Hello, I'm Paul. I enjoy traveling without borders or boundaries. I'm generally pretty quiet..unless you get me started talking about what I love! I love fruits and vegetables, along with preparing food as medicine. My passion is the healing in the healing arts...learning about indigenous cultures; specifically the plants they use, healing techniques, and music.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

My friends have had great success meeting awesome people and traveling on a budget using this website...since I am rarely at home and typically on a budget it seems to good to be true!

Interests

Massage, acupuncture, herbs, botany, food as medicine, yoga, clinical and esoteric psychology, biochemistry, music, drumming, exploring nature, hiking mountains, breathing exercises, Native American Church meetings, Santo Daime church meetings.

• arts
• festivals
• dining
• yoga
• traveling
• music
• hiking
• canoeing
• medicine
• psychology
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Shpongle, Ott, Entheogenic, Bob Marley, TOOL, Shulman, Bluetech, Radiohead, Carlos Santana, Doobie Brothers, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Nobuo Uematsu, Ravi Shankar, the Beatle, Death cab for cutie...too many to list. I like most genres, especially acoustic and kirtan.

Movies: Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, Pulp Fiction, Magnolia, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Crash...I love documentaries, esoteric movies, and psychological thrillers.

Books: teachings of Don Juan, Harry potter, lord of the rings, game of thrones by author- Carlos Castaneda, Alex Grey, JRR Tolkien, George RR Martin, Roald Dahl

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Around 8 years ago I traveled via canoe from Lake missinaibi in Canada to the Hudson Bay. The trip lasted 14 days and spanned 360 miles.

In 2013 I worked as a staff member at over 10 different festivals, spanning over 12 weeks of time.

Teach, Learn, Share

I teach workshops at festivals: thai massage, nutrition, yoga, and embracing the divine masculine within us.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I am more than happy to share anything I know in the realms of massage, herbs, chinese medicine, ayurveda, or any of the aforementioned above.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bahamas, Canada, Jamaica, Mexico, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Mexico, United States