A writer, journeying.

a word and woman I am deeply inspired by::

“Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.”

-Audre Lorde, Poetry Is Not a Luxury

Hi, I’m Amara Amaryah

And I’m grateful that you’ve landed here. I am a poet-essayist, author and mindfulness advocate recentring slower living. I care deeply about affirming personal and collective worthiness and holding safe space to restore ease. The Easeful Place is an extension of this, offering intentional space for intimacy, unlearning, and discovering soulful creativity. I write the Life Is In Love With Me newsletter, where I archive life’s love stories and learnings from around the world. My poetry has lived on international stages and in the pages of literary journals as well as in my debut pamphlet ‘The Opposite of an Exodus’ (Bad Betty Press, 2021).

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Well+Good

Time Out

Condé Nast Traveler

SELF

ESSENCE

Travel Noire

The Good Trade

Forbes Health

Well+Good • Time Out • Condé Nast Traveler • SELF • ESSENCE • Travel Noire • The Good Trade • Forbes Health •

What will you do with your one precious life, love?


Life often calls for bravery, i.e. honesty with self. I believe that life is sacred and that it is to be savoured. I believe in collective dreaming towards repair, fullness. I believe in the holy heart. I like to believe that our core beliefs - when upheld - can reorient us back to our essence. The final line from The Summer Day, a poem by Mary Oliver, reminds us of making the brave and necessary decision to wildly participate in life and treat it as ours. 

This pivot takes gentle force, and relearning worth. If nothing else, we deserve to claim the invitation back to choosing. I’ve found that writing, wandering and noticing can be a way to return. Aligned community, softening often to the idea of worthiness, prayer, resistance, treating the written word as memory and living according to intuition have helped me incredibly, so I offer it wherever I find space. 

I hope to remind you of your precious light and I hope to encourage you back home to yourself. How can I best serve you on your journey?

The Easeful Place

The Easeful Place

What is The Easeful Place?

The Easeful Place is a community and resource for intimacy and mindful creativity. It is where creative souls find aligned community and inspiration to recentre and create boldly.

What we do

We remember that we are so worthy of ease. We witness ourselves slow down. Through events and education, we journal, reflect, gather, practice breathing deeply and honour our creative power together.

Upcoming events

Join an international community of deep breathers & creative souls in person or online

Attuning to the darkness through rest::

Winter Solstice members-only workshop

20/12

Virtual workshop

Lessons from Black Women’s Writings::

Enoughness & Creation writing workshop

29/09

Virtual workshop