CURRENT MISSION

Promote science, integrate spirituality, and practice compassion

ABOUT ME

I'm vegan, alcohol-and-drug-free, progressive-minded, and enjoy exploring practical spirituality. Right now, by day I work developing a non-profit that promotes effective use of mobile & web tech in behavioral health, and I'm working on a related mobile app. I'm into health, happiness, yoga, addiction recovery, and the general cause of greater compassion in the world. I also love to travel and have served a tour at the Peace Corps HQ in DC.

PHILOSOPHY

Awaken, love, and serve.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'd like to host or surf with like-minded, open-minded folks!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I was introduced by a dear friend who blogged about her travels through India couchsurfing, how it has changed her whole sense of traveling and community, and have hosted a number of people at my home near Dupont Circle in Washington DC!

Interests

health, healing, technology, environmentalism, urban biking, yoga, recovery, meditation, kirtan, laughter, cooking

• animals
• architecture
• cooking
• vegan
• yoga
• meditation
• technology
• traveling
• cycling
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

So many... Books by Arundhati Roy, Steven Levine, Salman Rushdie, Jonathan Safran Foer ... Music by Wah! David Newman, Krishna Das, Ammachi, Karsh Kale, U. Srinivas, Anoushka Shankar ... Movies by the Coen Brothers, PT Anderson, Paul Anderson...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Elephants are my favorite animal. I was in Pondicherry, India at the Ganesh temple there, in October 2010 when a beautiful, enormous elephant named Lakshmi surprised me by cuddling me in close with her trunk. A small, favorite moment of my life. Animals are so much smarter, kinder, and wiser than we give them credit for.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach computer architecture and programming, globally inspired vegan cooking, how to heal one's past through yoga...