Category: Compass to your inner guidance

Closer to the sun – Carrie Contey, PhD

by Viktoria Maczo, posted in Closer to the Sun, Compass to your inner guidance

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Today is: Carrie Contey, PhD

Dear Ones,

“Let yourself…Pause + Notice + Consider”

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!

Until then, never fail to ask good questions!

Love,

Viki

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Closer to the Sun – Stephanie Nelson

by Viktoria Maczo, posted in Closer to the Sun

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Today is: Steph Waiheke

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!

Close to our graduation, I was filled with full of questions about “what’s next?”, one day, one of my friend, /actually you already met her if you watched an earlier episode of my podcast/ – Fiona Links – told me that look for Steph if I get back to the island.

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!

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Viki

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New Episode! Interview with Jody Brown

by Viktoria Maczo, posted in Closer to the Sun

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!

There is a post to the interview which you can read here: Today Inspiration is: Jody Brown.

Jody’s FB page is: https://www.facebook.com/jody.brown.1291

Have a great day, closer to the Sun!

Love ad appreciation,

Viki

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Closer to the Sun – Jody Brown

by Viktoria Maczo, posted in Closer to the Sun

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Today is: Jody Brown

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!

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Closer to the sun – Fiona Links

by Viktoria Maczo, posted in Closer to the Sun

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Today is: Fiona Links

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!

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New Episode on my Podcast!

by Viktoria Maczo, posted in 13 Moons of Circular Living, Closer to the Sun

In this podcast (Closer to the Sun) I share my wisdom on cyclical living and creative being. 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!

It is not perfect, it is just getting closer to what I want.

But I have decided that I do not postpone my creative expression anymore.

And with this decision I am standing in my power.

I wish you the same!

Love,

Viki

Compass to your inner guidance – Q52.

by Viktoria Maczo, posted in Compass to your inner guidance

My intention in this space to add value to your life by helping you to reconnect to your inner wisdom by Power Questions. With these questions you may sit and contemplate on the possible answers or get your journal out and write. The best is if you take an action as well!

Either way, may your time spending on yourself be blessed!

Question 52.

How do I find the confidence to ask for more?

Compass to your inner guidance – Q51.

by Viktoria Maczo, posted in Compass to your inner guidance

My intention in this space to add value to your life by helping you to reconnect to your inner wisdom by Power Questions. With these questions you may sit and contemplate on the possible answers or get your journal out and write. The best is if you take an action as well!

Either way, may your time spending on yourself be blessed!

Question 51.

Can I choose more often what I really love?

Compass to your inner guidance – Q50.

by Viktoria Maczo, posted in Compass to your inner guidance

My intention in this space to add value to your life by helping you to reconnect to your inner wisdom by Power Questions. With these questions you may sit and contemplate on the possible answers or get your journal out and write. The best is if you take an action as well!

Either way, may your time spending on yourself be blessed!

Question 50.

If you don’t have a better idea, go with this!

Closer to the sun – Judith Orloff

by Viktoria Maczo, posted in Closer to the Sun, Compass to your inner guidance

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Today is: Judith Orloff

“If you feel as if you don’t fit into this world, it’s because you’re here to create a better one.”

>> Judith Orloff<<

I’ve met with Judith’s work by tiptoeing around a new territory of my inner landscape. I’d got invited by Sounds True to a program called “The Empath’s survival Guide Online Course”. It was an eight week long course and I’d learned a lot about what empath is. As I quicly defined myself as one.

An empath feels others’ emotions and physical sensation in her body. Which can be either a super power or a curse. Empaths tend to absorb the stress of other people and if an empath is lucky she can absorb the positive energies as well, however if she wouldn’t learn how to create clear boundaries and protection she may suffer exhaustion, anxiety, addictions, depression and more.

How good I know this territory of absorbing negative energies from my surrondings! This ability of mine had woken up as a young child and I remember I went over to my parents room as a 7-8 year old frightened little girl many times during bedtime, that I feel fear. My Mum asked me: “From what?” But I was never able to gave a clear answer. So she usually sent me back to my room and asked me to go to sleep. I felt ashamed and slowly learnt to numb those strange feelings of unease.

Many years went by. And after my fortieth birthday I gave birth to my daughter. This was the time when this ability which I call “feeling beyond” had started to awaken in me again. Starting with that very familiar feeling of feeling fear. But this time I felt ever so strongly that there were times I questioned that weather am I still in the normal range of human emotions or not.

Of course this was because of many transitioning was happening at the same time as well.

It was about three years of my inner journey to my personal shadow land when I’d found Judith.

“Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.”

>> Albert Einstein<<

In the course I learnt techniques of grounding and the subtile ways of creating protection. There was journaling questions each time which I loved a lot as I usually found so much treasure in my writings. I learnt ways how to stop absorbing other people’s distress and widen the range of my capacity of surrender. I understand why sensitive people are prone to addiction. Judith shared her view on how sensitive pople can cultivate healty relationships. As she expressed the importance of learning to be able to express our needs. She also shared suggestions about how to parent empathic children. She shared the Ho’oponopono Prayer which I’d heard before but hearing from Judith I got an other layer of depth on this beautiful wisdom gem.

“The people who are sensitive in life may suffer much more than those who are insensitive, but if they understand and go beyond their suffering, they will discover extraordinary things”

>>Jiddu Krishnamurti<<

Getting to know Judith’s body of work set me on an other journey of self-discovery in which I’d met many more new people. But this is an other story which I leave for next time!

Until then, never fail to ask good questions!

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