Aloha :)

My name is Melanie and I am a 32-year-old gal from Montreal. Yes!
I am French. I am totally in love with this multi-dimensional life.

I am a certified Swedish and Lomi Lomi massage therapist. I have worked in spas and have been self-employed for 7 years. I am learning every day a little bit more about this human life and especially about myself. I feel that a true traveler navigates within the depths of himself combined with the outside world.

Places I've visited :
Thailand, Peru, Hawaii, California (US), Paris (France), Costa Rica, Amsterdam, London, Spain, Indonesia, Australia. Let's hope the list will never end !
I also love traveling within my city and hometown. I am always curious to discover what is going on around me.

My interests:
Reading, meditation, Kundalini yoga, cooking, hiking, graphic design, photography, Netflix, all types of movies, the 70's, Psychology, Interior Design.
I am very open to meeting all sorts of people as long as we can share good vibes, new perspectives & interesting stories.
Psychedelic medicine and science are also of great interest for me at the moment because I have witnessed their strong healing abilities on myself and others. I have many stories to share with those who are curious about them Plant Teachers have played a very important part in my life and I am forever grateful :)

I have a social & friendly Chihuahua/Yorkshire called Chico although we haven't been traveling together outside of Montreal (yet!)

"Be the change you want to see in the world'
-Gandhi
Namasté
♥♥♥

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet crazy, laidback/chill, funny , genuwine people , learn about their culture and way of living. Hotels kind of suck and are expensive for what you really get out of it ... meaning , 4 walls and a lame breakfast. ..

Interests

+Traveling
+ massaging
+ living creatures
+Trying new stuff
+Plants/plant medicine
+Being awake
+Sleeping
+Super duper hot weather, sun , rain, RainBows :)
+Being interested in having interests

• culture
• photography
• cooking
• vegetarian
• organic food
• meditation
• movies
• reading
• magic
• music
• hiking
• wakeboarding
• medicine
• beaches
• mountains
• travel
• spirituality
• learning
• love
• self empowerment
• psychedelic science

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
-The Alchemist Paolo Coehlo , 11 minutes
-Doors of perception , Brave New World ( Aldous Huxley)
- Carlos Castaneda's books in general
- Nietzche , Socrate , Beaudelaire, Confuscious, Voltaire , Sade,etc
-Terence Mckenna
- ETC ( just ask me , I have a wide selection of books at home of philosophy , spirituality, sci-fi absurdities, cooking books, crystals ) !:)

Movies:
-Mulholand Drive, Blue Velvet, Lost Highway (and just all of David Lynch's movies)
-Being John Malkovich, Human Nature, Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind, Synecdoche
-Samsara
-Holy Mountain
-Enter the Void
-Clockwork Orange, Eyes wide shut (Kubrick)
-Fight club , The Matrix, Spirited Away , Inception ,Avatar, Princess Mononoké, Pan's Labyrinth, Black Swan ,Hangover, .. I just love movies ;)
-La vie d'Adèle

Music :
-In a lapse of time ( Ludovico Enaudi) and modern/new age classical
-Dark minimal techno, soul ,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

For the past 2 years , I have been purging my demons and dissolving the ego with plant medicine , to be more precise .. .Magic mushrooms ♥:) Yessss!!!! This little funny fungi has led me on an incredible funky path, not necessarily the smoothest ride though, of showing me the way to better understand how my conscious mind is very much unconscious most of the time (ironically !) , and basically how my thoughts , feelings , emotions work.

I've listened to podcasts on a regular basis of Terence Mckenna, an admirable man who refers to himself as a psychonaut, who's dedicated his life in finding answers on the mystery of how consciousness works. I've always been fascinated by consciousness and the way humans work. I've decided to hop on the journey , to face my fears and demons and buy my plane ticket to the amazonian jungle/andes mountains solo-style for a San Pedro (Huashuma) and Ayahuasca experience with shamans.
For those who have never heard about it , it's a psychedelic journey of the unconscious & complexe mind. What a blissful experience.
It was no walk in the park but it turned out to be a life changing experience for me.

Teach, Learn, Share

This is what has meaning :)

I love meeting new people, sharing stories ...
Love to laugh and not take anything too seriously :)
I'm somehow attracted to crazy hot temperatures and jungle-like climates.
My body keeps demanding more and more.
Fairytales, elves, extraterrestrials, psychedelics, rainbows, unicorns, butterflies.. are all my best buds.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Love, excitement, happiness , vulnerability :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, France, Indonesia, Mexico, Netherlands, Peru, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada