CURRENT MISSION
Adventure time!
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Rita is from Russia, Mark - from USA.
We are trying to be happy and inspire everybody to be happy as well.
We don't smoke or drink and Rita's a vegetarian.
We are climbers as well.

-We have a teacher. It's a russian clown Slava Polunin . And he's working on making a universal formula of happiness that we're following)
For example, we're very interested in theatralization of life. That is what we're learning and gathering information about.
-We don't watch TV and never listen to the radio. We're trying to switch off ourselves from any negative information. If something important happens, somebody of my friends will tell us about this. When we meet with our friends we try to tell each other only positive news.
-We like to meet only with happy people (we call them fools, but not in the meaning of stupid people, but people naive and happy, like children, very positive, smiley, giving this energy to everybody around, they don't have borders in their mind and are always open to something interesting and new). We love to learn more about happiness and share it with others. I believe that plus to plus attracts only plus, not minus, considering people's relationships. If we have more positive people around, we attract even more=) So if you consider yourself a complete fool or at least a half of a fool, you are welcome to our family=) Maybe we can create something together or just spend great time, learn new things and make each other happy.
-We believe that the process of creation is the most important thing and the key to happiness. Its aim, its secret filling and its engine.
So we're building our own world, full of happy people, creative projects, amazing places, love and joy.
-We love travelling. We think that it's very important to move a lot, to travel as much as possible.

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PHILOSOPHY

"In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions."

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To share our space with those who in need.

Interests

SELF-EMPOWERMENT, theatralization of life, the process of creation, happy people, inspiration, self-development, languages, yoga, meditation, vipassana, buddhism, spirituality, alternative healing, healthy lifestyle, qigong, silence, travelling, hitchhiking, backpacking, reading, music, riding bicycles and motocycles, swimming, eco and veganism, nature and animals, drawing, surrealism, kayaking, freight train hopping, cooking, playing guitar, reiki, climbing

• animals
• arts
• cooking
• organic food
• yoga
• meditation
• reading
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• guitar
• hiking
• backpacking
• kayaking
• skateboarding
• swimming
• teaching
• languages
• hitchhiking
• nature
• spirituality
• astrology
• climbing
• veganism
• silence
• healthy lifestyle
• happiness
• surrealism
• vipassana
• reiki
• crystals
• watercolor
• alternative healing
• enneagram
• motocycles
• vedic astrology
• biodynamics

Music, Movies, and Books

THEATRE: Slava Polunin SNOW SHOW

MUSIC: Russian bands: Tequilajazzz , Nebo Zdes , Dolphin , Pyotr Mamonov , Boris Grebenshchikov & Aquarium , SMEX , Silence Kit.
The Doors, Bob Marley, Nirvana, The Beatles, Franz Ferdinand, Radiohead, Muse, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Sex Pistols, Joy Division, Tool, System of a Down, Slipknot, The National, Tom Waits, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Comeback Kid, At The Drive-In, The Mars Volta, Arvo Pärt, Rage Against The Machine, The Fall of Troy, Maybeshewill, The Dreadnoughts, Oasis, Mike Patton, Dredg, Ragas, The White Stripes (Jack White), Green day

MOVIES: Blow-up, Ostrov , Generation P , Kin-dza-dza! , Pyl', Dom Solntsa , Yuriy Norshteyn animation, Zabriskie Point, Gegen die Wand, The Old Man and The Sea , David Cherkassky animation, The Dreamers, The Wall, Dolls, Arizona Dream, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Hair, Frida, Abre los Ojos, The Drummer, Big Lebowski, Fight Club, American History X, Into the Wild, all Jim Jarmusch, Truman Show, Black cat, white cat, Ten Minutes Older, Les Triplette de Belleville, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Matrix, Amadeus, In Time, all Hayao Miyazaki, Back to the Future, Life of Pi, UP

BOOKS: Castaneda, Alexander Pushkin , Vladimir Mayakovsky , all Victor Pelevin , Leo Tolstoy , The Catcher in the Rye, Jonathan Livingston seagull, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Palahniuk, Into the Wild, Letters to brother Theo (Van Gogh), Diary of a Genius (Salvador Dali), Rich dad, poor dad (R. Kiyosaki), Reality transurfing (Zeland),Eckhart Tolle, The Yoga Sutras by Patanjali, Journey of Souls (Michael Newton), Seth Speaks (Jane Roberts), Alone in the Ocean (Slava Kurilov), The Push (Tommy Caldwell), Alone on the Wall (Alex Honnold)

ARTISTS: Vincent van Gogh, Salvador Dalí, Wassily Kandinsky , Claude Monet, Jacek Yerka , Kazimir Malevich

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-Traveled around the world
- where I made 5000km trip by scooter round south-eastern Asia and that was a challenge ;)
-trainhopped from Tucson to LA)
-flew over the Golden Gate Bridge on a couchsurfer's private airplane)
- experienced a 10-day vipassana meditation

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach/show/share:

- Russian/English/Spanish languages
- meditation practice
- yoga
- reiki
- how to manifest your dreams
- rock climbing

I'd like to learn:

- French/Spanish
- watercolor

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Kosovo, Laos, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Mexico, Montenegro, Myanmar, Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation, United States

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