{"id":1061,"date":"2026-05-04T17:40:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beyond-cycling.de\/?page_id=1061"},"modified":"2026-05-04T17:40:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:40:37","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/beyond-cycling.de\/en\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What moves me<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t travel to prove anything, but out of a deep sense of gratitude for being able to have these experiences.
Along the way, it\u2019s not just about places for me, but about encounters – about what shifts within, and the questions that arise from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From an early age, I was shaped by different cultures and perspectives – through exchange programs in countries like Belarus, Iran, and Japan, and through my first longer cycling journeys, including trips to Rome and back.
Later, I lived in Israel for a year, worked there, and traveled throughout the region. More journeys followed, eventually taking me by bike all the way to Morocco and back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Life on the road is simple. It revolves around the essentials – food, water, a place to sleep. And within that simplicity, there is a sense of calm and depth that I rarely find elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In contrast, there is another kind of life: studies, structure, a path that works on the outside. A completed degree in business administration, security, adaptation. And at the same time, this feeling that something is missing. A longing that remains for more depth, more honesty, more aliveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During that time, I began searching in different ways through seminars, through movement, through music, through creative forms of expression. Belly dance, the Arabic language, art. Attempts to come closer to what cannot easily be grasped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Traveling is also a confrontation with myself. With what is there and with what might still be missing. At the same time, there are moments of clarity, of connection, and of genuine simplicity that are often lost in everyday life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this website, I want to share a part of that not as finished answers, but as an invitation to come a little closer to yourself again. Perhaps these stories resonate with something that has been there for a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this section, I share my passions, motivations, and personal stories that shape my path.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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