CURRENT MISSION

getting deeper into permaculture design thinking, nature connection, dream work and depth psychology

ABOUT ME

I deeply care about the environment and dream of a sustainable, self-sufficient life in harmony with nature. For me permaculture is a fantastic process-oriented approach to find solutions to the environmental problems we're facing. Yet with my background in Jungian psychology I think that to seriously tackle these problems, it's necessary to start with people care. First, we need to take a good, hard look at ourselves and start the change from within. I'm therefore very interested in self-exploration, -development and practicing mindfulness through yoga, meditation, sound healing, Kambo, sweat lodges, shamanic journeying, .... I'm also totally into gardening and was involved in a community garden project for 4 years. I love cycling, dancing, swimming, dreaming...

PHILOSOPHY

I think life will always remain mysterious and ultimately impenetrable - and I think that's great. Emotions, thoughts and challenges will come and go and wash over us like waves. It's not about becoming a perfect human being and to strive towards being always happy (an impossiblity anyway) but to find good strategies for how we cope with the dramas in life. I found that what works best for me personally are for the moment:
believing in my own strength and warrior spirit (thanks, Kambo!)
by not taking everything, above all myself, too seriously (thanks André Breton and your idea of black humour!)
and last but not least through LOVE ("Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” Rumi). :-)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

to meet new and interesting people.
to exchange life stories and to be granted a glimpse into someone else's unique perspectives on life.

Interests

Literature, music, nature, permaculture, eco villages, knitting, sewing, boating, cycling, wwoofing, my cats, bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen, ecotherapy, C. G. Jung, chance and synchronicity, Surrealism, playing, lucid dreaming, spirituality, strings of connections between things, bird songs, trees rustling, tides changing, clouds moving...

• literature
• dancing
• environment
• cooking
• yoga
• meditation
• gardening
• boating
• music
• cycling
• swimming
• psychology
• permaculture

Music, Movies, and Books

40s-60s Soul and Funk, Afrobeat (esp.: Femi Kuti, Manu Dibango, Antibalas), Electroswing, Sweet Smoke, Postal Service, Jose Gonzalez, Iron&Wine, Devendra Banhart, Ben Harper, Pupkulies&Rebecca, St Germain, Psychedelic Rock, Neil Young, , Calexico, Bob Dylan, Tim Buckley, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Buckethead, Shpongle, Kliment, Tycho, John Frusciante, Ataxia, ...

Natural Born Killers
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Withnail and I
Harold and Maude
Bondi Tsunami
Der Himmel über Berlin
Augsburger Puppenkiste
Lammbock
An Angle at my Table

The Wind-up bird Chronicle by Murakami
Janet Frame
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Jezt stillen wir unseren Hunger - Christoph Bauer
Kafka
Huxley
Nabokov
Heinrich Böll
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
all sorts of 19th century literature
E.T.A Hoffmann
E.A. Poe
Kult - Ljubko Deresch
Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins - Kundera
Mio mein Mio - Lindgren
and uncountable numbers of other good books!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

ask me. :-)

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach:

baking sourdough bread
jam making and other preserving
didgeridoo circular breathing
gardening
cooking
knitting and crocheting

I'd like to learn:
willow weaving
more yoga and pranayama
cheese making
Lindy Hop or similar, tribal dance
........ what do you have to offer?

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, China, Cook Islands, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Fiji, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United Kingdom