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Overview

  • 17 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Spanish
  • 37, Female
  • Member since 2010
  • Human Potential Excavator (outdoor guide, yoga/meditation...
  • BaSc in Human Kinetics
  • From London, ON, Canada
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To join friends in spiritual practice, self-care and nature time. I am visiting family who have a vacaiton home Palm Springs, CA. I would LOVE to meet and play a bit of music, go to kirtan or satsang, go to a sauna, or a gentle walk outside the city!

ABOUT ME

Hippie at heart, graduated university and spent four years traveling and working abroad! I lived two years in South America then came back to Toronto, CAN. I moved to a small island called Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, Canada, where I've spent the last four years away from mainstream culture. I've been exploring non-dualism through yoga, traditional first nations ceremony and A Course in Miracles. I grow my own food and live as minimalistic-ally as I can working to heal chronic illness! <3 I LOVE my life, all the bits. I appreciate my choice in every moment and the impermanence of it all!

Soy un hippie! Despues de universidad me fui de Canada, viajando 4 anos! Me gusta la fiesta y tambien las noches tranquilas!

PHILOSOPHY

The most important thing in the world is something that no one can take away from us: choice. Choose to smile. Choose to take problems as opportunities. It's not what happens to you, it's what you do with it.

Lo más importante en el mundo es algo que nadie puede quitarnos: la elección. Elija a sonreír. Optar por tomar los problemas como oportunidades. No es lo que le sucede a usted, es lo que haces con él.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I did A LOT of surfing in South America. Now that I have a couch again it is mostly occupied by short-term visits by friends, but sometimes free!!
I am always, however, down for a coffee, drink, walk, whatever! I'm still discovering my city too!

He surfado mucho en sud america! Ahora tengo mi couch y, si no es ocupado con amigos que estan aqui por algunas semanas or meses, ya, es libre!
Pero, siempre estoy por una caminata, cafe, trago, baile, cual quier cosa! Todavia estoy explorando mi ciudad tambien!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

In Canada and abroad it has been a great way to meet people! Have done a lot of unofficial couch surfing (of course, like most people) and have done most of my recent surfing in South America.

En Canadá y en el extranjero es un buen camino para encontrar gente y conocer lugares! Antes, he hecho mucho ´couchsurfing´ no oficial pero el año pasado he hecho mucho via este sitio web en Sud America.

Interests

Live music, yoga, playing guitar- mostly as an excuse for me to sing/ people to sing with me, campfires, reiki, general exploration of spirituality in all it´s forms - meditation, toilets in different countries, books you can't put down, traveling, languages, neon paint, beach volleyball, croquet, food of all kinds, hiking, white water canoeing, when hours seem to pass in only minutes, markets, history, people

Musica en vivo, el yoga, el reiki, la exploración de la espiritualidad en general en toda su forma, a tocar la guitarra-en su mayoría como una excusa para mí para cantar / para que la gente canta conmigo, fogatas, baños de diferentes países, los libros no se puede dejó, viajes, idiomas, pintura de neón, voleibol de playa, croquet, alimentos de todo tipo, excursiones, piragüismo de agua blanca, camping, las horas parecían pasar en pocos minutos, los mercados, la historia, las personas

  • books
  • singing
  • dancing
  • dining
  • coffee
  • yoga
  • meditation
  • drinking
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • painting
  • music
  • live music
  • guitar
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • backpacking
  • canoeing
  • camping
  • surfing
  • volleyball
  • history
  • languages
  • volunteering
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Tom Robbins, Kurt Vonnegut, William Kotzwinkle, ACIM, Patanjali's Sutras, libros sobre excursiones en el bosque, historia, clásicos, de todo!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Worked with communities in isolated regions of the jungle and highlands in Peru
El Camino de Santiago in Spain
Braving the highway in Goa, India with a good friend and a good bike!
Living in Newfoundland, Canada

Trabaje con grupos isolados en la selva y los Andes en el Peru.
El Camino de Santiago en España
Desafiando la carretera en Goa, India, con un buen amigo y una buena moto!
Viviendo en Newfoundland, Canadá y en las montañas de Bolivia
Trabajando en el Perú!

Teach, Learn, Share

Lots of life and travel experience, would love to share! I practice guitar, harmonium, reiki, meditation, kirtan, I can sew, I have been learning about permaculture and eco-friendly building as well!

Mucha experiencia de viaje, me encantaría compartir todo! Yo la guitarra la práctica, el reiki, la meditación, puedo coser, he estado aprendiendo acerca de la permacultura y la construcción respetuosa del medio ambiente también!

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Gibraltar, Guatemala, India, Laos, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, Spain, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Peru

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