CURRENT MISSION

Explore China and honor nature spirits and ancestral spirits

ABOUT ME

I'm a woman passionately dedicated to the Earth, a woman on a spiritual quest that is inner more than outer, but also involves extensive travel in other countries. Let's see, I'm intense, but also playful, even silly, and a lot lazy, although I can work hard and enjoy it, too. I'm a woman of power. There are times that I just sit and think for hours on end about what is happening in the world and what can be done to shift the energy so that people embrace each other and steward the planet more. I live creatively and am open to new ideas and ways of doing things.

PHILOSOPHY

Our basic nature is to enjoy happiness and to love others, and the two are intrinsically entwined.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've only been couchsurfing once through this group on Lantau Island, but I've hosted travelers now several times. I'm active in several groups and have organized some CS events in Jinan.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I was briefly involved in a similar hospitality club when I was living in Andorra and had a good experience hosting a young man from Seville

Interests

I have many interests, music, nature, walking, swimming, singing, dancing, writing, taking photos, reading, reading, reading, surfing the Internet, global politics, learning other languages, cooking, baking, sewing, traveling, drumming, conversation, friendships, cross cultural communication, exploring, art, architecture, not necessarily in that order.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

This is too much fun -- I can't limit myself to just one. There have been so many... such as mystical encounters with spirits or ETs at the beaches of lakes and oceans, also seeing flying fish, jellyfish, dolphins, surfing seagulls and other sea creatures. I've seen a water dragon twice, once at Lake Tahoe in California and another time at the moat of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Our cat chasing a mouse into our tent while my son and I were the only people camping at a secluded campground in the mountains of Arizona. Walking labyrinths in Colorado and California. A Native American ceremony with a lot of smoke in a tipi in Colorado. Seeing vultures fly thermals near the Red Rocks in Colorado. Watching the sunset with over a 100 people at the airport in Sedona, Arizona. Seeing a faerie for the first time at the sacred river by the Laughing Horse Inn in Taos, New Mexico, seeing them again in the spring in the hills of Berkeley and also along the river while looking for wildflowers in a woods by a river near Kalamazoo, Michigan, and also in a ravine in the woods of northern Quebec. Taking my son to fly a glider plane in the thermals north of Albuquerque and watching him have the time of his life for his 13th birthday. Sitting in a cave I discovered in the Pyrenees Mountains in Andorra on an old smuggling trail to Spain. An encounter with a Neandertal ancestral spirit after spending an afternoon in a wildflower-filled space near a stone cairn in the mountains above Rosas in Spain. Discovering a past Jewish lifetime while visiting the Flower Festival in Gerona. Visiting a redwood forest with my son in Northern California and walking through the woods with almost nobody else there. Anchoring the blue ray energy at the San Padre Islands on a ferry crossing to Victoria with a shaman from Poland. Hearing wolves approaching my campsite in Canada. Watching my son grow up and the long bike tours he took with his father and then on his own. Encouraging him to develop his skills as a photographer, writer, and English teacher, continually amazed at his accomplishments, especially in learning Chinese. Seeing the spring migration of birds at Point Pelee, watching all the mating going on. Seeing dancing bears at the zoo in Bangkok this year and the Kenyan acrobats show. Learning African bird dances at the LA Zoo. Taking part in drumming circles in Albuquerque, Colorado Springs, and the Bay Area. Leading a drumming circle in Colorado Springs. Seeing with the diamond brilliant vision of hummingbirds while visiting their cage at the San Diego Zoo, and later developing crystal vision in my work with crystals, working as a gemstone healer and the fabulous healings people received, especially one woman who'd had chronic pain for months in her pelvic area that was instantly relieved when I placed a red jasper stone the size of a fist on her. Finding out that readings I gave people actually came true. Having dreams and visions tied into stock market crashes. Predicting that the Berlin Wall would fall when nobody else saw that it would happen. Teaching ESL to students from over 30 different countries in a large class at Glendale Community college. The buzz I used to get teaching Mexican immigrants in East LA during the Amnesty program. Attracting hundreds of students into the program. Having students bring me roses every day for my class from their gardens. Studying the Tarantata dance with Alessandra Belloni, dancing with her Brazilian partner. Studying Tuvan throatsinging with Arjuna and hearing him playing the Tibetan horn at Tuva, his performance space in Berkeley. Visiting him in Joshua Tree and rehearsing with the Ohana Choir. The heady feeling of bringing an entire class of 18 steadfast students into fluency in English at Ocean University of China after working with them for eight months by showing movies and discussing them. Singing with the Threshold Choir at the bedsides of people who were dying in the San Francisco Bay Area. Answering the call of a whale and swimming with a dolphin at North Beach near the Golden Gate Bridge, the ceremony that I organized with Golden Eagle, a native American medicine man at Alcatraz with the Avalon-like experience of the fog rolling in and out as our ship approached the island, learning to call in the bears in a drumming ceremony along the periphery of Golden Gate Park, the enactment of a creative writing piece I wrote by other writers at a writing retreat led by Andy Couturier at a house on stilts over the bay, dancing through the woods in a ceremony in northern Quebec with the people in the ecovillage I lived in briefly there, drinking blueberry beer from their microbrewery, drinking Weissbeer in Munich, falling in love with Ismael in Paris, Wolfgang in Qingdao and Yang Xin in Jinan... I think that's enough for now.

Teach, Learn, Share

I like to meet fellow travelers and swap stories.

Countries I’ve Visited

China, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Andorra, Canada, China, Japan, Mexico, Mongolia, United States