🚨 PLEASE READ MY PROFILE BEFORE MESSAGING 🚨
If your message looks like a copy-paste or spam, I won’t reply.

Bonjour | Hola | Hoi | Hallo | Namaste | Hi there! 🌍✨

I’m Pooja — a lifelong student, curious soul, and lover of meaningful connections.
Born and raised in beautiful India, I’ve lived across many of its states — soaking in the colors of its cultures, cuisines, languages, and values. I’ve learned to live like a local everywhere I go — and it’s been one incredible ride!

When I’m not working, I enjoy making life richer and more joyful by:
🌿 Helping and mentoring friends or learners in career, education, yoga, or wellness
☕ Having deep conversations about life, purpose, or tech
🥘 Experimenting in the kitchen (and yes, I make delicious vegetarian Indian food… with your help, of course 😄)
🍃 Spending time in nature, breathing fresh air, and connecting with kind souls — human or otherwise
📚 Reading, learning, sharing, and re-reading again!

My vibe:
💫 Dream big, stay hopeful, never give up.
💖 Be kind, humble, and curious.
🌸 Laugh often, live holistically, and keep growing.

🚫 Disclaimer Time!
1️⃣ I’m not interested in hookups — this isn’t Tinder. Please don’t send “meet-up” requests with the wrong intentions.

2️⃣ Friend requests: I only accept genuine connections.

I get a lot of messages daily, so if your energy feels off or insincere, I simply won’t reply.
Let’s keep this space authentic, safe, and full of good vibes 💫

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

1. To meet and keep myself inspired by the awesome people around, and explore things from another traveler's spectrum.

2. I hold good knowledge in planning out travel like local the places I have been (most enjoyment with least spent on materialistic things i.e I can give good tips for cheap thrills) and I would like to be of use in planning out these cities:
- India: Jaipur, Kanyakumari, Rameshwaram, Mysore, Bangalore, Mumbai
- UK: London
- Scotland: Glasgow
- Belgium: Brugge, Leuven, Brussels
- Paris
- Amsterdam
- Chicago
Traveling to any of the above? Happy to help you plan out.

NOTE: Currently, I don't own a place to host, hopefully, in future, I would be able to host here in India, however, if you have hosted me earlier or we have known each other, I would 500% love to find a way to host you.

3. For self + help others "budget travel" and learn how other people live and incorporate their ways which I find valuable.
4. To experience and to help others witness - "Yes! generosity, kindness and sacred friendships exists"

Interests

• indian food
• music
• cycling
• sports
• badminton
• nature
• dance
• vegetarian cooking
• cycle touring
• nature walks
• sky
• vegitarian
• fooseball

Music, Movies, and Books

Books/Movies/Shows: Inspiring/Sci-Fi/Comedy/Talent, TED talks, America/Britain/India has got Talent - ultimately, receiving a good message while enjoying is good :)

Music: All joyful, meaningful, Folk style and instruments. Especially the worldwide fusions with awesome instrumentations like:
- This is gonna be the best day of my life: https://helloeko.com/s/makethefuture/
- Amit Trivedi with best of worlds: https://youtu.be/1EtI0KjXfdk?t=33s [ YOU MUST LISTEN to THIS complete ]
- Cheap Thrills: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWeECyxbxsE
- Let her go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBumgq5yVrA
- Afreen Afreen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw4tT7SCmaY
- Despacito fusions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMbqV5i-74c

In General (not particularly in that order):
English: Most of Blue, Akon, Enrique, Shakira and Katy Perry
Spanish: Despacito, Catch Up song
Hindi: रहे न रहे हम महका करेंगे, almost all of Lata ji, A R Rahman, Kailash Khair, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan shahab, Sonu Nigam, Shaan, Arijit Singh and all Sufi style.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Lost in the middle of trek (at midnight) with a bunch of adventurous and amazing people at Chikmagalur(Karnataka, India) and found the life again when we nearly died :D watched bare sky full of stars with the morning dew (layer by layer, its just most scenic view one can ever witness)
- Walked through whole London like local. Started solo, however, ended up meeting a couple of awesome people turned friends to cherish forever.
- Ran for 16 KM Marathon with full spirit, dreaming me winning it ;-)
----- see! I could not stop at one ;-) most of the times I have lots of stories to talk about however if you want me to shut up, I'm great at that too.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach:
- Yoga, Meditation, Pranayam
- Authentic Indian Vegetarian food Cooking
- Software Testing and Automation and a few more software skills
- Languages like English, Hindi and some more Indian dialects

Want to learn tons of things, like improv, how to make anything from raw materials, and artistic stuff like sketch, paint, sing and dance awesome and it's a never-ending list :) basically any good thing I don't know yet and is worth learning.

What I Can Share with Hosts

- Happy vibes, discussions, care, respect, experiences, stories
- Home chores workload (I would like to help in daily tasks just like I do at my home)
- Walkthrough the city (if you have got time and you like to walk through with me)

*Why should you host me:* I'm a calm yet fun filled person with a default nature to help you with essential home chores, I promise to clean up after myself. You may experience the natural high person who actually doesn't need alcohol to look cool dude (I'm a vegetarian and I do not smoke or booze)
+ I'm flexible enough to respect individual's comfort and I can stay pin drop silent too when you want me to be as you may be tired some day or completely busy up with your work/life, I totally value your privacy and comfort.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

India