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Overview
About Me
Coming from around Paris and having lived in Paris for few years, I spend few years traveling and coming back in United States, India, Chili, Argentina, Mexico. After sometimes I felt the desire to settle in the South of France closed to the Pyrénées. I need to anchor myself and nature was calling me.
Today I live with some friends in a little village house in an area surrounded by nature and alternative people. It is a vally with many artists, therapist and a profound spiritual vibes.
I work as an art-therapist supporting people to listen more to their soul and advance towards their dreams as I tend to do the same for myself. I also work as an educator with special needs children and especially autistic kids. I love being in contact with people thinking and behaving differently, like autistics, and opening my mind to try to reach them.
I guess I was always amazed by the neurodiversity and the different way to use our brains and to see the world and behave in the world. This is also why I love travel and being lost at first in a different culture which function different than mine and step by step opening myself more until being able to decide what I choose from each culture that talks the most to my heart.
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
I was on couchsurfing 10 years ago. It helped me so much to connect with people specially in south America. I met a lot of friends through CF en Argentina and I even received a lot of support to find places to stay when I needed.
I found CF wonderfull to meet real people of the country and I met real friends through it.
I decided to re-register recently because after setteling for few years in the south of France where live many travelers I felt the call for a new travel, this time to Egypt. So I would love to connect to people over there, to know more about the culture, the way of living and share our experiences.
Interests
- hiking
- psychology
- dance
- autism
- native american culture
- spiritual red path
Music, Movies, and Books
movie: "the Matrix"
music: Rising Appalachia, Kevin Yazzie, Cecile Moosomin
book: "The fifth Sacred Thing"from Starhawk
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
The most profound adventure that I can recollect right now are spiritual ones. When I was in India I first did some
woofing. First in the north and then in the south of India. ANd when I was in the south I realize that I was in the state next to where Amma was living. And it really felt like a call from her since I did know her from meeting her in France once before but I was not thinking in her since I was in India. And I remember dreaming to go to India to find a land where I could really feel spiritual energy flowing all around. And I did not feel that when I got there. but listening to this call I finally went to Amma's ashram in Kerala and as I enter I found this energy I was looking for. Then in this ashram trough meditation and chanting I experience very profound connection with Divine energy. Experience I do not live everyday even if I am very spiritual.
Teach, Learn, Share
I am always looking for meeting new and different people and to share about our culture, our different horizons, our different view of the world. I found that sometimes we get to encounter the real essence of the person in meeting in a different country. It brings us more quiclky to show us more authentic and talk about essential things. I love this. I think that the world is a big school and that we can grow so much on meeting and sharing with bride lind and open heart.
What I Can Share with Hosts
I think the first thing I would love to do with my hosts is bring them in the mountains hiking and just being amazed by nature.
Then sharing our vision on the world and what it the most important for us, what vibrates in our soul.
Countries I’ve Visited
Austria, Denmark, England, Finland, Germany, India, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland
Countries I’ve Lived In
Argentina, Chile, France, United States