Join our eco-spiritual project in a mountain valley close to the border with Macedonia

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  Beschreibung

  Hello. I am Lalla, a Bulgarian woman, owner of the property where the project is based.
  
  This is an eco project, oriented to developing more conscious and sustainable lifestyle in nature. It is a space for transformation and opening of your heart. We aim to place life in its true dimension, which is seeing, understanding, and living through the heart. We believe that spirit is not part of our lives, but in fact our lives are part of the Great Spirit.
  
  The inspiration for this project came from the spiritual school and non profit organisation created by my beloved teacher Sahajananda and his great teaching of the yoga of The Spiritual Heart. Come and help us co-create this paradise where the highest authority is the Spiritual Heart and discover your true authentic essence.
  
  Lalla studied film directing & visual art but then she was attracted to travel and spiritual search. She is a talented musician, playing drums and guitar and applied artist. She studied eco-building in Denmark and is very keen on mindful life in nature. The last few years she is working for non-profit spiritual school teaching ancient vedic non-dual phylosophy and now she practices meditation every day and yoga very often. Through a holistic approach she is healing her body, mind and soul.
  
  I am happy to share with work-exchangers many practices and ways of living that are helping me to become more happy, healthy and loving. Through meditation, consecrating every action and offering it to the Divine Source, opening the heart, opening to our Dharma, working joyfully, building, gardening, sharing in excitement, creating food, art and music, we slowly discover the inherent peace within and witness more and more the miracle and gift of life. I am happy to welcome you in this forest sanctuary.
  
  The project is located in a mountain forest valley about 1 hour drive south west of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. It is close to the town of Kjustendil, in the Konyavska planina (The Horse mountain) and very close to Macedonia.
  
  I prefer skilled volunteers who know about building, carpentry and gardening. I am also open for people who like to learn stuff, I like sharing and exchanging practical and theoretical knowledge such as self-healing, emotional growth, physical and mental balance, raw food and fasting, meditation, energy healing, gardening, herbal and alternative medicine, carpentry, masonry, building with eco-materials, working with clay, music, drawing, smiling a lot (because laughing is the best medicine:)
  
  And a remark: Even though I may sound very spiritual and serious I am not. I am down to earth, easy going smiley person and i enjoy life in each and every moment as a gift.
  
  I adore music and often I play guitar or tambura, percussion, chant, sing, also read mystic poetry from the sufi poets Rumi, Hafiz, Tagore. I would love to get to know you and share together the sweetness and beauty of life. Come to play! Here is an inspirational poem:
  
  I am bewildered by the magnificence
  of your beauty
  and wish to see you
  with a hundred eyes
  
  My heart has burned with passion
  and has searched forever
  for this wondrous beauty
  that I now behold
  
  I am ashamed
  to call this love human
  and afraid of God
  to call it divine
  
  Your fragrant breath
  like the morning breeze
  has come to the stillness of the garden
  You have breathed new life into me
  I have become your sunshine
  and also your shadow
  
  My soul is screaming in ecstasy
  Every fiber of my being
  is in love with you
  
  Your effulgence
  has lit a fire in my heart
  and you have made radiant
  for me
  the earth and sky
  
  My arrow of love
  has arrived at the target
  I am in the house of mercy
  and my heart
  is a place of prayer”
  
  ― Rumi, The Love Poems of Rumi

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  Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten

  Hilfe bei Ökoprojekten

  Gartenarbeiten

  Heimwerker- und Bauarbeiten

  Handwerkliche Arbeiten
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  UNO-Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung, die dieser Gastgeber verfolgt

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  Was ist das?
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  Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten

  We offer yoga and meditation instruction and sessions, holistic health coaching, community living experience and other recreational practices. You may well learn more about the "meaning of life" and become more aware of your true self, leading to increased health and happiness.
  
  You can learn many ways of how to interact with nature, how to plant and grow, how to work with clay and other ways of eco-building.

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  Arbeit

  We specifically require experienced people to help in the garden and for construction projects.
  
  But also there is a lot of house work and cleaning and cooking is highly appreciated.
  
  Garden - making flowerbeds, weeding and propagation. Permaculture knowledge also helful.
  Construction - We work with clay and wood, and stones, so masons and carpenters are
  particularly welcome. Electrical and plumbing experience will also be very useful.
  
  Some of our current and future projects include:
  Construction of Summer Kitchen
  Creating vegetable and herb garden beds
  
  Upgrading Water System
  Creating central heating system for guest house
  
  For people with extensive construction and/or gardening experience we offer a help exchange of accomodation + food (3 meals per day) for 25 hours work per week.
  
  For people with less experience, but still with some construction and/or gardening experience, we offer a work exchange of accomodation only for 15 hours per week (no food).
  
  There are also other options for staying so feel free to ask

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  Sprachen

  Gesprochene Sprachen
  Bulgarian: Fließend
  Englisch: Fließend
  Spanisch: Fließend

  Dieser Gastgeber bietet Sprachaustausch an
  French Russian
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  Unterkunft

  Shared bedroom or camping.
  
  We have a space in our eco house which we offer wth a simple mattress in a shared room for our work-exchange guests.
  
  People who prefer to be more private can bring a tent and camp in the garden.
  
  We have a private kitchen which we use for ourselves and to prepare meals for work exchangers receiving meals. One of our top priorities is to construct an outdoor covered summer kitchen (part completed - see picture) whichever can be used by those work-exchangers who prepare thier own food.
  
  As we are an eco-project, we have an outdoor compost toilet and an outdoor summer shower with solar heater so warm showers should be available from about 10am onwards depending on sunshine. There is an outside sink for washing and cleaning teeth and a kettle for making tea or coffee.
  
  Our site is no-smoking, no recreational drugs or plant medicines, and limited alcohol for special occasions. No drunken-ness! If you wish to smoke tobacco you may go outside one of the gates. Also we are vegetarian (doing our best to move toward vegan) so no meat is allowed on site either.
  
  We have wi-fi internet using a mobile connection with limited data, so although you are welcome to share our wi-fi for checking e-mail and messages and for limited internet browsing, you are asked not to view videos. We have a very extensive library of uplifting videos and e-books which we are happy to share, so you might like to bring a large memory stick/hard drive with you. To conserve energy and reduce electro magnetic frequencies {EMF's) we tend to turn the router off at night and at other times especially during work periods. Our helpers are encouraged to turn off mobile devices, or switch to airplane mode when not required for the same reasons, and also to help bring more presence to each moment.

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  Was noch ...

  We live in a beautiful valley in south-west Bulgaria and in the free time our helpers can go for a hike, read or use internet.

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  Etwas mehr Information

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    Internet Zugang

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    Eingeschränkter Internet Zugang

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    Wir besitzen Tiere

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    Wir sind Raucher

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    Familien möglich

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  Platz zum Abstellen von Camper Vans

  Dieser Gastgeber bietet Platz für Wohnmobile.

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  Hier sind Haustiere in der Regel willkommen

  Dieser Gastgeber ist bereit, Reisende mit Haustieren bei sich aufzunehmen.

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  Kapazität - wie viele Workawayer maximal

  zwei

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  Arbeitszeiten

  15 or 25 hours per week depending upon experience

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