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Overview

  • 7 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Spanish
  • 36, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • Yoga teacher, conservationist, writer
  • University level
  • From London
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

to immerse

ABOUT ME

I have spent the most recent, and most formative part of my life living in tropical rainforest. I spent a year and a half working roughly in conservation, first in the Amazon, and then Central America. And I have spent the last 6 months living in indigenous territory of the Ecuadorian Amazon, teaching english and learning from the Achuar tribe. I discovered a deep connection to nature through experiencing the forest, guided by native friends. I am most happy in wild Nature, and am interested in the knowledge and wisdom of indigenous peoples who remember how to live with Her.

I am interested i living in community, and healing those cultural wounds that might prevent us from doing so.

My other interests involve writing poetry, playing the guitar and singing, listening to all musics, dancing, meditation, travelling, bicycles, yoga.

PHILOSOPHY

Be open, be honest, communicate and connect.
Reality is all that is meaningful to you, don't be sold what you're told.
Question.
Meditate on feelings, cultivate wisdom...then act how you feel.
Embrace experience, in all its forms.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have surfed and hosted, and had only great experiences.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have surfed mainly in Peru, and hosted mainly in the UK. Always a different experience, but always with the same quality of the human openness, sharing, and mystery.

Interests

Nature.
Energy.
Yoga.
Good food.
Indigenous peoples.
Plant medicines.
Music.
Bicycles.
Books.
Free thinking and its stimulation in broader society.

  • writing
  • books
  • poetry
  • singing
  • dancing
  • dining
  • yoga
  • meditation
  • traveling
  • music
  • guitar

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: folk, reggae, african music, latin music, indian music, jazz, funk, soul, house music, techno.
Movies: waking life.
Books: many many many.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Rolling in a coal train across the Sahara desert.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach Spanish, indigenous worldviews, natural systems, yoga, meditation techniques, guitar playing. Would like to learn more of the above, and anything else besides.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Stories

Countries I’ve Visited

Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Ecuador, France, Germany, Greece, Kenya, Mauritania, Morocco, Myanmar, Peru, Senegal, Slovenia, Spain, Thailand, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

Costa Rica, Ecuador, Germany, Peru, Spain, United Kingdom

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