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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

New Episode! Interview with Katie Dove

by Viktoria Maczo, posted in Closer to the Sun

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!

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

Katie’s FB page is: https://www.facebook.com/circlegatherings

and website: https://www.katiedove.love/

Have a great day, closer to the Sun!

Love and appreciation,

Viki

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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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13 Moons of circular living – The Summer’s gentle magic

by Viktoria Maczo, posted in 13 Moons of Circular Living

Hello Beautiful Souls,

These days I am wonerdering on how could I come back to my grounding practices in the midst of my irregular circumstances. During these summer days what I experience, is that all my schedules falling apart and my to do lists are changing faster then I could folow. Now as a mother of a 5 and a half year old I am not even try to force back the regularity and my rutine into my sunshine filled days, but I allow the time of the year’s gentle magic act on me.

And this approach itself made a huge difference on how I feel myself right now.

Because of this, it has happened that many of my forgotten dreams came back to me. Therefore I have been surprised by how much aliveness and joy I’ve been feeling when I engage with these inner callings and don’t let them pass.

I feel eager to wake up and start my days as I am experiencing this process of redefining my identity.

I am questioning what my values really are in diverse activities and taking that luxory that I gracefully shift toward what feels good at that moment. As I grow a kinder personality by developing a new vocabulary I feel so much freedom. For so long I felt I have lost this feeling… I am talking about this feeling of – having a wide range of possibilities – what we posess so effortlessly as a child.

I am in the process of honouring my rhytm and experience how this ability is getting better over time. The “old habitual ways” of hurry up and feeling shame has been expired in my system. Because I practice witnessing that how my body feels when I am under stress. This way I learn to distance myself from the feelings and observe them from a new perspective. I learn to draw boundaries around my deep sense of me and protect this luminous core in me as I honor my artist within.

Yes! This is one of my discovery: How this artist has been lost and has been silenced in me long time ago. I pay attention to the stories this part tells me as I sit down every day to write.

A new way of sensing, a new way of experiencing what has been emerging.

When sadness and anger comes I invite them with curiosity because I know they are the messangers of healing needs to happen and they voicing that right now all circumstances are safe enough for me to handle these strong feelings.

As my soul has been waking up, my feelings are pulling me back to the upmost important inner work, which needs to be done. A brief drop in – a light touch on my heart takes its magic. I FEEL what is there without the need of changing it.

GENTLENESS and PATIENCE is my daily practice.

Re-defining my values are a big part of this inner work.

I am in the state of wonder…

I wonder how much more possibility lies in front of me as I approach my life from my safe place!

May you laugh easily and forgive readily,

may your days be fulfilled with gentle magic and heart-opening wonder!

Love,

Viki

13 Moons of circular living – From a Yoga Fundamentalist to a Humble Mother

by Viktoria Maczo, posted in 13 Moons of Circular Living

I used to be yoga fundamentalist. I thought yoga is an answer to every question, that if I was not able to provide an aswer with the help of yoga in mind I was thinking that this is only because I might not know well enough what yoga really is.

I had the great urge to stand on my mat each morning for more then ten years and practice hours of yoga including asanas, chanting, pranayama and meditation. My eagerness of seeking the truth led me to study with great masters and learn many modalities of yoga and mindfullness practices.

Over twenty years of study and practice now I feel my search has been taken me to find discipline as an enrty to real devotion.

I become a mother in my 40th birthday because I’d been enjoying being a jogini so much. I was postponing this great initiation in a false belief that this is a setback on my spiritual journey. Now as I am mothering a 5 year old know that this five years gave me more inner resouce then the previous twenty on the mat.

One day, not long ago I have realized how confused I have become about what my next best step would be as a yoga teacher and practitioner. Since my child getting older and giving me the opportunity to approach my inner territory in my quiet solitude – the way I enjoy to exist so much – more often I had a chance to look more deeply into myself. This is where I have found callings and desires which I wasn’t even aware of! It become very clear that I am not the same person anymore as I was before becoming a parent myself.

Time has become very precious. I have been learning not to scatter it. Also I’ve become so aware of how do I tend to sprinkle my life’s energy all over my surrondings and loose much of my life’s force in tasks which don’t even make a difference.

These days most of my mindfullness practices are in the go because as a mother much days I don’t have the opportunity to sit down…-….this is not true…I will correct:… because my real nature lies in a constant motion. SEE?! This is how my healing jouney continues outside of my yogamat! By unlearning the need that I have to be in in a denial of who I am and instead work with what is!

As I realized this I have started to put presence into the daily tasks I do to improve the quality of life of my family and myself. Like making food, washing dishes, do the loundry and as I keep the flat tidy we live in. For years I was struggling with how do I balance this tasks out with my previous practices, where do I fit my 2 hour long yoga practices? For so long I felt so depleted because of not being able to be an excellent housewife-mother-and joga practicioner at the same time. And don’t even make a note of that this was not anyone’s requirement around me!

Now I understand, what my pracice is. My parcice lies in THESE UNSEEN favours of making a houshold really become a HOME.

My focus is on creating beauty instead of on the prefection of the placement of my body parts. I give more value to my own wisdom, as I choose what and how to practice in my limited time I have for my formal practice. The rest lies outside of the comfort of a well structured yoga class. This is really the 7th series what Pattabhi Jois was reffering to. Many days I stumble. Many days I feel it is so much and therefore I collapse. But never break because I always stand up. Now I believe that to be a witness of our healing journey is more of a gift to our children then stand firmly in our perfection.

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.

Yoga for Clarity

by Viktoria Maczo, posted in Inspiration

Dear ones,

As much as I have been resisting to build a digital space and community; here I am! I am doing it!

Because I feel it is matter what I am about to say.

Because I have many valuable messages to share.

Because we can stay in touch this way with those of you who is far away!

Find me in Facebook: “Yoga for Clarity”!

Live with joy,

Viki

Compass to your inner guidance-Q32.

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.

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

Question 32.

Am I ready to recive abundance?

Compass to your inner guidance-Q29.

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.

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

Question 29.

Am I serious about changing this situation am I in?