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Overview

  • 28 references 24 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Spanish; learning Arabic, Portuguese
  • 37, Female
  • Member since 2010
  • Yoga Instructor/Reiki Healer/Musician
  • Boston University
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION: Grow through what I go through. Self love, discipline, and compassion.

ABOUT ME: I am a traveling yoga instructor, language teacher, writer, artist (dancer, photographer, singer, ...), naturalist on the road. I left my apartment in New York City four years ago and have since walked the Camino de Santiago, began my musical journey with the Ukelele, lived and taught yoga in Morocco, sat my first Vipassana meditation course, made countless friends, hopped about the Middle East, explored Eastern Europe by hitchhiking, and am now Stateside learning about the plants, the land, the native peoples and traditions, seeing just where I may plant myself (if at all) ! My plans are open and flexible and I look forward to meeting and, someday soon, hosting, couchsurfers and like-minded magical people from all around the world.

PHILOSOPHY:
Everything is energy.
You are me I am you.
In Lak'ech Ala K'in
Mitakuye Oyasin.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
At the moment, meeting people along the way and being an ambassador for the movement, spreading the good word as I go.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
I’ve been hosting friends and friends of friends and staying with couchsurfing hosts for almost ten years now. Great experiences in Spain, Poland, and Morocco!

Interests

I am interested in all things yoga, dance, movement, and spirit related - as well as astrology, shamanism, plant medicine, and sustainable agriculture/permaculture. I am also a huge fan of words, languages, cultures, and history, so you can find me geeking out on city tours, asking random questions about words in your language, and reading tourist information plaques at random sites around town. I love to be in nature, close to the beach, in the mountains, and by the trees. Dance and music flows through me - would love to sing, jam, or dance about with you. Also, could clear the space in your house, read your cards, and teach you some yoga :)

  • writing
  • photography
  • dancing
  • salsa dancing
  • dining
  • cooking
  • yoga
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • teaching
  • languages
  • beaches
  • travel
  • nature
  • sunshine

Music, Movies, and Books

My Own! hehe haven't written too much but I LOVE to Jam, it's a new hobby in the last few years of traveling and meeting other gypsy wandering hearts <3

Dylan, the Beatles, Nahko & Medicine for the People, Paolo Coelho, Elvira Lindo, Harry Potter

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

El Camino De Santiago ❤️ Hitchiking Israel and now Europe!, Climbing Mount Sinai, Walking the Great Wall of China, 10 Day Vipassana Silent Meditation 🙌 , Falling in Love, Teaching English in the Bronx to children from all around the world, Walking from tip to tip of Manhattan, Learned Spanish, Lived with the Bedouins in Palestine and Jordan... so much!

Everyday is a Great Adventure <3

Teach, Learn, Share

I will gladly share my knowledge of yoga, breathwork (pranayama). meditation, mantra, the English or Spanish language, photography, traveling, cooking, and any other excerpts from my encyclopedia-like mind of wildly useful random information.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Good conversation, jamming on the Ukelele, a yoga lesson, travel tips, laughs ❤️

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Cayman Islands, China, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Gibraltar, Greece, Honduras, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Palestine, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Ecuador, Jordan, Morocco, Spain, United States

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