I'm an artist for all my life and now work in sound healing too, love to experiment with unusual sounds and instruments, record birds and other nature sounds for my work. Travelling is my nature. I love to explore new amazing places and meet interesting people. While living in St.Petersburg I had great opportunity to visit Kola peninsula marvellous nature places. Explored many amazing places in Ukraine - canyon, desert, nature reserve, mountains - it's wonderfull country in fact, I have many great friends there! Love also Belorussian people and know some magical places there too. In Ukraine I had a chance to live in real artists squat in Lviv. I visited mostly countries nearby Russia and now want to go farther. I am vegetarin. Very lazy at yoga, but have some favourite postures - such as tree, lotus, eagle, cow, butterfly.. I love nature and silence. Play many instruments intuitively, but still dream to play piano. I think music needed mostly when there's no silence. When I in nature places I usually prefer to hear and record nature itself or play very gently. It inspired me to organize 'Hyperspace Silence Jams' in St.Petersbug in which the main instruments were singing bowls to awaken in people that inner silence, so that they whoud want to play or sing most subtle and beautiful sound from their Heart to celebrate that Silence. Now I have two main sound projects - RumbiafffRAktALL with my friends from Ukraine and Ancient Forest Songs in St.Petersburg.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to see more places of the World and meet more interesting real people rather than be just a tourist and stay in hotels. I gladly would show St.Petersburg in Russia when I'm where. I want to practice more in speaking languages - learning languages my passion since childhood.

Interests

• cats
• singing
• crochet
• drawing
• ecology
• art
• travelling
• tea
• learning languages
• trees
• minerals
• eco villages
• sound healing
• planting trees
• oilpainting
• nature sounds
• singing bowls
• oil pastels
• eco farming
• eco-technologies

Music, Movies, and Books

I was listening to much various music from more normal to experimental, meditative, just nature sounds records. My favourite forever amazing work of Dr. Jeffrey Thompson - it's both beautiful as music and incredible by effect.

Love films more as art than entertainment.

Love books from which I can lear something useful.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can help to learn working in Adobe Photoshop (I was working as digital artist/designer quite long).
Can tell really much about working with oil pastels (I'm planning to organize course)

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can paint walls (really enjoy it!) or something else. Help in digital art/design. Show something about playing various instuments. Tuning instruments (from guitar, ukulele and such others to santoor, gusli, monochord, kalimba - I amd kalinba tuning genius:-) this is my Super-Power). Can tell much from my experience in using singing bowls, show basics how to work with then to newbies. Can play something if there is instrumets or I have some with me. Can tell about Mayan calendar according to Jose Arguelles. Can tell many stories about my wonderful adventues in travels:-)

Countries I’ve Visited

Belarus, Moldova, Poland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation, Ukraine