Kiwi (i.e. from Aotearoa) yoga practitioner/instructor & Registered Nurse, irrepressibly physical nature & interest in using the body to attain/maintain high, consistent energy levels, positivity, absolute awakening, abiding happiness, making a better world, living in nature, ideal & real life on a planet hurtling headlong 2 The Matrix/Mad Max and/or Waterworld. I ran the West London Yogashala in the UK 4 past decade, + led yoga retreats in Greece, Turkey, Thailand and India, and taught at Glastonbury and Buddhafield Festivals. Love hiking/camping/bushwalking/tramping and Burning Man!! Yeah go crazy safely third (kidding). In April 2008 came back to Aotearoa (Wellington, specifically), and returning to hospital nursing while I help my parents into a new living situation in their retirement...
Overall I'm initiating a major life-shift to develop life-affirming skills (eco-dwelling construction method, permaculture organic farming, off-grid energy systems) planning self-sufficient yoga/tantra-based retreat community in NZ. Won Green Card in the US Visa Diversity lottery, gave it back in 2006. I'm watching with great interest and sadness the political and social deterioration in much of the world following the Bush administration administering the 9/11 attacks and shredding the US Constitution preparatory to the worldwide dump after the pump, which we are just starting to see become evident. It is still a beautiful world, and it really is both imperative and very challenging to be involved in grass-roots structures that are self-sustaining and non-damaging...