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Overview

  • 8 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Italian, Spanish; learning Arabic (Egypt), French, German, Russian
  • 39, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • preschool teacher extraordinaire
  • mostly from my preschool students; keido fukushima roshi,...
  • From san francisco
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

learning watsu aquatic therapy and biogeometry energetic harmonization.

ABOUT ME

wandering minstrel philosopher, based half the year in Guatemala.

PHILOSOPHY

'your coming-and-going takes place nowhere but where you are.'
zen master hakuin

Non vogliamo un posto in questa società ma una società in cui valga la pena di avere un posto.

Interests

loose-leaf tea and yerba mate, guitar, coffee houses, reading, writing, dancing, being with good people, surfing, close range and man vs nature photography, and other simplicities.

  • writing
  • photography
  • festivals
  • dancing
  • coffee
  • meditation
  • reading
  • guitar
  • surfing

Music, Movies, and Books

radiohead. ray lamontagne. ani difranco. eddie vedder. reik. mana'. de andre. coldplay. tray chapman. xavier rudd.
I Heart Huckabees, The Motorcycle Diaries, THX 1138, Shawshank Redemption, Crash, Waking Life, The Mission, The Land Before Time (yes, the one with the cartoon dinosaurs), La Meglio Gioventu, Tsotsi, Ovo Sodo, The Science of Sleep, After The Wedding, Into the Wild

Flatland, Sophie's World, 1984, The Giver, Passage to India, Waiting for Godot, Orange Laughter, Godel Escher Bach, the Baghavad-Gita, Midnight's Children, Eat Pray Love, Love and Garbage, An End to Suffering, Zen Comments on the Mumonkan, When Things Fall Apart, The Quiet American, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Wherever You Go There You Are, A New Earth, La casa piu' grande del mondo (a book written for 3-year-old Italians... it's about a snail), and Oh! The Places You'll Go

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

tropea, great zimbabwe, 2 traditional moroccan weddings in one night, bridge of god, marrakesh central square, 3 month meditation retreat with thich nhat hahn, crossed the border from turkey to syria with no visa in only 2 hours by chatting up the border control officer, dar marmusa, petra, trekked up to mount everest, followed the path of the buddha, spiti valley, drove a rickshaw, gokharna, pradakshana with 3 million people at mount arunachala for the deepam festival...

What I Can Share with Hosts

Watsu aquatic floating therapy + biogeometry home energy flow corrections.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Norway, Palestine, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Viet Nam, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Cambodia, Italy, Myanmar, South Africa, United States

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