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Overview

  • 23 references 18 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German
  • 69, Female
  • Member since 2007
  • work as pathologist
  • studied medicine
  • From Hohenstein-Ernstthal and Lugau in East Germany
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

live simply, love generously, care deeply

ABOUT ME

I have lived in Australia for a bit more than 7 years - years of exploring Australia, making new friends, working in my life-long profession still with curiosity and with compassion, becoming a Yoga teacher, teaching Yoga since 2013 and learning to meditate.

PHILOSOPHY

"It is such a mystery when you actually take responsibility for your response in the world. That is surrender. It is the opposite of what we think of a responsibility: some burden that we have to figure out. It's an opening. " by Gangaji

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I like to host travellers who are interested in meeting people and in widening the horizon of our world view- I don't like it so much when people arrive in the middle of the night and have to leave the next morning early so that there is no time for communication at all - I offer a bed for 1 to 2 nights for 1 or 2 travellers, Yoga in the morning, evening hours for chatting and a "guided" tour through the city and maybe the surroundings.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I had my two first guests when I was not even a member. These were two crazy Irish ladies. A friend of mine had organized the meeting and we all were so happy and had so much fun that I decided to become a member.

Interests

Bush walking
Yoga
Meditation
Reading

  • arts
  • yoga
  • meditation
  • walking
  • reading
  • socializing
  • teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

movies:Orlando, Tango Lessons, Out of Rosenheim, Brokeback Mountain, searching for Sugar Man, The world fastest Indian, Dhamma Brothers,
music: Ben Harper, Planxty, Tibet2Timbukt2, Snatam Kauer
books: The Master and Margerita, books by Flan o'Brien,books by Astrid Lindgreen, Zen Buddhism and the Art of Archery, Tao Te King, The power of Now, books by Gangaji, books by David Michie, The Tibetan book about living and dying, Happiness by Matthieu Ricard, poems by Rumi and Hafiz

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

tandem parachute jump
became a Yoga teacher
Vipassana meditation

Teach, Learn, Share

the art of living (teach and learn)

Old School Badges

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