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Help us Manage our Monastery in Saunstorf, Germany!

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The experience

We are looking for a skilful and dedicated volunteer to join us in Germany as a Gardening and Maintenance Assistant. If you like manual work and gardening, this is the perfect opportunity for you! If you have a passion for gardening, like manual labour and want to experience the serenity of a monastery in Germany, this is the ideal opportunity for you. Join us and contribute to the beauty and maintenance of our space!

What you offer

30 hours of help per week

Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

Additional fee required

Amount: € 60 Per week

Description: Accommodation in a single or a double bedroom (for couples) with shared bathroom in the Karma Yoga apartment at a weekly flat rate of € 60,- (you will pay this in full before you start your work as a Karma Yogi).

What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

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

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.

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

Yoga classes: Take free yoga classes at our place.

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

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Beginner English or Beginner 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

We are looking forward to motivated and self-responsible people with a practical and flexible attitude towards supporting us 6 hours a day. Your contribution is part of an inner process, There is no separation between meditation and activity, they both flow into what we call Karma Yoga. Language skills: German or basic English. Good physical condition. We kindly ask you for an early registration for your stay.

We offer
- Three organic vegetarian meals per day
- Participation in the daily meditations
- Participation in the daily movement meditations
- Enriching experience of being part of a team
- Weekly Karma Yoga Gathering

Depending on the length of your you will have 1-2 days off per week.

If Darshan with OM C. Parkin or other events of the OM Foundation Inner Science are scheduled during your stay, you are free to attend and thus meet the teacher.

Activities & Shift

From April to October:
Vegetable and fruit garden / Park and other outdoor facilities, general maintenance, handicraft activities etc.

Rules

As a Karma Yogi, you are obliged to participate in silent meditation once a day and in the weekly gatherings especially for karma yogis guided by professional therapists of Gut Saunstorf.