Mother Earth is my goddess.
Love is my religion.
Music and Art are my soul foods.
Justice, respect and kindness are my rules.

My blog: journeywithnari.com

Who am I: An earth child. A lover of laughter, hugs, and good people. A curious soul.

Current Life Missions:
Ego Death. Cosmic Union.
Intersecting activism and spirituality.
Research and revive ancient African and Asian spiritual wisdom
Take over the world with love!

Favourite Quotes:

“Let us wake up! Let us wake up, humankind! We’re out of time. We must shake our consciousness free of the rapacious capitalism, racism and patriarchy that will only assure our own self destruction.”
~Berta Caceres

Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero pulsanda tellus! - "Now is the time to drink, now the time to dance footloose upon the earth!"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Same reason that I travel: To learn, to share, to experience, to love, to be present. Couchsurfing has been a way to meet beautiful, open-minded, kind, fun people, and form lifelong friendships. To give and receive.

Surfed in Bangkok, Ottawa, Jo'burg, Delhi and Zanzibar, hosted in Montreal and Nairobi.

Interests

-Nature! Whether it's hiking, climbing, camping, ..... or sitting on rocks meditating
-Alternative communities and social movements
-Arts (music, theatre, poetry, visual, etc.) - the heartbeat of a people
-Writing (I blog at journeywithnari.com) and reading
-Dancing (especially to Afro Beat and Latin music)

• arts
• writing
• poetry
• dancing
• yoga
• meditation
• reading
• traveling
• blogging
• music
• hiking
• camping
• activism

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Pirates of the Caribbean 1, He Named Me Malala, Matilda, Subira, Small Foot
Music artists: Rising Appalachia, Ayla Nereo, Xavier Rudd, Jimmy Cliff, Bob Marley, Fatoumata Diawara, Tracy Chapman, Jason Mraz, Brenda Fassie, Miriam Makeba, Enya, Ambasa Mandela :)
Music genres: Afro-beat, Blues, Latin (salsa and bachata), Tibetan buddhist mantras
Authors: Paulo Coelho, Wangari Maathai, Ekhart Tolle, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare John Milton, Charlotte Bronte, Aravind Adiga, J.R.R. Tolkein, J.K. Rowling, Thich Nhat Hahn . . .

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Canoed 100 miles down the Green River for a week in the red deserts of Utah with the love of my life (now close friend).

Teach, Learn, Share

Exploring different forms of spirituality, e.g. sound healing (with Tibetan singing bowls), yoga, meditation, mantra, etc.

We could make music or art together (I play the bansuri, Indian bamboo flute)

I love dancing, especially to Afro-beat and Latin music.

Communities living outside the global capitalist norm.

One of my favourite things to do is hiking to a beautiful spot then finding a rock and sitting there in meditation for hours.

Deep philosophical discussions are the best.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Meditation techniques (Anapan, Vipassana, centre, mantra, sound, walking, eating, and my own nature paganism). Hatha yoga asanas. Pranayama. I can play you some music on my bansuri (bamboo flute).

Stories from my beautiful home Kenya of amazing nature, a fiery people, arts, activism, love..

Anything English or writing-related I can help you with.

Also I would love to help you out with arts or social justice projects :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Nepal, Peru, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Kenya, United States