Do we suspect that our inner reputation is the topic of self -discovery in the desert ?
Why does the desert attract us?
"Have you ever wondered what happens if you let go of everything? If you do nothing, don't plan anything - but are just?"
We live in a world in which we constantly chase new input. After further ideas and inspiration, after the certain kick, what we believe that could give us a more fulfilling life. The fear is also there to have missed something in life, and we may not make our list, what we still want to experience, to fulfill it.
Because before we say goodbye to this world, we collect adventures and experiences of a very special
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Morocco always shows me how life works:
between fullness and emptiness
Sounds very blatant, especially since there are so many things that could be offended by Europeans.
But I feel the same way! Because not always agreed with everything and not to be understood how things are handled elsewhere, train us in acceptance and it is not uncommon for you to be extremely amazed at how well it all works here in Morocco! Without my own know -it -all and suggestions - in my view. I have given up that for a long time. On the contrary: I like to be surprised!
Because not I get to the goal, but life brings me to the goal .
If I don't detach myself from my ideas of life , then I ca n't really get to know each other. Even if this experience could mean that you are happy to be at home again and appreciate what you have: the man, the dog, the neighbor and the well -stocked food market around the corner ... This is also a feeling of abundance. Everything gets you where you want to grow. Consciously or unconsciously.
Life wants to be tasted, tasted and experienced! And in the most beautiful splendor and its most beautiful dress.
My experience is that hearing your own voice, that is, that what you really want from life does not know immediately. We consume so much ideas and are seduced to something that has nothing to do with us, but we absolutely want to have! We suffocate consumption!
You immediately know what you don't want, but you don't know what you want.
We experience both between Marrakech, from where our journey begins and the desert!
Marrakech is pure overcrowding! My first time there really killed me and flooded on impressions, goods and seductions.
The path then over the atlas and through the fertile Draatal to the desert of M´hamid, U. Apparently agreed on our upcoming desert expedition.
A recommendation from me on the subject of self -discovery:
Dieter Lange for me In this video, he tells so wonderfully what life is about and how important this experience of silence and emptiness is! Especially in today's world we need this silence in the vast majority of us! Because this noise (media, cell phones, input without end) there makes us sick out there in the long run!
Review of my first desert experience over 30 years ago
Making your way to growth and self -realization can be exhausting.
It was the same with me: when I moved through Thailand and India on my chosen spiritual journey on my chosen spiritual journey and learned yoga, meditation, Ayurvedic bodywork, among other things, I went to the Sinai to the Bedouins.
There I experienced the desert for the first time in its most original form and since then this teaching of emptiness, nothing and the bizarre beauty of this desert world has never left me again!
I came in spirit with heavy luggage and spent days in my thoughts for days. Nothing touched me. Nothing gave me joy.
In the first part of the trip! After 5 days I had the worst stomach pain (I had a lot to digest!) And the two Bedouins
collected herbs throughout the day and in the evening I got this brewed drink, which put me in a different state and the next day the haunt was over! This care! I felt so much trust in their simple actions, and our communication was the language of the heart. I couldn't do any Arabic and Mohamed and Aith. But we could curl together with laughter! Life needs no reason to feel happy.
If you have understood that in depth, you have a compass in your luggage!
That is the teaching of emptiness: only when you eliminate all the conditioned stuff from your inner container does it have space for new thoughts, ideas and actions. Because first you have to be empty to include new things in yourself. Leave your usual paths. You may not understand that immediately, but at the latest when your body traces you and empties, you start to have an idea that inner growth can show up in many ways.
In emptiness, your inner voice speaks the loudest.
Overcoming the long time. A desert life.
A small section of my last desert trip with a small group:
We start the day every morning after breakfast with exercises from the Qigong. Further away from the side, our desert men put everything back on the dromedare. Then it's called "Yalla, We Go" . I don't hear this call at first because I am so sunk in the exercises and breathing.
I love it when the strength in the body and the will dissolve in the head and turn everything into ease. Then I go through the desert very differently.
My body begins to float and tingle. The chi works through me. Beliap, light -footed, careful and sure -footed, we walk through the landscape safely with the nomads. This is my personal self -discovery in the desert.
It green so green: there are currently so many flower bushes. In white, in purple and in green. From the perspective from above, from the dromedar, I enjoy this new landscape. And the dromedare first! There are food in abundance!
This is because it had rained a lot, a few months ago and the desert is less barren.
So we go out together. At the first short break, I climb Bakschisch , my favorite dromedar! He rocks me comfortably through this endless expanse. I always feel like a queen in this landscape. My pelvis rocks back and forth and is already preparing me for dancing in femininity.
After three hours at the latest we arrived at our place. It's hot. The men first build up the small cooking tent
and then immediately our beautiful big round tent, which we immediately get to escape from the heat and sun. It is our residence tent.
For each of us, your special tent is built up for sleeping. I almost always choose a place. Sometimes I just drag my mattress onto a dune and cuddle there into my sleeping bag.
This starry sky !!! It is just in the desert. It is a star tent, and I don't want to miss that. But this time I decide to spend most of the nights in the tent. There it is pitcher! We are in the desert in the new dond period. Of course, as so often, I forgot my headlamp. It's a good thing that the cell phone gives me light.
When it gets still
Lunch and rest: mattresses lie in our large tent and we are already looking forward to peanuts and pastries with tea and coffee.
Then a gourmet dinner made of salads, warm and cold, with beetroot, carrots, potatoes, cucumbers and much more. There were also noodles with a vegetable gem from the country from the country from 1001 nights twice!
After lunch, it quickly becomes quiet in our small camp. We almost all fall into deep sleep.
Our companions also chose a place to make a soothing lunch nap.
This is called Siesta in southern Italy because the Dsonne does not allow anything else at noon.
My nervous system relaxes . Finally! There has been a lot going on with me recently and the action around the world in the world in the world
, I don't believe in any trace without a trace.
So much calm, silence and peace that spreads in me.
I used to be much more restless, but the more I go into the desert, this deep peace oversaw me and I just don't need anything that fills me.
I have now adapted to the rhythm of the nomads. At the sandstorm, Maddo once said to me:
You know, sandstorm is a nomadic bedtime for us!
He is so right! Why what to fight against, what is now just given!
The desert gives us exactly what we humans need every now and then:
return, silence and a long time. A boredom where peace find, stare or dream in the empty, you heal you in an invisible way from the permanent stress of our modern time and the overcrowding of actions that leave no place to get to know your ego.
After this condition in the desert, I mostly bubbled over against zest for action, enthusiasm and lust for life.
As a young woman, I would have probably pulled out my cell phone and filled my time with listening to a podcast. I have always been so greedy for knowledge and learning that this time of resting would have seemed like a waste of time. Although ... at 28 I was in the Sinai desert for the first time for the first time. That's why I think that's why I love that.
I just want to be empty. I want to hear the voice that speaks from me.
This voice can surprise me. Without waiting. Maybe nothing reports there. That too is good.
Actually, it is about agreeing to what is available and what is there and wants to be looked at.
On my desert trips and retreats, I do not always explain everything that could come to them in emotions.
Going through these experiences in a protected field is important. By being able to talk about everything, no instruction is required.
I tell stories and about my experiences as a woman, man and the desert.
There is little animation. In addition to my exercises in the morning, the dance of femininity and walking or riding dromedare.
Ahh, get empty. Just be empty. Miracles happen out of nowhere. At some point the sheet begins to turn. We discover the joy of drinking a nice, cool sip of water, having a great meal, a rhythm that leads us through the desert every day, but the real guide is the desert.
We were blessed every day with sunshine! Before we walked into the desert with the caravan, we were guests at Mohsin, who has a beautiful hostel (camp), with bed, table, chair and many palm trees. The best I find this view from the spacious rooms, where you can watch nature from the bed through a huge panoramic window. From the outside there is a mirror glass. So nobody can look inside.
Well, at least on our tour our desert guide asked me if we would like to go back to Mohsin a day earlier (this inner voice). We women agreed and only two days later we knew that this was an excellent decision! Because in the morning we had to shorten the Qigong training because we heard the wind from afar. The sandstorm gradually spread and my women were able to get a slight insight, which it means to go in the sandstorm. As soon as we had arrived at the camp, the storm became totally violent.
We move into our room. The shower is not warm (because of the storm it is difficult to heat the fire for it), but that is now unimportant. Tomorrow we go to the hammam and the "desert" will be scrubbed out of the pores.
I am exhausted and happy! I lie in my big bed and watch the palm trees that disappear in the sandstorm.
For me, too, the desert is: dancing, earth, feeling, resting, indulging yourself, being together and experiencing a sandstorm!
My conclusion: the abundance begins in nothing and that's the beginning of everything!
If you want to experience the magic of the desert, accompany me on my next trip!
- With me and my Sahara team you will experience the unique and special of the desert.
We travel as friends - far from typical desert tours! - My partner and I help you through all topics in the desert.
- Dance and physical exercises on femininity are part of the trip
- Transformation, silence, inner abundance, desert experience, sensuality, nature and authenticity
look at my website for the next desert trip for women: longing for origin
Design trips are not only nice for photos! If you really encounter the desert, what we learn here is at all times how the emptiness and silence can transform us. The teaching of emptiness, happiness find in nothing. The deep touch of the vastness and beauty. Here we are queens!
Here are other blog posts that I wrote about desert trips and desert retreats:
With the caravan through the desert: pure lust for life and femininity!
5 questions you should ask me before you book a desert retreat with me.
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Dear Nora,
a really great travel report, even if Morocco is not entirely upper on my travel list. I like your narrative style. She makes what you experienced noticeable and the pictures are just beautiful!
Kind regards
Kerstin
Dear nora,
Your article brought me back to Morocco. I can empathize with the difference between Marrakech, this colorful, exciting, strange and yet known city and the desert. So far I only know the stony path to Essaouira. But you also feel a bit empty there. You summarize it so wonderfully.
Thank you for taking your readers on the trip.
Greetings
Jutta