I love blue sky, dancing and learning. I am very curious, enthousiastic, passionate and energetic.
I moved back to my hometown Vitoria-Gasteiz after living 15 years away, one year in Syria, two in Barcelona and twelve in Amsterdam!

My mother used to say I have a flower in my ass (tienes una flor en el culo), so I am pretty sure I will figure out how to combine all my passions and continue exploring life to its fullest.

Some days a week I work in a Mental Health clinic and I am a therapist to treat trauma and chronic personality issues. I do not like diagnoses and see humans as complex and complete beings and not as a bunch of labels.

Very often you can find me taking many dance lessons in a big dance school built in a Church!

And I am also creating an online school for movement, emotional exploration and dance called
I MOVE I AM : https://imoveiam.org/

I love to meet new people from many different backgrounds and travelling on my own.
I started Couchsurfing when I was 16 years old and I even got married to my couchsurfer in Syria (already divorced).

I love adventure and excitement, although I do have a stable and pragmatic mind too.
I have been told I can be very direct and I have a very strong determination and clear goals.
At the same time I can be soft and sweet and helpful :)

You can check my Instagram, although lately I am not that active...
https://www.instagram.com/imove.iam/

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To laugh, learn, discuss, listen and be amazed.

I started Couchsurfing long time ago!!!!!!
In 2006 when I was only 16 years old and I had many more references but I gave old profile to my exhusband, so you can read more references about me here: https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/abadialtanani/references

I can MAYBEEEEE host someone in Amsterdam, ONLY if you write a personal request (meaning you have read my profile and is not a copy paste message), and if we have something in common. Use the word "TURQUOISE" in your message for me to know you read it :)

Interests

I like to:

Lie on the sand and touch the sand withy my feet
Eat hazelnut ice-cream in chocolate cones
Start new projects and get all enthousiastic and obsessed with them
Dance like crazy being sober, with no drugs nor alcohol
Appreciate very simple things
Witness how patients get better in therapy

dance dance dance
silence
psychology
tiramisu
writing
improvisation
languages
structure
wild goats
rocks
turquoise sea
bodies
clean and empty spaces
ceviche
play
dark chocolate
philosophy

mountains
hazelnot ice cream
thin sand

• dancing
• clubbing
• traveling
• painting
• neuroscience
• psychology
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Many kinds, flamenco, reggae, dub, trap, techno, arabic music, dancehall, bossanova, afrobeats...

Movies: Psychological dramas, European and Spanish good movies, movies with beautiful photography, Korean dramas...

Books: Used to read lot of classics in the past, Herman Hesse, Frank kafka, Dostoievski, Stefan Zweig... but lately I am mostly reading books related to my profession, psychology, trauma, somatic therapy...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Find a job as a dance movement therapist (is almost impossible)
Crossed the biggest cave/canyon in Europe, la "Cueva de la Leze"
Climbed Mount Kilimanjaro
Lived in Syria before the war and learned arabic
Learn to twerk after 30

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to do an 8 with your hips, how to make Spanish Tortilla de patata, or how to visualize your inner child.

I want to learn more about psychology, art, queer culture, philosophy, neuroscience, music...And many more things.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can teach you breathing and regulation skills, dancing...

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cuba, Denmark, Egypt, France, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico, Netherlands, Peru, Portugal, Scotland, Slovenia, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Malta, Netherlands, Spain, Syrian Arab Republic

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