CURRENT MISSION
Currently nomadic, traveling around the country playing music and leading yogic workshops. Grateful to be living my dream and investing in global community.

ABOUT ME
Bhakti yogini and guide, Reiki healer, cellist, empath. It is my goal in life to follow my highest bliss in music, and to live in true empowerment of myself so that I may give others the tools to be their own inspiration and live their highest good.

PHILOSOPHY

Ever changing, ever evolving. I was raised in a conservative Christian pseudo-cult, abandoned that religion for agnosticism and skepticism, developed a mindfulness practice, fell in with Zen Buddhism as I explored yoga, and have since found and resonated deeply with the path of Bhakti. I believe we are all heart-connected but that not everyone can accept that in their current lifetime. I believe in engaging with compassion, in the complexities of all eight types of karma, I believe that circumstance and progression in one's journey is all that differentiates me from you. I do not tolerate bigotry or harmful selfishness, but I will exercise compassion for why it may exist within another. I believe in practice, and that the discipline of adherence to a practice is where the most growth happens, but I am also part-Cancer and I love flow. I do believe these two ideas can be joined. We are meant to be solid containers with clear lines and boundaries, but porous and consciously open to change, consciously allowing our emotions and energies to flow within us and, when we choose, to extend beyond us.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Global community! I am not at liberty to host in my current living situation, but I love to engage with local couchsurfers and love to play tour guide if you want company around my home city.

Interests

music, self-transformation, breaking through systemic cycles of trauma, bringing people together, empowering others on their own journey of healing, food as a tool of connection, honest artistic expression, travel, dance, traditional yogic practices, interrupting racial and patriarchal patterns of bias and suppression, art activism

• books
• singing
• dining
• cooking
• yoga
• meditation
• yachting
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• backpacking
• buddhist
• wwoof

Music, Movies, and Books

Jazz, Latin Jazz, Psych Folk, Electrofunk, Afrocuban,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Staying with the most amazing people on Isla Chira in Costa Rica, playing my cello in Yellowstone National Park, driving across the USA via three different routes, living and working on a yacht in Emeryville, backpacking through Europe, and sitting under the trees in my own backyard.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I will cello at you for as long as you'll let me make notes, give you a yoga lesson or Reiki session, cook you some food, and/or share some laughs and explores.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bolivia, Canada, Costa Rica, France, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States