Tag: health

Rushing Calmly

by Viktoria Maczo, posted in Ciklusharmonizáció a Holddal Haladva, Inspiráció

There is something I would like to share with you – something very personal, and perhaps also perspective-shifting.

It’s about urgency – and about what becomes possible when we begin to step out of it.

I don’t mean ignoring responsibilities. I mean stepping out of the constant rush… out of the pressure to hold everything together… out of the compulsion to fix, prove, or achieve in a hurry before even taking a breath.

I once heard the Dalai Lama speak about how it’s possible to rush while remaining completely calm. This teaching stayed with me, because when I first heard it, it really upset me! I felt angry and flustrated, and thought this is just impossible!

But then I discovered Sarah Tacy Tangredi – with whom I’ve been studying Nervous System Harmonization since 2023 – and I experienced that it truly is possible to “rush calmly.

Now she has created a free 3-day workshop titled Opting Out Of Urgency. It will take place on September 16, 18, and 19, 2025, from 12:00-1:30pm EST! It is grounded in science, honors the soul, and focuses on re-patterning the nervous system.

I would now like to invite you to this program as well! Let me tell you why!

Urgency narrows our perspective. It convinces our body that there is no time, no choice, no way to slow down. It feels real – because once, it really did keep us safe. But it is no longer the only way.

From this pause, our capacity to feel returns. Real choice returns. Clarity returns.

And most surprisingly: you return – to your own rhythm, to your own life force.

I myself have felt this sense of urgency in these September days, as my daughter started school. It’s a huge transition for us after pre-school, and often I catch myself feeling compelled to rush her, to hurry her in the mornings as we get ready.

Then I slow down, and I notice that this is an old program – one I also inherited. The study of the nervous system, and the ability to read and harmonize it, is also part of my programs also.

My Autumn program has already begun. But you don’t need to feel rushed, because there is always another opportunity waiting for you!

Opting Out of Urgency Workshop content:

🌿 Day 1: Where choice lives – Reclaiming space and pace between impulse and action.

🌿 Day 2: Sacred third – Finding new possibilities beyond “either–or” thinking.

🌿 Day 3: Relational health – Healing what urgency has shaped in the way we connect with others.

This is not about performance. It is about coming home to our feminine essence.

👉 You can register here

Expect gentle daily practices, live guidance, and insights that will stay with you for a long time. And all of this completely free!

Maybe you’re not as “sensitive” as you thought.

Maybe you’re simply ready for a new path.

It begins here.

Join us as we explore the idea of “rushing calmly” and cultivate the superpower of moving beyond urgency.

Dare to step in!

Sat Nam

Viki

How could you know that you’re healing?

by Viktoria Maczo, posted in Compass to your inner guidance, Inspiration

How do I know if I am healing? How can I truly tell whether I am walking the right path?

These questions return to me again and again.

I’ve spent much of my life concerned with how I use my time, wary of filling it with knowledge or pursuits that might not carry true meaning for me.

In my twenties, I felt a strong pull toward Western Astrology, and for a year I immersed myself in it—yet I did not continue. Years before, I had the urge to play an instrument. I studied violin for two years, then set it down. There are other examples, but what I wish to share is this: it may not make sense in the moment, it may appear to be failure or a false start—but with time, the bigger picture begins to reveal itself. Slowly, the pieces find their place.

When we look back, so much of what we call “success” or “failure” depends entirely on the perspective from which we see.

Just yesterday, I felt myself exactly where I wanted to be. My daughter was in the middle of a storm over her clothing, and instead of being swept into it, I chose silence. By staying quiet, I shifted the momentum of that moment. And in the space I left, her father stepped forward—calm, steady, grounded. My silence gave him room, and his presence gave me a renewal on my perspective.

It wasn’t the first time he has reminded me of what truly matters in the midst of chaos. This is why I find this moment so significant for me and for us as a family.

When one of us falters and the other holds steady—offering space, compassion, and connection instead of fear or control—something sacred opens. This is not about striving toward some final destination, some perfected self. Healing isn’t a straight path of improvement. There will always be new opportunities to soften, to expand, to deepen.

The heart of healing is learning to embody your truest self without shame. It’s arriving at a place where you see that nothing is broken, nothing needs fixing—only unfolding. And in that recognition, you can finally rest. Rest in what is. Rest in who you are. Rest in the presence of those around you.

From there, the world comes alive again. You begin to sense, to see, to touch life with beginner’s eyes—with the wonder of a child. You notice beauty even in difficulty, because you begin to recognize the hidden gifts of your shadows. You see that your fears and frustrations are not flaws, but echoes etched into your nervous system long ago—waiting to be unlocked, witnessed, and released.

The knowledge of the nervous system is simple to find. A quick search can give you the concepts. But the true work—the art—is in living it, in practicing it, in applying it in the heat of the moment.

This is why I love sitting with kindred souls, learning together, sharing tools that shape not just our own lives but the lives of our children. For if we care enough to learn, to heal, to soften, then what we pass on to them is no longer our unhealed weight, but our wisdom. This is the inheritance I wish to offer my daughter: a way of living, a set of tools, a deep knowing that emotional freedom is possible.

And if your heart longs for this kind of learning, for the nourishment of these good vibrations, then you are already on the path.

Come, to join us through a 3 day long free workshop, which will be in 2025. September 16, 18, 19. 12:00-1:30pm EST which is called Opting Out Of Urgency and my friend and mentor Sarah Tacy holds.

👉 Sign Up Here

Now is the moment to answer the whisper of your soul, the call that longs for healing!

I hope you’ll join us.

Be curious!

Sat Nam,

Viki

The magical gift of my lineage

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

Dear one!

Let me introduce myself!

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.

The rest remains in silence ♥️

With gratitude and hope,

Viki

13 Moons Of Cyclical Living – My Nervous System Healing Tools

by Viktoria Maczo, posted in 13 Moons of Circular Living

The greatest gift to give our children, is our own happiness. I’d realized this early on as I have lost my Mother so young. Her sickness which had started in her early 40’s and her lived example of how unprocessed childhood trauma can eat up one’s life set me on a quest to understand myself and the world around me better.

Healing starts with the ability of being able to stay with what is.

To be able to heal the generational trauma starts with our own work. Our belief about ourself and our limiting behavioural patterns are with us for a reason. As I have started to pay attention to my anger; I have found that instead managing it, better if I understand its root. Forming curious questions about the pain which exists underneath it.

I have uncovered that the misconception of “I am not good enough” comes from the burden I’d put on myself as an empath child on a mission of saving my parents – especially my Mum – from her suffering. There is a deep ingrained belief inside me that my responsibility is to change and heal all the pain I feel around me. Since becoming a Mother I have been learning to draw my boundaries more accuratly. I’ve figured out that bringing solution to other’s problem is not my responsibility. My responsibility is to work on myself.

Time to time as I am experimenting with using new responses I feel so unsettled. I feel in some sense that I have lost the ground underneath. However what is different that I have heeps more resources then I used to. With this truth on my side I am able to gain my lost momentum back and with renewed zest I keep going.

Healing comes as I am able to understand myself and allow my emotions to move me. During my early life I’d conditioned myself to freeze my emotional body and develop an intellect which mimics my bodily feelings. I could talk about how I felt, but as I’d looked deeper I could notice that these were not feelings but beliefs. In my process of my inquiry I’d realized how much I was disconnected from my body.

Now I know that my body keeps the score – so I did not loose anything. My Nervous System as well as my muscles, and deeper tissues of my body recorded all event in my life. I am fascinated by the human’s body by that sense that our body always try to heal itself. It always try to organise itself in a way which is the most effective use of the energy which is avaiable.

Healing comes as I am able to feel the messages of my body. As my field of perception grows. Healing comes in a tender, compassionate approach toward my own shadows and unhealed parts. Healing comes as I don’t deny anymore my unwanted parts but I turn toward them with welcoming curiosity.

I wonder how much more complete my life could be if I would integrate my wounded parts – if I would turn my pain into an elixir. If I would turn my sensitivity into my superpower?!

Healing comes when I am able to maintain a fearless attitude toward my own demons.

Trauma is disconnection. Therefore healing comes in ways of connections. All those safe connections we create inside of ourselves our outside in our environment.

My way of searching my wholeness was a desperate mission filled with restless and scattered energies. I wanted to change and If I could not I changed my environment. Just like my mother did.

My inherited patterns were pushing forward me up to this point in my life. Where I’ve realized: “THERE IS NO NEED FOR CHANGE.” The deep burdened need inside me asks for REMEMBERANCE. It asks for UNDERSTANDING.

Therefore I have embarked on a journey called by THIS inner request. I am in a process to establish a different kind of sadana (dalily practice) then I used to have. These days my yoga exists outside of my comfortable yoga mat. I am practicing the Yamas and Niyamas, I do Breathwork, I do relaxation, I meditate, I contemplate and most of all I am practicing presence in all circumstances.

In the result of these practices I would like to share with you my allies which are my most useful resources of Healing my Nervous System so far: (these are the ones which I am using daily)

  1. Sourcing Energy from Beauty – creating beauty in my environment (freash flowers) or reading a poem or listening uplifting music or watching the clouds on the sky, I also do love stargazing.
  2.  Grounding – finding stability through my bones/sensing the connection between my body and the supporting surface underneath.
  3. Orienting – Reminding myself my current age, (instead of acting out from my wounded younger self).
  4. Pausing – As well as slowing down, with my actions, with my worlds, with my breath, – in a way simplifying and prioritizing what is important / what is necessary.
  5.  Finding Stability – sensing the stable environment around (inside: celing, floor, walls, outside: trees, earth underneath my feet).
  6. Shake, dance, sing.
  7. Reminding myself that I have a CHOICE.
  8. Using breathing patterns: elongated outbreath/sigh, 4-4-4-4 breath (for 4 count breathing in-, pause-, out-, pause).

And the below ones are those which I am working on: (these are not comming easily but when I use them these are having the greatest transforming benefits on my patterning)

  1. Listening to my gut feelings (tuning into the sensations in my body, forming a response by using my body’s wisdom instead of my intellect).
  2. Apply CURIOSITY in tense situations.
  3. Saying NO – drawing boundaries.
  4. Asking for help.
  5. Connecting with a safe person for co-regulation.
  6. Orienting myself to the cycles of my own moon cycle, as well as to the phrases of the Moon.
  7. Drink more water.
  8. Nourishing my senses (appreciate my circumstances & savour them).

Let’s remind each other to our goodness! Let’s focus on creating exeptional health! Let’s reconnect to Nature.

May you laugh easily and forgive readily.

Have a resourcefilled April!

Love,

Viki

13 Moons of circular living – Finding my Calm Abiding

by Viktoria Maczo, posted in 13 Moons of Circular Living


The January theme of the 13 Moons of Circular Living Program is the Womb-space. You will hear about it this lunar month, which lasts from January 11th to February 8th, 2024.

During this period, starting today, when according to the inner teachings in the Women’s Circles we enter the period of Late Winter, therefore I myself plunge back into silence also.

I try resting more and doing less.

During the winter period, everything that helps you deepen and dissolve in the process you are currently involved in, supports and fills the creative forces in you. It is important to experience darkness and calm, because it is in this space that the seeds of self-expression longing for light and activity can be conceived and strengthened.

Therefore I try to leave more space between my daily tasks.

I harmonize my desire to exercise with walking in nature, dancing, breathing therapy and meditative sessions. I like to journal and read inspiring books and listen uplifting music. I try to spend as little time as possible with my digital devices, if at all, but as soon as the Sun goes down, I have a digital sunset.

This means that I switch off all my devices when the Sun sets.

I make delicious and easy-to-prepare and digestible creamy soups and stews, and I try to simplify everything else as well. (As a daily routine, a list of pressing tasks to be completed, and the realization of ideas that seem excellent!)

I invite you all to take pause and enjoy the energies winter can offer us this time of the year!

Next time I would like to share with you some tricks with the help of which you can bring some new energies into your life as I passionately combine my Feng Shui knowlegde with my mindful practices in my life.

Until next time,
Be well, Be resorceful!

Love, Viki

Practices to return simplicity

by Viktoria Maczo, posted in Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, Restorative Yoga, Seventh Series, Yoga for Clarity

Now I teach Ashtanga yoga from the bottom up. I used to teach from the other way around. I used to pay way more attention to the rules and the requirements. I used to be more concerned about looks and progress.

However as a woman and as a mother I have been learning to listen to my body instead of my mind. Since I sync my practice with my cycle, since I pay attention to the seasons as well as my body’s natural requirements my practice has become more settled.

Ashtanga yoga is considered a practice of the young and strong, but it can be a life long support for all those who understand its energetics.

As I have a lifelong passion of learning from all wisdom left behind, I teach practices which help you to return to simlicity and tap into abundance by using what you aready have.

Embrace magic, beauty and serendipity!

And the rest will come.

Closer to the sun – Wim Hof

by Viktoria Maczo, posted in Closer to the Sun

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Today is: Wim Hof

“One cold shower a day, keeps the doctors away.”

Many times happens in my life that I meet a teaching way before I can applay it in my life. This is especially true to my realtionship with cold.

When we were living in New Zealand especially during wintertime on Waiheke Island I was challenged with how I adopt the colder weather. Everyone was asking to me when I was complaining “how cold it is during winter?” But it is not just about the outside temperature but the comfort level you live or you are used to.

During my life I was used to have a central heating in the house and hot showers or long baths during winter. In Waiheke Island was the first time in my life that I was living in houses without a proper insulation or heating systems.

However I learned to adapt. My body learned to adapt. I’d learned tai chi and practiced that during the winter months while I was taking long walks by the sea. Because one thing become quite clear quickly: “you must keep moving, keep doing if you don’t want to be cold.”

I’d shifted my seated meditations into a moving one, and I’d learned to breathe in a way that I was able to heat my body up.

When we moved back to Hungary, oh gush-about 8 years ago- I got used to central heating again. I enjoyed the warmth we can create in our home, just by switching on the heating.

During summer as my husband takes his cold showers I always get inspired by his attitude but only this year was I able to try myself. As we went for a holiday to Italiy I was listening an audiobook from Wim Hof, because just before we went I’d attended a conference where he was one of the speaker and I instantly got inspired by his approach.

I have been a pretty got dot connector in my life. I always loved to put the bits and pieces together. As this time I remembered our travel to Samoa where I went into that freezing cold water where the guys who invited us went into such a great ease and was telling me, “it is not so cold, come, try!” (So I did! See the smile in my face? freeeziiiing!!!! 🙂 Then I remembered the book I read by a Hungarian writer in which there was a main caracter who took cold showers each morning and said how that practice in itself changed her whole life. Then I remembered that sodier I met once who told me, having a cold shower through winter and he was able to stand the cold weater even if he only wore a T-shirt. Then I’d allowed to born the deep yearning in my heart to give it a try as Wim suggests but more then that as my husband was showing the way.

“It only takes 10 days, then your vascular system gets conditioned and used to it. Everything depends on your approach! Just decide you’ll gonna do, then just do it!”. It was easy because it was Summer and pretty hot and also I was on a holiday.

I have also been practicing Wim’s circular breathing which he claims that it can even get you out from hang over if you practice it longer. Otherwise he said: “Practice 4 circle of circular breathing also called Wim Hof’s breathing, a cold shower and then off you go! Without being sick, with more zest in your life, more stamina in your Nervous System and more aliveness!”

Who wants this for free? You don’t need to do anything just train yourself to bear cold shower for about 3 minutes every day. (As you train yourself during those ten days first about 30 seconds, next day 45 second and like this way increase the duration of time you are under the cold water. If you want support you can download Wim’s App.)

For me as a mother of a 5 year old, and a yoga practicioner for more then 15 years this is a great start of my days because since my daughter was born I did not really have either the time or the stamina to do my two hours long morning practice I was used to before having her.

Now I have found a new chalanging practice other then Ashtanga Yoga!

Try yourself!

See you next time!

Till then, never fail to ask good questions!

BE closer to the sun!

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