Closer to the sun – Sarah Tacy

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Today is: Sarah Tacy

I consider my discovery of Sarah Tacy to be a fortunate coincidence, much like other significant revelations in my life.

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.

Love,

Viki

Mindful Minute: A 7 day challange for a Harmonious Nervous System

Dear Ones,

I would like to recommend you my YouTube channel and this 7 day long short series (Mindful Minute)! Actually in 1 minute I share a practice which if you build into your everyday life as a routine it can bring you profound changes and great benefits as your Nervous System becomes more balanced and you become more resorceful!

I recommend to try all seven of them (some of them upregulating some of them are a down regulating tool!) and then choose those which you really feel that working for you as well as you need the most!

Then spend at least a week and just practice the choosen one! If you like to experiement with more then one, then spend a week with each! If you like to go deeper then write a practice diary in which you write down your observations after your practice. You do not need more then 5-15 minutes every day for this “longer version” and you will see miracles!

If you are a woman practitioner try to notice which somatic practice supports you in what phases of your menstrual cicle! If you like to have a guidance on this write me, and book a 1:1 consulatation!

The most important is that; you just start, and the reast will come!

If you are interested to learn more I am happy to chat with you about the opportunities and the details of 1:1 coaching I offer!

Be well!

With love and appreciation,

Viki

The magical gift of my lineage

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

Closer to the sun – Katie Dove

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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

Closer to the Sun – Stephanie Nelson

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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”!

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!

See & listen the Episode on my YouTube Channel:

Love,

Viki

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

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.

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…

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 – Finding my Calm Abiding


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