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Overview

  • 4 references
  • Learning English, Spanish, Thai
  • 36, Female
  • Member since 2010
  • my job is to help gives others permission. to be more fre...
  • Crafting my own curriculum- BA in Liberated Living
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Wiggling and dancing the seriousness out of myself and others,
and sharing my passion for Somatic Embodiment and dance, joyous and free living!

I wish to share the overflow of the most Universal Love and share so many deep thank yous for our amazing diversity and the way we can come together, share and celebrate the joys and sorrows of living.

ABOUT ME

i am very alive and full of feeling and sensation. I am an emotional manifestor, a double cancer nurturer spirit and I am moved by the cycles of the moon. I am also an Earth Dragon and a very empowered, resilient and optimistic being.
I love super high moments for celebration and deep dark silent inner moments of reflection.
I love to reconnect again and again to my global tribe. This fills me with great hope.
I live to have new experiences-exploring unknown cultures and love to test my own fears and boundaries.
I am diving deep into what it means to live an embodied life and will keep asking, on and on, "What can I do to make things more wonderful"- to myself, my relations and the world around me.
I currently focus on how to tell my stories in a way that it is helpful for others! I am a rainbow bridge.

i love music... i love silence...
i love sensitivity...
and strength.
i love adventure.
i love to contribute.
i love to be in authentic communications and radical honesty.
i love living with purpose .
It is an absolute honor to SHARE ... with , you ... all.

PHILOSOPHY

I am a deliberate creator and choose consciously where I direct my energy. I am dedicated to the self work. To being as clean and clear as possible for heart centered authentic connections to be the normal way of interacting with the world.
I like to believe, see and breathe into being, a better more heart centered world and reality than we know is possible. I just (finally) launched my website/blog platform, www.ChoosingthisReality.com

I love living with more and more gratitude for ALL that life presents to me. Especially the tough stuff. I like to compost my experiences and harvest the nutrients from the experience, seening what it is that I have learned and how that makes me a deeper and more valuable contributing human being.

I am a healer and an artist. I take joy in sharing creativity in the the many paths and portals of the healing arts. I love to dance and play and celebrate what we are

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I have offered my couch and my magic school bus tiny-home to many MANY beings of the world, through many different connections. and I am always open to helping someone out and I often host others in my centered Presence and listening.

It lights my life with SO much joy to feel the countless familys and beings around the world that have opened their homes to me and extended invitations and the gifts that come from wanting to share with each other is huge medicine for the times of our world. Thank you CS!!

Interests

i enjoy anything that makes my heart beat. the radical realness of all of it. Ups and downs. I am a feeeeler.

i love to feel sensation and aliveness
i like to scuba dive, sky dive, white water raft, cliff jump...

eating food~ garden grown fruits and vegetables!
the color shiny

NATURE, herbs and plant medicines

I LOVE TO DANCE---ecstatically, wild and free
i also love anything, place or people that inspire me. i very much enjoy making crafts. i like to make big outrageous costume-like things, sometimes.
i also enjoy doing other forms of collaborative art- place making and decoration design.

Circus is my dream, i have enjoyed flying trapeze, slack line, stilts, silk aerials, lyra, hula hooping, poi, staff contortion stretching and acrobatics.
i like to try and surprise people with how beautiful they are. i like to express myself wildly, not carefully! i also enjoy learning and reading about new things...I'm into learning and discovering the delights and wonders of the spiritual realm. I'm interested in real and authentic relationships with new people!

  • animals
  • culture
  • theater
  • performing arts
  • dancing
  • massage therapy
  • crafts
  • traveling
  • music
  • electronic music
  • drums
  • world music
  • skydiving
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • circus
  • permaculture
  • voice
  • health
  • alchemy
  • contact improvisation
  • sharing
  • alternative medicine
  • self-development
  • healthy lifestyle
  • laughter
  • consciousness
  • festival
  • psychedelics
  • psytrance
  • alternative lifestyles
  • healing arts
  • presence
  • somatics
  • vibrations
  • contact dance
  • present moment
  • contact staff
  • embodiment
  • water dance

Music, Movies, and Books

i love music!-- psy trance, kirtan, indian fusion, world music, temple dub, gypsy dub, funk! reggae, bluegrass, and so so much more!

its the music that makes me move...the hidden language of the soul...
NO top 40

favorite movies are ridiculous comedies and documentaries

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

traveling...no longer a holiday...but a lifestyle
burning man festival...changed my life and the way i see and understand many things.
skydiving...also made me see things from a much higher point of view...
drove 160 mph
the only girl racing in the demolition derby
drove 30k miles in a summer music festival buku!
ate cockroaches
more than 200 concerts and festivals
drove a bamboo boat
got a bamboo tattoo

Teach, Learn, Share

i would love to teach all i know about the energy that we are made of and what exists in and around us in this massive and mystical universe. i love to exchange new ideas and talents. i really enjoy helping people learn english and when i am helping someone, i have a lot of patience. i wish to learn as if i will live forever and im excited to learn MANY new things.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Open mind, comfort and peaceful intentions. Presence and some wild stories too.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belgium, Cambodia, Canada, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, France, Germany, Guatemala, India, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Netherlands, Panama, Philippines, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Costa Rica, Guatemala, Thailand, United States

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