CURRENT MISSION

To visit and experience many cities and places as possible. My aim is to find my home and then set up a base there and travel a lot. I'm visiting Bali next. I plan to do a euro trip this summer and then later in winter, I plan to visit Tulum, Mexico.

ABOUT ME

I'm a person with a big heart.

Adjectives that would best describe me are creative, playful, and grounded.

Recently, I started my own coaching and counseling practice where my aim is to help people find their inner strength in overcoming adversities in their life.

Authenticity, honesty and kindness are my everyday goals. I think people who can laugh at themselves are the ones who know the secret to this universe.

Most of my free time I'm either writing articles and blog posts or making melodic ambient chill music.

Other priorities in life include learning spanish, strength training, rock climbing, and slowly getting back into yoga again. Shavasana is my favorite pose.

PHILOSOPHY

To live colorfully and help others would be my philosophy if I'd have to summarize it in one sentence.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I love checking out new cities, my new hobby is to visit a new city at least every two months and hence couch surfing. I prefer to stay in hostels or sleep on couches so that I can meet interesting people and explore the city from a local perspective. I don't do Holiday Inn nor watch HBO all day in a motel room. I love exploring a new place and generally having fun with my new friends.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've stayed with couchers but never hosted, once I get my own place in San Fran, I plan to repay to this awesome community.

Interests

Exploring the Known, the Unknown and everything in between. A steaming conversation over a few rounds of beer. Playing the guitar with a group of people around a campfire. Karaoke. Stargazing. Being open minded. Going to live shows. Looking out for the next big adventure.

• writing
• beer
• yoga
• traveling
• blogging
• music
• guitar
• karaoke
• surfing
• rock climbing

Music, Movies, and Books

Works of Kerouac, Jung, Nietzsche, Camus, Sartre, Joe Campbell, Sri Aurobindo, Murakami, Hunter S Thompson, Gibran's Prophet. Stories about personal journeys, road novels, Waggoner's Lucid Dreaming, The Rig Veda, Klostermaier's Nature of Nature, Radhakrishnan's Indian Philosophy and so on..Seminal bands like The Velvet Underground, The Clash, Fugazi, Television, Pavement, The Beatles, Panda Bear, Cocteau Twins, The Smiths, The Cure, M83... and the bands that they have inspired.films of Tarkovsky, Bergman, Godard, Kubrick, Fellini, Resnais, Rohmer, Woody Allen, Cassavettes, Lars Von Trier, Louis Malle, Kim Ki-Duk, Koreeda, Majid Majidi, Olmi, Chris Marker, Wong Kar Wai, Bertolucci, Coppola, Linklater (Waking Life is probably my all time favorite), Jean Pierre Jeunet, Fincher, Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, drug films, Saved!, SLC Punk!, High Fidelity, Sans Soleil, My Winnipeg, Mumblecore, Duplass brothers, Bujalski, Surreal movies.. its just goes...That Mitchell and Webb Look, Entourage, Family Guy, Flight of the Conchords, the mighty boosh.

I love salads man, that's my jam! Love creatively cooked vegetarian dishes and good south indian food.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The most amazing experience I've had is not something I've seen or done. Its something I've heard. At a mountain top in Wayanad, Kerala, for the first time in my life, I heard deafening Silence. It was piercing.

Teach, Learn, Share

is an ongoing process

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can make you some steaming hot idlis, lime rice, tomato rice with okra (all south indian cuisine). Also love making simple salads, they're my best friends :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Indonesia, Mexico, Singapore, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, United States