HOW I LIVE A SIMPLE LIFE IN THE AZORES | MY STORY #2
When I lost my job due to the pandemic I decided that instead of going back to my old life I wanted to try a new path which would enable me to live a more slow and simple life.
This is my story of how I changed my life from being a Whale watching guide with no experiences in taking photos or videos whatsoever to making KZread videos for a living and how I live a fulfilled life according to my needs and in harmony with nature on a remote island in the middle of the Atlantic.
I hope you enjoy. Thank you for watching!
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• MUSIC •
Thanks to Musicbed and the contributing artists for providing me with great music for this video.
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Song credits:
Closely - Jonny Southard
Motions - Jonny Southard
To the Heart - Jonny Southard
Echoes in the Mist - Jonny Southard
As the dust settles on Creation - Dexter Britain
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When our family lived in the Azores there was no refrigerators, tvs , radios , street lights, we owned no vehicles, no modern day conveniences...life was hard but peaceful. Thank you for the video!
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
You are most welcome, George. Thank you for sharing your perspective and your memories. Best wishes to you!
Hey everyone! I'm so sorry it took me so long to upload a new video. I have been really sick and consequently had to take a break so I could take care of myself and my health. I started to make this video in beginning of May so I'm really excited to finally share it with you. I hope you enjoy watching it, make sure to watch until the very, very end for a little surprise :) I'm looking forward to your lovely comments as always! Sending you my love.
@evmollet5418
Жыл бұрын
Good to see and hear you again 🙏🏻
@acorespaisagensmeditacao2939
Жыл бұрын
It’s so nice to relate to someone like me. ☺️☺️
@michaelwalker4355
Жыл бұрын
exquisite 🙏
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
@@michaelwalker4355 thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed and I hope you are doing well. Best wishes!
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
@@acorespaisagensmeditacao2939 It makes me so happy that you can relate. Wishing you all the best!
Hi Rahel, what an amazing video… thank you so much for sharing your heart… I'm from Pico but I live in London, I haven't been there for many years and you make me smell the green and the sea, the wind on my face… I have no words for it. describe what i felt… when i was watching the video it was like i made the video… and said those words about myself… i love nature… i miss nature… never forget that only special people can see things that others don't... we live in a society where it's good to say nice words... but as the little prince said (the essential is invisible to the eyes, you can only see well with the heart...) keep using your heart... 😀 🤗
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
Wow. What a beautiful message! Thank you for expressing so authentically and detailed how my video made you feel. I love the words you chose to describe what felt indescribable to you. Everything you said warmed my heart because it was so genuine. Thank you for your kind, loving and caring words. Thank you for encouraging me, Roberto. I appreciate it SO much!
Rahel, I am completely blown away by how beautiful this video turned out. Everything you said resonates deeply with me and your videography was absolutely wonderful. Thank you for sharing these parts of yourself with us. 🤍
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
Whitney, your loving and appreciative words mean the world to me! It feels immensely rewarding that you love this video so much and that you can resonate so deeply. This is what makes everything worthwhile and my work so meaningful. Thank you for endlessly inspiring and supporting me! 🤍
Keep inspiring the world with your work. Your sincerity and authenticity is reflected in your magnificent videos. Your an artist of the soul.
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your precious and heartfelt comment. It means the world to me that you feel my sincerity and authenticity reflected in my work.
good to hear your health is in wellness. your buddhist propensity shines, and the zen-ness of patient photography is a treat. thanks. new chapters unfolding...........go for it. m
@RahelStadler
9 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for watching and for appreciating. I'm very grateful for your kind words. Best wishes to you!
Love looking at my home Pico in back ground thank you R wish I was there ...miss my home Land....
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
You are very welcome, Carlos. It's good to hear that the sceneries in my videos provide some consolation for your saudades. Sending you best wishes from Pico!
I never stop think about the Azores, but things have been stopping me. I did plan to go long time ago, but then my dog got sick, and still are, and it doesn't look good at the moment. I must let him live as long as he can enjoy life. At this moment he ley on my foot and sleeping after getting pain killing medication. But get worse and worse, every day I wake up and hope, but it end with myself felling tears over his illness. I will write more here .....
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
I'm so sorry to hear that your dog is so sick. This must be heartbreaking for you. But I'm sure that your dog very much appreciates your love and care and that it definitely comforts him to know that you are there for him every step of the way. I'm sending a lot of healing vibes to your dog, strength to you and a positive outcome for the both of you. Best wishes from the Azores!
@udontknowme7798
Жыл бұрын
@@RahelStadler It is with sadness I say that my dog are still sick, and have to find another veterinary, and hopefully get some other medication for him, like antibiotics for dogs, which the vet until now have not wanted to prescribe. A vet friend in Norway thought it was strange. I planned take Pluto with me for a better life, here we cannot even go to the sea ore to a mountain without to pay for it. In the start I made it fine, but the wild nature was the best I had in Norway. If I do go out in the forest here, I can easy get shot in the head, simply because here is no law about going out in the wild. and there is also other reasons that I will leave. But I thinking about renting something small and cheap, and don't know the prices? I have seen on some sites, but it often use to be more expensive on rental places on internet. But anyway, I cannot do anything before I see how it goes with my dear Pluto. He is my closest, even I am married, for now at least. I looked on the different Islands, and I love all, but Pico with the mountain is what I like best, I always have loved walking in mountains in Norway. Here it is so much restriction, I have to have a guide no matter, ore they say Abu Sayyaf ore other terrorist groups have been seen hiding up in the mountains, I must do something. I was a slim man before, now I have gone up 15kg.
@cathycooper6135
Жыл бұрын
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Hi Rahel, it gives great pleasure to notice that a young person like yourself takes satisfaction of the simplicity of life. The surroundings of Pico have much to offer. Most of our human companions are addicted to consumption. I was last week in Faial (and Pico) were i and my son appreciated the nature... The beauty of natures creation. Before we went, a friend of my gave my an old article (traveller from national geographic), about whale watching on the azores. They were in Pico 2019, and a few times they mantioned a Rahel that was guiding them...... That only ment that was you...... i suppose.?? Thanks for your video, and a good health... Alberto.
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
Hey Alberto. It's good to hear from you. How wonderful that you finally got to enjoy your holidays on Faial and Pico together with your son. I'm sure it must have been an unforgettable experience for the both of you. And how amazing that I guided your friends. 2019 was my last year of working as a Whalewatching guide and I don't know of any other guide who's name is Rahel, so the chances are very high that I was your friends guide. Please send them my greetings and I hope they had a beautiful Whalewatching experience back then. Thank you for appreciating my way of living and for continuously sharing your thoughts and stories. I hope you are doing well. Sending my best wishes!
@ronaldobasilio-im9js
4 ай бұрын
Olá Rahel, este é apenas o segundo vídeo que assisto. Estou apreciando cada vez mais. Parabéns.
@RahelStadler
4 ай бұрын
Ola Ronaldo. I'm glad you like this video as well. Best wishes to you!
Hope you have made a full recovery, Rahel - never nice being ill but, there again, perhaps the body is expressing itself in a different way. (That sounds a bit glib but I think you know what I mean). Lovely cinematographics again, hearing and watching the rain drops on the leaves transports the viewer instantly to the spot, and the moon over the ocean and some new spots to video and, of course, the inevitable barefeet! I walk with you with every step feeling the undergrowth, the grass, the rocks, etc.! 😃 Simple can be a very fulfilling and rewarding way of Life - not for everyone as you mention but, there again, everyone is different and not everything in Life has to revolve around materialism. Thanks for sharing.
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
Dear Charles. I hope you are doing well. Thank you for your concern, I have made a full recovery and I totally get what you mean, I very much believe in my body expressing itself in a different way when being sick. Thank you for sharing your impressions once again. I especially love you mentioning that the raindrops transport the viewer instantly to the spot and that you walk with me every step on the grass and rocks because this time I particularly worked on making it feel more like the viewer is there with me. So hearing this feels very rewarding. Sending my best wishes to you!
Your whise beyond your year,stay amazing.
@RahelStadler
9 ай бұрын
That's so kind. Thank you, Mario 🙏
I love your use of sound. Less is more. Thank you for bringing me back to me.
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your appreciation, Michael. I'm glad you especially enjoyed my use of sound and it warms my heart that you feel connected to yourself again. Hearing this feels incredibly rewarding to me. I wish you all the best!
as ever, beautifully shot, edited and narrated.
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
Thank you, Tony. I'm glad you still enjoy and I hope you are doing well. Sending you my best wishes!
I long for this life. You are inspiring me to find it
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
I feel very honored that I'm inspiring you to build the life you are longing for. Go for it, believe in yourself, you can live the life you want, Keegan. I wish you all the best!
What a beautiful video! All of your videos are spectacular, and they all have a message that seems to resonate with me……probably many others feel the same.💛🙏😊
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your heartfelt message! Your words move me deeply and it genuinely is so special to me that there is something in each of my videos that resonates with you. I'm very grateful that you shared how you feel. Sending you my love!
@KingsMom831
Жыл бұрын
@@RahelStadler Your videos are truly a gift, each with their own unique message & intention. Much gratitude 🙏
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
@@KingsMom831 thank you for your appreciation and thank you for being here and following along. That's so beautiful 🤍
Good conversation- Good meal and long walk ... a fab 'trilogy'
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
Fab trilogy - I love that! Isn't it just the best combination?
Dear Rahel, this is the most beautiful video and picture of yourself so far. Very impressive and touching. And I am enormously happy to meet you as a fatherly friend soon. We are very close, despite a generation age difference. This is good and gives hope that the new generation is so sustainable and conscious on the road. All love, currently still from Holland.
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
Dear Thomas, it's truly wonderful to hear that you enjoy this video in particular and that you relate so deeply. It warms my heart that what I share gives hope. That's truly beautiful! Thank you for your kind and caring words. I hope you are doing well and I hope you are about to embark on your great adventure! Sending you my best wishes from Pico.
@thomasescape3002
Жыл бұрын
@@RahelStadler Ja, liebe Rahel, am nächsten Mittwoch werfen wir, Sascha mein Sohn und ich, die Leinen definitiv los. Richtung Ziel, dass Du bestens kennst. Ankunft in Ponta del Gada ca. 3-4 Wochen später. Bis dann, herzliche Grüsse
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
@@thomasescape3002 wow, wie aufregend! Ich freue mich so sehr für Euch! Alles, alles Liebe, genießt es in vollen Zügen und passt gut auf euch auf! Ich freue mich bald von euren Abenteuern zu hören.
I love what you are doing. Its gives me the break I need once in a while 👌🏻
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Reading this warms my heart. I'm glad my videos provide a well deserved break for you. That's so beautiful!
This video is so inspiring! We will be moving to São Miguel in February to live. I am a musician and look forward to creating music videos out in the beautiful nature that the Azores has to offer🌼 Thank you for the inspiration!💖
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
How wonderful! I'm glad my video inspired you. I wish you all the best for your next chapter in life and I hope you will find what you are looking for!
How beautiful your work on filming experiences in Pico! Thank you for showing where my family is from!
@RahelStadler
11 ай бұрын
You are very welcome. I'm glad you enjoy my videos. Thank you for watching, Beth.
You show what people do not show anymore...Thank you
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
Your words are very meaningful to me and reading them makes me so happy! You are very welcome, Lancelo.
@lancelo6424
Жыл бұрын
@@RahelStadler hello Rahel, i arrived today for 9 days in Pico. It would be a pleasure for me if you agreed we meet. It’s up to you. Lancelo
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
@@lancelo6424 How wonderful that you have just arrived to Pico! Thank you for your invitation to meet you, that's so sweet! I'm a very introverted person, I prefer spending most of my time alone and it's rather rare that I feel like spending my time with people (including my own friends) hence why I don't feel like meeting you. It's nothing personal I'm sure you are an lovely person to meet. Enjoy your Pico experience and I wish you an enriching time filled with peacefulness and beauty.
@lancelo6424
Жыл бұрын
@@RahelStadler Rahel, you are a real romantic person in the original sense of the word, like John Keats merging with Nature. It is so rare and I respect that. As you are a sensitive person, I just wanted to talk with you about something affecting the air of all the planet now, even in the Azores and I wondered if you felt it and what is or would be you reaction towards this...but maybe we can chat in a private mode?
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
@@lancelo6424 thank you for your understanding and for reacting so respectfully. Of course. You can contact me via email at rahel-stadler@outlook.com
Love the style of documenting and screenplay.
@RahelStadler
9 ай бұрын
Thank you for saying this, Jordan. I feel very honored that you appreciate how I create.
You have a gift related to making videos, very nice indeed. Sorry to hear that you have been sick. Was it the dreaded Corona virus that got to you?
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
That's so kind of you, thank you Endre. Yes, I did have Covid but fortunately I'm fully recovered again. I appreciate your concern. Best wishes!
Just Beautiful !! Thank you !
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
My pleasure. I'm glad you enjoyed! Best wishes to you, Doron.
Just beautiful.
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
Thank you, Tracey! It makes me really happy that you enjoyed this one so much. Sending you my love 🤍
Hi Rahel, thank you so much for sharing yourself and your island life. I just feel like I'm floating on a cloud when I watch you videos Thank you x
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
Wow! I love that! Floating on a cloud sounds like such an amazing feeling to me and it makes me so happy that you feel like this while watching what I create. Thank you, Eddie for sharing how my videos makes you feel, it means so much to me!
Rahel, I am so glad you are back and hope you are feeling better. I find you absolutely beautiful in mind, body and soul. You are very talented in your art of videos and love your minimalistic life style. You are unbelievably courageous and I too retreat to nature when stressed, which is why I love ❤️ your videos 📹. Stay true to yourself self and I hope to one day make it to your beautiful island 🏝. Stay safe.
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
George, thank you SO much for taking the time to send so much kindness, encouragement and appreciation my way. Your words touched me deeply. I'm glad you are here and that you are enjoying my videos so much makes my heart truly happy! And yes, I'm feeling better. Thank you for caring. All the best to you!
Inspiring! ✨❤️ You speak my heart's language.
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
It makes me so very happy to hear how much this resonates with you! Sending my best wishes to you✨
love this
@RahelStadler
6 ай бұрын
I'm glad you enjoyed it. Best wishes to you!
So amazing.
@RahelStadler
10 ай бұрын
Thank you so much 🙏
Truly inspiring. I stumbled upon this video by accident out of curiosity about the Azores. I love doing Contemplative photography and your video has a beautiful, simple, and esthetic contemplative quality. Beautiful imagery, and what an eye for composition. Thank you!🙏🏽
@RahelStadler
11 ай бұрын
I'm so glad you stumbled upon this video. Thank you so much for taking the time to watch it and for sharing your thoughts. I greatly appreciate your eye for detail and your kind words. Sending you my best wishes from the Azores!
Very beautiful video!!❣️ Best wishes!! 😘🤗🤗
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
Thank you, Candida. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Best wishes to you!
@candidagomes2774
Жыл бұрын
@@RahelStadler thank you so much!!🙏😌❣️ I wish the best for you!! 🎉🎉💐🍀
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
@@candidagomes2774 you are so kind. Thank you🤍
thank you so much made me think of pico i love your work
@RahelStadler
7 ай бұрын
Thank you for your appreciation and for taking the time to write this comment, Richard. It makes me so happy to read that you love my work. Sending you my best wishes!
A lovely video Miss.
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Peaceful and thoughtful narrations 😊😊😊
@RahelStadler
11 ай бұрын
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed in particular this one's narration!
Well Done. Gracias.
@RahelStadler
2 ай бұрын
You're welcome.😊
I just watched this video again this morning and enjoyed it more the second time- As well as feasting on and enjoying art I can be quite critical --comparing what I am viewing or otherwise sensing to all the other great work we have in our world, and in our lives to look at, listen to, or in some other way enjoy !--well after coming back from a three day visit to Honolulu to attend the “Beyond Monet” visual extravaganza I can honesty say that I enjoyed this second viewing of your video in much the same way, --with the same pleasant feelings I underwent whilst being sat within the Monet experience--right down to the sounds of the music and the chirping of the birds ! Aloha Nui Loa Dorn
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
Thank you, Dorn for sharing your thoughts on different kinds of art and how you experience them. I feel extremely honored to be even compared with your experience in the Monet exhibition, let alone that you felt the same pleasant feelings while enjoying both my videos and this exhibition is such a big compliment. I love that! Thank you.
Amazing story
@RahelStadler
7 ай бұрын
Thank you so much 🙏
@hammocklife3123
7 ай бұрын
I plan on moving to the azores mabey we could be friends
@RahelStadler
7 ай бұрын
@hammocklife3123 which island are you planning on moving to?
@hammocklife3123
7 ай бұрын
Im not sure the biggest island probably
@hammocklife3123
7 ай бұрын
I love to surf and fish and want to do some farming there
nice video!
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
Thank you, I'm glad you like it. Best wishes to you!
Olá. Amo seus videos.
@RahelStadler
4 ай бұрын
Ola. Thank you for sharing how you feel about my videos, it makes me very happy that you love them.
Do what makes you happy , I would be happy there as I can provide electricity when and where needed but living from the land as you do is admirable . Stay healthy and please include jesus in your life. AMEN.
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
That's very true, being able to provide electricity can provide you with a job in so many different places as it's needed basically anywhere. Thank you for your admiration, Frank. Best wishes to you!
C'est une paradis waw
Thank you beautifull soul🥰🥰 in your opinion Is It allowed to camping? Do you suggest a Place for a retreat in Azores?🙏☘️
@RahelStadler
11 ай бұрын
You are most welcome. As far as I know camping on campgrounds is allowed here. Unfortunately I do not know anything about retreats in the Azores. Best wishes!
Beautiful video. Are you from The Azores?
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed. I'm from Germany. Best wishes to you!
You should hook up with a hotel, restaurant, tour group... And give there names for a small sum just as a listing not even a recommendation.
@michaelvaughn7137
7 ай бұрын
I'm glad you had an appreciation for it, wether you had thought of this or not. Because I'm aware that you may have thought of this already and that I may have been explaining gravity to Einstein.
@RahelStadler
7 ай бұрын
Hey Michael. I actually have not thought of this before. I'm not sure how I feel about it but I greatly appreciate that you took the time to think of something which could potentially support me. Sending you my best wishes!
Introvert's paradise
@RahelStadler
10 ай бұрын
Absolutely 😊
How would I find my kin people in the azores
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
That's a good question, Linda. I don't know how to answer it though. I feel like finding your kind of people here is as difficult or as easy as anywhere else. It depends on what or whom you are looking for, I guess.
@lindaakers2991
Жыл бұрын
@@RahelStadler my moms family. She was Anna Agusta Derosa
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
I understand. I'm sorry but I don't know how to find them.
Rachel, I am moving to Pico, I sent you an email, let's connect! Your videos are inspiring!
@RahelStadler
Жыл бұрын
Dear Stefan. Thank you for reaching out to me. I have received your email and I'm going to get back to you very soon. Best wishes!