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Hello workaways,
Would you like to join our Non Profit Yoga Community as a Resident or Karma Yogi in 2024?
We are a non-profit eco conscious plant based who run a raw vegan Chai House. We are a spiritual community who are on a journey to become as self-sustaining as possible. We collaborate as residents and host workaway volunteers (Karma yogis) which we are able to sustain by offering non profit yoga retreats.
The community everyone here contributes 4-5 hours a day volunteering hours extra hours are available and paid for at Bulgarian rates by prearranged, so get in touch to have a chat. We also look after each other and our space through Karma Yoga, the act of selfless giving (cleaning up after yourself or small jobs walking dogs, collecting fruit extra).
Our work exchange is for two chef cooked plant based community meals a day, fruit before and after community meals and an amazing raw vegan salad bar lunch, in our Chai House (extra snacks, hot drinks cakes etc must be paid for in the Chai House, volunteers receive a 20% discount).
You are also invited to join all classes and sessions outside of your volunteering commitments and we have an open policy where all Karma Yogis can share their skills by holding workshops on a donation basis. Residents have some additional benefits please see profile.
We are looking for individuals or couples that want to join us in 2024 as Residents or Karma Yogis. Please go to the help section to read about the roles. We accept and give priority to long term volunteers (Residents) This means you get to experience becoming part of the community and you will have the freedom to get creative and help shape the project. We appreciate that it's a commitment, but don't think that a long term stay will stop you exploring. We often go on community trips and work our schedules to enable each other to take time off in blocks that allow you to explore other areas.
If you really want to come but don't have so much time, then you are still welcome to get in touch. We also have some shorter term options (Karma Yogis). We do get a lot of messages so make yours stand out by telling us what skills and energy you would love to bring to the project and we will accommodate you if we can. These shorter stays tend to work best April, May & October for practical projects and as extra hands in the busy spells. Please be aware we gather for meals and sing or bless our food before we eat we practise noble silence in the mornings and have areas where phones are not to be used
BACKGROUND
Our project began in 2020, when Row was inspired after finding herself living in a community in Catalonia and being stranded in Morocco during the first lockdown of the pandemic where she lived with many Digital Nomads and travellers. She has owned the house with some land in Bulgaria for 18 years and decided during COVID to convert the space to become a community & yoga retreat. Her intention was to bring people together to share practices, experiences, stories and to create a safe space to host guests who wanted to join the community for yoga and spiritual retreats.
In October of 2020, with the help of nine Workaway volunteers, work began. We renovated the barn to be used as a yoga and meditation space, an outdoor kitchen for community meals, and the guest house rooms. 2022 has been our first full retreat season, and we continue with projects, having opened a community chai house, co-working space, volunteers’ house, and we are preparing a new forest glamping area for next year.
We are a vibrant and social bunch who enjoy eating together, playing music around the fire, playing games and dancing. We are not, however, a party place, and there is a quiet time zone between 10.00pm and 8.00am. We are primarily here to develop our self and spiritual practices so early mornings, meditation and yoga are an important part of our daily life, and we prefer you don't smoke. If it's something you're working on then let us know maybe we can help.
Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Proyectos artísticos
Práctica de idiomas
Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos
Enseñanza
Jardinería
Construcción y bricolaje
Cuidado de animales
Cocinar para toda la familia
Ayuda doméstica
Mantenimiento general
Ayuda informática
Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión
Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Community living is new to a lot of people and can be a great way to learn about how you connect with others, what positive things you can bring to a group, and sometimes to look inward to assess any triggers you may experience. Every single person brings something positive to the community dynamic, and seeing that in other people, as well as seeing it in yourself, is a magical experience. We have weekly games nights and plan to start to hold weekly BBQ at BalkanNomads our brother site in the village.
If you are interested in learning more about producing and preparing healthy vegetarian and vegan meals, there is also a lot of opportunity for that here, as everybody helps out in the kitchen at least a couple of times a week. If you want to learn about things that are going on outside of your main role, we can organise the schedule to give you more time in another area.
This area of Bulgaria is rich in history and culture. We are near to the historic towns of Tryavna and Veliko Tarnovo, Dryanovo monastery, and lots of other interesting monuments and landmarks. We are also surrounded by beautiful nature, with great spots for hiking, mountain biking, and swimming under waterfalls. We have a car and organise weekly trips for the guests, which you are welcome to join when you are available. We can also schedule around you taking a block of time off to go exploring on your own.
Shipka Pass is close to us, and the old capital that defended from the Ottoman Invasion Veliko Tarnovo is close. Also, a famous mineral spa just 3k away, Voneshda Voda is famous for its healing water. Forests, mountains, monasteries 11th-century buildings of Tryavna, it's a significant area. We also have Dryavano Monastery and famous UFO style communist monument near by.
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PERIODS & ROLES TO COVER
RESIDENTS ROLES 3-6 MONTHS PLEASE READ CAREFULLY
Hi Wonderful Souls,
Would you like to practise yoga, learn and live in a mountain valley community surrounded by forest? We are looking for hands-on resident volunteers. As a resident you are at the core of our community and we couldn’t keep things running without you. We need committed, proactive, responsible and hard-working people to make up our core team! We ask for a commitment of 30 hours of work a week including 5h paid overtime at 10lv per hour.
We also all contribute to the daily living, practical and logistics of community life through an hour of Karma Yoga a day. We tend to work 5 hours a day 5.5 days a week in the open season which we have found makes the flow of the schedule easier.
In our experience people who thrive here have a flexible mindset for busy times, which works both ways, enjoy plant based food and have a desire to come to practices and grow their openness to spiritual practices. Our residents do not pay to attend Cacao or any other in-house ceremony or guest coach retreats (special yoga retreats run by visiting coaches) and other special events such as Wim Hoff, Reiki or KAP courses are offered at cost price.
As a resident you will have your own room and 10 days holiday a season plus 1 long weekend a month after dinner friday until dinner prep monday. You are also authorised once our safeguarding policy has been completed to provide therapeutic services to guests such as massage, therapy, 121 classes, cooking classes, courses or ceremony which you can charge for as you wish.
Residents who are interested in becoming part of the community long term can talk to us about our work for a free land lease proposal a project we wish to launch next year to enable our residents to have the security of their own piece of land where they can build a temporary building, bell tent or other sleeping accommodation to call home. The land is a 10 min walk from RisingSoul.
Whilst we would love you to join us for the full season we can accept half season residents .
KITCHEN FOCALISER & PLANTBASED COOK (PAID)
RESIDENT: Plant Based Head Chef - (Mid April - End Sep)
If you are passionate about plant based food, want to develop your skills and have a background in cooking for groups then we would love to hear from you. Our food should be a combination of options from light raw vegan/fruitarian to healthy grounding sustaining wholesome plates.
You would be responsible for the planning, preparation, cooking and presentation of the evening community meal and overseeing the evening Karma Yoga which is where everyone helps to clean up after the meal and leave the kitchen clean and ready for the morning. Many of us are capable vegan and vegetarian cooks so we are here to support and inspire.
Your team will also make brunch on a Sunday morning, which is the only meal of the day on Sundays and join the market missions on Mondays where we go to buy all the fresh fruit and vegetables for the week.
We will support and can train you to learn our shopping and storing food systems. We also provide online Health and Hygiene, Ayurveda and raw vegan training. We can cover some paid relevant courses that would help to grow your kitchen management cooking skills. Cost of courses are normally refunded after the completion of your agreed commitment but were happy to assess on individual bases.
You will work in our stunning open courtyard kitchen which is a social space and we will allocate you a Karma Yogi, cooking assistant chef/trainee. You are free to organise your own schedule with the only requirement that food is ready for our singing or pre meal prayer circle at 17.50 and all sinks, surfaces and cooking equipment is cleaned and put away by this point.
You will need to organise your schedule and ensure meals are on time and consist of balanced and abundant dishes. You will be assigned an assistant chef and between you will need to provide community breakfast and dinner.
You will also have some night duties for Karma Yoga as explained above
KARMA YOGI ROLES: 1MONTH - 6 MONTHS PLEASE READ CAREFULLY
Hi Wonderful Souls,
Would you like to practise yoga, learn and live in a mountain valley community surrounded by forest? We are looking for hands-on spiritually curious Karma Yogis. As one of our Karma Yogis you will recieve a workaway exchange of 5h 5 days a week in exchange of meals as describes in opening paragraphs and accomodation in a bright 4 bed dorm room next to the river and our lovely Chai House.
We also all contribute to the daily living, practical and logistics of community life through an hour of Karma Yoga every day in addition to working 4-5 hours 5 days a week. All meals are prepared for you (unless your the chef!) and we eat a wonderful range of fresh cooked from scratch food.
In our experience people who thrive here have a flexible mindset for busy times, which works both ways, enjoy plant based food and have a desire to come to practices and grow their openness to spiritual practices. Our Karma Yogis pay only cost for Cacao or any other in-house ceremony or guest coach retreats (special yoga retreats run by visiting coaches) are normally open to Karma Yogi and other special events such as Wim Hoff, Reiki or KAP courses are offered at cost price. We happily write future work refrences for our Karma Yogis and provide training.
KARMA YOGI: TRAINEE PLANT BASED CHEF
Your main role will be in the Kitchen supporting and training with our chef and creating healthy balanced brunches for the community. You may cover one day a week at the Chia House making a raw vegan salad bar.
You will also help with the kitchen deep clean, and storing food etc.
You will take the lead on brunch Karma yoga duties as scheduled and organise karma yoga roles for guests as they arrive. You will also facilitate 1 baking workshop a week for guests to create bread for the community & treats for the tea house. You will be responsible for making sure that the workshop window is filled in on Mondays by everyone encouraging workshops in the creative & coworking space during tea house open hours.
KARMA YOGI: SPACE CARETAKER
You will be someone who loves to make spaces look welcoming and beautiful. You have an eye for detail and love cleaning. You are the person that makes the spaces special and if you have an creative artistic flare then we can give you spaces to get creative with.
We keep our community clean and hygienic at all times so it's important that you value the importance of doing things thoroughly and in a timely way. We love for there to be flowers and decorations about the place and you will have a garden of your own to look after and help redesign if you wish.
You're also a yoga lover who wants to attend classes and is actively seeking to grow your awareness. We have wonderful spaces to care for such as the yoga barn and church view courtyard but it's also important to be mindful with people.
You will be trained and supported by our guest house manager.
MAINTENANCE & BUILDING GLAMPING
We are looking for someone that can help us to develop our glamping sites usiing natural materials should have experience off off gris or eco minded systems
KARMA YOGI: YOGA COACH & CHAI HOUSE CARETAKER
We look for skilled teachers that can share their wisdom and practices through a variety of yoga asana and meditation classes. We are open to all styles and if you are able to cover occasional Kundalini Kriyas then that's amazing.
You should be mindful and implement safe practice to minimise risk of injury and be able to adapt a class for the different levels and personal body types and fitness levels. We welcome creative classes and all meditation styles: yoga nidra, music meditation, ecstatic dance and sharmanic practices are all part of our program so if you can facilitate any of these or others please let us know in your application.
A love for raw vegan food would be amazing as we want you to help in our community project Chai House either making the raw vegan salads or serving to be discussed .
You will teach 2h a day 6 days a week as part of your volunteering hours & the other 2 hours a day will be spent in the Chai House. You will have the option to facilitate additional paid yoga classes and workshops
Idiomas
Idiomas hablados
Inglés: Fluido
Bulgarian: Principiante
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Alojamiento
RESIDENTS HOUSE
Normally a room to yourself two females may have to share a tein room at high season. Light bright old bulgarian house with gardens, eco bathroom (compost loo & solar shower) and small private lkitchen if you want to make tea or eat alone on days off. Log burners for heat rooms have big windows and wooden floors and wardrobes or clothing storage.
KARMA YOGIS DORM
A big bright dorm room with 2 x bunk beds and carpet plus a woodburner the bathroom is being developed of the winter for this room and is planned to contain wood fuelled showers and semi compost loos where its not necassary to empty the urine.
CAMPING
You can also camp in the forrest if you prefer and we may be able to supply a tent.
Having experienced many workaways, we feel we offer a very good WorkAway volunteering energy exchange you will recieve nice accomodation, healthy, delicious, plant based meals cooked for you (unless your the chef!) made with natural high quality local produce eaten with our guests as a community twice a day plus fruit & tea and treats.
We are a vegetarian/vegan plant based community, we avoid all factory produce dairy products but support small local producers of cheese, home made yogurt and free range eggs. We also ask that you do not bring single use plastic we are developing our sustainabilty practices and move towards a zero plastic policy. We are happy to cater for strict vegans please be aware that not all our guests or volunteers will be vegan or vegetarian. We believe everyone is on his or her own path and it is not our place to convert or judge we only hope to inspire and trigger awareness around sustainable and conscious eating.
All our heating is from log burners we would love help to develop projects that enable us to increase our eco conscious lifestyle, we have collected two abandoned puppies a stray cat. We are like to socilaise with our neighbours and Bulgarian neighbours which can turn into some great nights of local music and cultural exchange.
Please be aware that whilst we do not drink alcohol at the during guest season, the Bulgarian culture has a heavy connection with a local brew they make from fruit Rakia and wine making which they may invite you to share.
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For residents you may be able to use the car if you have a clean licence.
We have two dogs, two bunnies and a cat that live here, who are all very friendly and love welcoming our guests and volunteers (especially those that like going for walks!)
Volunteers are welcome to run workshops for the guests on a donation basis, so if you have a skill that you would like to develop into something that can be taught and shared, it is a great place to give it a go. This year we have had lots of dance, art, and voice workshops which have been a huge success and so much fun.
We use a system called Trello where volunteers each have their own card. This is where you will find your role description, and checklists for all of your daily and weekly tasks. We also use it for shopping lists and brainstorming, so it is really a communication hub between the volunteers which you can have access to before arriviing if you would like to get familiar.
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Acceso a Internet
Acceso a Internet limitado
Tenemos animales
Somos fumadores
Puede alojar familias
Puede acoger a nómadas digitales
Yes, we are a mixture of solo travellers and Dig Nomads you are welcome at our community as a guest or we also have the option of joining us as a community friend , if you can not commit to WorkAway hours but can help out with daily tasks in exchange for friends rates 😊
Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas
In the summer you can drive up our grass track and park on the outside of our community courtyard so you have water and electric right next to you and a outside loo. In wet weather its better to park on the flat car park at the bottom of our track not in the past we have run an extension cable down for the camper vans if needed.
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It was a great time for me even though it was still cold in the morning of April. We made fire wood, collected wood in the forest and were cooking on a fire stove, additionally on electric. The food was excellent, there was a very ambitious cook, Rowena values good vegetarian, mostly vegan food.
Our daily tasks were… read more
This retreat center is created with so much love, and this is felt in all the little details. Row has put her whole life into creating a place where people can feel whole again and remember the power of Nature,Yoga and Community.
Teaching yoga here was truly a… read more
We were so lucky to get to benefit from their amazing teaching stules and depth of knowledge.
Guests loved their classes and it brough a diversity of practice and… read more
Dimitar spent time learning some new woodwork and other skills which he quickly picked up and was then good at… read more
Row has built a really special place. There is a main guest house, a yoga barn, a… read more
During their time with us this summer we were firstly focused on repairing a community building that we have recently taken over they both played a fundamental role in getting the building… read more
The retreat was our home for 6 weeks, the time passed quickly with friends (here you get friends too) enjoying a beautiful place, surrounded by nature. The work varies from day to day, since there are no guests during these dates, it consists mainly of… read more
Esteban is very practical and great at lots of the handyman jobs that get piled up. He uses his initiative and has a good level of English we did have to spend some time to check we have the correct understanding. But this is easy with Esteban… read more
She brought her kind nature wonderful yoga lessons and her guitar and Kirtan singing.
Sharing with us song writing workshops, Kirtan singing classes and lots more.
She helped with daily running and cooking tasks and got on well with everyone in the community also… read more
He became my best friend and then a leading role as a resident helping to evolve the project for the 2023 season.
He managed the maintenance and contributed to the daily workings of the community contributing through cooking, karma yoga, garden upkeep and… read more
Mags was always consious to cook a variety of yummy vegan dishes and was mindful of using up our fresh produce and not wasting food.
She is also a skilled and knowledgeable forager and has lots of… read more
As with all our volunteers she was kind and considerate and deligent about her tasks taking over the role of guest house assistant manager she supported me by taking over the final stages of communication with… read more
She took a lead rolevin caring for our guest house and looking after our volunteers inna very busy period.
Karin brought with her some wonderful creative energy and shared them through workshops, heart sharing circles and her guitar… read more
They really were Vance couldn't of been more the right guy at the v right time.
He is self motivated took initiative, working well with our other volunteers but also worked alone.
We completed some heavy… read more
As a person he is very genuine, talkative and accessible to share… read more
Theresa is talkative,… read more
Rodrigo is motivated by his passions and enjoys to work at his own pace. For us, this worked out… read more
David is knowledgeable with gardening and we left him in charge of his own work as he is hard working, energetic and… read more
I'm extremely happy to be able to volunteer in this place, the yoga/hiking/Taichi/meditation did wonderful things with me, i could heal, get stronger and have an incredible amount of fun, it's like this place Bring… read more
He is a very genuine and good hearted person who has become a great friend.
Bjarke has some exellent carpentary skills and enjoys being outside In Nature gardening. He also helped with the animals and makes great Indian style food.
He has travelled extensively and… read more
Row is an amazing power-woman, and one of the most helpful and generous souls I've ever met! <3
Even though I've only stayed for 3 weeks Row showed me around quite a lot and took me to a mineral spring, Veliko Tarnovo and invited me for dinner with friends, and much more... I joined her yoga classes as well and really enjoyed them!
The… read more
She is far too good at making yummy deserts and has a responsible calm manner.
She loves to play guitar and we had many fun nights around the camp fire.
Wishing her the best and hope to see her again one day our… read more
He was alot of fun and also appreciates quite time and space.
We wish him the best in his onward travels and we would welcome him back any time
She was very easy to get on with and always good natured. We learnt alot of fab recipes and shared some great times.
Sonia got on with everyone and I wish her lots of luck on her onwards travels she is welcome any time
Blake has his camper van so is indépendant which is a great help he gets on with everyone in our community and is always polite and grateful that we cook for him.
Rowena is the perfect host and immediately you feel comfortable and relaxed in this… read more
Ludmilla arrived at the same time as another volunteer and the girls became good friends and went off on many adventures hitch hiking to the coast and other places which were fab to hear about. I… read more
She shared so many wonderful skills with us and we had lots of laughs along the way.
Sophie was here with another workaway Ludmilla and they really were great fun and never to be forgotten. Especially… read more
I hope you have an amazing onward journey… read more
Row made us discover everything around and always happy to show us Bulgaria with her eyes.
All… read more
The girls had some good ideas and were happy to get on with things and use their initiative.
They are… read more
They are a wonderful couple and we are missing them. They are both funny bright personalities who express themselves openly. They were super helpful and got on with many different tasks.
We learnt alot from each other and I hope they take with them some teachings we… read more
In his time here he became a very competent carpenter's assistant and learnt lots of skills he also heled with general building cleaning shopping and restoration work.
He became… read more
Simone is a diamond he is a interesting and kind person with a great desire to learn and experience new things.
He is super helpful up bright and early and able to work on his own initiative. He enjoyed working outside in the… read more
The place is super cool, village is very friendly, house is very comfortable and have a good Wifi connection.
Row is a super friendly, helpful and interesting host. You can feel she's been leaving her life very deeply and, if you're able to receive, she… read more
