CURRENT MISSION

Ocean = Home

ABOUT ME

I spent years in the chaparral of the Santa Cruz mountains and the cedars of the Olympic Peninsula. I've watched leaves blow around and explored tide pools. I brew artist's conk tea, I worked at an herbal apothecary, and I've studied the ends of life, birth and death. Now, my three tiny doggies and I are on the road again, ideally ending up somewhere we can practice our yoga, walk near the salt water, and be together.

PHILOSOPHY

Ocean = Home

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I would love to host people someday, but I will need to settle in a place that's good for that first. In the meantime, I surf...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I originally got to know the couchsurfing project when i went to England to explore my family's roots. My dad's ancestors all came from an area around Manchester, small towns like Oldham and Romiley, just a quick train ride out of the city. The sweet, down-to-earth, and gracious folks of Manchester gave me a solid place from which to leap while I visited the church where my great-grandparents were married, the ancient graveyard where my ancestors are buried, and the very bikable countryside.

Interests

Kundalini yoga in redwood groves, swimming in the ocean, drinking jurema, salmonberry bushes, the cosmic rattle of a freight train, monkshood plants growing in rocky creekbeds, cat's claw seed pods, lightning, angelica, blood vessels, salamanders, mountain lions, peninsulas full of mountains and surrounded by water, my faery goddaughter Fen and my fire flower Chloe.

• cats
• cooking
• vegan
• yoga
• drinking
• flowers
• traveling
• magic
• swimming
• beaches
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Rose of No Man's Land
Kali's Odiyya
One Day on Beetle Rock
Pippi Longstocking
Convict Conditioning
Don't Be Afraid Gringo
The House on Mango Street
Lakota Woman
The Five Spirits
Till We Have Faces
The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
Sexing the Cherry
The Passion
Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal
The Bandit Queen of India
Stone Butch Blues
The Spiritual Doorway in the Brain
The Collector of Treasures
Parable of the Sower
The Hearing Trumpet
Girl in Translation
Kiki's Delivery Service
My Neighbor Totoro
Top of the Lake
Holy Smoke
Firefly
Dogjaw
Ire Adrift
Kohosh
Blackbird Raum
Pale Robin
Irene Bowen
guayaba
Donormaal

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Spent time in Saorge, living in a hand-built stone cabin outside a medieval village hanging by sheer magic on the side of a mountain. You can't drive through this village, you have to walk through the crooked stone staircases, and every once in a while, a house loses its grip on the hillside and just comes down... All the water in the village fountains comes from springs up on the mountain, which my friends call, "La Source." In the late summer and early fall, you can climb into the trees and eat endless cherries, chestnuts and figs.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach Kundalini Yoga, I can edit your book, and i know a bit about medicinal herbs and wild foods.

Oh, and i can make kim chi. But i would like to learn how to make tempeh.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I'm a great vegan cook and a fab storyteller.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Canada, France, India, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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