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Overview

  • 4 references 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Portuguese
  • 40, Male
  • Member since 2006
  • Green Jobs Trainer & Mentor
  • BS in Mechanical Engineering Boston University
  • From Somerdale, NJ, USA
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Awakening Hearts

ABOUT ME

Back in Philly after years of travel-wandering-studying. Soon to be taking a yoga teacher training in a prison, and raising rabbits in my backyard. I'm a permaculture instructor, entrepreneur, musician, and paddleboarder.

PHILOSOPHY

I live my life to create and act on an embiggened sense of selfishness. My kick is to inspire the regeneration of enjoyable, edible, ecological, expanding Edens.

I believe that Life is miraculous and anything that is alive is worthy of dignity and respect, and that all religious practices can contribute to such an affirming culture.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I enjoy meeting people from around the world and introducing them to rad underground parties and art gardens they would otherwise miss in the City of Brotherly Love.

Interests

avant gardening & compost modernism, the art of questioning, tracking, bird song, nature awareness, sunrise & sunsets, open genuine strangers, bicycling, creating music & short films & events and experiencing others' creations

  • arts
  • culture
  • yoga
  • meditation
  • gardening
  • movies
  • traveling
  • music
  • kayaking
  • camping
  • hunting
  • biology
  • engineering
  • entrepreneurship
  • physics
  • nature
  • permaculture
  • healing
  • consciousness
  • herbalism
  • paddleboarding
  • nanotechnology
  • complementary currency

Music, Movies, and Books

American Beauty, I Heart Huckabees, Holy Mountain, my friends' experimental folk music/anything genuine, Ishmael, Siddharta, Gaia's Garden, Story of B, Underground Praise Music

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

lived in an EcoVillage called IPEC and traveled solo across central Brasil; lived in an unheated yurt (no wood stove) with no electricity in late fall/early winter in Santa Fe; worked full-time as an engineer in New York City while couchsurfing with friends for 2 months; lived in a North Berkeley permie house where i shared a room with 4 people and 4 roosters, hah

Teach, Learn, Share

ReWildin' Out is the lifestyle of living as a wild family in brotherhood with all creatures. A mixture of the ancient arts of gatherer-hunters with the collective organizing techniques of today that utilizes all available technologies to develop expanding conscious co-evolution. Just as much based on inner clarity, communication, community & patterns of positive interactions with the local ecosystem out to the depths of the universe.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Tales of adventure and reveling in the small beauties of life.

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, Canada

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, United States

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