Just returned stateside after 2 years of backing packing solo around the world!

My website/blog:
http://www.shalevnetanel.com

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love learning about culture through the lens of the individuals I meet. I have a penchant for learning and I enjoy using formal and informal educational settings as gateways to experience other cultures. Couchsurfing has carbonated my travelling experience in a big way.

Interests

Intellectual and musical jamming! My "instruments" are: guitar, violin, sitar, and percussion, yoga, philosophy, art, law, psychology, culture, travel, photography, writing, science, and big dogs.

• dogs
• arts
• culture
• writing
• photography
• yoga
• instructor
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• violin
• backpacking
• teaching
• law
• psychology
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Fiction: The Stranger, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, The Brothers Karamazov, The Trial, First Sorrow, The Hunger Artist, The Human Stain, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up, The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories, Post Office, Picture of Dorian Gray, Benito Cereno, Giovanni's Room, The Painted Bird, The Kite Runner, The Things They Carried, Siddhartha, No Exit, Kafka On the Shore

Philosophy and non-fiction: Phenomenology of Spirit, The Question Concerning Technology, Phaedo, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Madness and Civilization, The Genealogy of Morality, Eating Animals, The Origin of the Work of Art, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Zen and the Art of Archery, The Selfish Gene, Musicophilia, Godel-Escher-Bach, various books on yoga.

Movies: The Graduate, Cinema Paradisio, 8 1/2, Police Adjective, Being There, Seventh Seal, The Great Dictator, Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction, Trainspotting, Vertigo, Oldboy, Airplane, Blazing Saddles, Take the Money and Run, Annie Hall, Big Lebowski, Life Aquatic, The Meaning of Life, Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Elephant Man, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Brother's Keepers, Boyhood, The Sound of Noise, The Bicycle Thief, Birdman, Nightcrawler

TV: Breaking Bad, Scrubs, Southpark, Louie,Trailer Park Boys, Stewart/Colbert, X-Files, Seinfeld, Curb, Arrested, Twilight Zone, NBA, science/nature documentaries, TED Talks, High Maintenance, Transparent

Radio: Science Friday, This American Life, Car Talk, The World Cafe, kJazz, SERIAL

Food: Anything healthy and vegetarian really. My favorite cuisines are Ethiopian, Indian, and Middle-Eastern. Really dark stouts. Peet's Coffee.

Music: The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Radiohead, MF Doom, DJ Dangermouse, Cut Chemist, Grizzly Bear, NIN, TV On The Radio, D'Angelo, Fela Kuti, Joanna Newsome, Rodriguez, Schoenberg, Miles Davis, Ravi Shankar, Devendra Banhart, Wayne Shorter, Wes Montgomery, Joni Mitchell, Akron/Family, John Fahey, The Books, Jane's Addiction, Ravi Shankar, CAN, Cibo Matto, the Boredoms, FRANK ZAPPA, the Beach Boys, Herbie Hancock, Prince, Pink Floyd, Sonic Youth, The Doors, Tiny Tim, Simon and Garf, Tom Waits, Terry Riley, Charles Ives, Charles Mingus, Pixies, The Animals, Sly and the Family Stone, Louiz Bonfa, AC Jobim, Gilberto Gil, Parliment, Air, Kraftwerk...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Co-founded a donation-based hostel in India.

Teach, Learn, Share

Anything and everything :)

What I Can Share with Hosts

I'm a certified yoga teacher, music instructor (guitar), professional photographer, and philosophical know-it-all. I'm also not too bad in the kitchen (but veg only). Love to do projects or talent-exchanges with people I meet along the way.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, Canada, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, France, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, Israel, United States