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Overview

  • 1 reference 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Portuguese, Spanish; learning French, Guaraní, Quechua
  • 26, Female
  • Member since 2017
  • Teacher, multi-artist, eco-ativist.
  • UNILA - Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana
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About Me

I am an art educator, astro-herbalist therapist, and Latin American sociologist. As a Master’s researcher in Decoloniality, Agroecology, and Buen Vivir, I work on the development of socio-cultural and ecological projects with traditional communities and territories in transition.

I traveled for three years across Latin America / Abya Yala in search of ancestral cosmovisions, agroecological practices, and silenced histories. Today, I’m rooting myself in Brazil, connecting with popular culture, plant wisdom, the sound of drums, and the healing arts.

My path is guided by the cycles of the Earth and the stars, listening to the memories that move through our bodies and territories. I walk with nomads, wanderers, migrants, alchemists, and displaced beings who seek to regenerate their connection with Mother Earth and expand toward the Cosmos.

I speak Portuguese, Spanish, and English, and I believe in the power of meaningful encounters to nurture networks of affection, care, and transformation. I’m here to share stories, seeds, meals, songs, and learnings — and to keep weaving paths with those who also live the world as a shared home.6

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I’m on Couchsurfing because I believe in a world built through shared experiences, cultural exchange, and mutual care.

After traveling for three years across Latin America (Abya Yala), I’ve seen how powerful it is to learn directly from people, their territories, their stories, and their ways of living. I don’t travel just to visit places — I travel to weave connections, share seeds, songs, food, and ancestral knowledge.

For me, hospitality is a spiritual and political act — one that reminds us we belong to the Earth and to each other. Couchsurfing helps create a network of trust, solidarity, and friendship beyond borders.

Interests

  • literature
  • yoga
  • meditation
  • history
  • social work
  • sociology
  • cinema
  • musica
  • permaculture
  • surrealism
  • antropology
  • tarot
  • ecologia
  • herbalism
  • agroecology
  • philosphy
  • cultura popular
  • maracatu
  • plantas medicinais

Music, Movies, and Books

I’m deeply inspired by films that explore ancestral memory, political imagination, and inner journeys. Some that have touched me:
– Embrace of the Serpent – Ciro Guerra
– Terra em Transe – Glauber Rocha
– Persona – Ingmar Bergman

🎵 Music
I carry the sounds of the land and the soul — music that heals, remembers, and resists:
– Refazenda – Gilberto Gil
– Padê – Juçara Marçal & Kiko Dinucci
– Tradição, Cultura e Religião – Maracatu Leão Coroado
– Clube da Esquina – Milton Nascimento, Lô Borges & friends

📚 Books
I read to reconnect with Earth, ancestry, and liberation. Some of my favorite reads:
– Futuro Ancestral – Ailton Krenak
– The Doors of Perception – Aldous Huxley
– A Terra Dá, A Terra Quer – Nêgo Bispo
– Ecofeminism – Vandana Shiva
– Caliban and the Witch – Silvia Federici

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have courageously chosen to let go of social acceptance in order to free and live my authentic self. This path of embracing my true identity, beyond societal expectations, has been a powerful act of personal liberation and transformation — allowing me to fully connect with my purpose, creativity, and the ancestral wisdom that guides me.*

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach:
I guide immersive experiences that intertwine ancestral wisdom, agroecology, and decolonial thought. Through art education, herbalism, sound healing, and ecofeminist and political ecology frameworks, I offer workshops and practices that nurture the body-territory relationship. As a holistic therapist, I share healing arts such as herbal medicine, astrology, art therapy, aromatherapy, yoga, bioenergetics, and dance therapy — all connected to nature’s cycles and cosmic rhythms.

Learn:
I am eager to learn from the lived experiences, stories, and cosmologies of people I meet — whether through grassroots community organizing, ritual practices, agroecological innovation, or the everyday wisdom of those committed to regenerating the Earth and social fabrics. Each encounter is an invitation to deepen my understanding of how to build resilient socioecological networks rooted in care, reciprocity, and solidarity.

Share:
I believe in the power of sharing not only knowledge but seeds, songs, rituals, recipes, and stories — each a thread in the web that connects us to the land and to one another. I cherish co-creating spaces for collective healing, creative expression, and mutual transformation, weaving bonds that transcend borders and nurture a sense of belonging to the Earth and the cosmos.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Social Work and Sociology
I develop and advise socio-environmental and cultural projects across Latin America, combining community engagement, project writing, and production with ancestral knowledge and creative approaches focused on social and environmental justice and community organization.

Travel & Cultural Advice
I share tips and insights from over three years exploring Abya Yala — highlighting ecological, social, and cultural routes related to agroecology, indigenous and traditional communities, and spiritual landscapes.

Workshops & Experiences
I offer immersive sessions in art education, herbalism, environmental education, ecofeminism, decoloniality, political ecology, sound healing, and Brazilian popular culture.

Holistic & Healing Practices
From my holistic therapy background, I share knowledge in herbal medicine, art therapy, astrology, massage, yoga, natural food, ayurveda, dance therapy, and bioenergetics — all connected to nature’s cycles and cosmic rhythms.

Community & Exchange
I love exchanging stories, seeds, songs, rituals, and ancestral wisdom — creating bonds to cook, learn, and grow together.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

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