I CAN’T host anyone in innsbruck at the moment since I am traveling in Norway this summer! Happy to meet up with locals around Norway and also to give recommendations if someone needs help in Innsbruck though :)

Hi folks, I’m Teresa, a tiny, smiley, and openhearted human from this world with a big love for adventure, nature, and humans. Growing up in Mexico, Spain, and Germany, I've always been on the move, and now have called Innsbruck my home for the last years, nestled in the middle of the Austrian Alps - a big playground for nature-enthusiasts! I hold a psychology degree and enjoy various outdoor sports and activities as well as guiding/accompanying people in several nature-based-activities. I am currently looking for a way of combining my psychology-background with guiding or nature-based therapy, as well as some handy crafting work, such as sustainable wood construction, living in tree houses or tiny houses, living a sustainable and self sufficient life, permaculture, community life etc..

I am open-minded and adaptable, quickly feeling at home wherever there are kind and welcoming people. I believe in the power of a positive attitude and approach life with curiosity, always eager to learn and connect with others. I find that every person I meet has something valuable to teach me, and I strive to see things from different perspectives to grow and contribute to making the world a better place.

PHILOSOPHY:
• It's always easier with a smile :)
• Everything has a positive side, it's all about perspective.
• Learning is a lifelong journey.
• Better late than never.
• There’s always a new perspective to discover and it is very interesting to note how we all see the world through different eyes.
• Trust in the process of life and taking responsibility for our own actions are some key values to me

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I've always been interested in learning new things, exploring unknown places and earning new impressions to get a better and especially variable view of the world we live in.
Thats why I some day just packed my backpack and started my own little trip around the world as well as my dive into the couchsurfing-community :) Probably the best decision I could have taken!

I've met sooooo many beautiful souls couchsurfing around the world that I can't find the words to express my gratitude! The travel times would just not have been the same without them, so now I am both looking forward to give some of that back while hosting other travelers as well as continuing to meet more people when I am out there exploring new places myself again.

-Staying with local people and sharing different points of view and impressions while learning about new cultures allows you to view the world from different perspectives and therefore enlarge your own thoughts and beliefs about it.

For me Couchsurfing presents the perfect example of sharing a life between travelers and hosts, its "a giving and taking"-situation, and even though the exchange might not be as direct as a student-exchange for example from person to person, it still exists and is great: When I was traveling I was cheerfully happy and grateful for every single host who accepted to host me, met up with me and/or simply made my time easier, nicer and memorable! Now I'm in the position of sharing advice, time, stories and a place for travelers in need and will be happy to do this every time the circumstances will allow it :)

Interests

• cooking
• yoga
• running
• traveling
• music
• piano
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• backpacking
• camping
• mountaineering
• scuba diving
• sports
• rock climbing
• paragliding
• languages
• philosophy
• psychology
• science
• hitchhiking
• mountains
• sustainability
• permaculture
• community living
• climbing
• trailrunning
• good conversations
• human interaction
• guiding
• skitouring
• plant based nutrition

Music, Movies, and Books

- very varied taste when it comes to music, almost everything from oldies over chilled out travel playlists, some good rock or even electronic and house to freak out at festivals and also really into classic music when it comes to relax, inspiration or just enjoying a beautiful melody..
- playing piano is one of my favourite ways, beneath running, to let the thoughts free, get sentimental and let the soul fly away for a little while forgetting about everything around..

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I think I just came back from it :) This complete trip as a whole thing from where I started as a little girl with her big Backpack in the middle of china, to where I'm standing now, filled with all those precious memories and experiences fixed in my mind, is definitely something I would never ever exchange or give back for anything in the world!

Some of those stories could for example be:

*feeling absolutely on top of the world while hiking up the mountains around the most beautiful (Yamdrok) lake I've ever seen in Tibet at an altitude of almost 5000m;
* sleeping in the little house of an incredibly old and creepy tibetan woman between mice and (I prefer not even thinking about what other kind of stuff might have been around me that night^^) old dirty rice-sacks just to ensure to be the only and first person to enter the Yading-National-Park at 4AM to start my hike around the holy Mt. Rensig early and do this incredible trip in only one day instead of 2 :) --> I managed to hike 13h that day and was completely exhausted but it was soo worth it!
*missing the only and last ferry back to Okinawa from the little uninhabited Aka-Island (Japan), and therefore having to stay the night on this beautiful tiny island just filled with wild rainforest, incredible beaches and inhabited by little monkey and deers. I woke up to the probably most beautiful sunrise I've ever seen in my life, together with a good friend who just came from Shanghai to visit me there in Japan absolutely spontaneously and then shared this amazing adventure with me :) A day I'll never forget...
*Being lost in the Taman Negara National Park (Malaysia), hiding in a little hut from an incredible storm with some amazing fellow travelers I got to know in the midst of the rainforest there and finally getting out of our jungle-adventure (when we had almost no drinkable water left (a russian ex-military-guy trying to build a natural filter to purify the river-water^^)) by trying hitch-hiking at a big river and getting a ride on a long tail-boat :)
*Living for over 2 weeks in a little village in indonesia, volunteering for a ecofarming, permaculture, and english-improvement project in Sulawesi. We lived just from what we harvested on the fields around us, had no electricity or running water in the treehouse we lived in (there was a big river for everything) and had a simple life. I hadn't much, but I didn't miss even a single thing and it was probably one of the happiest times of my life!
*Getting on board of a diving ship stationed out on the sea over the beautiful Great Barrier Reef in Australia and living in absolute luxury there practically for free for being a hostie and helping with some work on the ship. I also managed to get my open water divers license there and enjoyed of 2-3 dives every day exploring the stunning underwater world between thousands of colorful fish, corals, tortoises, sharks and so on... It was beautiful!
*several 3-4-day-hikes lost in nothing but nature in New Zealand, carrying everything I needed to survive just on my back and feeling nothing but 100% free... :)
*2 weeks volunteering in the amazonian rainforest of northern Peru in an animal rescue and liberation centre and being a witness of the heart touching and beautiful process of how originally illegaly held and bad treated animals were step by step getting reintegrated into their natural habitat and finally even reaccepted into the herds of their wild one peer's.

And there are still so many more and more but I'm already blowing up CS Text-fields more than might be good haha, so if you really made it to read until this point and are still interested in knowing more I think we might have to have a chat in person :) Always happy to share travel stories, but of course, you'll also have to tell me yours :)

Teach, Learn, Share

I am always interested in learning new things, listening to and discussing different points of views about things and perceptions of our world!
If you are from a different country I will always want you to teach me either some of your language or traditional food or any other kind of thing about your culture! :D
In return I am also very happy to share my knowledge with others, maybe teaching them some spanish or german, cook some delicious meals together or just and simply have long and philosophical conversations about everything and the world ;)

What I Can Share with Hosts

- travelstories and experiences
- city- and mountain guiding around Innsbruck :)
- all kind of outdoor-activities
- cooking, baking, eating
- knowledge in different aspects
- sports, outdoor-activities
- happiness
- and of course always a helping hand for everything no matter if washing the dishes, cleaning up the house, translating something or just an open ear to listen if something is going wrong :)
I'm always happy trying to help wherever I can to make everyone feel comfortable ;)

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Poland, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Spain