CURRENT MISSION

live light, travel light, spread light, be the light!

ABOUT ME

Performance Artist, Event Organizer, Fitness Instructor, Singer/Songwriter, Recording Artist, Wanderer Extraordinaire!

PHILOSOPHY

is to love and be loved.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've been a long time traveler and I feel I'd love to give back. Also, I love sharing time with fellow travelers. My life is enriched by the people I meet along this winding path and I absolutely love meeting people from places I've never been!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

hmmm... my first real couch surfing experience was on exchange to Germany in the spring of 1997. My exchange brother was 21 and had his own apartment in Hannover. My parents would not let me stay with him so he asked his good friend and his family let me crash at their place. For 17 days I had a total blast and stayed with my host family about 8 of those days :) lots of couch surfing. I really miss my host brother, Robbie Mueller. His real name is Jens and his older brother briefly played with The Scorpions. Do you know him?

Interests

storytelling, breath work, ecstatic dance, dances of universal peace, well-being, balance, integrity, honest, radical authenticity, presence, pushing my own boundaries, rejecting limitations, respecting others, prophecy, quantum physics, magic, the mystery, the cosmos, stars, light, light play, henna, belly dance, sword balancing, poi spinning, hooping, contact staff, la routa maya, sacred sites, Mary Magdalene, Deborah, Lillith, archetypes, aliens, time travel, napping, cats, healers, natural healing modalities, the emerging culture, solar culture, living simply, dancing is my favorite thing to do.

• cats
• culture
• performing arts
• festivals
• dancing
• fitness
• instructor
• modeling
• flying
• traveling
• socializing
• knitting
• magic
• music
• camping
• surfing
• wrestling
• physics
• lakes

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
I Know I'm Not Alone (Michael Franti's Documentary on his journey into the Mid-East)
The Quantum Activist (awesome new documentary about the work of Dr. Amit Goswami)
What the **** Do We Know?
Across The Universe
The Dark Crystal
Labrynth
Harold & Maude (classic)
The Wizard of Oz
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
The Last Airbender (The real Avatar) I know it isn't out yet but I am so excited!

Music:
Dead Can Dance, Gabrielle Roth, Kan'nal, Joules Graves, Freedom Tribe, Zap Mama, The Meters, any good funk, Jesse Cook, Cheb i Sabbah, String Cheese and their spin-offs, soul sung by divas like Aretha and Billie, old-timey contemporary stuff like Tarrin the Tailor and Beats Antique, Yajna and other projects of Yanni Popodopoulous, Ram Dass and kirtan, Didjeridu music, March Fourth Marching Band, Cassandra Roberson...

Books: When The Drummers Were Women by Layne Redmond, Sacred Woman Sacred Dance by Iris J. Stewart, Spiral Dance and Circle Round by Starhawk, Pronoia by Rob Brezsny, The Art of Everyday Ecstacy by Margo Anand, all books by Susun Weed, Return of The Bird Tribe by Ken Carey, The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell, The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz....

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Once I saw this thing that was like a Moon-bow... not like the rainbow we can sometimes see around the moon at night... no, this was something entirely different. It was The Coyote Music Festival at Summer Lakes Hot Springs in Eastern Oregon Summer Solstice 2008. We were hit by an incredible sudden wind that was like the hand of god reaching down and giving us all a good swat. Tents went flying... the dome we had set up as our small cafe was totally blown off (get it?) and it left utter destruction in it's path as it was blown further and further away. My friend Willow and I went chasing after it and found it over 100 meters away caught up in a fence. When we got to it we discovered two dudes inside already trying to wrestle the thing down. Anyway - back to the original reason I started this story, we returned to find our friends had circled up the wagons (three small motor homes) and what was left of our cafe was the floor of the dome (literally ripped off by the giant God-smack) with the super comfy rugs and pillows still set up. We all nestled up in them and stared up at the clear sky above that was seemingly so peaceful. The moon was revealed and it was shining on something that looked at first like a long, skinny tornado that was still. Everyone was pointing and asking 'what is that'? As the moonlight became stronger the moon-bow was revealed... I still have no idea what it was or how it was but it was amazing. Someone pointed out that we would have never been looking if our dome hadn't have been blown off. :)

Teach, Learn, Share

Here's what I can teach:
How to:
Spin Poi
Fire Dance
make home made Sauerkraut and Kim Chi
make an amazing meal (for 4) from scratch for under $10!
Spiral Dance
Create community ritual
Do Vocal Warm-ups
Chant (kirtan, heart union)
be a really great artist's model (choosing poses, etc)
build a sand castle
snap your fingers
dance with the children
set up an amazing festival camp
organize community events
macrame
knit (hats or scarves so far)

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, Canada, Germany, Mexico

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States