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View fullsize Our gorgeous new website is live! I am so proud of it and all that it has to offer: 2026 retreats, online learning and community, partnerships, winter residency, writing groups , free 1:1 sessions for writers and more still to come. This is a beautif
View fullsize I’m back at my writing desk after a long delay, my efforts going to MelaRosa and all the nice things we are launching. Getting back to the desk is always difficult and there’s an anxiety that comes with returning to a manuscript after a l
View fullsize If you would like to be part of Mela Rosa’s first year of retreats beginning in May and running through the year for readers, writers, thinkers and visionaries, please get in touch mail@fionamelrose.com. If a retreat is not what you are able to
View fullsize A cold but productive day here @melarosaretreat . The website and its full range of delights is being written up/ filled up etc so that soon details of writing , creative practice and reading retreats, the novel incubator program for those starting o
View fullsize It’s a deep winter feeling at @melarosaretreat and out there in the geopolitical theatre the sense that the world is being reordered in seismic ways. These are things to consider and absorb though their speed seems at odds with the pace we are
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View fullsize Only for a few short minutes the entire valley was alight with evening sun as it broke beneath the clouds and saturated the hills below. June 2026- come to these beautiful hills for THE RETURN - a DIGITAL DETOX and READING RETREAT . Retreat, read an
View fullsize MelaRosa Retreat is not simply a venue, it is a values based community that is built on core beliefs. THE VALUE OF A RETURN TO INTIMACY. The basis of my teaching here and what I offer to those who spend time here is the basis of what I wish to bui
View fullsize My first newsletter from MelaRosa Retreat here in Tuscany is in your inbox this morning. Thank you to those who have already written back with kind words- so much appreciated 🧡 If you’d like to receive the mail please sign up using the link in
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View fullsize The weather has turned , it is much cooler and damper and the beautiful softening has returned to the valley below. It feels like a great relief after the bleaching summer. This is the time of year when I begin to turn my thoughts to next year and t
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View fullsize It’s been a hugely busy few weeks here so I’m taking two days to quietly tidy things up , doing lots of washing and get some structure back into my days. I’m deliberately going to bed early to rest my very tired aching body. I am sw
View fullsize The flowers I did for the house’s 800 years birthday party tonight! All from the garden- pink sunflowers, marbled beans, apples, cherry tomatoes, zinnias, purple flowering basil, purple peas etc. Mostly seed from @sarahravenperchhill @sarahra
View fullsize I’ve been visiting the neighbors! Where I am standing to take the picture is the beautiful Medecian villa retreat accommodation and at the end of that magnificent cypress avenue, the @melarosaretreat olive grove begins. Isn’t it lovely?
View fullsize There is a palpable shift in the light. End of summer and a sense of evening. This summer has been hard and it’s so lovely to let some things go and exhale into endings and easings and with that, open up to beginnings.
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