CURRENT MISSION

looking for midwives & interesting happy souls around the world to network how to birth, live work and play

ABOUT ME

I have been traveling forever; since steam trains ran through India and before the war in Srinigar. I studyied Acupuncture in Sri Lanka and Korea, worked with CNCF in Vietnam, with Pateras in Mexico. I usually do my own independent thing, then to get funds, I work in UK NZ health-care.

I swim, windsurf and love meeting people, sharing ideas and learning from each new experience.

Life is better shared with interesting others on the journey. I love discovering new places and discovering the magic in nature, creating fun and mutual understanding.

I aim to build an eco house which everyone will be welcome to by next year. We are offering hosting in South Island NZ at the moment.

PHILOSOPHY

celebrate what we have
peace and happiness to all
stay an a extra day & get off before you arrive - (this was good in India and everywhere, to really see and feel more than the surface stuff).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We have had loads of couchsurfers and other guests staying with us around NZ wherever we are. (See other profile paulanddelia) I enjoyed wwofing in NZ and in Europe - I am happy to help other travellers keen to swap ideas and share good company.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

create your own visited country map
or check our Venice travel guide

Interests

play guitar - love reading watching plays & contemporary & Latin dance. Lucky to get good theatre & music when in London, but prefer swimming & Body surfing in wild places - like TARANAKI and West Coast NZ Aotearoa.

• books
• dancing
• cooking
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• magic
• music
• guitar
• blues
• surfing
• swimming
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

LOADS...
The Luminaries (set in Hokitika 150 years ago - Booker Prize winner and great read) by Eleanor Caton
Tim Winton - Australian West coaster rough life for coming of age stories,
Peter May, Set in Scotland and South West France L'oc, along with Kate Mosse - Labyrinth and Sepecultre, ...
The unexpected pilgrimage of Harold Fry.
Papillion -
Ghandi
Dalai Lama Autobiographies and others, love Zen phil books
Art books

Enio Morricone Gabriels Oboe (and the entire score from the Mission)
Best music that lives inside me always trying to escape

Dickens - and other classic writers with acute observations of life and times
Paulina Simmons - Russian/US trilogy and others
Isabel Allende - Latin American Epic fiction
Millenium Trilogy The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo etc
Paulina Simmons Trilogy (Bronze Horseman etc)
Rose Tremain - various, eg The Colour, The Road Home
Lee Child - thrillers
Andy McNab action
Douglas Coupland - - Crazy Canadian i can relate to All his stuff is quirky yet real
- Gilrfirend in a coma / all families are psychotic
- Miss Wyoming, Genration X and A, microserfs

ACIM - Inspirational readings.

F I L M S
Anything with meaning - which are usually art festival films.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Being present at every birth.

Spent time with amazing people, the not famous but good hearted, often traveler's, sometimes hosts, particularly the woman who started a children's orphanage in Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) Christina Noble (see her book a Bridge across my sorrows) (CNCF.org.au)

Many things in life are amazing, but no more or less than anyone else as the most amazing thing is how we reach out to connect with each other and ourselves.

Teach, Learn, Share

Background with healing therapies including acupressure (Shiatsu) moving into more gentle subtle healing and am studying more e.g. Osteopathy, craniosacral therapy, Contact CARE...

Happy to share what I know on guitar/keyboard - always giving kids music lessons to adults (teaching the blues in a 30 mins)

Happy cooking (veg) and always help with whatever needs doing.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Easy teaching acoustic blues and other guitar bits in open tunings
vege cooking Asian / European fusion
Chilled out philosophical conversation
Health ideas e.g. Acupressure
happy to give mini treatments

www.paulgolden.org

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Australia, China, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, India, New Zealand, United Kingdom

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