't been really active recently on couchsurfing because I'm curently living in a small studio and it does lack of intimacy while hosting couchsurfers, but I am really looking forwards to live in a new and bigger place where I could host again ^^

I haven't been really active recently on couchsurfing because I'm curently living in a small studio and it does lack of intimacy while hosting couchsurfers, but I am really looking forwards to live in a new and bigger place where I could host again ^^

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I love discovering new places, meeting new people and cultures and I love sharing too :)

I enjoy talking about different life experiences and travelling experiences. I'm always up to share different points of view, different live styles, debates, music, food, culture or just a smile.

For the moment, I'm pretty much into yoga, reading, folk dance and I just discovered acro-yoga and might be interested to discover much more about it.

Some explanation about my home, I live in a super small studio (17m2), with one person's bed and one mattress that can be put on the floor for the host. It's cosy, but is very small :)
So we won't be sleeping in the same bed, but we will be sleeping in the same room and it means that you have to feel comfortable with that ! As the space is very small I prefer to not host more then one night ;)

The studio is 13min away by bus from the train station (Perrache). And it's on a hill.
So it's not in the city but with the bus you reach the center (vieux lyon, bellecour in about 20min). It's basically not in the city center of Lyon, but in St-Foy-Lès-Lyon.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Because it is an amazing way of meeting people, different cultures and traveling :)
Couchsurfing is great experience to get to know new people from different horizons ^^
I think it is amazing because you get in touch with people from different culutres and background. It is a way to become more open-minded towards new situations and persons. It is a great possibility to travel trough stories of other people and to share our own stories with others.

I already met many amazing people though couchsurging and I hope I will be able to meet even more people.

Interests

Acro-yoga, Transpersonal psychology, sociology, nature, Buddhism, veganisme, education, zoology, illustration, vegan food, folkdansing, yoga and much more :)

• culture
• illustrations
• concerts
• education
• vegan
• yoga
• meditation
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• hiking
• camping
• teaching
• gender studies
• sociology
• nature
• buddhism
• tantra
• veganism
• acroyoga
• culture exchange
• rawfood
• folk dance
• nature walks
• zoology
• transpersonal psychology
• cisv
• psychology.

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Sona Jobarthe, Léonard CohenArtic Monkeyrs, Manu Chao, AnnenMaykantereit, Amadou et Mariam, Danit, Ayla Schaffer, Billie Holiday, Cat Stevens, Jackson C. France, Abalye Cissoko & Volker Goetze, Billie Holuday, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Ben Howard, Andrew Bird, Tool, System of a down, Bach, Anouar Brahem, Simon and Garfunkel, Jethro Tull, Nico, Melanie De Biasio, , Jake Bugg, Rodriguez, Ben Howard, David Bowie, CocoRozie, Petit Biscuit, Jack Johnson..
of course it is not possible to list here everything ;-)

books: "Deschooling Society" (Yvan Illich) ",,"Animal Farm", "Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill" of Mathieux Ricard, "Rhinocéros" of Ionesco, "A Book of Life" (Martin Gray) "The earth children" of J.M Auel, "Summerhill" (d'A.S. Neill), "Le petit prince", "Le deuxième sexe II" (Simone de Beauvoir), Nothing to Envy (Barbara Demick), "No death no fear" (Thich Nhat Hanh), "Drama in the Womb" (Alfred and Bettina Austermann) , Royal Assassin (Robin Hobb)

Movies: Isle of Dog (Wes Anderson), Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke (Hayo Miyazaki) District 9, The Danish Girl, La Belle Verte, Her, Poesia Sin Fin (Jodorowsky), Compartment No. 6, Harold and Maud, Oscar...

Comics: Persepolis, SOS bonheur, L' Arabe du Futur, Le bleue est une couleur chaude, De maagd en de neger, Habibi, Peau d'Âne, ...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Surprise ... :-)

What I Can Share with Hosts

I love sharing my experiences about Steiner school pedagogy, veganism and much more.
I am glad to share my enthusiasm around a drink, a meal or a walk.

Countries I’ve Visited

Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, England, Finland, France