CURRENT MISSION

More than anything in the world I need to see Xavier Rudd play at Red Rocks with Yonder Mountain String Band in August! I live in Florida and the closest he is coming is Dallas, so I decided if I have to fly somewhere to see him, y not a place of beauty?

ABOUT ME

The most important thing I can say about myself is that I eat/breath/live/love music and dance. There is nothing in the world I enjoy more than seeing live music and moving my body and soul with the music! You may wonder about the occupation "hoopologist," so I will elaborate...I make and sell beautiful, colorful hula hoops (nothing like the ones we did when we were kids--these are grown up hoops!), and I teach hoopdance to anyone willing to try it. I can ONLY hoop with music, and try to do it every day. I am so grateful to the universe for allowing me to live the life I love, and I try to share my joy and passion with all the people I meet.

PHILOSOPHY

...I guess I can say this is all that I need--music and peace and the gift of the trees!
~Xavier Rudd

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am completely new to this whole couchsurfing thing and very excited about it! I haven't gotten to participate YET because I JUST started my new job at the best blues bar/cafe ever and am currently working 6 days a week to try and catch up, but once things settle down, I am truly looking forward to opening my home to fellow travelers and showing them the beautiful beaches minutes from my apartment!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

While I have never "officially" couchsurfed through this site, my home has always been known for hospitality. I have hosted members of the band Green Lemon when they came down from Colorado on a few different occasions. Through them, I met another awesome band called Bump at 10,000 Lakes Festival in Minnesota, and the first time they came down from Detroit, I had the entire band use my house as a home base through their whole florida run of shows. Those were the days though...my apartment was HUGE. My new place is much smaller and I can only host one or maybe two people at a time. And since I live close to downtown St. Pete I do end up having couchsurfers a few times a month when someone doesn't want to drive across the big bridge to Tampa after a concert. It's always a blast!

Interests

Hoopdance, scrabble, music festivals, nia (look it up--it's an amazing form of movement energy http://www.nianow.com/), biking, teaching hooping to people that don't think they can do it, linguistics, cooking, raw cuisine, vegetarian cuisine, tripping the light fantastic, poking smot, my kitties, disco naps, live music, flowers, kayaking, sunbathing, body surfing, the beach, camping, traveling, walking, dancing, croquet, trees, hooping in a big kapok tree, sewing, gardening, eating something I grew, drawing, summertime, reading, disc golf, bocce ball, pretty parks, spring fed rivers, five fingers shoes (best dancin shoes ever!!!)

• beauty
• concerts
• music festivals
• festivals
• dancing
• cooking
• cheese
• vegetarian
• running
• walking
• flying
• gardening
• flowers
• reading
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• live music
• blues
• cycling
• kayaking
• camping
• surfing
• golf
• beaches
• parks
• lakes
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

Oh my, this is the hard part. My list will be epic when it comes to the music and books part so I'll just do a top 10 for each...it should give you a good idea of what I'm into. I couldn't POSSIBLY begin to put hose top 10 in any particular order, so it's random

MUSIC: Xavier Rudd!!! (okay, that one's not random--he's my very favorite), Les Claypool, That1Guy, Grateful Dead, Phish, Spoonfed Tribe, Shpongle, Bluetech, Gogol Bordello, Balkan Beatbox

AUTHORS: Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Robbins, Ayn Rand, Ken Kesey, Douglas Adams, Chuck Palahniuk, Gabriel Garcia Marques, Milan Kundera, Hunter S. Thompson, Jane Austen

MOVIES: DJ Q-Bert's Wave Twisterz, A Clockwork Orange, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Pineapple Express, The Boondock Saints, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (the BeeGees/Peter Frampton version), Across The Universe, Xavier Rudd Live at the Enmore (not a movie but that DVD gets more play than any that I have ever owned), The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have been blessed with the honor of performing hoopdance onstage with some of my favorite bands at festivals in front of thousands and I will cherish those five minutes with The String Cheese Incident and second set with Green Lemon forever, especially since both of those bands aren't performing together anymore.

Teach, Learn, Share

I would love to teach you hoopdance!

Countries I’ve Visited

United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States