CURRENT MISSION

to learn all I can in each place I explore and to hula hoop everywhere I go

ABOUT ME

I live to dance and create but I also take deep satisfaction from giving out healing touch in the form of massage. I love to craft, create costumes and props and occasionally I cough out a circus show. Meaning I produce circus shows but I'm never sure where they come from or when the next one is going to come catapulting out of me.

One reason I am traveling is to learn local knowledge of the places I explore. So far this has included learning Thai Massage and Balinese Dance. I hope to apply these skills to my massage practice back home and to the development of my hoop dance, respectively. I want my travels to be more than just an extended vacation. In each new place I explore, I want to seek the beauty and knowledge there that lies deeper than the surface.

I am also traveling to test myself and realize the measure of my strength.

I'm also traveling to hula hoop. Everywhere. And always.

PHILOSOPHY

Live to love and create. Compassion is supreme.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

When I have a stable place of living that is not a circus warehouse I plan on hosing CS members. I love travelers. I love to travel. It all balances out.

For now I am participating by broadening my network in the couchsurfing community and visiting other kindly couchsurfing hosts.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I used to live in a lively and beautiful cooperative housing space in Isla Vista, near Santa Barbara, where many many couch surfers came to stay across the summer and even into the school year. I loved meeting all the traveling people coming through my house. Most often they were considerate friendly and interesting people that were a delight to get to know. I look forward to meeting more CS members to see what new things they can teach me.

Interests

Hula Hooping
Massage Therapy and the Healing Arts
Dancing
Collaborative Creative Expression
Festivals
Circus Arts
Climbing trees
Being the animal that I am

And traveling of course!
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• animals
• arts
• beauty
• festivals
• dancing
• massage therapy
• traveling
• scuba diving
• rock climbing

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Matrix, What the Bleep Do We Know?, Waking Life, Scanner Darkly, Exit Through the Gift Shop

Music: Pretty Lights, Emancipator, Shpongle, Andrew Bird, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bob Marley, Jim Croce, Beats Antique, Air, Bonobo, Caravan Palace, Deep Forest, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, The Glitch Mob, Manu Chao

Books: The Art of Happiness, Sirens of Titan, Welcome to the Monkey House, The Art of Loving, A Short History of Nearly Everything, Eat Pray Love (I'm sorry, I have to. I loved that book.)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Scuba Dove on the Great Barrier Reef, climbed a volcano in Bali for my recent birthday, scuba dove with sharks!, traveled to more countries around the world than I have states in my own country!

Teach, Learn, Share

I love to teach hula hoop dance to anyone who wants to learn! I also can teach massage techniques, both Thai and western.

I would love to learn anything and everything. What do you have to teach me? I'll try my best to learn it. I feel like everyone has something to teach.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belgium, Belize, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, England, France, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Italy, Laos, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Peru, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States