CURRENT MISSION

Due to my little children (9 and 11 years old in 2016) and a fulltime job it is not obvious to travel the world. So I will see and meet the world - beginning in my own country !

Getting balanced and being true to myself in everything I do and will do.

ABOUT ME

Well I am more a thinker then a talker but if you bring up the right subject there is no holding back!
I love to hike (even alone) and I found out (during the years) that I have a special connection to 'walking on islands'. The combination of “mountains-water and sun” are perfect for me.
I dislike “rain-cold-snow and ice”, especially after following a course of alpine mountaineering ;-)
A personal goal is to visit a lot of islands (the small ones).
If I can do some Yoga, meditation and massages on those islands it would be perfect!
I also love to travel by motorcycle. Plans for a trip to Ireland are in the make.
Travel with the trans-Siberian express is another thing I would like to do.

PHILOSOPHY

MY DREAM

Instead of travelling around and offering ‘massages, yoga and other activities’ (it didn’t work out this way on my adventure in France 2013), I am thinking to look for a fixed place under the southern sun in Europe.

The next is the description of my dream … a realistic one but up till now still a dream.

The “SunRise Retreat Center” is situated in a mountain like enviroment with water (sea-lake-river) nearby. The “SR-CR” is built on a large property with a lot of trees (olive-prune-apple-pear-orange-lemon-cherry), a home garden and a farmyard (goats-chicken-sheep-cats and a dog) and inclusive donkeys for hiking tours with children.
The house has some rooms for the participants. A cheaper solution is a small campsite to put your tent and hammock in (a famous traveler and rainbow family principle).
The goal is to do a lot in the DIY-way in and around the house.
A swimming pool, jaccuzi, rocket stoves, yucon, bbq … all being self-built could be awesome.
Cooking, eating and doing the dishes together is a must-do but not obligated.
This “SR-RC” is not a hotel but an interactive participation of all visitors.
The basic idea is to be totally independent … living off-grid and bio-ecological.
Building a true ‘Earthship’ would be the ultimate dream of dreams.

In the “SR-RC” people can choose a wide variety of activities such as:

SUN-program;
• Hiking and/or climbing week
• Survival for dummies week
• Mountainbike week
• Motorcycle or scooter week
• Kayak or canoe week
• Canyoning week
• Donkey hikes with children
• Dog whisperer and basic dog training program
• Making spirits of the existing tree fruits

RISE-program;
• Yoga week
• Massage week (divers techniques)
• Stillness week
• Meditation practise week
• Intuitive painting course – the spiral of creation
• Tantra for dummies week
• Mantra and Bhajan week
• Cooking week (macrobiotic-vegetarian-paleo-ayurvedic)
• Ceramic week
• Dancing week (5-flows by Roth)
• Special Detox program (combinations of above)

Etc ...
Also combinations of Sun and Rise are possible.

Due to my little children (9 and 11 years old in 2016) and a fulltime job it is not obvious to start-up my dream in a foreign country in the south of Europe (and a lack of money). As a general repetition I will start-up a mini version of the “SR-RC” in my own place … Scheldewindeke – Belgium.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Meet and greet with other CS'ers and learn from their experience.
Afterwards I hope to give my experience to others also.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Several CS Meetings in Ghent.
The last meetings are with the 30+ group

兴趣

If it is the same as I experienced in Mallorca (in a little pension) it will be awesome. Great vibe along fellow travellers ... open minded ... fun.
Going on the road.

• cats
• dogs
• photography
• diy
• dancing
• environment
• cooking
• bbq
• vegetarian
• yoga
• working out
• meditation
• walking
• gardening
• traveling
• billiards
• painting
• bouldering
• survival
• hiking
• canoeing
• kayaking
• mountaineering
• rock climbing
• swimming
• teaching
• tours

音乐、电影和书籍

MUSIC: Metal stuff like: Soulfly-Metallica-Machine head-Prong-
Also other genres/artists like: Dead Can Dance-Buscemi-The Chemical Brothers-Goa trance-Hooverphonic-Arsenal-U2-Balkan music-World music-Mantra music
BOOKS: PAOLO COELHO (my personal god and teacher)
MOVIES: Mission Impossible-Indiana Jones-Mad Max-Jason Bourne-James Bond-Die hard-Emir Kusturica movies-101 Reykjavík-Scandinavian movies-Millennium triology-
BEER AND WINE
ASIAN FOOD
MOTORCYCLES: driving now a BMW F650GS
TATTOOS & PIERCING
PHOTOGRAPHY: the dark side of life
YOGA (hatha-vinyasa-kundalini)
MASSAGES (Swedish-Balinese-Chinese)
SHIATSU

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

• Survival S.A.S course in 2002
• Boulder climbing 2008 as a preparation to the …
• Alpine course in the Swiss Alps (Arolla) 2008
• Starting up a lifetime commitment to Yoga (2010)
• Several courses and classes 2012-2013-2014-2015-2016
for personal developing such as
Enneagram-MBTI-creatiespiraal-Leela yoga filosophy-Mindfulness-
• Massage courses in 2012-2013-2014
• Shiatsu courses in 2014-2015
• Photography courses in 2015-2016
• Developing a new massage style Baliatsu in 2016
• Hatha Yoga Teacher training in 2017

• Travelling in the Pyrenees – 1997
• Travelling in Croatia - several years between 1998 and 2002
• Trekking in Corsica - GR20 – 2003
• Trekking in Slovenia with Klettersteigen/Via Ferrata - several years between 2004 and 2007
• Trekking in Mallorca – 2008
• Klettersteigen/Via Ferrata in Germany - several years between 2009 and 2013
• Travelling in Portugal – Algarve – 2014
• Klettersteigen/Via Ferrata in Slovenia – 2014
• Rafting in Slovenia – 2014
• Trekking in South-France – Sentier des Cathars GR - 250km – 2015
• Trekking in Portugal – Via Algarviana GR13 – 300km - 2016

教，学，和分享

I can offer-teach you:
- the beautiful agricultural environment of my hometown Scheldewindeke (walking in the fields)
- how to use basic survival skills
- motorcycle ride-outs
- bicycle ride-outs
- walking around
- massages
- start to Yoga session
- just a talk about life in general

我游览过的国家

Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, United Kingdom

我居住过的国家

Belgium, Germany