CURRENT MISSION

Cultivating community, connection with compassion and fun!

ABOUT ME

Hi, I am in my early thirties and if you want to get technical I just finished my undergrad in counseling, and work for a natural soap company. I live in a collective living home in Victoria BC, where I love to cook and create new dishes all the time, as food is my true love. I am easy going but also motivated and creative, and I like to have fun and be goofy, because life can be just a bit too serious sometimes.

Being crafty is in my soul, and love being creative in many ways possible. I love being active, by hiking, doing yoga, tons of walking, I try to run, but my knees do not like it! Dancing is a love of mine, I am a free mover and do 5 rhytms dance. I have a passion for natural medicine and love doing kitchen alchemy with my potions and tinctures!

Lastly, meditation is a growing practice of mine with patience and compassion for myself, to cultivate open consciousness for myself and others. Loving life is my modo.

PHILOSOPHY

Living life with compassion, heart, integrity and love. It is okay to fall down, but if you can learn to get back up, it gets easier each time it happens.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

At the moment I am just a surfer but hopefully in the near future we will open our house up to surfers!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My experience through this way is none as the moment but have 'couch surfed' in my travels with friends and friends of friends. This way is new for me, but look forward to increasing it my experience!

Interests

Yoga, hiking, crafting, creative cooking, relaxing, dancing (5 rhythms) meditation, herbal medicine.....the list goes on........

• design
• fashion
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• yoga
• running
• meditation
• walking
• hiking
• skydiving
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

Wizard of Oz, Meet me in St. Lois, Shawshank Redemption, Anne of Green Gables, and Planet Earth for movies... there is more but these are the top ones that I think of right in this moment.

Books - In the realm of hungry Ghosts, When the body says no, The 100 year old man who jumped out the window and disappeared, New Earth (Eckhart Tolle)

Music- To be honest anything but country and rap. But the old country like Patsy Cline, yes and maybe some rap but not a lot.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I feel I have done many amazing things in my life and experienced, from skydiving, to repelling off water falls in Samuc Champey. But the most beautiful experience I have had is the simple yet complex connection with a plant that lives in my room. I have grown with her for many years from learning simple life lessons to the hardest. (I name her Esmarelda) The growth and change in her has mirrored the growth and change in me. All I had to do was listen.

Teach, Learn, Share

I love teaching others my cooking style as well as I used to be a fashion designer and taught night school classes in fashion draping so creative skills is my teaching expertise.

I would love to learn new dance skills in any type of dance. i love to move.