CURRENT MISSION

To meet more wombats (don't come across many around these parts of Australia), create meaninful connections to people and place, learn more about different cultures and wisdom traditions, and have some fun times along the way. I'm very keen to experience different countries, explore nature, check out lots of art, music, film and meet interesting people.

ABOUT ME

I live in Brisbane with two cats, Turi and Sita.

For the past decade I've become very interested in spiritual philosophies and practices. In 2021, I completed yoga teacher training and am happy to teach yoga or meditation with anyone whom I host or stay with. I also enjoy forest walking and hikes, which I consider to be a beautiful extension to any spiritual or meditative practice.

I'm very passionate about the arts, and for the last few years have been focusing on creating poems, which I sometimes marry with abstract video and music. I'm interested in the liberating potential of surrealist tools and techniques, and use these to produce poems; for example, I collect words from people at music festivals and then at the end of the festival I take all the singular words and move them around to lines begin to form and speak to me. I will be making poems on my upcoming trips to Asia and Europe, and would love for hosts to contribute a few words, if they like.

Last year, a friend and I started a surrealist group called Sanctuary of Surrealism. I'm also a board member, helping run a community art space in Brisbane, called House Conspiracy.

For work, I've recently started an online vinyl record store, and I work two days a week doing disability support work.

I've observed a vegetarian diet for around 27 years but am not against people whose diet differs. We all live different lives and follow different paths.

PHILOSOPHY

"nothing is everything we need"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Connect with people and share!

Interests

• animals
• cats
• arts
• literature
• traveling
• music
• nature
• film
• natural medicine
• yoga and meditation

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies - David Lynch, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Stanley Kubrick, Ingmar Bergman, Wim Wenders, Hayao Miyazaki, Sarah Polley, Taika Waititi, Alexandro Gonzalez Innaritu, Luis Bunuel, Ridley Scott (*mostly Blade Runner, mostly), Lars Von Trier, Satoshi Kon, Mamoro Oshii, and many more.

Books - Hermann Hesse, Albert Camus, Maya Angelou, Haruki Murakami, Alan Moore, Joan Didion, Aldous Huxley, Philip K Dick, Thich Nhat Hahn, Alan Watts, Ram Das, Hunter S Thompson, William S Burroughs, David Mack, George Orwell, Robert Anton Wilson, Neil Gaiman, Khaled Hosseini, and many more.

Music - Massive Attack, Neurosis, Bjork, Swans, The Mars Volta, Sigur Ros, The Necks, Radiohead, Meshuggah, Tool, Tori Amos, Kendrick Lamar, Alice Coltrane, Nils Frahm, DJ Shadow, The Presets, Nine Inch Nails, DJ Krush, Dead Can Dance, Underworld, Vangelis, The Cure, Autechre, Cult of Luna, Grails, Tame Impala, M83, LCD Soundsystem, Michael Jackson, Prince, Coil, Throbbing Gristle, The Roots, Public Enemy, The Prodigy, David Bowie, The Beatles and many more.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe; attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion; I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like... tears in rain.

19 day Annapurna trek in Nepal (majestic!). Earthquake hit when we were in Pokara (scary!).

Teach, Learn, Share

As much as possible

What I Can Share with Hosts

Food, culture, time and space.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Germany