Shqiponja YOGA Therapy

Shqiponja YOGA Therapy 👁SYT👁Shqiponja Yoga Therapy
🧿Breath is the key into the MindBody🧿 Mission – Helping to empower individuals to become aware that they are their own healers.

Vision – Guiding people in deepening their understanding of their body and mind so that they have the tools to heal themselves and go beyond.

The caged bird sings With a fearful trill Of things unknown But longed for still And his tune is heard On the distant hi...
08/08/2025

The caged bird sings
With a fearful trill
Of things unknown
But longed for still
And his tune is heard
On the distant hill
For the caged bird
Sings of freedom.

Maya Angelou

30/07/2025

Last weekend the Canal was opened in Grude, Shkoder, North Albania.

Some farmers, like my father still use this old style irrigation canal system. It is so soothing to watch, listen to and feel the water flowing during these sweltering ~ 40°C days.

Something metaphorical there too, don't you think?

Just as an irrigation system channels water to different areas in a field so too I imagine my Body & Mind soaked in Life Force when I keep at a Regular Nurturing Inwards Practice.

Whether it is Breathwork, Therapeutic Postures & Movement or simply a more Meditative Practice

21/07/2025

'Real Change comes by
Little by little'

Thought I'd post an update of my book
🐣 `Kind & Strange: Tales of Hitch-hiking through COVID (mostly in Albania)´

If you are interested, it is available worldwide on Amazon: https://a.co/d/2beepY2

I can also send you personally an electronic version or a Book printed in a small printing shop!

Just DM me or send an email: poezizane@gmail.com

Or simply please share it along 🙏

Thank you for your support!

Truth be with you 💚

19/07/2025

Psaltery Stories: Something about graveyards that I love, I am sure I am not the only one?
This one in particular inspired me.
Hope you enjoy 🫂

You can also listen/read it in Albanian too, I have posted them separately.

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By far one of the most charming graveyards, yet.

Where we eat pizza, quite high; at peace and underlyingly
(like always) a tad glum.

This time owing partially to a constant rustling
in the wild bushes closeby
I say it is goats but you are expecting a boar,
'They can be quite violent'

So we wait and wait

Till hoxha starts singing
And the gallant birds chirp
ever so high;

You start complaining

I tell you

Be silent 🤫

Listen

To one of the most beautiful graveyards, yet.

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19/07/2025

Tregime Psalteri: Ka diçka qe me pelqen per varrezat, besoj se nuk jam i vetmi?
Kjo ne veçanti me frymezoi.
Shpresoj te pelqen 🫂

Mund ta degjoni/lexoni edhe ne anglisht, i kam postuar veçmas.

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Nje prej vorret ma te bukur, dej tesh.

Aty ku hame pica, bodh ishim larte; ne paqe
dhe si gjithher ne thelb i merzitur

Kyt her pjeserisht per shkak
at rremujas e vazhdueshme ne ata ferrat afer,
un tham se jane dhi,
por ti pret nje derr t'eger,
"Ata mund te vrajn"

Pra presim dhe presim

Dej sa hoxha fillon me kenuar
Edhe zogjte tu ciceruar, gallate me ze te larte
Te larte
Te larte

Po ti nisesh te ankohesh
Te them hesht 🤫
Degjo

Nje prej vorret me te bukur, dej tesh.

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It was a real pleasure taking part in such a uniquely crafted getaway; guiding us to Grow & Root into the present magic ...
11/07/2025

It was a real pleasure taking part in such a uniquely crafted getaway; guiding us to Grow & Root into the present magic of daily life - Gratitude.

Thank you sisters! Thank you 🌎
Looking forward to the next!

You can catch a glimpse of what we practiced @ 2mins.

🙏 UN Women Albania


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Gjushja jeme, Kusha, fol per diten e martese tu ardhe nga Shale te Kir kame, 14 vjeqe.  Do vuj edhe perralla malore te t...
05/07/2025

Gjushja jeme, Kusha, fol per diten e martese tu ardhe nga Shale te Kir kame, 14 vjeqe.

Do vuj edhe perralla malore te tjera & urat tradicionale te Dukagjinit e folur nga Kusha, shpresoj se ju pelqen.

Nese deshironi tekstin ne shqip, anglisht ose spanjisht, me njoftoni, do te doja shume ta perktheja.

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My grandma, Kusha, speaks about her wedding day walking from Shale to Kir, 14 years old.

I hope to soon share other mountain tales & traditional prayers of Dukagjin told by Kusha, I hope you enjoy!

If you would like the transcript in Albanian, English or Spanish just let me know, I would love to translate it.

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Gjushja jeme, Kusha, fol per diten e martese tu ardhe nga Shale te Kir kame, 14 vjeqe. Do vuj edhe perralla malore te tjera & urat tradicionale te Dukagjini...

24/06/2025

Keep on unearthing the unknown.

Back when we had shoes on
Busk-ing in Shkoder
Thank you rainbow family for your acceptance 💚

12/05/2025

May Full Moon
A Tadpole Remembering
Cycle Ride

Bike Ride 🚲  & Yoga  🧘Sunday 27 April New Moon 11 am Shkoder 》Grude e re All ages welcome We will meet in Shkoder Center...
22/04/2025

Bike Ride 🚲 & Yoga 🧘

Sunday 27 April
New Moon
11 am

Shkoder 》
Grude e re

All ages welcome

We will meet in Shkoder Centers Migjeni Theatre (Teatri Migjeni). Alternatively you can meet at us Farm if you can't make the bike ride. You are also welcome to come along just for the ride 🚲

Investment: 1500 Lek // Work exchange
Ride and Yoga should be finished around 1pm, in time for lunch.

Any questions or to confirm your participation just send a message.

21/04/2025

Moments of peace 🙏🌿🌼 🐕🐓🐦🕊🐞🪰

My favorite farm sound @1:34 🐔

What's yours?

14/04/2025

This spring in Albania a couple of magical Hoopoes came by in time...

Inspiring me to revisit a poem created a couple of years ago in Spain; thanks to my first encounter with them.

Thank you Nature 🌼

Hope you enjoy!

Beautiful photos Ilir Ciko

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Attar of Nishapur

On an early Sunday afternoon
just above parque cerro de los Perdigones
a heavy cloud tapestry

O when will the water-drops start?

Around the hill, melting snow-capped mountains
and behind the ever-green pine trees
the Madrid towers, although also far-away are in sight

It is an expected quiet Sunday afternoon
On top of the hill
Right by Santa Maria de Cana´s prominent red belltower
Laying upon a bench

As though, it is my bed or grave?

Only scarce visitors come by
Three random dogs and their walkers
One creamy-golden retriever coming right up to my face
And two skinny grey hounds, whose backsides I only managed to catch

Of course, then there´s the bird gathering:
The ethereal cooing of the pigeons
Magpies crackling and fluttering on
A repetitive sharp

Oop-Oop-Oop-Oop

And the lingering memory of the two cheeky green parakeets
Escorting me up the hill
Into a grey solemn Sunday afternoon
The wind it howls
Whilst speaking with you,

My love?

Causing me to witness
in all this peace the restlessness

O What a mess

The first drops start

Should I leave, the hill?

Getting up I spot a man
on the bench closest to the red bell-tower
wearing a vivid green shirt even brighter than the parakeets
or is it the steep contrast to his opulent black skin;
mesmerised, I sit back down

Oh there you are!

Right by my side; on top of this hill
for the very first time we meet again

Attar

Your impressive long beak
with your fiery Mohawk crown

O my

And on your wings and tail magnetic blue zebra stripes

It is a drizzling, silent Sunday afternoon
The fore coming rains´ bring spring
And you Hudhud
From Andalucia, as far as Africa or other holy lands!?

Or from somewhere deep-deep in my heart
Humming on top of the hill

Oh the truth
The truth
Nothing but the truth

Down the hill I follow you
entranced by your unexpectedness
and meet your mate
till for some unknown reason it is time to go

Perhaps the rain drops accumulating? Agglutinating?

I walk on unattached
crossing the hill
as though crossing the Seven Valleys

To return to you
Shqiponja
and sit with your tender green shoot
still sealed; just about to open
as if it is my heart
on the stem of the last new leaf
now beginning to look like all the other leaves
but not quite….

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