I spun around chasing my tail for a little bit, learned a few cool things about the universe, and then got dizzy and fell over to realize I'm just super lucky being here on Earth with all the other Earthlings. But my twitching tail still catches my eye now and then...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet all of you wonderful charming mysterious collections of stardust and feelings, giving and receiving with the joy of a child feeding a duckling. Same reason I'm on the planet I guess?

Interests

• cats
• dogs
• poetry
• burningman
• festivals
• yoga
• meditation
• hiking
• skiing
• neuroscience
• science
• road trips
• mountains
• nature
• digital art
• sci-fi
• mindfulness
• love
• peace
• community
• artificial intelligence
• nvc
• hiking,
• all-season biking

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Cat's Cradle, Your Resonant Self, How to Create a Mind, Non-violent Communication, Autobiography of a Yogi, Miracle of Mindfulness, The Book: The Taboo Against Knowing Yourself, The Tao of Physics, Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman, Sometimes a great notion, Godel Escher Bach, Environmental Arts Therapy... psychics usually see stacks and stacks of books hanging out around my aura.

Music: ODESZA, Grimes, Beatles, Bassnectar, Calexico, Sylvan Esso, White Stripes...

Movies/Shows: The Last Unicorn, Waking Life, Mr. Gaga, Before Sunrise, Westworld, Bojack, Rick & Morty

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Spent a week in Dharamshala with Tibetan monks playing soccer, sharing riddles, and exploring connections between Buddhism and Quantum mechanics (scienceformonks.org).

Also, I danced my PhD! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xo_5e-xNP8

Teach, Learn, Share

In general, if we can cast/create/write/perform/draw/prototype/choreograph/cook/construct/explode/manifest/follow/preserve/assemble/design something in under an hour, let's do it?

Teach: All the fun physics (quantum tic-tac-toe anyone?), how to blow smoke rings on a hookah, how to drive a stick-shift (my jetta is the best car in the universe for it)
Share: Nonviolent Communication (baynvc.org), Meditation, Good Vibes
Learn: Ashtanga Yoga, Poetry/Writing, Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, Interactive/Digital Art, Massage, Improv, Vegetarian Cooking, Drawing, Tenor Sax, Dance.

What I Can Share with Hosts

If you like to cook together, I'll be your bumbling sous-chef -- giving a strong voice to the spices of cinnamon and cumin and washing the dishes to wash the dishes.

Nonviolent / Compassionate / Resonant communication is the coolest thing in the world and probably is going to save the planet. If you need a dose of pragmatic optimism about the world, I'll do my best to inject it.

I'm an enthusiastic and resourceful adventure companion :)

Countries I’ve Visited

China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, United States