Current mission: To uncover, recover and discover.

I have a very curious spirit, which helps me see and seek beauty in all kinds of situations. I am allergic to formalities and deeply sensitive to injustice, I react strongly to absurd rules and tend to question the status quo.
I feel most at home with people that I call hybrids, people that are wide in terms of openness to the world, experiences and interests. I tend to avoid homogeneous groups, they usually make me feel alone, as if my complexities and the various parts of myself don't have enough space to unfold.

I traveled the world quite a bit since early adulthood and got to meet exceptional people. But most of all I learned how to find calm in chaotic situations, how to develop a radical openness and create space for the unexpected. And I had quite enough unexpectedness when I turned 24 and had to go through several surgeries because of a sinus tumor. It was awfully painful and challenging but also full of contrasts, 10 years have passed and I see how it has enriched my soul in so many ways, but also made me more fragile in some other ways. Made my carefreeness more lucid.

I crave and nurture deep, intimate connections. I dance (mainly a form of leftist, inclusive ballet which I fell in love with), sing, practice yoga, meditate, am vegan, have a love for animals, nature, reading and writing... and so much more. I am a city lady as I grew up in Montreal, but I have deep countryside roots (both of my parents are from charming small towns in Quebec and we spent all our childhood summers there).

Curiosity, sensitivity and humor are my core characteristics, those that remain when everything else is being washed away by the years.

"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order." - Carl Jung
"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself: I am large, I contain multitudes." - Walt Whitman
"La lucidité est la blessure la plus rapprochée du soleil." - René Char

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

Many great experiences and encounters in Australia, in Europe, in the US, in India, in Indonesia and in Turkey. I have met golden hearts through this website.

兴趣

All kinds of arts, really. Even better when they are mixed.

• animals
• arts
• culture
• writing
• literature
• poetry
• singing
• theater
• beauty
• dancing
• environment
• cooking
• yoga
• running
• meditation
• traveling
• painting
• music
• piano
• cycling
• hiking
• scuba diving
• anthropology
• languages
• philosophy
• psychology
• science
• sociology
• nature
• friends
• spirituality
• intersectionality
• veganism
• psychedelics
• mycology

音乐、电影和书籍

Movies- Amal, American Beauty, Boyhood, Dead Poets Society, The theory of everything, Life is Beautiful, Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Into the wild, Melancholia, Pina, Mr Gaga (Ohad Naharin), Before Sunrise, Before Sunset (I mean, all Ethan Hawke's movies, really), Lars and the real girl, Lion, The tree of life, The skin I live in, Ensemble c'est tout, L'auberge espagnole, Intouchables, Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Simone: Le voyage du siècle.

Music- Classical and jazz piano, indie, rock, soul, folk, funk, experimental, world, cinematic and wildly eclectic.

Books- The Brontë sisters, Henri Michaux, Henry Miller, Milan Kundera, Charles Dickens, Marguerite Duras, Sylvia Plath, René Char, Delphine de Vigan, Henri Charrière, Rainer Maria Rilke, Claire Marin, Anne Dufourmantelle, Herménégilde Chiasson, Nicolas Lévesque, James Baldwin, Mary Oliver, Isabel Allende, Alessandro Baricco, Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Veil, Rebecca Solnit, Romain Gary, Philippe Lançon (Le lambeau), Henry James, Irvin Yalom, Viktor Frankl, Marie Uguay, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Liz Plank (For the love of men), Bell hooks and LOTS of others.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

"If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt." - Julie Delpy in Before Sunrise

Discovering scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef. Then diving with sharks, manta rays, sea turtles and amazing other marine creatures in various places. Singing with the whales at Les Escoumins, Québec. Meditating in a floatation bath at Spa Ovarium, Québec. Roadtripping around the east coast of Australia. Kissing while skydiving in Australia. Riding horses, camels, elephants and building trust with them. Riding a motorbike with friends in Hampi, India, to reach the Monkey Temple. Practicing yoga in an ashram in Rishikesh, overcoming my fear of falling and doing a headstand without the help of a wall for the first time. Meditating at the Protestant Church of Reconciliation at Dachau concentration camp, Germany. The powerful effects of loving kindness meditation. Tasting different kinds of love. Crying for the beauty of Lanikai, Hawaii. Hiking Samaria Gorge in Greece, the Alps in Germany, Plitvice National Park in Croatia. Ballooning at sunrise in Cappadocia, Turkey. Paragliding in Olüdeniz, Turkey. Hot springs in Pamukkale, Turkey. Welcoming the arrival of monsoon with Nepali people. Sleeping on sand dunes, on beaches, on boats, on roof tops, out in the open, in jungles, in camper vans, in huts, pretty much everywhere. The generosity of an Indian family who took care of me when I had a pneumonia. Waking up from my last surgery feeling nothing but joy and bliss for the first time, after a man held my head in his warm hands saying "think of beautiful things", while they were putting me to sleep. Experiencing the loving brutality of the Turkish hammams. Dancing naked in the rain in Jamaica with my best friend. Tasting delicious food everywhere with lovely people. Chasing mushrooms in the magical forest of Sintra, Portugal. Picking up honeyberries with alpacas and friends in Saguenay, Québec. Learning to sing. Learning ballet. And, of course: the endless gifts of CouchSurfing.

教，学，和分享

I can teach you French, ice skating, a bit of singing or yoga or dancing, and share so much more.
I love all languages: I believe they tell a lot about a culture.

I would be pleased to learn anything about your life experiences and challenges, your culture and influences, everything that you feel like sharing and made you who you are.

我游览过的国家

Australia, Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Fiji, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, United States, Vatican City State

我居住过的国家

Australia, Canada

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