August in Umbria. Piano, piano.
DeSpazio is seven days in a stone house in Umbria. Yoga at sunrise, slow breakfasts in the garden, unhurried walks, afternoons with no clock, dinners that don't end. Carmen and Diego host a small group — six people — who want to truly pause for a week in August.
The name carries two languages: spazio (Italian, space) and despacio (Spanish, slowly). Space to rest, slowness to arrive. Piano, piano.
Daily yoga with Carmen — one open practice at sunrise, one deeper practice at sundown. Walks through the Umbrian hills when the heat lets go.
Workshops with Diego, journaling in the garden, meditation folded inside the yoga. Conversations that matter, on purpose.
Three meals a day from the garden and the local market. An afternoon making pizza in a wood oven. Wine from the valley, oil from the grove next door.
Six people, one long table. Evenings that stretch. Silences that mean something. The kind of company that doesn't need an agenda.
The house is Diego's. It sits in the green heart of Italy, an hour from Perugia and ninety minutes from Rome, far from anything that makes noise. Garden, open kitchen, a long table where the seven days happen.
The rest is the stone, the light, and what happens when six people let themselves stay in the same place without rushing.
Your room is waiting with something small that doesn't announce itself: your name written by hand, rosemary soap from the garden, a short note. Quiet gestures to mark that the slow time has already begun.
Then the table. Then the silence. Then the six days that follow.
Two yoga sessions daily with Carmen — one gentle at sunrise, one deeper at sundown. Three workshops with Diego, one private and two in a small group. Notebook, pen, unhurried time to write.
Three meals a day, cooked at home or at the table of a neighbour in the village. One afternoon making pizza in a wood-fired oven. One morning at the local market. Local wine, olive oil from the grove next door.
Private or shared room, as you prefer. Shaded garden, hammock between two olive trees, a small pool for the hot days. Time here isn't managed; it's inhabited.
A welcome dinner from the garden. One sound healing session mid-week, with no theatrics. A simple closing before parting — no choreography, no long speech.
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