CURRENT MISSION

One person can already make a change.
One strong team can move mountains.
Thats why I am Growing. Loving. Embracing and enjoying our life journey.

ABOUT ME
Claudia:
I'm a creative, fair-minded and honest person and like to care as much for myself as I do for others. By "growing up" ;) I found out that it's also wise to deal more with your own character than to care about other people's attitudes. I'm really into living a healthy & qualitative lifestyle, I don't smoke or drink & I'm not at all a "party-person"(although I really enjoy lovely evenings with friends/people & dinner, going to concerts and dancin...) The practice of Ashtanga Yoga is a vital part of my life and I love to work with my green/ethical/organic business. Currently very interested in waste-reduction, decluttering and fair-trade fashion.

Sascha:
I think I'm a very companionable guy, like discussions about any kind of topics, jamming together with people, making music (handpan, rav vast drum, guitar, percussions), going hiking, TRAIL running !!!!! reading a good book and enjoy the time when my first daughter is at our place. I'm a Nuad Thai Massage therapist, give concerts and love to manufacture instruments and get better in that.

We both strive to improve ourselves and our lives constantly since for us it is necessary to work on yourself and to always learn. Having been vegetarian for 8 years we grew into a bigger understanding of how we see food and where it comes from. So having an awareness for what we eat is more important than what we actually eat.... although we also think that everybody should be sensual to listen to his own body what it needs - and this might differ. We're always up for vegan inspirations and try to also focus on such a diet more and more.

PHILOSOPHY

Claudia: Currently I am building an international team in ethical, green business, especially helping woman and (stay at home) mums to develop an independent life. I am highly interested in personal growth, surrounding myself mostly with inspiring people to have a good and nurturing exchange. We are trying to live a sustainable life in many areas like food, work, fair wear, fresh bodycare etc... For many years I was spending a lot of time with yoga and it still is constantly changing my way of living what I highly appreciate. Awareness rises towards so many things that just influence your way positively. Besides the mission to not stop becoming a better person my philosophy is that "What you give to the world and people, will come back to you". Starter example: Try give a smile to a stranger once in a while :)
Sascha: love is in everything, it is upon you to see & find it

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

We love to travel!!! So if we are not somewhere IN THE WORLD ourselves, we love to invite a little part of THE WORLD into our home :)

Hosted:
Florian - from Germany
Bertrand & Pascal - from France
Thomas - from US/Virginia
Nelson & Yara - from Brazil
Tali & Marc - from US/AUS
Liz & Mark - from US/California
Del - from US/Sacramento
Renee - from Australia
Teresa - from US/Oakland
Miranda - from The Netherlands
Tini - from Austria
Nikky & Cameron - from Minnesota
Nabil - from Toronto
Marwa - from Cairo
Praveen - from India
Anjali & Ujjwal - from India/Ireland

Surfed:
Andreas - in Munich, Germany
Andrew - in Hoofddorp, The Netherlands
Andrea - in Wels, Austria
Nabil - in Toronto, Canada
Toni - in Tuscany, Italy
Brigitte - in Tuscany, Italy

It was a pleasure meeting all of you guys! Maybe see you again one day :)

Interests

Yoga, travelling, personal growth development, sustainable lifestyle, nature, ski touring, meditation, chanting, reading, running, hiking, mountainbiking, foreign languages, music, concerts, cooking, playing guitar, handpan & singing, spirituality... the Harambee association (www.harambee.at), through which we have our kenian goddaughter

• books
• singing
• concerts
• festivals
• dining
• cooking
• indian food
• vegetarian
• yoga
• dieting
• running
• meditation
• gardening
• reading
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• hiking
• snorkeling
• skiing
• handpan

Music, Movies, and Books

music:
Chill Out, Balkan, Handpan, kirtan concerts, bon iver, prem joshua, tash sultana, manu delago, john frusciante, yann tiersen, xavier rudd, david bowie, sting, georg danzer, buena vista social club, leonard cohen, ray charles, the beatles, Nahko Bear

books:
Habakuck & Hibbelig, Shantaram, The Kiterunner, The Alchemyst, Tiger fressen keine yogis, Shivamoon, Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran, Sofies verden, Fire in the heart, Das Gesetz der Resonanz, Eat-Pray-Love, Peaceful Warrior, Desert Flower, A thousand splendid suns, the other hand, The prophecies of Celestine, The Power of Now

movies:
Captain Fantastic, Alphabet, Bekas, The Danish Girl, Imagine, Avatar, Hugo Cabret, Så som i himmelen, A touch of spice, Slumdog Millionaire, Into the Wild, Amèlie, Big Fish, The Pursuit Of Happiness, Water, August Rush, Thrive, Unterwegs in die nächste Dimension, Awake!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Claudia:
- giving birth to our daughter in 2017
- 5 weeks trip through Bali with Sascha and our little Sunshine
- 3 weeks trip through Tuscany with my family in a Campervan (and staying at Couchsurfers)
- being at the Griasdi Festival in Austria for 3 times already
- a 8 month India-SEA-Trip in 2008/09 that led me to Yoga
- Staying 2 nights in the Indian desert under a million stars without a tent
- Diving with a 3m whaleshark & a swarm of barracudas
- Sharing with crowds of indians a nighttrain/-bus - in the 2nd class - funny thing :)
- Sun eclipse in my teens
- Going twice to the source of Ashtanga Yoga, Mysore, for 2 months
- Cooking traditional austrian "G'röste Knödl" for local burmese guesthouse-owners/friends, made out of burmese ingredients to replace the original ones
- getting a massive "shower" on the "Hornblower" boat at the Niagara Falls
- hiking in Sardinia and showering in an outside-free-shower in the middle of nature

Sascha:
- birth of my daughters
- travelling through myanmar with my girlfriend & meeting burmese hilltribes and spending time with them
- doing a 2 month travel to Northern India, exploring Varanasi, Rajasthan and Rishikesh
- a one-month trip to Northern Thailand to deepen my Thaimassage skills with my teachers

Teach, Learn, Share

We can teach how to make the most DELICIOUS Smoothies, Indian food or vietnamese raw spring rolls, REAL Indian CHAI tea, share yoga, go trail running or ski touring, handpan music, playing guitar, jamming, singing and exchange or give stories or suggestions for the places/countries we have been to, we share our lovely home with you and will be happy to share all beautiful places around so you get to know them!

There is so much to learn also. Whatever inspiring thing you have done, are working for or dreaming to do... we love to get new Ideas and inspirations!

What I Can Share with Hosts

a lovely home nearby an even lovelier lake, a beautiful (walk through the) forest, some fruit or veggies from our garden in summer, and overall

LAUGHS, TALKS, MUSIC and YOGA.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria

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