Morning Golden Hour
Dear friends,
June has been hot at Amiglia. A reason to puff and complain—or an opportunity to adapt our daily rhythm and rediscover the wonder of very early mornings and afternoon siestas.
What does it offer to rise at 5:30am?
Walking through cool air during the golden hour (pictures), meeting with deers and looking into each other’s eyes for minutes. Encountering a pair of foxes and a few curiously halting hares. Being immersed in the background music of countless birds.
Or: taking the first train to Savona and splashing in the Mediterranean Sea by 7:30am.
And then, when the heat sets in, retreating behind closed shutters for a long siesta in a relatively cool house—now we understand why the walls are nearly a meter thick.
And then: a long evening again, enjoying the golden hour, watering the plants.
By the end of the day, you’ve lived two days in one. And you’ve lived them with all your senses.
Summer time at Amiglia
Until the end of September you can join us at Amiglia at any time.
As a guest:
Come and relax, take part in the morning practice, and lend a small hand in the kitchen or the garden. (min 2 days)
As a retreat guest:
Enjoy one or two additional one-hour sessions, to gently explore who or what you are—and how to express that in daily life. (min 5 days)
As a work-exchange guest:
Take part in the morning practice, volunteer 4 hours a day, and pay very little for your stay. (min 5 days)
Amiglia cannot be described—only experienced.
If I had to try, I’d say Amiglia is a place where I come home.
It’s life as it’s meant to be: loving, transparent, open, simple, and in motion.
Zoë is a wise, creative, humorous, and inquisitive woman who carries and nurtures Amiglia.
Highly recommended—whether for a retreat or another kind of stay.
Rian (The Netherlands)
Moving autumn at Amiglia
In October, you can join a Moving Language retreat guided by Zoë.
During a Moving Language retreat, we explore how language shapes the way we experience reality—and how we can shift into an alternative mode of language that reveals the one undivided movement we are part of.
“We can do silent meditations to look away from the fragmenting window of language—or we can make the window transparent, and experience that it was never there to begin with. We enter a moving reality of which we - and language - are a part.”
With Moving Language, we begin to use language more poetically, and we discover that language itself is movement—just as we are.
5 - 11 October in English.
19 - 24 October in Dutch.
Find more information here.
We look forward to seeing you at Amiglia!
With love,
Team Amiglia
