{"id":28098,"date":"2025-07-04T19:33:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T17:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthylifeskills.mk\/?p=28098"},"modified":"2025-07-09T10:20:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T08:20:22","slug":"kontakt-shto-lekuva-prikazna-od-%d1%98unskiot-%d1%98oga-odmor-vo-%d1%9ceret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthylifeskills.mk\/en\/kontakt-shto-lekuva-prikazna-od-%d1%98unskiot-%d1%98oga-odmor-vo-%d1%9ceret\/","title":{"rendered":"Healing Contact: A Story from the June Yoga Retreat in Qeret"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you know what the first thing every human being does when they come into the world? The child reaches out and seeks contact. Right? We have all grown up through the touch, care, and warmth of the important figures in our lives, our mothers and our closest ones. We have sought contact, seeking to be loved.<\/p>\n

Contact is the first language of love \u2013 and the last one we forget.<\/p>\n

Although we carry it from birth, living in this \u201cmodern\u201d world as adults, over the years, we close ourselves off. We become reserved, distant, controlling, defensive. We protect ourselves with silence, with humor, or \u201cbusyness\u201d. And deep inside us \u2013 we long for contact: \u201cIf only someone would hear me!\u201d. \u201cIf only someone would understand or touch me\u201d.<\/p>\n

Well, this year, at the active yoga retreat in Qeret, Albania, that's exactly what happened: a return to ourselves through contact \u2013 first with ourselves, then with the people around us, and finally with nature. . There were 40 of us, all with different life stories, but with the same desire \u2013 to feel something real, deep, and meaningful for each of us.<\/p>\n

In those seven days of practicing yoga in combination with the entire program - which was not just yoga, we touched many parts of our personality. Some participants, for example, allowed themselves to cry for the first time in a long time. Others - to laugh from the heart. Everyone found their own rhythm. Someone learned to say "no". Someone - to ask for help. Someone - to forgive.<\/span><\/p>\n

One participant said:
"For me, the best thing was that I met many aware people. These days will motivate me to visualize our Macedonia on a higher frequency \u2013 with love and understanding."<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another shared:
"The fun workshops were the best \u2013 the secret admirer, so much laughter and childlike joy! I forgot how much I miss spontaneity."<\/strong><\/p>\n

During the break we were lucky enough to hear a lecture about Feng Shui and the KI number Alexandra Icevski<\/a><\/strong>, a healing technique and inspirational speech by JJulia Macievska<\/a><\/strong>, as well as a session for EFT and tapping Celina Tompkin<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 a guest from Australia. They all really enriched the program and I thank them from the bottom of my heart for agreeing to participate.<\/p>\n

Of course, a walk in Durres was inevitable, where we explored the city and the delicious local food, and we rounded off the evening with a dinner together at the rural restaurant near Zeni - a completely rural place but with seafood like nowhere else in the world.<\/p>\n

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""If you go deep into some far, far forest and become very quiet, you will understand that you are connected to everything."" \u2013<\/p>\n

Alan Watts<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Contact doesn't always have to be serious. Sometimes it's laughter, joking, moving, dancing that opens the door to the outside. That's where we did it and truly touched ourselves, through relationships with others.<\/p>\n

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\ud83d\udcca What participants said \u2013 evaluation results<\/h2>\n

At the end of the vacation we conducted anonymous questionnaire<\/strong>, which was completed by 34 out of 40 participants. Here are some of the results:<\/p>\n