Ayşen

Turkey
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My next destination:
Costa Rica - from May 2024 until Aug 2025
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Hi, I’m Ayşen Luna. I’m a multidisciplinary artist, yoga and meditation instructor, art teacher, and Thai massage therapist from Istanbul, Turkey.

With over 15 years of experience teaching visual arts to all ages, I’ve worked in schools, educational centers, and volunteer projects across diverse communities.

Since 2015, I’ve also been sharing yoga and meditation, trained in Hatha, Vinyasa, Tao-Vinyasa, Yin, and Restorative styles. Also I am a Thai massage therapist.

My latest passion is Intuitive Painting—a fusion of yoga, meditation, dance and movement and creative expression combination with painting process to dive in to creative process and unleash creativity.

I have a rich background in volunteering, from gardening and kitchen help to guest support, pet care, and house-sitting. I enjoy living close to nature, value sustainable living, and bring a strong sense of responsibility and care to everything I do.
Interests
Gardening
History
Hitchhiking
Charity work
Cooking & food
Books
Beach
Art & design
Architecture
Animals
Water sports
Yoga / Wellness
Sustainability
Self development
Sailing / Boating
Plant care
Photography
Pets
Outdoor activities
Nature
Music
Languages
Hiking
Events & social
Drawing & painting
Dancing
DIY & crafts
Cycling
Culture
Camping
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Turkish: Fluent
Spanish: Intermediate
More details about my language interests
I want to get better with my Spanish skill.
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Skills and knowledge I'd like to share or learn
Some knowledge of:
DIY and building projects
General Maintenance
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Life at a Farmstay
Eco Projects
Helping around the house
Animal Care
Hospitality/Tourism
Charity Work
Languages
Helping with Computers/ Internet
Gardening
Able to teach about:
Art Projects
Teaching
More details about your skills
I'm good at:
All kinds of creative work, particularly draw and paint but I just love creating things.
Teach art, lead an art project and also an art therapy workshop that combines with art, yoga, meditation, and dance
Yoga and meditation classes, workshops, organizing retreats...
Thai yoga massage
DIY projects.
My passion is making tea, herbal fusion, also cold teas...
I worked as a volunteer in many fields most of the time in tourism more than ten years.
I also love to learn new skills that interest me...
Age
43
What else ...
My other passions in life are; climbing on trees and rocks, eating from fruit trees, watching sunsets and sunrises, dancing, traveling, meeting new cultures and people, getting new perspectives, and understanding a new way of life.
I really enjoy the cultural exchange, learning new languages, artistic skills and food as well... generally learning from life...

I love nature and animals, and care about our planet and mother nature a lot... so interested in sustainable living, recycling, and upcycling...
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- Smoker
- Driver's licence
- Allergies
- Special dietary requirements

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10 Jul 2024

Left by Workawayer () for host (Stay in our treehouse in the ...)

First of all, it is impossible to tell, only with few sentences, my experience here in this jungle...
I can write a book about here and Rodrigo.…
But anyway, I'll try my best...

Rodrigo is an amazing person, so creative, energetic, joyful... it’s really nice to be around him… I love to see his works and really like to help him in an artistic way… read more

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10 Jul 2024

Left by host (Stay in our treehouse in the ...) for Workawayer ()

Luna came to stay with us for a few days and ended up staying for a few weeks. She is very connected with nature and understands her surroundings and the needs of the place. Her yoga and therapeutic massages are incredibly amazing. I definitely recommend Ayşen/Lua (Portuguese)/Luna (Spanish)/Moon (Eng) Luna is well capable of managing any place in… read more

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24 May 2024

Left by Workawayer () for host (Collaboration in a Reserve of ...)

Amazing place and amazing host Tere… I was thinking of staying a week but it ended a mouth. If I didn't have to move, I might stay even longer.

The place surrounds with natural reserves, everywhere green, green, green, and butterflies with all colors and birds, tucans, snakes, many kinds of insects, and many more animals visiting every day. Also… read more

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18 Apr 2024

Left by Workawayer () for host (Harmonization and cleaning of ...)

My shortest, only one night, and worst volunteer experience! They gave me a tent with really old dirty blankets as a mattress without any sleeping bag or clean bedsheet. The whole night, it rained a lot, my whole bag and old blankets got wet and I couldn't sleep at all! The next day I told Ale that “I don't want to be in the same situation again… read more

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10 Jul 2024

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10 Jul 2024

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24 May 2024

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18 Apr 2024

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21 Dec 2023

Left by host (Help on our family farm in ...) for Workawayer ()

Learning yoga with Luna is going deep into the self-knowledge of your body, how it wants to move and feel, is very mindful. Luna is very delicate, and allows knowing this movements in a simple and extremely pleasant way.
I have never stopped doing yoga the way Luna taught me, because she taught me to connect with how my body needs to move, and… read more

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10 Dec 2023

Left by Workawayer () for host (Help on our family farm in ...)

It was just a pleasure living here, spending some time on a big cacao farm, learning all the processes of the cacao, tasting all the tastes of cacao, doing daily yoga practice with Tanya, and sometimes with guests, and doing some cacao art for the farm…

I spent 3 weeks at this beautiful place and for me, it was one of the best times in my Latin… read more

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25 Jul 2023

Left by host (Help at our family hostel and ...) for Workawayer ()

Aysen is a calm person and very focused on the art she makes and she understood the idea we had about the Mural very well.
if someone needs an artist, she is the right person.
She spent 3 weeks with us and we learned things from each other.
In the kitchen they will miss her and the pets too.
We wish you all the best from now on.

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24 Jul 2023

Left by Workawayer () for host (Help at our family hostel and ...)

Staying here and spending time with this lovely family was absolutely amazing...
I stayed there for 3 weeks and paint a mural for one of the walls in the garden and while doing so enjoy a calm life here which was I really need it.
Juan who is the funniest and the only English speaker in the house. We had many conversations about many stuff and… read more

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12 Jun 2023

Left by host (Come and help at our ecolodge ...) for Workawayer ()

Was very nice to have luna in the crew, she helped us making some amazing painting in the compost toilet and I can say she got super skills 🎨, in the dinner table we were always laughing and having good time, Also luna got lot of compromise with the beach clean ups and we appreciate it that sensibility about the taking care of the… read more

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4 Jun 2023

Left by Workawayer () for host (Come and help at our ecolodge ...)

It was just a dream that stays Juan de Dio, enjoying the beach (most of the time only me 🐳) having coconut water, making coconut milk and amazing fish dishes just from the Pacific Ocean every day, also kayaking at the mangrove forest...
It sounds like a dream yeah... I was...
I stayed two weeks at Juan de Dios, making art on one of the compost… read more

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14 Apr 2023

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She was a great yoga teacher.

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14 Apr 2023

Left by Workawayer () for host (Help on the Carribean cost of ...)

My best place in town...
Doing yoga at 11 on the small terrace was the only duty that I have and also speak about my classes... which is always a pleasure for me...Meeting nice people, sharing nice vibes, and always with nice music... I had always good moments in this place...
Living in the town, near the river.... getting my river shower every… read more

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6 Oct 2020

Left by host (Farming and gardening nestled ...) for Workawayer ()

Ayşen was joinig us for a week. Ayşen is brilliant person. Somehow she gives hapiness in every little job she do. I can definetly say that Ayşen does all the work with love. Even cleaning. She is a perfect Yogataecher, she cooks very delicious, and she paints.. Ayşen painted for us something special.
I hope she will come again.
Thank you Ayşen.

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6 Oct 2020

Left by Workawayer () for host (Farming and gardening nestled ...)

I stayed a week with Yücel and Fero, I participated many different tasks with pleasure. I helped with cleaning and cooking also got an experience on permaculture and gardening also build a new coop for new chicken and babies then made a small art project for chicken coop. We shared many good experience together. Yücel is a very friendly and… read more

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27 Mar 2019

Left by host (Help with an educational ...) for Workawayer ()

Aysen was the first volunteer from Turkey, the country I wanted to visit ever since I read Homer's Iliad as a kid. I fell in love with Troy. the unfortunate city which was destined to fall in 1184 BC due to the Greek-Trojan war that was said to have lasted for 10 years.

Aysen was an easygoing young girl who had a very creative mind. She was the… read more

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27 Mar 2019

Left by Workawayer () for host (Help with an educational ...)

It was the first Work Away experience of mine and I will never forget it. I could not have any of authentic Sri Lankan experience than this!
I spent a week with the best host family, Nadeeka, Rohana and their two beautiful children at Ralapanawa. They're all so lovely, generous and smiling always and Nadeeka is a really great cook.
I was teaching… read more

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