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  • 34 references 32 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish
  • 31, Male
  • Member since 2017
  • Actual work: Software Developer
  • Industrial Engineer
  • From Argentina
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About Me

Hi,
I'm Felipe, 31, born and raised in Argentina, Buenos Aires.

I'm into:
Traveling

Meditation and Yoga (Vipassana as teached by S.N. Goenka / Buddhist meditation as teached by Ven. Pa Auk / Art or living by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar)

Ecstatic Dance (5 Rhythms mostly)

Live music, surf, cooking, trekking and camping, poetry.

Vegetarian (almost vegan) 🌱
No drugs, No alcohol.

Industrial Engineer and Fullstack Web developer.

On the deep spiritual path since I realized it's the only way 🙏

Now traveling India, Sri Lanka and Nepal, this journey started in March 2024 and it may last long...

So far, main places:
-Art of Living Ashram (Bangalore) - 6 weeks
-Tiruvannamalai - full moon peregrination
-Auroville (Puducherry) - 4 weeks
-Sadhana Forest (Puducherry) -2 weeks
-Buddhist Forest Monastery - Theravada (Na Uyana, Sri Lanka) - 6 weeks
-Travels in Sri Lanka - 2 weeks

Possible future:
-New Delhi
-Ladakh (North India, Himalayas)

THANK YOU🫂❤️🙏

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

For deep shearing with people all around this fascinating world. Real experiences far from business and near compassion.

Interests

  • animals
  • poetry
  • theater
  • music festivals
  • music
  • live music
  • piano
  • soccer
  • nature
  • reading books
  • bike trips
  • vegetarian cooking
  • yoga and meditation

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:

Bhajans by:
Ravi Ramoneda/Manu OM
Krishna Das
Miguel Brea
Bernadette Ben

Argentinean music: Charly Garcia, Luis Alberto Spinetta , Los Piojos and Ciro y los Persas, La Renga,Gustavo Cerati , Luca Prodan ("Sumo") Ricardo Mollo ("Divididos"); La vela Puerca,
Adrian Berra; Jeites
Atahualpa Yupanqui, Mercedes Sosa, Jorge Fandermole,Leon Gieco

Brazilian music: Caetano Veloso, Tim Maia, Jorge Ben, Alceu Valenca, Gilsons, Marisa Monte,Chico Cesar

International rock: Led Zeppelin (and Greta Van Fleet), Pink Floyd, The Doors, The Beatles, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Dire Straits, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, ACDC, Queen. Dream Theater, Black Sabbath.
Pearl Jam
Daft Punk, Michael Jackson

Blues and jazz:
BB king, Eric Clapton, Steve Ray Vaughan
Louis Amstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Nina Simone.

Also a lot of:
Bob Marley, Alex Serra, Devendra Banhart, Chinese Man, Tame Impala, Sufjan Stevens

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Movies:

Cowspiracy, What the Health, Forks over Knives, Earthlings.

I like nature documentaries- David Attenborough is my favorite: The private life of plants, The life of Birds, Planet Earth, Life, Galapagos, The Blue Planet, One Planet.

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Books:

Mostly anything that’s non fiction. I like reading about human history and evolution besides the spiritual that can always help me connect with something bigger.
Yuval Noah Harari/ Carl Sagan / Daniel Quinn/ Walter Isaacson/ Hermann Hesse/ Paulo Coelho
Carlos Castaneda/ Roger Walsh/ Eduardo Galeano/ Jorge Luis Borges / some Freud

Eckhart Tolle/ Krishnamurti/ Osho/ Pablo D’Ors/ Yogananda/ Gabrielle Roth/

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've seen sunsets and flowers and animals in the wild, trees, plants, leaves and grass. I've seen the ocean, water flowing, fire and sparks, clouds on a full moon, colored stones, snowy mountains, a colored full dish of food...and lovely smiles :)

Lived 1 year in a Vipassana meditation center/community in the Romanian mountains of Transilvania.
Help rebuilding houses from a fire in Patagonia in an Art of Living long project.
Crossed the Andes Mountains in a 7 days bike trip.
Learned to surf in the beautiful beaches in the northeast of Brazil.

What I Can Share with Hosts

A very very real and honest: THANK YOU.
My time, my meditation.
Cooking! Shearing stories and moments together.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Brazil, Romania

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