CURRENT MISSION

To live each day with as much joy as I can.

ABOUT ME

I was laid off in 2010 from a corporate gig. When it happened it wasn't a surprise to me and I was looking and asking myself what I really wanted to do with my life.

At the moment that I got laid off I vowed that I was done with that life and I was going to find something more fulfilling to do with my time.

Since then I've become a yoga instructor, an AcroYoga instructor, and a Thai Bodyworker.

Today I spend my time helping others have new experiences and to feel good in their bodies.

PHILOSOPHY

"The minute you choose to do what you really want to do, its a different kind of life." - R. Buckminster Fuller

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Before finding this website I've found myself traveling the world and ending up in some really interesting and fun places mostly by just being open to the possibility.

The most interesting was a couple of years ago I was headed to the Big Island of Hawaii to study with a Taoist master that I knew of there. There were going to be a group of us from around the world. I figured that I’d just take a tent, rent a car and sleep in Volcano National Park for the week. I’ve traveled a lot and rented cars on my phone while taxiing to the terminal on my arriving flight. It’s never been a problem; until then. I tried getting a rental car the day before I was leaving. I was really planning this one ahead. I started with Priceline.com. They told me that there weren’t any cars available. Ok, I’ll try something else. I tried Orbitz, Kayak and a couple of other places and they all told me the same. Interesting I thought. I started going to national carrier sites directly and they told me the same thing. Now I’m getting concerned. Then I called the national carriers at the Hilo airport directly. It turns out every car on the whole island was rented for the entire time that I was to be there. Suddenly my well thought out plan was crashing.

I called the person coordinating the workshop and she said that she’d contact others in the group directly. A few hours later I get a call that someone is snowed in DC and can’t make it. They have a car and can assign it to me. Whew! So I thought. So I get a hold of this guy and it turns out that he doesn’t have a car. He has a spot in a car with five other people. This was starting to sound like college students and a VW contest. I said sure, but there was a catch I had to take his place in the two bedroom bungalow with all of these people. None of which had ever met.

Six people in a two bedroom one bath bungalow in the jungle for a week and none of them have ever met. Sounded to me like an MTV reality show.

I did it.

It was one of the most fun and interesting trips I’ve ever had. Everyone was fabulous there was never a time in the week where anyone had any tensions about living together. I ended up sharing a bedroom with two others that I never met. One of them had me and my acrobatic partner as guests in his apartment this summer for two weeks so we could sleep somewhere while we trained all day in Montreal.

I made several wonderful friends from the experience and hope to make more.

Interests

Yoga, acrobatics, esoteric studies, hiking, backpacking, rock climbing, wine, snowboarding, motorcycles,

• wine
• yoga
• instructor
• motorcycles
• traveling
• cars
• hiking
• backpacking
• kayaking
• snowboarding
• rock climbing

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

When I left my previous career a few years ago giving up what I had been educated to do and spent well over a decade doing it was quite a fearful place to decided that I was going to step out of that and reshape my entire life around the singular idea of doing the things that I love and that I’m passionate about.

I had spent years doing the work that left me lacking any sense of fulfillment and as the time passed I became increasingly aware of how this consciousness left me feeling each day like I was losing a part of my soul.
Initially I had some ideas of how life might shape itself but even the things that I thought were solid were shaky at best. After a year of spending my days finding myself and establishing friendships with people that I genuinely want in my life rather than people who simply share a workspace with me opportunities began to present themselves to me.

Over time I realized that everything that seems to happen in my life seems to be leading me to a better place if I’m open to the possibilities. Each day, with each experience, even those that seem to be a step backward, I am always amazed at how they seem to bring me to a better place when I’m open that as a possibility.

Countries I’ve Visited

Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Philippines, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, Philippines, United States