CURRENT MISSION

feral music and dreamtime around the desert and in space

ABOUT ME

I'm a starry-brained redhead performer/musician/past time filmmaker/storyteller/mystic from North Carolina, currently living in coastal Virginia and spiraling out from there. I lived in Tucson, Arizona for 7 years and miss the desert and mountain west a lot. I enjoy doing music, ritual theatre, and other creative projects, and do freelance promotional and festival work which I often manage to turn into a fun experience and strange story and/or song. Also interested in BDSM/kink realm. Imperfect Action, a little rough around the edges, nature lover, wild spirit...

PHILOSOPHY

"Everything is musical. When I throw nickels at the oven, it makes music!" (Winona Ryder as Bjork, on "SNL") ////
I inhabit the spaces in-between. /// anything is possible, nothing is definite. /// "The deeper one goes, the less one knows. " (Tao te Ching, one translation) /// "A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving" (Tao te Ching, another translation, more the way I lived several years ago) /// "I put this moment... over here." Kate Bush /// I constantly am aware of my feeling several hundred years old and yet also way younger than my 38 years on Earth.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Traveling, hosting when I can, and promoting this amazing safe-travel network whenever the discussion of sleeping/lodging arrangements comes up for almost every trip I take. Every time has been an experience!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

amazing places, whether in Georgia, West Virginia, or Oregon...positive people, new stories!

Interests

music, history, various art forms, film, nature-based spirituality...

• animals
• arts
• dancing
• modeling
• traveling
• blogging
• music
• freelancing
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Indigenous American music, particularly drumming. Experimental, psychedelic dark/light, roots/folk, gothic. Chicha Peruana. Icaro. Six Feet Under, WICKED and anything OZ-related. Barbarella. Secretary.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

2009 Sweat Lodge Ceremony/Animal Spirit Dance - circles in Georgia, Oregon, Peru (temezcal).
2010 Mount Shasta, the "navel of the earth."
2011 Aconchi Sonora Mexico. hot springs town "in the ashes of volcanoes"
2013 and 2015 Cusco Peru, the "navel of the earth."

Teach, Learn, Share

blog: ariannapersephonetravels.wordpress.com

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bolivia, France, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States