I’ve had a wonderful talk with Sarah Tacy in my podcast Closer to the Sun!
In this podcast I make interviews with people who live their life by following their hearts. Together we share our most memorable moments, the highs and the lows. By our honesty makes our journey a sacread one. Come Closer to the Sun with us!
With Sarah we talked about Nervous System Healing tools in motherhood, about her program Resorced and about the benefints of healing our known or unknown traumas through developing our sense of curiosity.
You could listen/watch our talk on my YouTube channel:
I wrote a post which supports this interview, from which you’d learn how I’ve met Sarah. You could read that here: Today Inspiration is: Sarah Tacy.
Sarah will lead a FREE, 3-day nervous system workshop called Opting Out of Urgency in 2025. September 16, 17, 19. 12:00-1:30pm EST which is designed to help women recognize the cycles of overdoing, override, and depletion—and begin to reclaim a more grounded, steady, and life-giving pace. I’ll be there, I hope you will be too! Here is the link to join: Opting Out of Urgency
“Show me a way of healing from joy. Show me that “slow” can be safe and “fast” can be healty. Show me that it is possible to take great care of myself and have abundance and healty relationships in my life. Show me, surprise me, delight me with a life in which I’m true to myself and I am serving the poppulation that I wanna serve and in which the work I care about continues to ripple out.”
Sarah Tacy
I consider my discovery of Sarah Tacy to be a fortunate coincidence, much like other significant revelations in my life.
A serendipity!
Why?
As I recognize how intricately my past experiences have converged to lead me to my encounter with Sarah. Much like the wonders of Nature, the forces that brought us together in this realm of possibilities began their journey long before I was aware of it.
Allow me to explain!
In 2023, I participated in a course led by Kate Northrup, anticipating that I would gain insights into effective money management. This year marked the beginning of my quest for a deeper comprehension of how to navigate the intense emotions of my four-year-old daughter.
Now let me take you back in time even more.
Many years ago, while residing in New Zealand and caring for children, I had the chance to connect with a group of mothers. These women, after spending time at home with their children, were contemplating their next steps toward re-entering the professional world. Many of them realized that they did not wish to resume their careers from the point where they had left off due to childbirth.
Many of them were experiencing a dilemma and feeling a sense of chaos.
During that period, I found myself in a state of bliss, truly enjoying life on a stunning island in the Pacific Ocean. I was not only realizing one of my dreams by learning English but also relishing daily walks along the beach. Moreover, I was living this dream alongside the man I loved deeply.
Reflecting on this period of time, I recognize the significance of the lasting impressions from those years.
At that stage in my life, I was confident that I would be adequately prepared for the time when I would become a mother. Little did I know how far I was from the reality of motherhood, which brought both privilege and initiation.
I soon found myself navigating a form of chaos that marked the beginning of my awakening.
This experience prompted me to explore new modalities and solutions, much like the other mothers on Waiheke Island did in 2008.
Now back in 2023!
I was uncertain about what I would discover in Kate’s course. However, I quickly learned as a mother that it was essential to trust my instincts rather than solely rely on my intellect if I wanted to foster meaningful change in our family’s life. Thus, I began a journey that ultimately led me to Sarah.
While Kate provided me with valuable insights on managing finances, she also offered a fresh perspective on approaching my daily experiences through a profound understanding of the Nervous System.
I get to know Sarah through the Nervous System support calls she conducted for our group in Relaxed Money. The first moment on I was deeply inspired by the material she presented. Subsequently, I discovered that she hosts a podcast and subscribed to her email list, where I learned about her complimentary offering of the 21-day Nervous System Support program.
Once again, I was impressed by the depth and quality of the content she provided. The Nervous System Healing Calls with Sarah instilled in me a sense of hope and renewal.
She motivated me to pursue a journey of expanding my understanding of the Nervous System, trauma healing, and the practices of somatic experiencing.
As someone who identifies as an artist, I found that listening to Sarah’s teachings and insights consistently encouraged me to connect with my authentic self. Consequently, I was immediately drawn to her course titled Resourced, as it felt like an opportunity to reconnect with her in real time and delve into the essence of her wisdom through the program she created.
Having recently completed the 12+ week course, I feel revitalized and equipped with a wealth of resources for Nervous System support.
I have developed a stronger ability to ground myself when necessary, and I possess a deeper awareness of the inner world within me. As a yoga practitioner, enthusiast and teacher, I have learned to push beyond my limits; now, I can establish boundaries rather than merely erecting barriers.
I am beginning to recognize opportunities where I once perceived only obstacles.
With the blossoming of spring flowers, I truly sense that I am moving toward a more joyful and tranquil existence.
I feel that my purpose is becoming clearer with this newfound inner stability, as I recognize the significant need for support that has been lacking for many.
The initial step toward change begins with the acknowledgment of our ability to choose.
Only then can transformation occur. When you can identify the possibilities, you can make more thoughtful decisions about your circumstances.
After all, we are women, each of us embodying a profound strength: the power to be a sanctuary for the spark of creation.
Sarah will lead a FREE, 3-day nervous system workshop called Opting Out of Urgency in 2025. September 16, 17, 19. 12:00-1:30pm EST which is designed to help women recognize the cycles of overdoing, override, and depletion—and begin to reclaim a more grounded, steady, and life-giving pace. I’ll be there, I hope you will be too! Here is the link to join: Opting Out of Urgency
If you like, you could listen our conversation on my podcast on Closer to the Sun.
My Name is Viktória Julianna, mother of Anna Kincső (means treasure), daughter of Anna Erzsébet, granddaughter of Anna and Margit, greath-granddaughter of Erzsébet and Anna.
Great-great-granddaughter of Gertrúd, Erzsébet, Jozefin and Julianna. Katalin, Anna, Erzsébet, Julianna, Rebeka, Borbála, Anna és Zsuzsanna are my great-great Grandmothers mother’s name. And I know two of the names of the many of my lineage after them which is: Katalin és Veronika. All these womans came from my mother’s side. From my father’s side I only know my grandmother name. As I grow up I was as lucky that I have heard stories about my great-grandparents from my mother’s mother.
So today – as I rember my ancestors – I look into our family tree -, I feel all these 64 woman’s strenght behind me, and the blessing that I can hold my daughter’s hand. As I stand in between them I grant them with my heartfelt gratitude. 18 of them by having the gift of saying their names and to the rest with a rememberance in my heart and with a silent bow.
The healing work I do (and re-do) on myself is my gift to the generations behind me and to those in front of me.
My daughter is almost six years old and I have beeen studiing about many modalities of healing art for over twety years. This inner search made me able to stand here today. Now I understand myself better, as I understand my Nervous System better. Now I am able to take care of my daughter with much more resiliency, love and compassion.
I was a yoga and meditation teacher before my daughter was born. Now I am working on finding my way back to the upper world holding a quest dearly in my heart: “Who I really am”? I feel now the hardest part in behind, but I am aware that so much more is on my way. However as I develop more and more Jaguar strenght in my energy field the fear in me is less and less.
I feel so deeply humbled. I sense today’s energies. I light a candle and I say a prayer.
I have a great wonderful talk with Katie Dove last week in my podcast Closer to the Sun!
In this podcast I make interviews with people who live their life by following their hearts. Together we share our most memorable moments, the highs and the lows. By our honesty makes our journey a sacread one. Come Closer to the Sun with us!
“I really believe in that what ment to be ours will find us.”
My wonderful healing journey started in the end of 2023, when I was gifted the corse of Inhibit the Heart with Katie Dove. The transformation of gaining a new perspective on experiencing my heart and regulating my nervous system has begun.
In this course Katie was teaching about the fluid nervous system. A totally new idea for me. She was telling us the most engageing story about how the heart forms in our mother’s womb. She was sharing her knowledgye on Anatomy, Embryology, and Evolutionary Biology in a most understandable and apprehensivable way.
Katie is a wonderful healer who has the ability to suspend time and teach in the online space in a way like you are sitting by her side. She has a joyful presence which uplifts and a loving gaze which connects heart to heart.
I am ever grateful, that my good furtune led me to find her.
My journey with Katie started last year after that I’d found an episode with her on Kimberly Ann Johnson’s podcast. Since I went through the Inhibit the Heart course, I’ve done The Full Arc, which includes the courses: “Source Regulation” and “The Wilder Field”. Right now we have been comming to a close of her 9 mounth long aprenticeship program: “The Spiritual Nervous System”.
I am in the process of integration of all what has been shared. I am learning to visualize and somatize in a brand new way.
I feel my time with Katie has been blessed by that magical relam to which one can gain an access by the tools Katie so skillfully shares. For me Anatomy is a field which either bores or fascinates me, it depends who presents it. As I hear Katie talk about the most complex concepts I feel enchanted like a child listens a fairy tale.
Katie sais: “The true alchemist is the heart. We can alchemize our feelings through our heart, because the heart does not label, does not see things through duality.”
By learning to inhibit our heart we create our world around us from a space of emotional freedom. And this way we uplift not just ourselves but others as well.
Katie gifted me not just with the amazing opportunity of studiing from her but with the inspiration of developing my own toolset of Emotional Alchemy as well. And with this, she gave me the greatest present one can get as a Mother! These days I am more grounded and more conscious and because of this my child is much happier and we have more peace at home.
Why “Closer to the Sun”? For me, the solar energies represents all those who positively influence my life. All those from whom I can learn. All those who show the way through their own example.
Carrie Contey is one of these kind of sunlike energy in my life. Her wisdom, playfulness and resourcefulness always lift me up and guides me toward my own unique way of perceiving the world around me. Her way of support is a rare kind because she is not teaching anything more like make you remember what you already know.
I get to know Carrie through my positive psychology training with Brian Johnson in 2019.
Carrie’s lifelong passion is to support parents to develop a new way of looking and doing parenting. With more resource, more fulfillment, more connection and understanding.
She has a podcast called: “Knot Parenting” where you can listen to talk about her ideas “how to not parent” but see our children as small people who arrive here to co-create life together with us. They are here to help us to develop our own powerful and new behaviour based on compassion and love.
Right now I am going through Carrie’s “Clarity Writing” booklet, preparing to Autumn. I went through of this beautiful offering of her a year ago. We spent four seasons together, and through my apprenticeship we met each month and write together about what brings clarity into our life.
If you are like me; one who loves to improve life, this program would be a great choice!
Theses days you would find Carrie on Substack where she shares her sparks of genius on the subject of humanhood as well as offers live call’s where she shares her most powerful questions and ideas about the chosen topic. With the help of her clarity we all develop our own! It is worth to check out if you would like to gain a guidance on how to connect with your own inner wisdom!
“Whether you’re knotted up about a parenting issue, in the midst of a major life change, embarking on a new career, or finding yourself wondering what’s next, clarity is what underlies every single thing you do.” (Carrie Contey, PhD)
You will meet Carrie on the next episode of my podcast called Closer to the Sun!
I heard about Stephanie Nelson at the the Yoga Academy when I was doing there my yearlong ashtanga yoga training. After living on Waiheke Island for 6 years I moved from there to Auckland, ten minutes walk from the shala because I was determined to do 6 times a week mysore style practice with the eary morning group.
I’ve always loved how a path can unfold itself as we walk on it!
So that is what I did! It was easy to find her as I discovered that at that time in 2011 she was running her own studio in Blackpool called The Breathing Space.
After I contacted her, and being amazed by her personality – being so kind and supportive – we agreed that she would show me her space where I could also teach. This was a dream come true to me, to be able to continue teaching as well as practicing in a circle which led by the most wonderful woman ashtanga teacher I have ever known. As it quicky become clear to me, how devoted and loving she was – not just toward her on practice but toward all her students and the tradition itself.
Because of Steph I decided that I will do the YA500 training with her, not in the Academy because I loved the island so much and I was so delited that all I cherish so much I could find close by.
I was so lucky because we were just a 3 of us as trainies in her first YA500 teacher training and we got so much support and care and presence from Steph. I enjoyed each moment of my training with her and was so grateful as Steph was able to invite Peter Sanson, Kino MacGregor and Tim Feldmann as well as Mark Robberds for few days intensive trainings to our passionate ashtanga circle.
What I loved so much about being by Steph’s side is that she always encouraged me to find the way which fits me. I loved the spark in her eyes as she cherfully questiond many of my strong wired beliefs and gently guided me toward teachers and wisdoms and books which I would not find otherwise.
To be honest it felt so natural that she is there by my side during that period of my life which was truly a gift of my journey to New Zealand. Somehow it was no struggle in that how events and meetings unfolded. Their significance I could only understand now.
I still remember and practice often that mantra which Steph gave me after comming back from Bali where she spent many month to teach and deepen her own practice by taking a YIN Yoga training.
I truly feel she is one of my greatest inspiration of how to live “Closer to the Sun”!
As I witness her consistency it makes me feel grounded. And even though right now we are an ocean apart I feel that her honest inquiry in the field of yoga holds a torch for my edavours as well.
Thank you Steph for being truly who you are. May you be continue to be a gift to meet to all who seek your presence!
I have a great talk with Jody Brown today in my podcast Closer to the Sun!
In this podcast I make interviews with people who live their life by following their hearts. Together we share our most memorable moments, the highs and the lows. By our honesty makes our journey a sacread one. Come Closer to the Sun with us!
I met Jody at Auckland Yoga Academy in New Zealand in 2011 when we were doing our Ashtanga Yoga Teacher certificate training. I still remember the excitement and the yearning inside me which took me to the doors to the Academy.
After the training our path departed and many years passed. We lost touch until I’ve become more active on Facebook again and whenever I posted I saw one of Jody’s post or video.
I love synchronicity. This is one of the guiding force which I love to give significance to. Therefore I loved to see that the interest of both of us turned toward embodiment practices.
I really feel that since I have started to get familiar with the newest brain science reserches which led me the realization of the great need of healing our Nervous System, a new kind of understanding started to emerge into my life.
I become a mother in 2018 at age 40 after 10 years of intense Ashtanga practice. During the years leading me to my pregnancy a great need inside me was building up which was to blend into my teaching all I have been learning as a woman and all I know about the feminine wisdom traditions. This life quest was arising from the organic need of understanding my own patterns and ancestral inheritance of what does it mean to be a mother and why did I not get pregnant if all circumstances were set.
I have healed many aspects of my personality, but little I have known how deep one inner world really is.
These days I have been challenged day by day by my daughter and by my choosen path but since I’ve course corrected my focus the everyday experinces of my life shifted toward experiencing more opening, toward more joy and grace.
As I have been preparing to my interview with Jody I’ve noticed with excitement Jody’s Somatic Dance Journey class on Sunday 4th August in which she shares her embodiment of 5Rhythms and Open Floor Dance experiences! This is an other syncronicity in the subjects of our interests.
I have been offering classes in which I combine yoga and dance since 2012. Dance is being the part of my life as it was a part of my mother as well. As I talk to women after my classes I learnt that how important spiritual practice dance is for woman! It is a clue, it is a healing tool, it is a spirit medicine.
I know 5Rhythms dance from my days back on Waiheke Island where I had a chance to try this kind of dance as well as I know Gaga which I just get to try a few mouth ago but instantly felt in love with! So as a lover of movement and great music I am eager to hear about Jody’s offering as well as learning about what Open Floor Dance is!
These days after almost 6 years after that I’d passed the treshold of becoming a mother I have been cherishing a dream of creating a circle of woman who cultivate the commitment of healing through joy.
Through the podcasts of Closer to the Sun which I run in english and hungarian I consciously grow the little seed of my sacerd fire of belief of ” it can be done” as I invite people who inspire me.
As my personal inner healing journey takes me to a greater understanding of my deepest working of my psyche I am in a process of giving life to my own method.
I totally agree with Jody in that:
“There are no quick fixes, this is a pathway not a shortcut.”
The enlightening feeling is that now I feel in all my cells that I am on the right path as I listen to the wisperings of my soul and give credit to them.
These days I experience many times great descends in my mood, or in my energies but I have learnt to tune into the forces of the moon and therefore I am not surprised but reassured. These days I experience many times pain, sorrow and grief and certein times strong current of fear rushing through my system but now I know that all birthing pocess has these everchallenging qualities.
Now I know that the dark phases of inner and outher cycles has their own well earned place in the feminine path and if we welcome all these parts in our healing modalities we gain a greater sense of well being in which our wildest dreams can come true.
I cannot wait to catch up with Jody through our upcoming talk in my Podcast. Since that time chek out Jody’s FB page, where you will find all the inspirational posts she writes and events she creates!
I was preparing to write this post so I was looking through all our pictures we have sent each over the last 9 years. And I just had a really rejuvenating ride to the past as we saved to send each other the best and the most memorable moments of our life.
But I start in the begining of our story of our friendship, which is one of the dearest between all I have.
In 2010 I have decied that I would love to level up my knowledge about yoga and since we were living in New Zealand for 4 years by then, and my english had become good enough to study in this language I made a decision. It was easy because all my guiding stars pointed the right directions therefore I’d found the school and the program easily which I wanted to go for.
This was in Auckland and soon after I’d find the Yoga Academy were I started my year long Ashtanga Yoga Teacher training. I was lucky because we had a small group full of inspirational and nice people and between the crew was Fiona as well.
We had found the common language easily as she was so dedicated to the practice as well as I loved her grounded presence. I loved the stories she shared with me about her time in India. We had such a great time as we shared recepies, practiced and studied together.
At that time she had a Yoga Studio in Taupo where she invited me and she was the one who introduced me to Peter Sanson as well as Stephanie Nelson.
After the teacher training me and my husband moved back to Waiheke Island where I proceeded forward with my second year of Ashtanga training with Stephanie and kept in touch with Fiona and visited her in Taupo whenever I could.
From Fiona I heared about Cranisacral Therapy the first time in my life. I was so curios and she was always very generouy with the knowledge she had so she had thought me how to sense the body’s rhythm through the feet.
I still remember the rush through my spine when I sensed that. It was a magical moment. And a great bodily reminder how amazing our bodies are.
If you are in New Zealand in Napier visit her for a deeply rejuvenating intuitive bodywork, you won’t regret!
When she was pregnant with her first child she invited me to visit her and fill in till she is able to come back to teaching. I was so happy for this opportunity as well as being able to by her side this special time. We had a great time together and it was a blessing to see her journey into motherhood. She was so great in her new role from the first moment on as she has the greatest heart and kindest approach to everyone and everything. I did not know but I was five years behind her with my initiation of motherhood.
At that time I was not ready yet to become a mother what I was dreaming about was that one day we would run trainings together and lived close by to each other. However the closest we got to Taupo is when we moved to Napier in 2013. I only spent 2 years here because I lost my Mum that year and after thinking through it many times we decided to move back to Hungary in 2015. My years in Napier was heartbreaking as I was griefing for my Mum as well as heartlifting as I had the opportunity to practice and study, and later on to assist to Peter Sanson.
I also visited Fiona many more times and enjoyed the long walks we took in Taupo lake side or by the river.
I am not really good at keeping friendships alive because I am an introvert and I love doing stuff by myself but Fiona is one of that kind of friend in my life who can listen or stay silent with me. Who cares and dares to say the truth even when it is a tender topic. Who draws boundaries so elegantly and who has a wide enough heart to cry with me in my sorrow and laugh with me in my joyful moments.
I love all our memories in which we shared an adventure like the Kino Workshop in 2012 on Waiheke when she visited us with her man and little baby boy and I love all the messages and pictures we shared over the years since we moved back to Hungary.
I find it amazing that the “tapas” the “inner fire” of our friendship is so steadily supports our connection even though we are living so far away from each other.
I love to think about that on the other side of the world, when she sleeps I am awake and the other way around. This way we could guard each other dreams in dreamtime as well as daytime.
I love you my friend! And I miss you so much, I hope one day my dream comes true and we do somathing amazing together, side by side, person to person…again…
Until then thank you for accepting my invitation to my podcast this is also a dream come true!
viktoria maczo 