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Namaste Jungle Souls!
Namaste, jungle soul🌿🧘♀️ Do you feel the call of Mother Earth and are you looking for a unique opportunity? We have something special for you! We are looking for volunteers for our magical reception position. 🏡 This volunteering is more than an experience, it is a reward in itself. 🌸✨
We are looking for yoga teachers passionate about sharing their practice 2 hours per day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon in our beautiful healing center and hotel in the heart of the world, the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta 🌸✨. Sometimes we will ask you to give an extra yoga or English class for the staff ! We may even ask you to help us painting signs so the exchange is for 3 hours per day !
Namaste Jungle Souls!
Namaste, jungle soul🌿🧘♀️
¿Sientes la llamada de la Madre Tierra y buscas una oportunidad única? ¡Tenemos algo especial para ti! Estamos en busca de voluntarios para nuestra mágica posición de recepción. 🏡
Buscamos profes de yoga apasionados por compartir su práctica 2 horas por dia, una en la mañana y otra en la tarde en nuestro hermoso centro de sanación y hotel en el corazón del mundo, la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta 🌸✨ A veces tambien te pediremos que des clases de yoga o inglés al equipo o que nos ayudes pintando algunos letreros, por eso el intercambio es por 3 horas por dia !
🧘♀️ IMPORTANTE: la mayoría de las clases de yoga deberán ser dadas en inglés con lo cual es importante que hables esta lengua!
Types of help and learning opportunities
Teaching
Interests
Vegetarian or vegan
Photography
Writing
Yoga / Wellness
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You will immerse in the Colombian culture!
You will see traditional and modern methods for building with guadua/ and natural clay.
Workawayers will interact with local Colombians and enjoy/share our very rich and diverse cultural identity, where music and dancing are paramount, all this while enjoying the amazing sunny weather in Minca and the laidback atmosphere of the Colombian Caribbean!
Help
We are looking for yoga teachers passionate about sharing their practice 2 hours per day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon in our beautiful healing center and hotel in the heart of the world, the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta 🌸✨. Sometimes we will ask you to give an extra yoga or English class for the staff ! We may even ask you to help us painting signs so the exchange is for 3 hours per day !
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
You can contact them directly for more information.
Accommodation
Newly built staff quarters, comfortable bunk beds (private room most of the time, nice clean bathrooms with hot water, private kitchen, wifi, a fantastic yoga shala, a cocoa forest and private access to the river on our beautiful property.
What else ...
Volunteers will be thrilled with the Minca river right by the property, amazing hikes to private and public waterfalls, coffee farms and bird sanctuaries nearby, and not more than an hour away the amazing parque tayrona and Palomino famous beaches. The town of Minca (a 15 minute walk or a 3 minute motorcycle ride) is an artisanal pueblito with dancing, music, arts, shops, yoga and wellness related classes, great little restaurants and a great laid back atmosphere.
Also there’s access to beaches only 45 minutes away.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
yes, we have Starlink WIFI. but keep in mind that during the rainy season, there are power outages which could be a challenge !
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
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I taught yoga and meditation there for almost 2 weeks, on the amazing deck by the river. It was amazing teaching in a place like this one, by the river, surrounded by nature and the jungle. One can really immerse themselves in the nature and reconnect.
To work the daily 5h, I also translated all… read more
Llegué aquí como voluntaria por 9 días a dar yoga y no solo acabé posponiendo casi 2 meses mi viaje a Arg para seguir trabajando aquí, sino que regreso en enero!!!
Este lugar es familia,… read more
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I taught yoga and meditation there for almost 2 weeks, on the amazing deck by the river. It was amazing teaching in a place like this one, by the river, surrounded by nature and the jungle. One can really immerse themselves in the nature and reconnect.
To work the daily 5h, I also translated all… read more
Llegué aquí como voluntaria por 9 días a dar yoga y no solo acabé posponiendo casi 2 meses mi viaje a Arg para seguir trabajando aquí, sino que regreso en enero!!!
Este lugar es familia,… read more
Artist in Residence
June - July 2022
I was the artist in residence retreat for 10 days in June and July 2022, jobs included:
-Used branding specifications to create 25 bespoke advertisements with individually painted designs and logos;
-Managed own time entrusted with solo project;
- Helped out with other jobs around the… read more
She blended amazingly with the rest of the staff, and not once asked how many hours she had left until the end of the chores, she was always enthusiastic and willing to help any way posible! We simply loved Adriana and only wish we host… read more
Let's start from the place!
It's a natural reserve in the tropical jungle of Minca, surrounded by ancient trees, all kind of wild animals like Parrots, monkeys, tucanos, and many more. There is a private beach on the river directly on the property, where we often took… read more
Even though she came mainly to teach Yoga, she helped in many other tasks daily and got along wonderfully with the rest of the local staff, she enjoyed our place very much and felt at home here. We wish her a safe journey home and we’ll miss her!
Ps: I… read more
I stayed here for about two weeks and I enjoyed every second of it. I mainly taught Yoga and helped with socials. Ricardo, the owner, went out of his way to help me when I got very sick, which I am absolutely grateful for!
This is a workaday like no other - the room for volunteers has a beautiful view, everything… read more
Katrin is a lovely and very interesting person I enjoyed each talk with. Thank you Katrin, Ricardo and your team for making this workaway… read more
Since day one she was engaging, funny, helpful and a great yoga teacher!
She even hosted a small weekend retreat with another yoga teacher as a trial run for future retreats, and we learned valuable lessons from that experiment.
Besides yoga and the weekend retreat, she helped us with putting together… read more
Next to these tasks I also helped them to do some wall arts and some gardening, which was great as well. For me it felt like there was a… read more
I stayed here for 2 weeks helping with maintenance and design-related tasks. Getting to work along Ricardo, Katrin, Yorber, Juan and Angela for this short yet worthwhile period was a great opportunity, I came back with a fond life lesson from… read more
Wonder came just for 4 days as she had plans to go to Medellin afterwards. She was lively and very helpful, and gave us some good tips about kitchen management.
She helped us putting our plant based menu together, from food shopping to preparation!
We where sorry to see her leave but it rained a lot while she was here, can’t… read more
We stayed 2 weeks in this place ( March 2021)
Location: The view is priceless! a perfect incredible sunset in front of Siera Nevada. There is a river and waterfall nearby. If you want fresh and cold water, it's just a 5minutes walk.
Accommodation: That time we stayed in a huge comfortable Tent, we… read more
El proyecto incluye varias construcciones en bambú, muy interesantes. La mayoría del equipo son constructores de la zona que trabajan duro a diario y se divierten compartiendo con los workawayers.
Ricardo, el dueño y motor del equipo, es un hombre muy trabajador,… read more
She got along wonderful with the staff and was very helpful in all aspects related to our landscaping challenger, even leaving a plan for future Workaway’s!
She enlighten us with a fantastic yoga practice every morning, and a stretching session at sunset time up in the… read more
the sierra nevada. ricardo place and al the people arround.
i had a lott of joy with them al.
learn a lott from them. live to work with them.
Working in the morning yoga.
gardening. helping juan, jordy an izaak.
did al kind of working.
Gardening. giving aqua to the plantas, seeding and creating ideas for future plans.… read more
Carlos and the rest… read more
She was always willing to help in any project, followed though and beyond the tasks we asked from her, she
has a great personality and was an all around very smart and fun person to chat and spend time with.
Kristin took the time to explore the property and the area, make… read more
I spent most of the time with Carlos during the week, working on the various projects with the best… read more
