A person with a free spirit, a quiet mind and a living body. I try to be the best that life can offer. The novelty is my lifestyle and simplicity is my passion.

@davizulu

I was born in Brasília in 1988 in a family of seven brothers, two of whom no longer live here. My parents, Isaías Gomes and Mauricéia da Silva, presented me with a childhood rich and vast enough for me to visit several states and a dozen cities until my late teens. An example of this is that I studied music and became a saxophonist in the Xingu region, in southeastern Pará, from 15 to 18 years old.

The question, as befits curious spirits, has always been with me, and it was spirituality that attracted my greatest attention. In it, in addition to the intense experience in popular religiosity until my adolescence (having studied Theology between 2008 and 2009), from the interiors between Sertão Nordestino, Amazônia and Goiás, on my family's routes in the forest-field.

Dissatisfaction with the inauthentic answers led me to pursue philosophy (whose graduation took place between 2010-2014) as something more than a simple hobby, as a way of life and profession, and I decided to pursue a degree in philosophy at the University of Brasília. There I experienced immersions in the great themes of existence, in the anguish, nausea and vertigo of the all too human world; in the hopes, potencies and beauties of awakened life as described by the great masters. However, the result of the saga was different from what I expected. I felt lacking in completeness, lacking in hope for the future. The skepticism and disenchantment of philosophical analysis took away much of my will to live. After graduating in Philosophy, in the aftermath of political struggles and theoretical shifts, I immersed myself in canvas painting that has always been around me as a demand for artistic dosage for the harshness of everyday social and political truths. During my Master's (2015-2017), I deeply reconnected with the Afro-Indigenous legacy of my parents through agroecology that provided me with an unusual and transcendent encounter with Heidegger's work, allowing me to search for "dwelling in the original home" as an impulse constant return to the origins.

In 2017, in the midst of a strong depression, I was invited to know the Family Constellation. I went without much expectation about therapy, but the potency of this knowledge immediately captivated me. The impact that the session left on me was big and enough to make me want to know in depth what that touching magic was, whose familiar characters lived the great saga of each one's daily life with such gravity, beauty and dignity that it made me feel light and serene after so long. I seemed to have found the "fluid" that connected all the fragmented parts of who I was outside of theories. During this period I met Ayahuasca, approached diasporic spirituality, and mystical and magical studies in general, and devoted myself to Tibetan Buddhism Vajrayana (Kagyupa School) becoming almost a monk in this tradition.

I graduated from the constellation in 2018 and was moved to look for its origins, in response to a call that I only understood later. Only then did I look into the spirituality of the Zulu people of South Africa, conducting an unprecedented research inside and outside Brazil where I discovered that the soul of the Systemic Family Constellation is Zulu. This involvement allowed me to drink from a fountain whose generous waters are abundant and perennial. I realized how much a new approach to the constellation would be better suited to respond to such richness. Thus, I created the Zulu Systemic Constellation, a therapeutic method that honors the origin of where you drink and immerses yourself in it without fear of getting lost in fragmenting cultural asepsis.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To discover new cultures, people, languages, philosophies and experiences.

Interests

• festivals
• beer
• meditation
• partying
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• painting
• music
• philosophy
• nature
• spirituality
• health
• therapy

Music, Movies, and Books

Musics: What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong; Freedom - Anthony Hamilton & Elayna Boynton; Mango - Kamauu.

Movies: Interestelar; Matrix; Perfume.

Books: I Ching, Shambala (Chögyam Trungpa); The Spirit of Intimacy (Sobonfu Somé).

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I started to build a round clay house.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach a lot in philosophy, Buddhism, politics and therapies.
I want to learn about the Zulu culture and language, the English language, the cuisine and spirituality of South Africa.
I can share my knowledge about samba, capoeira, painting, saxophone, candomblé, indigenous peoples, Brazilian politics and philosophy.

What I Can Share with Hosts

One bed in shared room, internet, bathroom, living room.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil