First Tile

70 min

Best for: falling asleep to a story

In a quiet Portuguese ceramics studio, Zélia inspects a flawed batch of tiles for a small station commission as October settles over the coast. A visit from Miguel, the stationmaster, turns a delayed job into something more human: a search for the small handmade mark that lets a place feel cared for.

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Charles Holt
Your storyteller
Charles Holt
Deep, slow, spacious

Low, slow and spacious — a gentle cadence with long pauses, tuned for the dark and made to be drifted off to.

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About this session

First Tile is a sleep story from Salūs Rooms — a long bedtime story for adults, read slowly at a bedtime pace by Charles Holt.

Salūs Rooms is an ad-free sleep and meditation app for iOS, Android and web — hundreds of guided sessions, long bedtime stories for adults and 325 free sleep sounds. Hear the full session with a 7-day free trial.

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