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Dear community of work awayers,
Season 2024/2025 is starting in November and we are looking for volunteers (help exchange for food and accommodation in tents) for our new retreat and healing center project called "Vision of the Heart". More infos on our YouTube Channel and
As a volunteer you will help 5 hours a day, 5 days a week. There will be 3 vegan meals a day served and in your free time you can participate in Wim Hof Breathwork and Ice Bath sessions, Yoga, Meditation, Cacao Heart Circles and Singing circles, if they are offered at the time of your stay. This always depends on the facilitators on site.
What we are currently looking for
1) Accomodation Services / Reception / Guest Service
So you love to be a host? Do you love to receive guests? Have you maybe even worked in hotels/hostels before? You will have a role with a lot of responsibility, making sure our guests have a beautiful welcome and feel we care about them.
Minimum Stay: 3 months, we prefer applications that are able to commit for 6 months.
2) Healing Facilitator
We are also looking for a Yoga and Meditation teachers, massage therapists, trauma therapists and different kinds of holistic healing practitioner to care about our guests. 2 months minimum commitment.
X) General Assistance
We are always happy if have volunteers that feel inspired to work with our Mexican chef in training, Lorena. Ideally you bring some experience in vegan restaurants or have been a chef in the past. The role implies checking on water supply, emptying compost, taking care of the compost and many other tasks to help our retreat center crew and our chef Lorena.
The retreat center is being built on a 1000 acres property in the most beautiful Oaxacan Jungle just 2 hours from Mazunte. There are fruit trees, Cacao trees, clean fresh water sources, a river and the most beautiful views of the jungle mountain surroundings. It feels like garden eden.
Our Vision is to create a space for healing, community and reconnection with nature. In this first phase of our project we will offer a space for guests to deeply connect with nature and retreat isolated in the Oaxacan Jungle.
We are planning to live completely off the product of our land, this we are yet to set up.
The land is ideal for individual meditation or/and fasting retreats.
We are planning to have a community of healing practitioners on site to offer a variety of alternative healing modalities.
As of now we have offered:
Yoga and Meditation (Teacher on site)
Breathwork and Ice Baths (Facilitator on site)
Cacao Ceremonies (Regularly available)
Temazcales (sometimes available)
For our volunteers we are offering cacao heart circles, to tune in with each other.
If you feel the calling to live deeply immersed in nature, have a hands-on mentality and would like to contribute to this vision in at least 2 of the listed needs - this might be your place to volunteer!
The land is vegan, non-alcohol/drugs and a no loud music environment (except if there is an ecstatic dance, during the day).
We are located in the area of Pluma Hidalgo, just 2 hours from Mazunte and 1 hour from Huatulco airport (daily connections from Mexico City airport).
The street that leads to the finca, may or may not be affected, depending on the amount of rain at the time of your volunteering request.
If you plan to come with your own vehicle (non 4x4) , please inform us beforehand!
We ask volunteers to bring their own tents, if that is not possible we can supply you with a tent and equipment. For people commiting long term and workin in the reception we provide accomodation in the main house or one of our Cabanas.
No pets allowed!
For your application please answer the following questions:
What is your intention to offer your support to our beautiful project?
How can you contribute to this project? Do you have special skills and some skills we are looking for?
Are you comfortable with living in a tent for a month?
What is your spiritual practice?
What is your experience living in conscious communities?
Thanks for your interest!
With Love
Vision of the Heart Team
Types of help and learning opportunities
Charity Work
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You can learn about the cultivation of Cacao and Cafe and learn to build with natural materials like bamboo. Also its a very beautiful farming community living on the land and there is a lot of interest (especially the kids) for learning English. There is very little English spoken in the farming community so excellent preconditions to learn to speak Spanish.
Help
-General Assistance
People who are willing and able to help with anything needed for the retreat center, dishwashing, emptying compost, taking care of the compost, Harvesting fruit from the land, cleaning facilities as needed etc.
-Handyman
Someone that can fix things, is inventive and has a special interest for that, experience/know how on architecture, carpentry and building is a huge plus!
-Volunteers/carpenters/builders that want to help with the construction of new Bamboo cabañas and the Yoga Hall (experience with carpentry is a big advantage but motivation and enthusiasm to learn about this amazing material Bamboo can be good).
Languages
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
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
Camping
What else ...
In your time off you can explore the beautiful jungle and take a taxi (tuktuk) up to the wonderful mountain town of Pluma Hidalgo.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
if the road allows. in the rainy season June-September might be hard, beginning of December - March you can camp.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
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We very much recommend them <3
Lovely people
Thank you so much for your stay with us! We love you guys
We stayed at the retreat for 2-3 weeks, helping out, mostly with cooking for guests and a few others preperatory and maintenance jobs.
Staying amongst the cacao trees and rivers, with nature all around was truly special.
The peacefulness of the land and heart felt intentions of Ludus, Marie and… read more
We loved having them with us.
We very much recommend them to other projects!
Thank you so much Pippa & Joe
We love you
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We very much recommend them <3
Lovely people
Thank you so much for your stay with us! We love you guys
We stayed at the retreat for 2-3 weeks, helping out, mostly with cooking for guests and a few others preperatory and maintenance jobs.
Staying amongst the cacao trees and rivers, with nature all around was truly special.
The peacefulness of the land and heart felt intentions of Ludus, Marie and… read more
We loved having them with us.
We very much recommend them to other projects!
Thank you so much Pippa & Joe
We love you
It was very fulfilling to me to have the chance to share my carpentry skills and also to learn… read more
The property and surrounding nature is just paradise. There are rivers, waterfalls, great… read more
