International ;-)
Born and raised between two continents, I since ever enjoy to meet with people from all over the world!

First of all - I just came back from my half a year trip around the world, travelling through the Arab Emirates, India, Nepal, Thailand, Cambodia, Korea and Japan, and finishing with spending my summer in the USA and Mexico :)

However - I shall start at the beginning: When not travelling, I live, work and dance in Vienna, Austria. I am 188cm tall and have black, curly hair and dark brown eyes (which used to be completely black when I was a kid *g*) I love to dance salsa and kizomba also worked as a dance teacher and performer for several years.

My primary profession though is being a project manager, working for the City of Vienna, making sure that important infrastructure such as electricity and gas pipelines stay in order. I also focus on different aspects of present and future energy systems, how they evolve and change and how that affects markets, economies, societies and civilization itself.

In the last years, I developed a strong interest in studying human psychology, with a focus on how cultural habits and customs shape our understanding of the world and our fellow people in it. I now hold a degree as NLP Master Practitioner and Mental Trainer and work on my certification as a ICF-Personal Coach and Hypnotherapist. ... So better take care if you lie down on my couch! :P

Beside my work, family and friends, I have totally fallen in love with AcroYoga - I do it twice a week at least and have achieved a quite good level. If you know how to fly, we could surely have a little jam together! ;)

PHILOSOPHY
We all have our own "little island".
What seems perfectly normal on my island, can be a total scandal in the understanding of my neighbor. We do not have to accept everything that happens around us, but I believe that we should all try to respect the ideas, wishes, goals, methods and feelings of whom we interact with. Because, every one of us does whatever he or she does for a certain reason that might seem just right for him or her.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

For me, CouchSurfing is a wonderful way of getting in touch with other corners of the world, and learning from each other.

It is a fantastic way of testing ones set of ideas and believes with those of others, and finding out for oneself what I'm doing right, and what might be a better way of doing things. So for my part when I travel, I try to stay as open as I can for new ideas, philosophies and experiences. And when I host, I'm glad to have extravagant, exuberant and even exasperating people on my couch :)

Interests

My in this regard strongest interest is in people. When it comes to hosting Couchsurfers, its important for me to see that they didn't only send a random spam-request, but actually delicately want to meet me as a person. This intrinsically includes fully reading my profile. - For me, to see if you have done so, i ask you to include the word "kanyonyore" into the text of your couch request when contacting me. Thereby, I'll know that you're a genuinely interested surfer :)
Also, please give the basic details of your stay - such as:
- how many people, which gender, which age
- how long you'd like to stay
- when and where do you arrive (bus? plane? train? which station? what time?)

Thanks!

• photography
• make up
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• recipes
• chocolate
• coach
• reading
• traveling
• teaching
• psychology
• acroyoga

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: The "Kaavren Romances" by Steven Brust. (a fantasy series, all together about 2000pages). "The Tao is Silent" by Raymond Smulian. The "Ethical Slut", the standard-book on polyamory by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy, and I'm just now together with my girlfriend reading through literature from Mantak Chia (such as "The Multi-orgasmic Couple"). Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan.

Movies: "el otro lado de la carma" - A movie about four people, two couples and one problem.

Music: Really depends on my mood. Can listen to everything from hard-rock to Blues. from Austropop to Urban Jazz, Classic to commercial pop, Kuduro to Kikuyu Gospel. Would be also happy to find out what kind of music is listened to in other parts of the world!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

1. Traveld the world! yes, one time around the whole globe thing! :) wohoo!

2. Worked so long on a school project that I got locked up in the building and had to jump out of a window from the third floor to get home ;-)

3. Took a three day non-stop hardcore travel from Rome to Istanbul and back again - one of the best journeys I ever made.

4.a Given a dance class in Shanghai! I love the Chinese ;-)
4.b Given a dance class in Mexico City! Loving Mexicans too! ;)
4.c Given a dance class in Kathmandu! Nepalese are funky dancers! ;)
4.d Given a dance class in Krakow! Want some Vodka with your Salsa? ;)

5. Climbed the worlds highest free standing mountain (Mt. Kilimanjaro, 5.895m) in only four and a half days

6. Celebrated my 32 birthday with a 4 hour meditative walk along the shores of the Holy river Ganges in northern India, culminating in the best birthday cake ever, consisting of half a banana, half a nearly-eaten chocolate-snack from the road and some drops of honey!

Teach, Learn, Share

THE MICROWAVE. A miraculous thing that everybody uses, but only very few people have an idea of how it works. So, please allow me me contribute this little piece of knowledge to the community:

The Microwave is an absolutely revolutionary kitchen tool! It is the only thing that can heat up something, without have to get hot itself!

How it works:
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The core component is the so called "Magnetron", an eclectically driven evacuated tube that emits electromagnetic waves. These em-waves have higher energy than X-Ray, but lesser than visible light. They do not penetrate the food completely, but they are also not visible.
Their special ability is that they can penetrate materia in a surface area, about 2-3cm deep. There, the energy of the em-wave is absorbed by electric loaded particles, like water molecules.

Basically all that we eat, perhaps beside chips and dried mushrooms has a water content and every time when a em-wave from the magnetron hits a dipole water-molecule (H2O) the molecule absorbs the energy and transfers it into molecular vibration, thereby hitting other atoms and molecules that surround it. In the end, the whole structure oscillates and this, is the physical definition of heat - fast moving, "vibrating" atomic structure.

And now, to un-mystify the miraculous thing, six mystical question, accompanied by six physical-logical answers. Enjoy! ;-)

1. Why is it nearly impossible to heat defrost stuff in the microwave?

- Because in frozen ice, the water dipole is bound in a fixed molecular structure and can not move around. Therefore no vibration, no heat. It takes free movable molecules to absorb the em-waves.

2. Why is the microwave so much faster than a stove in heating up food?

A: Because in the stove, the first what happens is that a huge air volume has to be heated up, and only after that, the food itself can be heated up. And that takes its time.

3. Why is it dangerous to put metal objects in a microwave?

A: Because first, metal objects reflect em-waves and thus can harm the magnetron. Second, em-waves on some metal objects can induct high electric current which can lead to very high temperatures and to melting or burning or even exploding of other objects inside.

4. Can the em-waves escape the microwave and boil the cook?

Well, if your microwave was so old and fragile with a 2cm gap on the side or a 12cm hole in the glas front, yes, then that could happen. But a regular working microwave is surrounded by a metal foil, that reflects the em-waves back to the inside and to the food, (this foil can be seen in the front glas of most microwaves) So, there is no harm in the regular use of a well functioning micro wave.

5. Why does the plate in the microwave rotate?

A: Because it is technically difficult to construct a total homogeneous distribution of em-waves within the microwave. To counter this effect and to heat up everything equally strong, the food rotates, passing zones of higher and lower em-wave concentration.

6: Does the Microwave alter the molecular structure of the food?

A: Yes of course! This process is called "cooking!" for example, the molecular structure and chemical composition of a boiled egg is completely different from the raw egg.

What I Can Share with Hosts

A warm welcome,
cooking utensils and sometimes a warm meal :)
cooking options and sometimes a hungry stomach :)

stories about the world, the people and the love in it
a small bathroom but a big heart <3

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Nepal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Kenya

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