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Overview

  • 8 references 5 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese, English; learning Hindi, Spanish
  • 45, Female
  • Member since 2008
  • Spreading Happiness, Traveller, Mandarin Language Interpr...
  • On the Road and Behind Closed Eyes
  • No hometown listed
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Slow Deep Breath

ABOUT ME

Grew up in a small country town of W.A. Infected with the travel bug from a very young age thanks to my family and Girl Guides! Been exploring ever since. Love my greatest challenge, my children. They were born on the road and yes I am a testament to the reality that you can Have Kids And Travel.

Try to balance the social expectations of this life with plenty of travel to meet the multitude of interesting characters... however India had other ideas about my restlessness and while the intensity remains, the speed is slowing down!

When I'm not traveling I live in the tropics with plenty of water. Water for drinking, swimming, snorkeling, diving, waterfalls, kayaking, growing crazy gardens, washing clothes with, oh and the odd shower! Immensely enjoying my yoga path and working on mastering meditation with all of life's interesting distractions.

PHILOSOPHY

Always relying on the kindness of strangers and sharing the secret of life (happiness) with as many people as possible

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Open house, open heart, open mind

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Always had a go-between house. Enjoy meeting other folk and sharing adventures

Interests

Lila, children, yoga, gigs, festivals, a big storm, mountains, water, traveling, listening to old people, late nights with the moon, lying in the hammock, waking up in the tent, seeking Moksha

  • festivals
  • yoga
  • meditation
  • traveling
  • music
  • hiking
  • kayaking
  • scuba diving
  • snorkeling
  • skiing
  • rock climbing
  • swimming
  • volunteering
  • mountains
  • cuture

Music, Movies, and Books

As many as possible please. Fav books include The Gita, Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, Play of Consciousness, The Alchemist, The Little Prince, Anything from: Swamiji, Shakespeare, Kerouac, Bukowski, Nietzsche, Camus... Biographies: All of them... Spontaneous Prose

Fav music includes anything from the street, Bhajans, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The White Stripes, Anything Folk, Xavier Rudd, John Butler, Bright Eyes, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Angus and Julia Stone...

Fav movies include Frida, Baraka, Zoro, Three Musketeers, City of Joy, Night on Earth, The Garden, The Pursuit of Happyness, Up, Chocolat and Hotel Rwanda

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Southern Aurora from the farm in West Australia
Weeing in a plastic bag on a night bus in Mexico with no toilets
Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary at Sunrise, Mexico
Snorkeling with Whale Sharks at Exmouth, West Australia
Seeing my worst traits in my children and wondering how to fix them... shouldn't evolution be helping out with this?!
Backcountry 15km Great Wall Hiking, China... only meeting one other person along the way
Receiving Mantra from Swamiji... amazing energy...
Hinchinbrook Island Hiking
Sunrise from Surya Temple, Jadan, Rajasthani Desert
Hiking toward Annapurna, Nepal

Teach, Learn, Share

Yoga, Life Skills for Children, Humour, Music, Chinese anything, Indian Culture, Creating with Food, Out of the way Travel Places, Nepalese magic, Japaenese mindulness of others

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