The focus this year 2024 was on connections and friendships.
In my review of the year 2023, I wrote that I would take care of my friends in 2024 and want to be more for others.
There were so many opportunities with friends and family to spend the time and experience deep connection.
But a little thorn picks, because I didn't get through really financially. There were talks with interested people in my work and there were promising opportunities that were so happy and then disappointed again, because then there was a standstill. So the year did not feel like this in the river, while it flourished and expanded privately. According to the motto: Happy is the one who is able to accept what life has to reveal. This is healthy. This works with the cycles that everyone has for themselves. It would be really stupid to want to go swimming at low tide!

My topics and highlights in 2024

Maintain friendships. A deliberate luxury.

It was a year where my private matters had more focus. There were some re -encounters and a stay on the
Atlantic coast with friends who went longer than I thought, and that was just right.
I was able to meet people who I haven't seen for a long time and suddenly came back into my life and I spent time with them.
Very valuable! So this year I was in Rome, on Sardinia, at the Atlantic in Morocco, in Marrakech (as always), in Colmar at the end of his studies for the international business Man of my nephew Aaron. And I met with a desert women's group at Lisa in Austria, which our desert women group invited to their wonderful chalet for 2 days.

My health played a major role this year.

On my way back from the desert, my eye had got inflammation through a train. The treatment worked for me longer and I took these signs more seriously than usual. Somehow the health grievances did not stop this year. That warned me to take care of me again and take the care seriously for me. . Although I don't swallow everything that was put to me in medicine and questioned some treatment measures. So there was a lot of research on my differently stressful topics.

New travel routes in Morocco: The sea and the mountains

The idea of ​​getting to know the Atlantic in the south in Morocco has been on my bucket list for so long. I know Essaouira and Tamraght .
I didn't know
Sidi Ifni and Mirleft I am a marine boy, a fish, a former swimmer and vexum swimmer who loves the sea. So far I have almost always been on the Mediterranean and I like to passively swim towards the horizon. But in even 5 weeks at the Atlantic, with the extensive beaches and the waves, the total fascination of the Atlantic Ocean did not pack me. Why? Because I couldn't go swimming, just splashed out and freezing in the water to play the waves unmotivated. I should have done a surf course. But I don't! Instead, we were always on various beach sections with friends for lunch. And what is cooked by the sea with Moroccans? Of course Tajine! I really liked the town of Mirleft, near Sidi ifni.

3 desert trips that were more different than ever!

What makes a good trip? The place, the sights, the people, the experiences?
Since 2022 I have been going into the desert with my Sahara team, where we accompany people with their topics they have brought with them.

This year it was sometimes almost a roulette game with the trips: first a lot of registrations, then back again. In addition, water played a huge role in Morocco! At first it rained in a floodful manner and villages were partly under water, children shook in streams that were created on their doorstep. Others enjoyed the resulting small lakes and pools between the sand dunes. That looked very impressive! So there was more water in the desert! A lake that has dried up for 5o years with a length of 9 km and 4.5 km wide was filled with water again after this violent rainstation and it became green in the Sahara everywhere. After that there were an infinite number of flies. Despite all circumstances, popular tourist locations in the desert were full of people. This has the result for our future trips that we will no longer visit these “tourist highlights” on our desert tours in the high season.

My third home gets a front door

I have been commuting a lot between Morocco, Germany and Sicily for three years.
For work and for friendships. This year some new considerations came into my life and it became more and more clear
that it was time for a common place. An idea that will accept 2025 forms. I am the type of person who can be everywhere and can adapt well. Let's see how I will feel when I actually open a new front door there one day.

Interviews, invitations to podcasts

I think I moved a lot for my business in 2024. You don't see much of it. I would be happy to be on and would be happy to receive accepted offers. Sometimes I lose the desire to learn from the ongoing and hardly have a result. It is also about how people find one online. Sometimes I am annoyed that I need everything for so long and then I am going to question everything. So at the end of the year I look at my year 2024 and feel neither successful nor unsuccessful. Between trust and seeds, between euphoria and frustration I observe what that does to me.
This year I celebrated a milestone birthday and the number tells me: girl, you don't have that much time!

More beautiful and special moments in 2024

Learning in the desert: My first Tai-Chi seminar in the middle of the dunes

My first Tai-Chi seminar in the desert in a permanent place with three women was a new project that I tried.
At first I was not so convinced of the idea not to hike from place to place, but to stay in a place.
Since I had never offered it before, I thought, ok, try it. And? What a surprise!
I really liked it, even though a lot went wrong:
First the three women from Frankfurt arrived with Lufthansa without luggage! The whole plane arrived without luggage and hand luggage.
We had to wait for the luggage until the next evening and so our further travel plans had to move backwards.
Last but not least, it suddenly started to rain heavily in Marrakech! All night we drove over the Atlas in the snow and reached the place in the desert city very very late.

The next day the jeep went deeper into the desert. Our desert crew was already waiting there in the camp specially built for us. There was even a simply built hammam. And there was only sunshine! We felt like children and queens at the same time in our beautiful cozy camp in the middle of the Sahara.
Apart from exercises and conversations, daily dune hikes and dromais, there was life to experience in its simplicity. Without a cell phone, without and should, simply sitting, walking, observing (dromedar TV from 5 p.m.). Without input from outside, to experience the pure joy that needs nothing more than mindfulness and attention in the now. What a paradise and blessing the desert in this information -over -flooded world!

A little feedback from a participant for this retreat
tai chi desert travel

Fascinating starry skies and very special people
Hello Nora,
thank you for being part of this great women, no queen. You have not promised too much when you announced us daily delicacies, breathtaking landscapes, magical nights, a fascinating starry sky and very special people. Starting with you, a warm and so sympathetic life artist, further with our desert boys, who spoiled us every day with delicious food, attentions, music and hikes through a beautiful nature. The sand bathing and the hammam were unbelievable ... I really felt like a queen. Our daily small exercises, the intensive conversations and the opportunity to finally deal with themselves in peace have made these days so infinitely valuable for me. Astrid (desert retreat February 2024)

I think you lose the youth faster when you stop feeling like a child and play.
And we did! We played: This is our new home.

Ice swimming: Between two retreats in the desert, I have meanwhile been to the ice swimming event in the customs house in Neuhermsdorf, the Zollhaus Open.
My family has been organizing this brilliant popular event of the ice swimming work for 3 years and it is very popular from the start and grows and grows!
Martina and I helped and "lost time", but I am not swimming with for health reasons.

My nephew accompanies me through sand and storm

My nephew Aaron accompanied me in the March desert trip. To film. We flew out of Basel together, a day after he celebrated his 4-year studies as an international businessman in Colmar. That was an emotional experience!
Then we are from Colmar to Basel by train to fly from there with the plane to Marrakech.
Aaron is supposed to film my desert trips. The only young man with us women was definitely not always easy for him. Especially since we experienced a sandstorm for several hours on the day and then sometimes had to move closer together in two large tents. At night the sand storm was conjured up. Since Aaron with his company Addicted to Nature deals with the environment, nature and natural products, it was interesting for him to look at the life of the nomads and also see how environmental influences in this region were harmful. His short film on YouTube gives an insight into life in the desert and he also integrates his personal experiences. You can see Aaron's film here.

Why choose direct paths when the circumstances are more fun?

Quickly arrive and want to get there, stress me. I discovered the slow trip from A to B for me.
I chose intermediate landings in my travel plans, where I could meet with friends. What a brilliant trip that is!
The path gets weight and importance and not the goal.
So this type of travel is relaxed for me, chilled and I have the opportunity to meet friends who have not been met for a long time.

On the way to Marrakech, I flew from Sicily to Sardinia in the spring and visited my girlfriend Kristine with her husband at her holiday destination,
which I have known from WG times in New York since I was 20.

Another time I flew to Morocco via Rome and stayed with my former sister -in -law Martina and had a really great evening with a valuable exchange, enjoyed visiting a typical Roman location for eating, with Bailey and chocolate in the famous chocolate factory. This is located in the district of San Lorenzo in Rome. There is this famous location where you can eat and drink. It is called Said (Società anonima Industria Dolciumi) and is a real piece of jewelry in the capital. This old chocolate factory is actually only available in Rome. The other factories are located in London and Dubai.

There are still Sicily- every year for a few months: working and living by the sea.

Enjoy your meal! Dolce Vita! Swimming, yoga, dance leg swinging, ice bathing, enjoying silence in the morning, meeting new guests, friends, going out and lust!
In addition , I give here: massages and Ayurvedic bodywork, energy work with Qigong, advice and individual 1: 1 offers.

My family has been living in Sicily for over 50 years. my second home is also available in Cefalú in Sicily My father's home!

My 2024 conclusion

Even if it is not so much visible on the outside, I should not forget that processes take time
and my little will against what should be now will not always win. And that's okay too!

My conclusion professionally: always stay tuned! It continues step by step. Even small steps count!
Conclusion private: Care connections is an important foundation for my life!

What am I proud of in 2024?

• That I always find the courage to jump into the unknown
• Created a new desert trip with Tai-Chi.
• That I stay true to myself in all decisions and now know: I can trust my intuition!
• That I broke up with people who either sucked me, wanted to benefit from me or simply
  played a wrong game!
• That I was able to do a few little miracles in my work in Sicily as Ayurvedic bodyworker and masseuse and
  was even invited to "healing" to northern Italy (which I did not do).
  And: I don't call myself a healer!
• That I finally have a beautiful massage room in Sicily, created with Isabel!
• About the many yoga classes I gave in Sicily.
  
  

What didn't work in 2024?

The men's desert trip worked zero!
In 2023 I had a request whether I could only offer a desert trip with only men.
Ahh, I had to think about it for a while before I said yes. It should come to the 8-10 men.
But the wives didn't really play along. So I went out of this trip, a trip for couples. But there were also complications
and both travel ideas did not come about.
That was also a situation where I didn't hear my inner voice and I actually knew beforehand that this trip would not take place.
Is I annoyed? Because of the time and the money what I spent on it? No! Because if you don't dare, you will never know if it works.
And I decided to dare.

Cooperation with a company that offers your employee personality seminars and retreats seems to me to have a very interesting opportunity.
So this request for this series of seminars in the desert is not yet off the table. This can still take until 2026 to be implemented.
Samples have already been placed and the concept has already been worked out.

We can make offers for the universe again and again. The decision whether it will be what is not always with us. We can play!

What did I learn about myself in 2024?

• Giving up is not an option! In 2024 it felt like it for me again and again as if the year is full of opportunities and is promising, and in the end it turns out a lot as hot air. My mindset and setting was checked quite nicely. My self -confidence sometimes came out of time and I asked myself this kind of questions:
  Whether all the learning and further development for my business may not be a love war ... If my
  online offers are not interested anyway? Ok, very negative. I know! Sometimes I am too, the one who loses courage and becomes defiant. Even though I am known to lead people to their hearts and joy.
  
• What I also learned about myself in 2024 is that I can trust my intuition.
  There were situations that showed me how well I can "read" people and that my first thought to them finally confirmed. There were a few disappointments, but the real learning was to set limits and distance myself. And without feeling bad!
  
• If the ship sinks when everyone gives up when it gets difficult, I get really awake. Typical for a scorpion born. We like challenges. There were some of them this year! I recognized that this train is one of my strengths.
  
  
  

I did that for the first time in 2024

I fulfilled a dream: I have been thinking about renting a house by the sea in Morocco and having time to write without distraction. It turned out differently, but it was just right, because I don't do the time without spending the time without concrete tasks.
We rented a beautiful villa directly above the sea with plenty of space. The only chopping was: I had a total writer's block!
I sat there now and everything was perfectly arranged, but the hunger was missing. So I quickly decided to accept what makes life possible for me at this moment: to spend a lot of time together. And that got really good when I ceased to feel bad that I got too little "in order".
So I fully got involved in the Moroccan lifestyle and the one meant to change rhythm and from the night often became day.
Most dinner at midnight (sometimes it was only cooked).
For a woman like me who constantly deals, trains and learns and does ... .. did the feeling of nothing really well.

What am I particularly grateful for 2024?

I am very grateful for my partnerships and friendships privately and professionally. They nourish me, they catch me up, inspire them and encourage me to go on again and again and not to give up my dreams. Really showing yourself with all its strengths and weaknesses and dropping trustingly, it is definitely that I am very grateful for!

In my personal development, I learned to take less personally and to keep the inner peace. Mostly. Doesn't always work, but more and more! To wait more than react immediately.

Thankful that I can work with my hands in Sicily and then feel better as many people.

What went really well in 2024?

• I was able to organize 3 desert trips and all of them took place.
• My yoga lessons in Sicily was successful. Also my inquiries for massages.
• Invitation to the interview for the online congress "The female arts".
• Interview with separation coach Claudia Kielmann on the subject of femininity.
• Interview with Simone Wiechert about my desert trips in Morocco.
• My road trip through Morocco to the Atlantic with my partner showed that we offer new goals and ideas for new trips and retreats.

My outlook on 2025

What I do differently in 2025

• Leave the smart phone out of my field of vision and left on the left.
• My belief if something does not work out right away will finally put Ad Acta and no longer let me pull down if it doesn't go as I would like it to be!
• 5 offers for: desert trips, road trips through Morocco to the sea, dance trip to Sicily, luxury Woman retreat, workshops.
• My online business can see the light he world!
  
  

So you can work with me in 2025

I offer different formats of cooperation.

• Design trips for women: longing for origin.
  With the caravan, the desert in the power of your femininity. Information here.
  
• Organization of your individual trip to the desert with your family and friends.
  I convey desert trips and road trips through Morocco with the Sahara team from Cameltrails. Contact me.
  
• 1: 1 conversations from woman to woman.
  I accompany you online on your way into your powerful femininity.
  How long do you want ... ..warten ... run away…. And hope for a miracle? Contact me
  
• Sicily retreat: Dolce Vita- The abundance of retreat for every woman who wants to feel alive, connected and free.
  In my second home, I accompany women to life. Right by the sea and one of the most beautiful places in Sicily.
  Also possible 1: 1!
  If you are interested, get in touch!