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Help with housekeeping and enjoy our meditation classes!

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The experience

Join our volunteer team and help keep our property clean! Your tasks will include general cleaning of common areas, bedrooms, and bathrooms, with a daily list of varied duties.

Help 5 days/week, and enjoy 3 meals/day with a comfortable accommodation. Have free access to meditations and evening classes (in French), plus English meditations twice a week. Plus, free laundry.

It’s a great way to contribute, connect, and enrich your experience!

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

Housekeeping: Help with changing the bed linens and general housekeeping.

Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.

What you get

2 days off per week

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Team Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other people.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Holistic Therapies: You can take part in any of our therapeutic activities for free.

Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Beginner French or Intermediate English

Over 18 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Our non-profit charity offers an extensive program of retreats and meditations throughout the year. We are students of kadampa Buddhism, and in this respect the center organises teachings and meditations based on Buddhism (we do not practice yoga or other alternative spiritual approaches). We welcome volunteers throughout the year to help us run the centre. Volunteers are free to take part in noon meditations and evening teachings (in French) if they wish. In their free time and on their days off, they can go hiking, take walks in the surrounding woods, read or relax.

Activities & Shift

To maintain the property clean and nice on a daily basis, a daysheet with a variety of tasks is printed. Volunteers help throughout the day with general cleaning, cleaning common spaces, cleaning bedrooms, etc. Daily meetings at 9am and at 2pm with the team leader.
Volunteers can access freely noon meditations and evening teachings (in French).

Rules

We offer picks up at Ecommoy's train station (10kms away) situated between Le Mans and Tours.

A phone interview will be arranged prior to your arrival. You will also be asked to fill a volunteer application form with your contact information and other essential information to best organize your stay.

Although it is not at all necessary or required to be a Buddhist or to become a Buddhist to come and stay at the Meditation Center, you will have the opportunity to live on a daily basis with and within a community of modern buddhist practitioners. This entails refraining from harmful or negative behavior during your stay, such as killing, stealing, abusive behavior, noise pollution, use of alcohol or illegal substances, etc.

We ask everyone to sign a commitment in this regard, for the well-being of each and every one and for the preservation of the standards of this institution.