I'm a musician from Iceland and Denmark, having lived in both. I also lived about 5 1/2 years in Connemara on the wild west coast of Ireland and relocated to Denmark a while ago. After not engaging here much for a long time, I would like to do hosting myself.

I write music, play piano, sing, and teach music, and am into writing, conscious choices, personal and collective growth and healing, authentic being, expansion, and freedom.
Training to become a mindfulness meditation teacher to integrate into my work.

You could say I'm a voyager having been on my long journey in the Cosmoverse, on my healing journey of remembering and making my life into a congruent whole.
I am very reflective and enjoy deep conversation. I can talk more or less with any person. Sensitivity to me is synonymous with true strength and is today a bit of a superpower, part of how I navigate, care, and see in the world. It expands to so much more than what we have been conditioned to mostly think of as sensitivity: emotional sensitivity, which is a narrow field and just a small part.

I am maybe fortunate to have strong genes and am biologically younger than my number age, and really like movement and nature connection, but I never really understood a lot of people's norms and programming around age. I love and am very grateful for my body. This is not to boast, but I truly feel that our heroic body vehicles deserve a lot of love and praise for carrying this incarnate part of our spiritual being, and for all they go through in life. So I intend to keep strong, youthful, athletic, playful, and healthy for as much as possible throughout my life.
I like to have fun and am also a very humorous and curious person, and can really have a child-like wonder about some things.
I live close to the sea and absolutely love spending time in nature and Mountain Medicine (mountain hiking) -which is one of my most electrifying passions ;-), too bad there are no mountains in Denmark, I miss them so much when not abroad!

The following is simply part of my approach to life...

Working with the waves of life as they roll through, for every wave I feel stronger and discover a new room of love in my spirit and heart unfolding.
One of my core themes in this life is seeing and feeling in every way that we need to reconnect with ourselves, each other and Earth, the life field around us. We know this deep down, and now we need to make choices from within. We can only cultivate real love from within to share with others. I have suffered and healed, uncovered and processed some more etc.

In today's world real love can sometimes seem to be working more quietly or invisibly, overlooked by the addictions to noise, drama, persistent ego, and especially by the many broadcasting messages about that thing they call "love" that creates small and dependent identities, perpetuates disconnection from self and from real connection with others, denial, toxic games, and unhealthy fantasies. These are a misguidance or game of entrapment or fear and separate identity, and not true love or the noble healing and service in true love.

I think we are really at a point where we each choose if we really want to heal and stick around with this world and walk with it, whether we want to see that only real, clear and noble love is here to stay. It has a strong current, is completely self-flowing and does not need to shout from the rooftops. It is its own power and does not need further explanation. We see it clearly and feel increasingly more fearless in it when we have chosen truth, as our eyes need the setting of truth to wake, and our heart need it to soften and expand, and our mind need it to sharpen. We cannot evolve in depth without remembering the deeper truth within ourselves.
This love is true because it is eternal, all-encompassing, trustworthy, expansive, healing, inter-connecting, and encourages your authentic self and inner freedom, personal truth and strength of humility, and encourages that shared freedom with others or another. Only in real love can we do real self-healing, real work, real support. We grow and give it to ourselves, from our selves, and we give it to the life field that is here. We give it to our spirit, beings, bodies, thoughts, and feelings, and to our creative flows. And then we give it to each other and the life field. We can only really see and listen to others when we are connected in this love.

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I am very interested in what future community looks like.
We live in a complicated world, but one of the strongest and best things we can do is to stay in the center of our authentic selves and beings, and having the courage to speak truth, be vulnerable yet not lose ourselves. Observing the dance of the world around us, and sharing with each other. Really listening to each other, and for that we need to be willing to heal our own stuff.
I know that you have roads of deep love in you, and a beautiful potential. They shine brighter, and whisper more and more when you become still to hear them, above the noises of the smaller off roads or artificial sub-parts that are trying to distract and catch your attention as they dissolve. If you are choosing healing too, I know that you can sharpen your senses and remember to recognize who you really are, and what really matters. This is something we all go through if we deliberately want to heal, no mater if it is tomorrow, in a year, in several years, or yet another lifetime. Your timing is respected, and you always choose, even when you are not aware.

Whatever your lived story is, I believe you. If you are well on your way of healing, I salute you with all my heart. If you are discovering or looking for a tangible entrance point to your aware healing, I salute you with all my heart. I acknowledge your suffering, joy, pain, confusion, smiles and tears, and the way you are trying to navigate this world, and I acknowledge how you are coming back to love yourself, a journey we all take. I acknowledge the way you can be gradually more yourself, on your noble path, and maybe through expressing your specialities and gifts, abilities or talents if you are aware of those.

I find this helpful for navigation in the world; to remember that a place that is good for you, is a place where you are not judged, but seen and loved truly for who you are, respected and encouraged in being your being, for your needs, and in practicing and developing your gifts and what you are good at.
In a place that is good for you, no-one will be worshipped or put on a pedestal, and neither will they be disrespected or excluded. In a place that is good for you, authenticity has replaced pretension, co-creation has replaced competition. Building of community with its sharing and true exchange is more important than popularity and projection onto a few, and transparency and experience has a dialog and is not silenced.
In a place that is good for you, nature is respected as a teacher for our reconnection in the body in this world, and a teacher of compassion, oneness, true love, equality, humility, equanimity, a connected part of the teachings beyond it and of a noble planet.

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I can feel when people are genuine and honest or not. I feel both myself and others quite a bit, some more than others. I love kindness and discernment, accompanied by clear boundaries. Freedom comes with responsibility.
I especially appreciate meeting people who are kind, honest, heart connected and strong in who they are. Real about their journey and experiences and not pretending or living on the surface. People who are solid in their sensitivity and values and sort of know the beat of their ow hearts.
Nobody is perfect. I am not perfect, have learned some things the hard way, while others came easier for me. I have been through very difficult things and experienced very beautiful things. I am more interested in how we choose to heal and learn from what we have and our lived stories, because nobody has the perfect story or has it all figured out.

There are some pitfalls for our growth in spiritual directions also where the ego comes into play. One of them being spiritual bypassing, where individuals utilize "spiritual practices" to constantly run to the next thing, perhaps away from things that need healing and attention, or surfing the world under the label of being free. Yet people don't fully arrive at their own authentic expression and courage until they stop to face things.
Another pitfall is guru-worshipping or groups thinking they are better than others or judge those who are actually free and independent from such groups -who know that it is not healthy to worship a figure head, and will not liberate a person.

I think part of our global healing is to acknowledge that the whole world is traumatized by now, from very lightly to more heavily on a spectrum. This is just the world we live in and part of what we have experienced. It is our responsibility to heal ourselves though, the programming or baggage we had. We do not need to do it alone, and we cannot meditate or travel our way out of things that we really need get to know in ourselves or in relations. Things we need to face, or pain or joy to be processed, lessons to be learned, tears to be expressed from a tender heart that can expand to be present for it all. This is not always easy.. which is why if we connect more in the world, we can witness each other in a supportive presence.

To witness a person's journey, and the person, their beauty, strength, gifts, and areas to heal, I always found a very beautiful thing.

Those who resonate with these lines will know what I talk about :)

When I hold myself in love and kindness, and you hold yourself in love and kindness, added with some leaps of trust, and a willingness to leave the comfort zone, we have more to give, can walk this path co-creating, in our own tracks and unique skins, with our energy and wings, gifts and contributions, without fear, blindsiding ego, pretension or hiding. Across the cosmoverse, domains, universes, dimensions, galaxies, planets, cultures, lands, groups, life to life, being to being, person to person.
We can genuinely love and care for all life co-inhabiting the planet, and the Bright Flower Garden in the making, the light growing under and beyond our feet. Together with the planet that holds our bodies right now, walking with it back home while reclaiming our true hearts, deeper understanding, grace, humility, sharpened listening, wisdom, and mature beingness. This is what will be more natural for humanity in the future. This is my wish for our connections and communities now and in the future.

-On a healing journey in Eternal Oneness.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I was on a break for years not using this site. Have also simply met interesting and sympathetic people on travels and mountain hikes who offered me to stay in their homes or in some way helped me out.
I love to meet new sympathetic individuals as part of the travels we all make, and would like to give back, so want to host once in a while now. Can more in some periods than others.

PLEASE NOTE:
Knebel village is around 45 minutes driving from Aarhus. I live in a smaller village, Knebelbro, about 1,5 km after Knebel. I am not able to pick up. There is a bus to Knebel Bro from Knebel, or you can walk for around 20-25 minutes.

Interests

Personal and collective healing, conscious choices, empathy, nature conversations, health and self-healing, writing, spirituality, teaching, sincere people, traveling, story telling, art, running, mountain medicine (mountain hiking ;), biking, yoga, Kriya yoga deep breathing, body conversations, love, kindness, curiosity, (life-supporting) science, cosmology, psychology, brain science, mindset, neuropsychology and plasticity, heart coherence, higher sensory perception, DNA activation, bio-spiritual authentic and multidimensional self integration, synchronicity, co-creation, freedom, and a drive for inspiring or helping others self-discover, and for how we grow to become our true selves, restoring connection to ourselves and others to move the world 'home' to a wiser and better direction, gradually free of distortion, old programming, and clutter. More purposeful living.

• animals
• arts
• writing
• singing
• photography
• organic food
• yoga
• running
• reading
• music
• piano
• cycling
• hiking
• backpacking
• camping
• languages
• philosophy
• psychology
• travel
• nature
• spirituality
• healthy lifestyle
• writing music
• dna-activation
• conscious breathing
• nlp and mindset reprogramming
• keylontic science

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Many different songs and works, in alignment or resonating with where I'm heading, keeps changing. (Not into trance, techno, heavy metal, most mainstream pop and classic country).
Suchi Waters, Mari Boine, Snatam Kaur, Lorreena McKennitt, Jason Mraz, Dave Matthews, Jeff Buckley, Pearl Jam, Eddie Vedder, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Eva Cassidy, Jogeir Daae Mæland, Haevn, Ásgeir, some Björk, some Sigur Rós, Hjaltalín, Teitur, Huun Huur Tu, alt. rock, indie, world, funk jazz, acid jazz, and classics, various folk and native: Norway, Sweden, Sami culture, Ireland, Scotland, Peru, Mongolia, Asia, North America, Africa
Classical examples.. Edward Grieg, Carl Nielsen, Sean Sibelius, Rachmaninov, Chopin, Debussy, Brahms, Bach, Bartok, Liszt, Ravel, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Ernesto Lecuona, Arvo Part, Scriabin, Mahler

Reading:
What feels right and in alignment at the time..
Mindset, self-development, empowerment, cosmology, Keylontic Science, health, various fiction.

Art: A. Andrew Gonzalez, Arne Ekeland, Olafur Eliasson

Films:
Contact, August Rush, Into the Wild, Born Free, The Matrix, La Belle Verte/The Beautiful Green, The Big Blue, White Fang, The Martian, The Lighthouse of the Orcas, Castaway, Arrival, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Amelie, Before Sunrise, Whiplash, Moliere, Intouchables, Anne of Green Gables, Once, Children of Nature, The Motorcycle Diaries, Frida Kahlo, Shine, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Seven Years in Tibet, Dances With Wolves, The Abyss, Forest Gump, Music of the Heart, Så Som i Himmelen/As it is in heaven

Docs:
Mission Blue, Innsæi -the power of intuition, Alone in the Wilderness, Tales by Light, Draumalandið -The Dream Land, Songs of Earth, Food Choices, the Minimalists, Heal, docs on sustainability, soil, regenerative farming, true verses false green energy, etc.

Have been happily without a TV for 16 years

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Winter sea bathing, warm river bathing in freezing weather, midnight sun, Aurora Borealis and more in Iceland.
Crossing US States on a road trip from Virginia to Wyoming and back. Yellowstone and standing 10 meters from a bear with a cub.
Egypt.
Bogota, Colombia..
Two first prizes in competitions for young classical musicians.
Waking up to consciously re-discover the big picture behind the apparent world, progressive multidimensional identity accretion and amazing experiences.
Getting lost on a mountain in Iceland and thinking this might be it -but a beautiful it though :)
Viking re-enactment with 1000 others and a sword.
Kauai, Hawaii, staying for weeks living day to day solely with people I met, couch surfing or camping. Hiking the incredible Kalalau Trail in Kauai. Blue Hole hike, Kauai.
Volcano National Park, Big Island of Hawaii.
Hiking in Lofoten, Norway.
Rehabilitating my arm after an ugly accident through a few years of work getting it from stuck at 90 degrees with no rotation/movement to playing piano again.
Transcending really challenging life events.
Living in Connemara, Ireland, for 5-6 years.
Faced my two biggest fears in life.

Iceland, Hawaii, Norway, Connemara -Ireland, Myakka Lake and beaches at Sarasota, Florida, and Yellowstone, are energetically the most resonating or otherworldly places, where I felt most at home in this world so far..

Teach, Learn, Share

If you sing or bring a guitar maybe we can jam.

If you play and could teach me some guitar, would be really nice

Creative things, music, aural skills, piano, music theory, having fun, tales about Iceland, Ireland, the north,
I love being in nature.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Stories and knowledge of the northern world..
If you have a piano I might play a bit for you..
Conversation about any conscious topic or whichever one reveals itself, deep space, help with music...
Deep breathing, meditation, mindfulness...
My authentic self and intuition..
Life experience..

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United States, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Denmark, Iceland, Ireland