Vienda Maria

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I run a coaching business that helps you create a life you love, by uncovering your own truth + embodying your full potential. This is where you discover your freedom. I believe that when we live our lives from a space of love + soul, a transformational ripple occurs that changes our entire world. Making our planet a better, kinder, more peaceful place. One beautiful, spirited human being at a tim

e. In a little over two years, viendamaria.com has become a popular place where thousands of people per week come to soothe their souls, find inspiration, breathe a sigh of relief + refill their cup of love to return to their lives with renewed energy + a strong sense of self belief + the knowledge that they are being supported. As one reader describes it “I feel you have some kind of outer-earth connection, reading your posts almost breathes life into you.

Something I think about often is... Where did our addiction to work = worth + value come from?For the first 300,000 year...
17/08/2022

Something I think about often is...

Where did our addiction to work = worth + value come from?

For the first 300,000 years or so — 95% of human history — people worked 8 to 15 hours per week. Gathering and preparing food, hunting, building tools and homes... The rest of the time our ancestors spent dreaming, making music, exploring, decorating their bodies, creating and socialising.

Originally we humans lived pretty leisurely lives.

So, what happened?

One of capitalism's most enduring myths is that it has reduced human toil. But it hasn’t. Before capitalism, most people did not work very long hours at all. The tempo of life was slow, leisurely; the pace of work relaxed.

Our ancestors may not have been rich in gold coins, but they had an abundance of leisure. When capitalism raised their incomes, it also took away their time and their pleasure.

Today’s standards constitute the most work effort in the entire history of humankind.

In the early days of agriculture, a single unlucky event, like a drought or a flood, could lead to mass starvation.
Hard work was essential to survival.

But that wasn't true for hundreds of thousands of years before and it's not true now.
Hunter-gatherers didn't face extreme scarcity.
Thanks to technology, neither do we.

Yet we work way more than we need to in order to provide a decent living for everyone.

Want to know why?

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Landing… 👽
01/11/2021

Landing… 👽

Nothing, and I mean n o t h i n g has made me face my fears, biggest insecurities, ancestral patterns and limited belief...
29/10/2021

Nothing, and I mean n o t h i n g has made me face my fears, biggest insecurities, ancestral patterns and limited belief systems the way my business has.

When I started, on the surface level it was to create and live a life that I believe in, that is in integrity with who I am. Deeper, my soul wanted me to face contrast and have challenges so scary, they would transform me.

8 years on and I look back with SO MUCH pride and gratitude for the journey it’s taken me, the lessons I’ve learned, the teachers and mentors I’ve had, and the incredible global relationships and community I’ve grown. And, Thai is just the beginning!

Earlier this year, on request of a client, I created Her Way - The Women’s Business Training. A 5-week journey into the ins and outs of what I know and how I run my business. It’s different because I see out businesses as vehicles for the gifts, value and messages we are here to share. And my approach is led from within not without. But it works.

I keep being asked did I’ll run this live training again and at this point the answer is ‘no’. I’m the kind of person who gets excited about new things more than done things. Sorry!

Enrolments for Her Way close at midnight tonight. If your heart is tugging in this direction you’re so welcome to join us. I can’t wait ! We begin on Monday.🌛

/ is the wonderful eye behind the lens here

‘an end is a new beginning’ — just pressed publish on this new personal update 📝
27/10/2021

‘an end is a new beginning’ — just pressed publish on this new personal update 📝

The duality of the human experience, that we have both pain and pleasure, beauty and ugly, exist side by side, spins me ...
25/10/2021

The duality of the human experience, that we have both pain and pleasure, beauty and ugly, exist side by side, spins me around often.

It’s been a rough landing. I have been processing so much across the last few weeks. Turning up here in Mallorca with all that charged emotion in my body has meant some really wobbly days, mental-heath wise, as I start to release and discharge.

When I first arrived I couldn’t appreciate being here. My body was so completely exhausted and depleted, I could barely manage to exist.

Getting prepared to run gorgeous 5-week women’s business training in November, showing up for my clients and Cocoon group, and making sure I slept well each night was all I could manage.

Texts from friends went unanswered for days on end. I did the minimum to keep life ticking. When I could I explored the island.

Learning, most of all, where I don’t want to live, which has helped immensely as I start to look at potential apartments.

I’m feeling raw and vulnerable but also centred and hopeful. There’s a shedding of skins happier as I slither out of one life and into a new one.

And the one thing that this is teaching me is to practice what I preach in HW… to run my life and my business in a way that supports every part of me, no matter the waves, ebbs and flows life brings.

behind the lens capturing a vulnerable moment.

I’ve discovered something. This island in the Mediterranean Sea is a collection of the many parts of me. German is spoke...
25/10/2021

I’ve discovered something. This island in the Mediterranean Sea is a collection of the many parts of me.

German is spoken in many places. It’s weird but fun. I was born in Austria so it’s essentially my native tongue.

Except that it’s not because the first few years of my life were on the Canary Islands and the first words out of my mouth were Spanish.

While my mother spoke German to me and my father spoke Italian to me.

English is widely spoken here too, so my comfort-zone languages and cultures are covered.

But wait, it gets more interesting…

When I was 6 my mother immigrated to a part of Australia called Noosa / the Sunshine Coast.

I spent large parts of my childhood there as well… and the nature here… it is almost identical!

Eucalyptus and bougainvillea and olive trees and lantana and those coastal pine trees… the smells and landscape are that of my childhood.

It’s like I’m having some kind of reverse déjà vu, as if the universe is trying to stitch my future to my past. ✨

I don’t know, I don’t know, but I can’t begin to conceive how the world has created this unimaginable collision.

Life is so weird and wild and wonderful and hard and terrible as times also.

(Cont. next post…)

(First pic by when still in Brighton, the rest mine from@my adventures here.)

(Cont. from last post). So, what does that actually look like?✔️ It’s taking inspired actions. ✔️ It’s planning without ...
22/10/2021

(Cont. from last post). So, what does that actually look like?

✔️ It’s taking inspired actions.

✔️ It’s planning without attachment.

✔️ It’s holding a vision for your life but releasing the “how”.

22/10/2021

One of the most profound pieces of advice I was ever given was to learn how to “relax into my business”.

All the good stuff, all the things we want, we dream of, we yearn for, comes form a place of relaxation.

I think people get confused about what that means. It doesn’t mean lethargy or lack of ambition or laziness.

It means living the paradox of showing up daily and trusting the process.

It’s consistently nurturing the potential of your work in the world without force, pressure and expectations.

It’s a heart-led hands-off approach. It’s HER WAY. Enrolments close in 1 week.

Questions? Please DM me… 💋

This is it. This is it. The time is now. 🌝
21/10/2021

This is it. This is it. The time is now. 🌝

A few hours behind but still as valid. 🌝
21/10/2021

A few hours behind but still as valid. 🌝

The way I’ve been telling myself the stories of what happened and my experiences of the past 18 months have been quite n...
18/10/2021

The way I’ve been telling myself the stories of what happened and my experiences of the past 18 months have been quite negative.

I thought, because I was telling the truth, my truth, of how I had experienced them, it was the right way to tell them, but I was wrong.

Telling my stories in these ways made me feel sad, depleted and like I wasn’t allowed to choose joy.

this summer
I counted the
ways that joy
had been siphoned
from life the past year
one week at a time

I suppose, after years of professional-level spiritual bypassing I am learning the fine art of acknowledging and validating my feelings and experiences while also narrating them in a way that allows me to leave them behind.

this summer
reminded me
that perspective
creates your reality
and that the human
parts of me craved
a summer sun to
burn my past
down

Sometimes pain flourishes in growth more quickly. Sometimes it does so more slowly. It’s been a slow burn for me recently but it’s all starting to clear now.

From here in out, I’m choosing a new narrative, a new way to tell my stories, and sometimes, even, to not tell my stories at all but just keep making new ones.

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Palma through a fence…
15/10/2021

Palma through a fence…

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