Hi! I am from Saint-Petersburg, work as wholesale-purchaser and importer, like my everyday life organized and full of positive achievements. Now I have longer vacations while changing job and want to use this chance for exploring Norway.
My passions are nature and active rest. I love cross-country skiing, hiking and biking, also I have been practicing hatha-yoga in Sivananda tradition for the 9th year, and made the Yoga Teachers’ Training Course in Poland in September 2019.
I like travelling and have been in many places in Europe and Asia by work and on vacations, including two big hitchhiking tours through all Europe in early 2000, climbing to Mount Agung (Bali) in 2013 and mountain Olympus (Greece) in 2018. I have friends in many countries and love to host them in Saint-Pet and visit them in my journeys.
I love animals and can't imagine my life without my adopted cat Lucas, named after Cortazar's novell about Some Lucas.
I have been volunteering in St.-Petersburg at www.rsbor.ru: we help people to pass useful resources to recycling as there's no a centralized system of recycling in Russia yet. I have been helping at monthly actions, coordinating some events, giving lectures about deliberate consumption and garbage reduction. Zero-Waste-approach is a quite significant part of my life and since I refused of plastic packets and started worm-composting at home I produce less than 2 kg garbage per month.
My teenage daughter gets majority in 1,5 years and now I wonder what country may become my future destination for live and work after she starts to live on her own. That's why I am so curious to meet people, share tasks and chores, listen to real stories and explore new sides of life.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

It's cool to meet new interesting people :)

Interests

• impressionism
• dancing
• vegetarian
• hiking
• cinema
• theatre
• biking
• jogging
• recycling
• cross-country skiing
• awareness
• hatha yoga
• gestalt
• dancing salsa
• diminished consumption

Music, Movies, and Books

LedZeppelin, DeepPurple, Rainbow, Rolling Stones, JethroTull, Janis Joplin, Santana. Chico Cesar, Cesaria Evora, Lhasa de Sela, Daniel da Lança, BuenaVistaSocialClub. Zorge, TequilaJazz, Optimystica Orchestra. Prokofiev, Khachaturian, Mozart...

Daneliya, Lelouch, Bertolucci, Almodóvar, Kusturica, Petr Zelenka, Nikita Mikhalkov
Paris, Unconscious, Diarios de motocicleta, Jeeves & Wooster...

Pasternak, Bulgakov, Tsvetaeva, Cortazar, Steinbeck, Pennac, Goethe, Homer...

What I Can Share with Hosts

- teach Sivananda yoga: asanas and pranayama
- share impressions on places, events, theories
- help with house chores

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Finland, Russian Federation