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Closer to the sun – Katie Dove

by Viktoria Maczo, posted in Closer to the Sun

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Today is: Katie Dove

“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.

You will meet Katie on the next episode of my podcast called Closer to the Sun! But until the episode comes out, you can get a feel on Katie’s teaching by watching a video on YouTube about “How to Navigate Difficult Emotions Without Losing Heart”.

You’ll find Katie’s current offerings on her website (www.katiedove.love).

Love,

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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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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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

Farewell

by Viktoria Maczo, posted in 13 Moons of Circular Living

One tiny bit of my soul remained on the mountaintop on that chilly dawn when I rose up before the Sun, before many, before even Matariki, so then I could be one who welcomes it when appears on the New Zealand sky.

Today I am on the other side of the word, therefore today I say goodbye to the Seven Sisters and with this act I say goodbye to my past self who has for so many years been stuck with much grief.

It’s been 11 years that I lost my mother, her disapperance form my life was similar to how ellusive the night sky could be.

Today I clame that tiny bit of my soul back with the act of consciously asking my inner guidance:

“Show me a way to be with communion with my memories in a more heathy way. I am ready to let go the pain form my heart, and I am ready to dip my spirit into joy. I am ready to let myself enjoy my moments with those who are still with me, and remember gracefully for those who left.

Thank you for all pain,

Thank you for all joy,

Thank you for all love,

Thank you for all heartbraking moment.

All is well now.”

Emotional Alchemy – B-Launch

by Viktoria Maczo, posted in 13 Moons of Circular Living

Hello Beautiful Souls,

I am up to lunch my B version of my signature course in English which is about how to regulate your body, mind and spirit with the Moon’s guiding energies. I am looking for participants who share my enthusiasm on the subject and are happy to give valuable feedback throughout the course.

The transformation comes from finding our own unique rythmn by appliying all those micro-and mini practices which can support us in our busy everyday lives.

If you are feeling overwhelmed and getting lost and have not found yet the practices which can help you to come out of your struggless, you might just take a chance on our beautiful planet’s greatest regulating source!

As you allow the natural, organic process back to your life as you learn how to BE instead of DO all the time you’ll experience more ease and flow in all areas!


In the practices of Emotional Alcemy you will learn to regulate your Nervous System by using fun and easy tools of movement, breathwork, meditation, writing and somatic experiencing and more. Most of all I will introduce to you all those rituals and ancient practices which have the potential to transform your life the fastest and most graceful ways.

We will meet 4 times in 4 weeks and I will introduce one pilar of an andean medicine wheel each time. (Dates: July 11, 18, 25 and August 1st, Thursdays at 11 am New York time/5 pm Hungary time)

Our 2 main guiding forces is beauty and speed. The Way of the Speed practices will transforme body and mind and the Beauty Way transforms soul and spirit.
I help you to optimize your habits and find the most suitable everyday practices for you matched with your unique circumstances. I share with you how to build an altar, what is fire ceremony and how potential can storytelling be.

Are you extited?

Here is some feedback on the course from my students who participated in the hungarian version.


“YOUR MATERIALS ARE VERY GOOD! CONGRATULATIONS FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART HEART. I REALLY LIKED THE YIN AND YANG ASPECT OF FEARLESSNESS. “HAVING TEA WITH MARA” WAS NEW TO ME, BUT I’M INCLUDING IT BECAUSE IT’S FANTASTIC. I LOVED THE LIVE CALLS AND I FOUND THE RECOMMENDED BOOKS ARE ALSO VERY GOOD! YOU ARE AWESOME.”

Adrienne K.



“What really caught my attention is the cyclicality. How to practice as needed. The hand positions seemed small at first, but I could experience how good they are for everything, starting with pain relief. The exercises had a liberating effect. It was surprising to me that results could appear so quickly!
These exercises must be practiced over and over!”

Liliana B.


Here is the link for the payment of 222 NZD

May you laugh easily and forgive readily,
May your days be fulfilled with magic and abundance!

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13 Moons of ciclical Living -Resorceful Reawakening

by Viktoria Maczo, posted in Uncategorized

In June as we are showered with the Full Moon energies, I would like to share with you a practice, which always helps me to reakindle my dormant potentials.

These days I am about to restructure my life as we are getting to the half a year mark as well as closer to Matariki. In New Zealand Matariki is the Máori name for the cluster of starts known to Western astronomers as the Pleiades. The rising marks the beginning of a new year in the Máori lunar calendar.

This current of new begining is what I feel right now.

You see I have a very close connection to these stars. As a young woman I used to enjoy to dance under the starlit sky, in the warm, balmy nights of summers. The Pleiades was one of the starcluster I learnt to find on the sky and I never missed to chek its position. Later on in my life I enjoyed everso dearly to hear all the stories and myths about the 7 sisters. When I moved to New Zealand and discocvered how much significance has here, my heart rejoced and I felt in my bones that I arrived back home.

This recognition was a work of my heart.

The heart is an alchemizer. However as we progress forward in our timeline, as we grow up, we experience many unplesant feelings as well. Many of us are facing the challenge that it seems like we are not accepted in our small or even large community in that raw way as we are.

We get traumatized. And trauma is overwhelming for the emotional body therefore we are confused to feel. We develop our own way to deal with our life and we miss noticing that how freezed our inner being become.

We are story makers, everthing depends on the stories we tell.

About ourselves, about our experiences, about our past and our future. Everthing depends on it that you allow yourself to dream or not…

Your trauma depends on the story you tell about yourself. Can you see now?

The meaning does not comes from the cover up stories we make but how we are making our life meaningful is; to living it in the present.

Your body keeps all the memories alive but the heart has the capacity to alchemize your emotions.

So stop repeating those stories which causes suffering, and start telling new ones!

This is why I feel that writing is very important in the process of EVOLVEing.

Writing is how we teach ourselves to tell stories. To retell the old ones and to create new ones.

I invite you to a future writing! Prepare the right evironment in which your writing can flow! Disconnect from your everyday life, swich of your devices, and get your journal out! Take a few conscious breath! Meditate! Put a nice, inspiring music on, light a candle, make your favourite beverage to enchance this writing exercise! Then Start, by imagining yourself into your desired future. Feel it, hear it, sense it! And then put your pen on the paper and just let it flow!

I am happy to hear from you! About your discoveries in your next best possible future life!

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as always

Viki