CURRENT MISSION

To live my life fully! With inspiration and love!

ABOUT ME

I love to laugh, entertain, tell stories and exchange good vibes. Love dancing, writing, hiking, singing improvised ditty's, gardening, moving, practicing chi gung, loving for my children and bringing magic to life! I'm going through a transformative growth period now so the possibilities in life are opening and becoming intensely brighter and bigger. Hallelujia!

PHILOSOPHY

Our time on Earth is precious and every part of life, all of its facets are sacred. Laughter, singing, dancing, enjoying my body and loving my friends and family are what matters most to me.
In college I had a lovely experience learning chi gung from an amazing master. She is a friend now and I still learn from her. So much of that experience continues to live with me helping me to push beyond limitations of mind and grow. I've also been heavily influenced by being the eldest of TEN children. I try to combine my understanding of personal responsibility with compassion, enthusiasm and love. I'm extremely optimistic, even dreamy at times but also practical minded and grounded by my love to work hard.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

My good friend had such a great experience on her 6 week trip through Europe she told me all about how great CS2 is.
I'm on a month long road trip through the pacific northwest. I'd love to make meaningful connections.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Last April, I went to Maui to see the Dalai Lama w/ my 6 month old and I had no idea where I would sleep when I got off the plane! The week was magical as homes were made available to me and I learned that my sister was right when she said without a planned place to stay "it really opens up more opportunities for you in the end." The time was great and my son traveled beautifully. We daw the Dalai Lame speak two days in a row and went to see Krishna Das for a kirtan. We met brilliant people and got to watch a Stupa in Paia come to life. What a week!

Interests

Health and Wellness, Spirituality, Women's Mysteries, Family Life, Dance, art, music sharing. There's so much more to it than that but that encompasses many things.

• arts
• writing
• singing
• dancing
• coach
• meditation
• gardening
• flowers
• magic
• music
• hiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Eat, Pray, Love.
Being Bliss.
Recent reads include Female Chauvinist Pigs by Ariel Levy (fabulous read- lots of references) and lots and lots of Children's books.
Favorite entertainment- the Muppets, Marty Stouffer's Wild America.
Music-
Snatum Kaur's "Grace"- chanting (and yes, I know her name is just kinda awful).
Bob, Cipes and the People
Madeline Peyroux, Harry Belafonte, Rosemary Clooney
Jules graves, STS9, Koop
Ever favorite group, Pele Juju from Santa Cruz. Love good dance music- funk, hip hop, booty shakin'.
Just got turned onto Hedningarna-great music.
I love world music and am glad to music share if you're interested in burning discs.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One of the MOST truly amazing experiences of my life was when I gave birth on my living room floor- unplanned! (Oops!) It was one of the best experiences in my life for sure! I advocate for normal births and can honestly say, I had an ecstatic birth! (And, yes, it did hurt but it was incredible too.)

Teach, Learn, Share

I teach chi gung meditation through movement, breathing for stress reduction and self realization. Also work as Life Coach.
I'm currently learning the Feldenkrais method.
I need to learn spanish better!!!
I share teas, plant knowledge, plants, flower essences, music, and sometimes champagne too!