Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Like so so many,
the portal of self-discovery was thrown wide open for me in the best way by: solo traveling.

I took a solo, one-way ticket adventure through Europe when I was 20.

It opened my mind and let me really embrace the power to choose to live life on my own terms, and to see myself as a global citizen.

Couchsurfing platform empowers us as a community to continue to do what we love to do and continue to build relationships and not be confined to hotels and economic transactions.

To open up and share with new people. To connect!

I firmly believe it is one of the most powerful ways we can create healing and joy in this world, and am so happy to finally get on this website here and make a profile!

There's an Infinitely Huge and Beautiful world outside of our narrow minds and glowing screens.

Travel on, I say.

Interests

• singing
• music festivals
• dancing
• chocolate
• yoga
• traveling
• world music
• buddhist
• business
• adventure
• buddhism
• outdoors
• healthy food
• healthy living
• healthy lifestyle
• musicals
• temples
• world peace
• tai chi
• healthy cooking
• superfoods
• musical theatre
• yoga and meditation

Music, Movies, and Books

-Bob Dylan, Beatles, Stones
-Tom Waits, Jeff Buckley, Thom Yorke
-Lauryn Hill, Dead Prez, Chances R Good,
-Jazz greats, especially on the piano like Oscar Peterson and Dr. Billy Taylor (so underrated)
-Hans Zimmer, John Keats, Olga Schepps, epic classical beauty
-flute and chant music- Manose, Rodrigo Rodriguez, Nawang Khechong,
-Bob Marley, the Wailers

Books- typical sucker for Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter just re-read soooo amazing, Wizard of Earthsea, Mists of Avalon... usually I'm excited by most epic storylines involving magic

From Spirituality/Superhero studies like Joe Dispenza
to Tibetan Buddhism, Zen Buddhist texts, Taoist texts

To poets and 20th century literature...Percy Shelley, Rainer Marie Rilke, of course the Chief Bard Willie Shakespeare.
Most anything I've read of Vonnegut
Gotta include Kerouac's On The Road and Dharma Bums

Hungry for new fiction and non-fiction too...

Movies, yes, but not nearly as much. Rediscovering TV with end of GOT and Colony...want to see Interstellar (especially after listening to the soundtrack). Midnight was Powerful...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Stop drinking just two weeks before my 21st Birthday,
drop out of college and take a chance on a Greyhound
Bus across the country NY to LA,
with nothing but a backpack and a dream.

Still traveling to this day. Happily.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: Qi gong. I love qi gong. Like Tai Chi but more fun, dynamic, with healing benefits.

Chanting and meditation are my true joys

and chocolate making and ceremony,

I love those things and Love to share them.

Piano I can teach piano and voice lessons too.

I want to learn how: to do specific types of cooking,
desert making, all culinary arts;
percussion, drumming;
different art forms like painting and photography,
crafts of all sorts, herbal medicine making.

In addition to diving deeper into Buddhist and Taoist internal martial arts studies.

Writing game and Poetry too as I'm seeking to Publish my first and many more...

What I Can Share with Hosts

The magic of Life, of course.
Generosity, Honesty, Kindness, Gratitude, Joy, Peace, Respect, Aliveness and all that good, real, transcendent stuff.

Countries I’ve Visited

Anguilla, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Nepal, United States