Living at the Golden Temple Guatemala!

ABOUT ME

www.YogaisUnity.com
Grew up as a bored, materialistic suburban kid, so I left home straight after high school and went to Tulane for a year, where I discovered magic plants and found out I needed a different kind of education. I started practicing yoga, then decided to move to Utah to become a mountain man and learn how to build houses, then took a road trip up the west coast from Mexico to Canada. Then I decided I wanted to move to Costa Rica and write a book about happiness, so I flew down with my mountain bike and cycled around the coast, sleeping on beaches, mountains, or in the forest. I got kinda bored of lounging in beachside hammocks with perfect views though, so I decided to take the long way back home, through Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize and Mexico. Got a well paying cubicle job in Austin, and saved up for 9 months while figuring out how to transcend the system, then decided to move to Australia and get my yoga teaching certification and learn how to surf. Flew to New Zealand for 5 months afterwards where I lived out of my car and couchsurfed for 5 months, climbing mountains, teaching yoga, attuning to the Reiki energy, and nearly freezing to death. After coming back to the States and going to Burning Man twice, Lightning in a Bottle, and 12 White Tantric Yoga Solstice festivals and a Permaculture Design Course, I was in Austin where I taught kundalini and hatha yoga, expanding Sacred Acres (the intentional community I co-created) and spreading metaphysical and Permaculture knowledge to anyone who is interested, making our Ascension to the 4th Dimension/ Unity Consciousness/Divine Alignment happen as joyfully as possible.
Been living in Guatemala the last four years building an epic off grid bamboo yoga retreat - The Golden Temple Atitlan! I lead Kundalini Yoga Teacher Trainings, DJ for Ecstatic Dance, lead Cacao Ceremonies, and play the harmonium to lead chants in Kirtan.

PHILOSOPHY

The world is getting exponentially better and worse, but our choice is always the same, are you acting from fear or love? Which world do you choose to live in?

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Sharing the couch-love with stories and songs and yogas and high energy with the commUnity!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

First ever surfing experience was at the New Zealand collective. A pretty synchronistic series of events brought me straight into the center of this community, and its introduced me to a whole new form of experience, education, and entertainment

Interests

breathing in crazy new ways, feeling energetically unified, chanting and singing, dancing to world music, natural building, unified field theory, crop circles, interstellar influence on creation of the pyramids, growing organic food, the geopolitical situation, clarifying spirituality, exploring parks off the trail, civil disobedience for change, mountain biking, playing the congas and balaphone( all really badly right now), freecamping, couchsurfing, CACAO!, and climbing rocks and trees whenever I can

• horses
• culture
• books
• singing
• design
• acting
• festivals
• dancing
• education
• dining
• cheese
• coffee
• raw food
• organic food
• yoga
• running
• magic
• music
• world music
• cycling
• surfing
• rock climbing
• teaching
• history
• tourism
• beaches
• parks
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Books - The Power of Now, The New Testament, Tao Te Ching, The Serpent of Light and 2012, Kundalini Yoga Unlock Your Inner Potential, Urban Shaman, The Celestine Prophecy, The Sunfood Diet Success System, Anastasia, The Way of Wyrd, The 4 Hour Workweek, The Island, Conversations with God,, Autobiography of a Yogi,

Music - Jai Uttal, Krishna Das, Wah, Govindas and Radha, Sada Sat Kaur, Aurora, MC Yogi, Fat Freddys Drop, Jack Johnson, Incubus, Michael Franti, Fela Kuti, The Roots, Gipsy Kings, Ozomatli, Bajofondo, Thievery Corporation, Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Ali Farka Toure

Movies - Good Will Hunting, Baraka, The Fountain, Into the Wild, Network, Braveheart, What The Bleep Do We Know, Waking Life, Dazed and Confused, Austin Powers, V for Vendetta, The Princess Bride, Loose Change, The Matrix
Money as Debt - http://youtube.com/watch?v=cy-fD78zyvI
Free Documentaries (Educate Yourself!) - www.documantis.com www.freedocumentaries.org
Websites - yesmagazine.org, democracynow.org,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Getting completely lost after dark while bike-packing in the mountains of Costa Rica, sludging through mud for hours on end with all my gear, and then coming upon 3 Ticos riding their horses back home from the city, a grandpa, dad, and son. They brought me back to their farm with no running water(besides the stream on their property and a well), no electricity, and gave me some tortillas, cheese, and coffee while we talked by candlelight for hours about each others culture and lifestyle. Then the next day their kids completely washed my bike up in the river, then had their son push my bike alongside the dad and I riding horses up the mountain until the main road where they directed me back towards civilization, unfortunately. It was like I stepped into a time warp back to 1900's Costa Rica before tourism and electricity and anything like our modern lifestyle. Beautifully simple

Teach, Learn, Share

Can teach Yoga, share Reiki and raw foods knowledge, lots of great dance music, and usually traveling with Cacao. Also, I've got a pretty alternative view of history and government and cosmology that most people find interesting, others absurd :)

What I Can Share with Hosts

Can teach Yoga, share Reiki and raw foods knowledge, lots of great dance music, and usually traveling with Cacao. Also, I've got a pretty alternative view of history and government and cosmology that most people find interesting, others absurd :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, France, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Panama, Portugal

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Guatemala, India, United States

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