CURRENT MISSION

a life of adventure

ABOUT ME

Hi, I'm a bicycle rider and a rather out of shape runner. I've lost most of my fitness over the last 4 years due to health issues. I'm fully recovered from now. I look forward to getting to know you. I'm a writer, artist, and hypnotherapist, and I'm fascinated by technology, science, philosophy, and various spiritualities. I write poetry, I´ve written two novels, and I have a really scary memoir. I teach workshops on Tantric spirituality, Buddhism, etc. I'm interested in and try to live as best I can an alternative lifestyle. I travelled around the world in 2019 - to South Africa for a week, to Europe, starting in France and doing a Grand tour, and then to the Americas North and Central.

If you would like to read my writing, you can get books of short stories and poetry here - https://www.amazon.com/Christopher-Michaels/e/B0160MWMO8/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1

PHILOSOPHY

I seek to live creatively, grow with insight, and seek deeper connections and understanding of the world, culture, and personal relationships.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

friendship, couch hosting and spreading the word where I can, and writing. I intend to visit Europe and America from April to August this year, hoping to meet lots of Couchsurfers as I travel.

Interests

I like movies, cooking and eating ;-), music, dance, bushwalking, showing off my home town, Sydney, talking and listening. My most important relaxation is writing, art, and philosophical contemplations and conversations about the world, life and everything. I'm a professional hypnotherapist with lots of qualification that continue to grow. Hypnosis, hypnotherapy and psychology are modernisations that deepen my fascination with Chinese, Buddhist and Tantra traditions of spiritualities. I draw all the time using watercolour pencils.

• culture
• writing
• poetry
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• meditation
• movies
• music
• psychology
• mountains
• art
• dance
• creativity
• hypnosis
• psytrance
• philosphy
• psychotherapy
• nlp
• buddism
• hypnotherapy

Music, Movies, and Books

I'm reading for research mostly at the moment history of 12th century England and the middle medieval period, as well as the psychology of the warrior and rhetoric for a novel or series I want to write. I love fiction read lots of sci-fi, fantasy, supernatural, animations. I love movies and tv in the same subject area, including documentary. My music tastes are very broad Tim Buckley, Led Zepplin, NIN, Dead Can Dance, Portishead, Lou Reed, David Bowie, soul, some rap, some dance music, definitely Blues and folk, electronica, 20th-century experimental music like Quartet at the End of Time, John Cage, etc

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I travelled to China in November 2011 for two weeks. I have visited many places, but the most beautiful and amazing place was Hua Shan (Mt Hua). It was like seeing the reality behind all those classical Chinese paintings of fog, mountains, and pine trees growing from rugged cliffs. Just brilliant. I travelled around England and Normandy in a campervan in February a few years ago. People thought I was insane because the temperature was -10 to 10C. But snow is so rare here in Oz that I found it exciting. 2019 round-the-world trip: 12 countries, 17 cities and 2 villages in France and Italy.

Teach, Learn, Share

Hypnotherapy, NLP, and strategic psychotherapy, Meditation, mindfulness contemplation, relaxation, massage, Tantric spirituality, Buddhism, cooking, Food, life.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Hypnosis for fun and exploring the psyche; help to Quit smoking, help with Anxiety, Depression, Phobias, being creative and freer; good cooking; a poem or two; good conversation (I hope); Art of you and/or your favourite people and places; and plenty of other fun stuff;

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Vanuatu

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, United States

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