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Help at a Yoga Retreat in Portugal’s Stunning Mountains

The experience

Join our retreat center in Northern Portugal and experience community life in beautiful nature. As a volunteer, you’ll help in the kitchen, vegetable garden, and with housekeeping tasks. In return, enjoy peaceful surroundings, great vegetarian food, and the chance to be part of a friendly, international team.

What you offer

32 hours of help per week

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

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

Farming: Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

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.

Tent: You will sleep in a tent at a camping site.

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.

Get free drinks or beverages.: Drink up! Get free and tasty drinks for yourself.

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

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

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

Requirements

Fluent English or Intermediate Portuguese

Between 21 and 60 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

Travel insurance

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Activities & Shift

The weekly workload is between 32 and 40 hours, with two days off each week. If you’re working in the kitchen, expect a mix of morning, afternoon, or evening shifts. Outside work hours, there’s plenty of time to explore — forest paths, rivers, rock formations, natural pools — and you’ll have access to our swimming pool, private gym, and optional staff meditations.

Rules

We serve three meals a day. Staff and volunteers are welcome to eat after all guests have started their meal.
Coffee, tea, and fresh fruit are available throughout the day. You may also take up to two soft drinks per day.

Towels, bed linen, shampoo, and shower gel are available in the laundry room.

If you’d like to go into town, a car may be available. For trips outside the local area, you may use a car if one is free, but please be aware that fuel and toll costs are yours to cover.
You must hold a valid driving licence and be insured to use a car.

Visitors are welcome during the day, but they may not stay overnight. If you’d like a guest to join for a meal, please check with manager.

The pool and gym are available to you. Please give priority to guests when using the pool. (The gym is for staff and volunteers only.)

If you'd like to use the Dhamma Hall for meditation, you're very welcome — please check availability with manager. This space is reserved exclusively for silent meditation practice.

Occasionally, you may be invited to join a class. Please remember to maintain a professional distance. As a volunteer or staff member, you are not a retreat participant, and we ask that you keep interactions with groups respectful and work-focused.