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We are a Buddhist mountain village and retreat center in the Italian alps near the Swiss border. We are open from spring to autumn and receive guests for Buddhist courses and retreats, practitioners who wish to profit from the special atmosphere and people in search of nature and quietness. We serve simple but wholesome vegetarian dishes. We are non smokers.
For 2023 we are more than usual in maintenance projects and in upgrading the traditional stone-houses. Other activities are cleaning the surrounding, kitchen help and preparing and keeping the rooms. If you have experience in cooking this is also most welcome. It is important that you are physically fit, like outside work and feel at ease as well on your own as when sharing activities with others.
The village is old and very beautiful. It is owned by a Swiss cooperative whose main objective is to maintain the traditional houses and open them for meditative activities. It is run by the Italian dharma foundation. Both organisations are non profit oriented and everybody, also the people coordinating, are doing this on a voluntary basis. All offerings given us by the participants of the activities are used fully for the maintenance and running of the place.
Volunteers are expected to have an interest in Buddhism and personal inner development. The place is excellent if you like to question your habits and outlook, and together with others want to work with yourself.
You need to have your personal health insurance and be physically quite fit, as the village is not accessible by car and is built on a slope.
Please note that drugs are not permitted and you cannot smoke in the village (and absolutely not in your room). So if you smoke please do not apply.
Please note that you cannot bring pet animals.Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado
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Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado
This is a great place to go back to the roots, be it your own inner roots, be it the wish to live in a surrounding which helps you to find your basic needs. You will be in contact with interesting people. Other volunteers, the staff in place, many and different visitors. Our focus lies on Tibetan Buddhism and Buddhist meditation. It is important to be interested in this approach to have a satisfying time in this remote village.
There is amazingly little distraction (also irregular internet connections....). On the other hand you live in simple, well furnished houses, eat healthy and tasty food, and are surrounded by an exuberant nature. It can be an ideal place for a break in your ordinary activities with the wish for new orientation in life.Ajuda
We are happy to get support in running the place. Preparation and maintenance of the rooms and structures, cooking, cleaning, maintenance of the surrounding and more. With experience you are welcome to take over responsibilities. Attendance to the morning stand-up meeting is compulsory, as we then share our experiences and coordinate the tasks.
We suggest a minimum stay of four weeks for volunteers and are happy if you stay longer if we feel at ease with each other. We expect you to actively participate in the running of the place. There is no need to be Buddhist, but it is important that you are interested in meditation and inner development, and wish to participate in the regular shared meditations (2-3 times a day about 30 minutes), as they are a part of our group process and help us grow together.
We are always looking for people to continue rebuilding and restoring our historic village in different construction projects. We also need people for technical maintenance at already finished houses as well as the modernised village infrastructure. If you are a professional craftsman/woman, let us know.
Our cook is happy to have somebody at his side who has experience in cooking, maybe having worked for some time in a restaurant. Our garden team is interested in support for sustainable gardening.Idiomas
Alemão: Fluente
Inglês: Fluente
Francês: Intermediário
Italiano: IntermediárioAcomodação
Depending on season and availability you will have a simple room for yourself or share with one, maximum two other people of the same sex.
Sanitary facilities are shared and not always close to your accommodation.Algo mais...
On our weekly day off most of us use the local buses which several times a day go down to Domodossola (if you need the bustle of town) or up to Antrona Piano (if you want to be in a really beautiful place with mountain lakes).
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Dear Alanis, we all enjoyed your… read more
I stayed for a month and a half, helping with construction, gardens, rooftops... Never bored, never stressed! You have time and space to go at your own pace and everybody there is always willing to help and guide you if you need it.
There are 3 sessions of meditation a day, 3 delicious meals and… read more
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Dear Alanis, we all enjoyed your… read more
I stayed for a month and a half, helping with construction, gardens, rooftops... Never bored, never stressed! You have time and space to go at your own pace and everybody there is always willing to help and guide you if you need it.
There are 3 sessions of meditation a day, 3 delicious meals and… read more
Thank you Peter and Liza for the wonderful, healthy food, for making it vegan for me.
Thanks to everybody for the deep, touching and philosophical talks, thank you for listening, for giving me the feeling of being loved, seen and the sense of belonging.
Through the reguar meditation I… read more
it was amazing rich experience for me, I learned alot of things from being there and interactiong with others.
the working schadual is spread in all the day however it is in easy pace
the nature there is marvelise and the atmosphere in summer is so cool
This is the best place to learn how to flow with the change… read more
We are looking forward to your coming back!
From the start an effort was made to make sure I had a task I could work on for my time there (plastering walls), which I enjoyed and am grateful it allowed me to feel like I contributed something meaningful to the village. The pace is relaxed and the work never felt like work,… read more
This is the perfect place to find peace, get in touch with yourself and nature, to think and develop.
It's hard to describe the unique atmosphere of the village, but I have never felt at home so quickly in any other workaway. Which is mostly thanks… read more
Have a good continuation of your lifelong pilgrimage :-)
I fully recommend you to come, mainly if you are in a personal search. If you… read more
Thank you very much for your presence!
Thank you for being with us.
I haven't had so much laugh in a long time, the ambience and the people I met were amazing. There are volunteers from… read more
you were just too fast! So I will give my feedback only after you gave yours! It was such a pleasure to have you in our team. Such fresh and beautiful energy, the perfect readiness to get engaged in whatever has to be accomplished, and a supportive attitude towards what happened in the place and with the people here. Was also a… read more
Waouuuh such a good place !
I'm really thankful to have the chance to come here and discovered many great people, pratice meditation and learn about tibetain bouddhism and share with Tengye and the team of volunteer and guest.
The village is just beautiful, you can find the peace and just contemplate the mountains around you and feel… read more
We can recommend him without reserve and would be happy if one day he would come back.
Mainly I helped in the kitchen and cleaning the rooms for the guests. We also made jam from the grapes that we picked and baked bread. In the daily standupmeeting we decided the… read more
Any time you are welcome back!
Thank you and we would be happy to see you again!
Edith and Felice, and all the people I met there are really very nice. I would be assuredly happy to come back when I have the opportunity !
Thank you for the most amazing experience!
I didn't know it when I was signing up to work for you, but I really needed time to work and be somewhere quiet. And this place was perfect.
Thank you for everything you have taught me... you are wonderful and unique people and I feel extremely lucky to have had the privilege to… read more