Newsletter Níjar, June edition 2025 Dear Friends, The month May started well with a completely booked QiGong Retreat organised by Wabke Bouman. It was really nice to see all these familiar faces again and to meet some new. It has become a tradition to offer QiFriends the Garden of Nâm as accommodation. We sometimes do…
Newsletter Níjar, May Edition 2025 Dear Friends, As you may have heard the whole of Spain and Portugal had lost power for about ten hours straight. An historical event that for some people appeared as a disaster but that also gave rise to some remarkable experiences. Suddenly the wheel stopped turning, creative solutions had to…
Newsletter Nijar, April Edition 2025 Dear Friends, During the last month spring has officially opened its gates, allowing its promise to burst out and be expressed in all aspects of life. This transition however was dressed in an abundant rainfall that gently and during several weeks quenched all possible thirst of the flora and fauna,…
Newsletter Nijar, March edition 2025 While the last oranges are being picked from the trees, new blossoms are already emerging. In between a few rainy days we can feel it: spring is in the air! It is beautiful to witness the play of perception at work. Memory immediately colours experience and ignites a longing anticipation…
Monthly Journal, Februari edition 2025 The last Journal was published about six weeks ago. Our readers had to miss a new years – January edition. As noted earlier, December has ushered in a new phase for us. A terminus, in which endings meets beginnings. Well, the foundations are ready; the garden, buildings and residents have…
Monthly Journal, December edition 2024 The longest night is approaching and the wintery cold just kicked in today. For those living in Northern Europe and for the Romanian builders that help us to create our guest facilities this cold is probably not really impressive. But for many others who are used to the intense semi-desert…
Monthly Journal, November edition 2024 Gradually the signs of nightly visitors from El Tribu de Jabalí are fading from the garden. More recent attempts of entering ´their garden of delicacies´ are visible on the other side of the newly installed fence but by the look of it the boars have finally given up. Good news…
In this early edition Andree sketches a nice picture of last month’s living in the Garden of Nâm. Special Guests We have had several specials guests in the Garden of Nâm; invited and not invited, day and night visitors: Guest number 1 was Chico, the very nice, young dog of our neighbour, who was all…
Strange things are happening in the Garden of Nâm. We have started noticing unexpected changes, anomalies. Big rocks are suddenly moved, we discover pieces of cacti that apparently were broken off. And then we find that somebody or something has started digging holes here and there. What is happening? Change Every change seems to mean…
