Share life in devotion to self discovery in Órgiva, Spain

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  Description

  INTRODUCTION
  
  
  Living from the Heart in the present moment and following that silent voice inside that is joyfull and bold is much easier when we are in supportive company. We welcome volunteers who are interested in exploring spirituality and self-discovery, regardless of their religion, culture, or prior experience
  as long as they are open-minded, respectful, and happy to live in a vegetarian and peaceful community.
  
  By welcoming volunteers, we aim to share daily life, care for our living environment together and support one another on the path towards simplicity and awareness.
  
  
  Coming together we feel a deep joy in supporting volunteers and friends eager to know themselves behind their apparent personality, so they can attain a deeper and lasting sense of peace and happiness.
  
  Sharing life in devotion to Self-discovery is only possible when there is a sincere longing in the heart, a readiness to follow a little discipline and a mature awareness of self-responsibility of one's own emotions and experience.
  
  PRESENTATION
  
  We are a private homestead producing food for our own consumption and for the people staying with us.
  Our Finca is on a beautiful land of fruit trees (Olive, Orange, Lemon, Nispero, Avocado, Almond, fig...) in the outskirts of Orgiva in Las Alpujarras. We are a mix of German, French, english and Danish and we speak together mostly english and spanish.
  Our finca is within walking distance (15mn) from the lively town of Orgiva, where there are many markets, events and communities of spiritual, holistic and alternative nature ( biodanza, hikes in mountains. beach 30mn drive, waterfalls 25mn drive, Buddhist temple ... ) , and still our land has the precious quality of quiet nature with birds singing and beautiful views of the mountains.
  
  We aim to live a simple life with universal spiritual values like gratitude, respect of Mother Earth, kindness, care, charity etc...
  
  
  TYPE OF TASKS
  
  We are planning to care for the surroundings of our living spaces and shared outdoor areas.
  in the garden we will be caring for the trees and with the continuation of establishing a vegetable and flower garden using homa therapy and permaculture principles, watering, grass cutting, maintenance of water channels and more. As we have only been on the land for 2 years now, and are focussing on establishing ourselves more deeply on the land. The work of establishing a food forrest is still in its very beginning, even though many trees were already here. There can also be tasks like marmelade making, harversting fruits and herbs and sowing seeds using the biodynamic seed calendar. the temple needs regular cleaning as well as picking flowers to decorate it and cleaning the copper items that are used during the ceremonies.
  cooking and cleaning is part of what all volunteers do.
  
  
  RHYTHM AND EXCHANGE
  
  We follow a daily rythm with 5 hours of help a day/ 5 days a week. Breaks☕, meals prep🔪, dishes 🍽and cleaning of commun areas 🏠are extra🙏, those tasks are shared between everyone. We mostly work 5 hours before lunch (which in spain is around 15h) and afternoon & evening is generally free if daily working hours are completed. When the tasks and instructions are known, there can also be a flexibility with the placing of the work hours. Volunteers are responsible for recording their own working hours which helps us to have an overview.We trust them to do so accurately — there is no monitoring or surveillance involved .Some tasks may require a different scheduling as well as the weather changes. In summer it's too hot 🔥 to work in the middle of the day. In winter❄⛄ early mornings are too cold to work.
  Volunteers are not replacing locally hired workers or professionals. The rhythm here is designed to support cultural exchange, shared life and learning.
  
  
  We ask for a minimum stay of 3 weeks to give you time to settle in, get to know the place and people, and become comfortable with the tasks. We enjoy supporting volunteers in their experience of life on the finca and sharing our community, gardens, and activities together. Seeing volunteers feel welcome, engaged, and connected is what brings us joy and motivates us to continue hosting.
  
  We have taken the habit of gathering in the morning with all volunteers to express for 10mn gratitude. Everyone is welcome to express and share. We realised it really supports us to feel connected to each other as a community and also to set the dynamic and the mindset for the rest of the day . Work is for us a celebration and another expression of the gratitude we feel for life.
  
  We love playing devotional music together and celebrate with regularity Bhajan & Kirtan (mantra singing) on the land and around in the neighbouring commuity.
  
  
  We are simply learning from each other and supporting each other by doing our best to stay centered in the heart. We are so happy to share from various teachers, for example by sitting in satsang or in silence together or sharing gratitude. As well as we enjoy other helpful tools like aarti, bhajans, kirtan, silent meditation, japa, and charity or seva.
  
  Depending of the time of the year we may have a spiritual program to support visitors in their Self-discovery.
  
  We sing together bhajans/kirtan (mantra singing), read or listen to satsang and spiritual stories and practice devotional activities such as Aarti and Agnihotra.
  
  Usually once/twice a week there will also be bhajans and kirtan with our local Sacred Song Circle in a spiritual center in town and around in the area.
  Participation to the devotional activities is optional and all volunteers are welcome to participate as much as they enjoy it.
  
  
  A musculation machine, the temple, the pool , the tepee and the river are available for volunteers. We have clothes for work and also ceremonies outfits to borrow. We can make available also all the telagran groups for events, rideshares and sale in the area. Órgiva being very alternative town there is almost every day or every other day something fancy to do.
  
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  We enjoy a relaxed atmosphere within a certain discipline, to live in a clean & loving space. We eat vegetarian (plant based nutrition and sometimes dairy), no alcohol, drugs and tobacco. We are not able to receive smokers nor people trying to stop smoking or stop drinking alcohol because the dependency can drag people's attention in a different space than the one we wish to keep, and it becomes a strain for us to support people who are not really ready to keep themselves free of intoxicants.
  
  We cultivate a healthy hygiene and clean, with respectful clothing adjusted to circumstances; We love there to be an awareness that this place is dedicated to Self-realisation and also that we are coming together from different ages and cultural backgrounds, and so we wish that all can be comfortable.
  
  Apart from a sense of being useful, effective, punctual and easy going, some sensitivity is a much appreciated quality.
  
  In case a volunteer is temporarily unable to participate in activities, we ask for open communication so we can adapt together. We do not have the capacity to support volunteers who are unwell and ask everyone to arrive in good health.
  We are not equipped to support volunteers who are currently going through serious psychological difficulties., or do not have a health insurance covering them in spain.
  For your application please take note that we recruit only one month ahead maximum.We are not able to plan more than that as our livestyle is quite spontaneous and open for the surprises of life, while staying connected to our commitments.
  
  Who are we?
  Our project is just in the starting up phase and we are excited to be in the trust of where it might take us.
  Michael & Guta and live part of the time in Germany and part time in the finca, they are fisiotherapists.
  Bruno is employed as an elderly, end of life and disabled care giver as well as carpinter helper and musician, hehas his daughter Alma with him half the time, Ana is carpinter helper and has a training in ecological farming . She has her daughter Aluna with her half of the time. Fred, who came to us as a volunteer, now live with us also.
  There is also our very cudly cats Maou and Mio and Pico the magical peacok who appeared spontaneously and recently on the land the day of a ceremony related to the peacok symbol!
  
  We are gradually improving our living environment and common spaces. We have an old caravan and a tiny house for volunteer housing. Apart from that we receive volunteers in tents (with matrasses) in the warmer months of the year. We have one big room, Tila, which serves as kitchen, eating space & common room. We also use our newly build temple Sri Ardineshwara Mandir and the tepee for our gatherings.
  We have two bathrooms and two really beautiful compost toilets with mountain view. There is lots of outside spaces with trees, and several simple shared spaces evolving over time
  
  If your Inner Guidance or intuition tells you that it may be a good place for you, then you are most welcome to get in touch!
  We look forward to hearing from you and we hope you'll find support for your Inner discovery with us.
  
  #meditation
  #yoga
  #aarti
  #bhajans
  #devotion
  #mantras
  #spirituality
  #buddha
  #enlightment
  #children
  #sangha
  #satsang

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Bénévolat

  Projets artistiques

  Aide avec des éco-projets

  Compagnie pour pers. âgée

  Jardinage

  S’occuper des animaux

  Aide dans une ferme

  Baby-sitting et jeux créatifs

  Cuisine/repas pour la famille

  Aide à la maison
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  Centres d’intérêt

  

  Musique

  

  Végétarien ou végan

  

  Dev. durable

  

  Dev. personnel

  

  Ferme

  

  Bénévolat

  

  Soin des plantes

  

  Jardinage

  

  Bricolage / artisanat

  

  Cuisine et alimentation

  

  Menuiserie

  

  Yoga / bien-être

  

  Nature
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  For volunteers there is opportunity to participate in :
  Gratitude circles
  Spititual discourses ( satsang) and discovery of spiritual teachers and teachings.
  Puja aarti
  kirtan/bhajans
  Charity work
  Devotional practices
  Workout space
  Walks to river and hikes in mountains
  Volunteers may gain insights into natural building techniques
  Volunteers will have the opportunity to learn tools that support harmony in a group, such as gratitude circles, ceremonies, conscious communication, shared responsibility and respect of boundaries

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  Projets impliquant des enfants

  Ce projet peut impliquer des enfants. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos directives et conseils ici.

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  Aide

  House help ( Cleaning bathroom & toilets, dish washing, cooking...)
  Gardening
  Help with children. We have two very lovely children of 8 and 15.
  shared daily life and simple outdoor activities

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  Langues parlées

  Danish: Courant
  Anglais: Courant
  Français: Courant
  Allemand: Intermédiaire

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  Hébergement

  Good season: Tent with matress in nature
  Winter :
  Caravan
  Tiny house
  in winter the spaces are generally shared with another volunteer of same gender
  All beddings and towels and cushions are provided.

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  Autres infos...

  Bus available to Órgiva.
  One hour drive from Granda airport
  1,5 hrs drive from Málaga aiport
  there is a huge variety of activities to do in our town,

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  Informations complémentaires

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    Accès Internet

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    Accès Internet limité

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    Nous avons des animaux

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    Nous sommes fumeurs

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    Familles bienvenues

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  Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads

  Mobile datas works well including for zoom. We ask everyone to avoid using phones (apart for to put on music) in shared spaces in order to stay aware and available for surrounding people and situations.

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  Espace pour garer des vans

  Any size of van at river side. You have to move it from time to time to comply with regulations. Small campers can be inside the property

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  Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux

  This depends on how trained is the pet.

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Plus de 2

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  Mes animaux

  peacock

  Maow

  Cuddly cat

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