Morning light on a travertine shelf with a folded linen cloth
Sunlight through an arched window falling on a plaster wall
A small flame on a travertine ledge in a warm plaster niche
A dark room with an arched doorway and a soft pool of light on the wall

The candle for your mat. Light it, breathe, begin.

Made with teachers of yoga and breath for the first breath of a practice.

Launching spring 2027.

Made to be used.

One vessel. Three colours. When the wax is gone, the vessel isn’t.

The ora wordmark on the base of a terracotta vessel

Prototype shown. Final details may change.

  • A matte sand-coloured cylindrical vessel with a flat lid, in bright midday light

    Sand

    The lightest. Dry, warm, barely there.

  • A matte terracotta-coloured cylindrical vessel with a flat lid, in bright midday light

    Terracotta

    The middle. Fired clay, the colour of a Mediterranean wall at six.

  • A matte walnut-coloured cylindrical vessel with a flat lid, in bright midday light

    Walnut

    The darkest. Warm brown, close to wet earth.

Prototype shown. Final details may change.

Three states to start.

A hand resting on a travertine table beside a stem of dried grass

How it works

  1. 1

    Reserve

    CHF 10 holds your place. Fully refundable, any time.

  2. 2

    Spring 2027

    We launch, and write to you first.

  3. 3

    Choose

    Choose your colour and your hour.

Fully refundable, any time.

Or hear when it’s ready.

Reservations open soon, and the list with them. Please come back in a little while.

We’ll send one email to confirm. Nothing else arrives until you click the link in it. Leave any time.

We spend our days reacting: to screens, to noise, to other people’s timing.

ora is built for the opposite moment.

Our candles are the first object.

The ritual is the point.

The ora wordmark pressed into natural linen