Meet Fruzsina Szemzo | Creator of Amazon Rising – A transformative interpersonal movement based healing process, Intuitive Bodyworker

We had the good fortune of connecting with Fruzsina Szemzo and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Fruzsina, we’d love to hear more about how you thought about starting your own business?
I’m a very intuitive person and more than anything, I think I just knew I wasn’t made for the 9-5 grind. Even when I was in my 20’s and had to be at work “on time” and had a specific role/job to do, I never felt fully satisfied. In fact I felt depleted with no spark, nothing truly lit me up. The work I did or jobs I had were just that, projects that I did well but internally felt empty. Back then though, there wasn’t language for how I was feeling or even slightest concept “purpose”. But somehow I knew in my bones that there had to be more to my day to day existence. So the thought process was very instinctual, not a finance based decision to building my own business.

Alright, so let’s move onto what keeps you busy professionally?
In my process of creating the Amazon Body movement method, I was not aware that I was creating anything at all. I had just begun a deep dive into my own self development and was teaching barre, yoga, and pilates at the time. Simultaneously, I began feeling restless, stifled, constricted, like I was suffocating and couldn’t breath. I was trying to find ways to move body that allowed me to feel deeply, sweat profusely, and quiet my mind at the same time. Nothing was offering what I was looking for so I began teaching a class that I called Full Body Challenge at the time, this was about 5 years ago now. Step by step, sequence by sequence, move by move, I slowly started to uncover what it was that I needed and wanted to feel. It took about a year to create the structure that is now Amazon Body. I then needed another year to understand how I needed to teach this format, so it had the exact and very specific effect I wanted my clients to feel. So the creative/birthing process was about 2 years, which was actually the easy part, When I felt ready to really share what had come through me, I needed the courage to actually believe in myself, which, in hindsight, was the hard part and I think is what I am most proud of.

No one tells you that after you have created something that you are then at the mercy of other peoples opinions and thoughts. You soon realize that everyone is a critic. No one knows how fragile of a space it is to advocate for your creation, and how much courage it takes to show up for and stand behind something that is inherently new.
I used to mix my identity up with how people responded to my work. For example, if someone didn’t resonate with or didn’t understand what I was trying to teach with my work then it affected my deeply. My identity and self worth at that time was directly tied to what other people thought of me and what I was doing. This opened me up to the grueling process of dealing with my deeply rooted people pleasing tendencies and essentially cracked me wide open. The healing process of working through my low self esteem patterning pushed me to believe whole-heartedly in the body of work that I had created. It was exactly the lesson I need to learn because I finally began to value myself. As I learned to believe in and trust that what I had created was inherently good, I learned to love myself in the process. It was the ultimate reclaiming journey of coming back into my power. This is now the foundation of the work I do with Amazon Rising, which has evolved into a complex transformative interpersonal movement based healing process.

I overcame my challenges by not giving up and leaning into trust, I know this sounds cliche but it’s true. I somehow managed to use all of my personal setbacks and handicaps as power sources. I continued on when 1 person came to a group class or when no one showed up at. Or when people walked out on a class and were super quick to criticize me, I continued on. When people said my work was just a hobby, I knew inside they were wrong so I had to keep moving forward. I expanded in personal power, self worth, resilience, and grit. These are the lessons that continue to motivate and inspire me forward because I know what it’s like to feel small and not worthy of most anything.

Behind everything I do is the notion of “we’re not that different”. Yes, there are people who are just not our people and that’s fine, but overall there is not that much separateness. We’re all a work in progress and if I can help just one person heal an aspect of themselves so they don’t have to go through everything I have, then I’m content.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
Well, I live in Hungary, in the suburbs of Budapest, so we’d definitely do a couple off the beaten track type things. 1. Food, the food here is amazing so I’d have a couple local specialty places and must trys on the list. Or maybe a home cooked dinner prepared by my sweet friend Adrienn, would be enough to give someone a unique experience.
2. Bathhouse, we are the water/spa capital of the world so we’d definitely get some relaxing time in at one of the smaller thermal baths.
3. Wine, I don’t drink much alcohol but there are a few must try wineries that have the local flare
4. Balaton, the northern shore of the lake is home to really sacred land. Hiking, connecting to nature and of course the local food here would be a must.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
I love this! So many of course but I would have to say that a few people stand out. The work of Dr. Gabor Mate (a fellow Hungarian, who also immigrated to the West at a young age) has had a huge impact on my personal healing journey, which has allowed me to deepen my skills as a healer/space holder for my clients. Trailblazers like Patricia Moreno who changed the game of fitness by going against established norms to include personal affirmations and sound into her movement sequences and Lacy Phillips for pioneering the manifestation movement into a tangible, doable process without all the spiritual bybassing. Then personally, my soul sister, healer, fellow movement practitioner Kiya Knight has been a true light. She stepped in when I was in really dark place recently and offered much needed healing support with the power of breath work.

Website: www.amazonrising.com (coming soon)

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September Studios Bernadette Horvath Photography