Volunteer service at Nirvana Wellness Retreat
Shanti Yoga Community
Shanti Yoga Community
The Shanti Yoga Health Institute encourages and fosters the ideal of service and caregiving as a basis of engaged spirituality and worthy enterprise. It's a great way to participate with a spiritual sangha, support the organisation that supports you, and continue to offer practice and service to the world.
A life of meaning arises from letting go of our burdensome desires for acquisition, achievement and performance. It is also more than just about one's internal reality. The act of giving itself is of immeasurable benefit to the giver. It opens up the heart, diminishes for a moment one's self-absorption and places value on the wellbeing of others. The simplest gesture of offering a flower, or a few hours of service, a kind thought, or a simple meal, is in fact, a sincere form of spiritual practice for a lay person. Love and compassion flow outwards and inwards at exactly at the same time. Regardless of the size or value of the gift, the act of giving itself generates a thought moment devoid of greed and full of loving kindness. This is spirituality in action.
In particular The Shanti Yoga Health Institute encourages and fosters within its membership:
The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service.
The application of the ideal of service in each member's personal, business and community life.
High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each member's occupation as an opportunity to serve society.
The advancement of international understanding, goodwill and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
Volunteer work and collaborating with others is a meaningful way of sharing your skills with others, and thus you are contributing to the further development of yourself, others and the organisation. There is no shortage of projects that need to be realised. Nirvana volunteers have the opportunity to immerse themselves in a variety of projects, including (but not limited to) organic gardening, renewable energy projects, wood cutting, trail making, guiding, small building projects, healing arts, marketing, community relations, events management and more. We request that volunteers observe the yamas and niyamas, do their yoga and meditation practices everyday and help out wherever it is needed. If you desire to offer a special skill to the centre, please email us.
A life of meaning arises from letting go of our burdensome desires for acquisition, achievement and performance. It is also more than just about one's internal reality. The act of giving itself is of immeasurable benefit to the giver. It opens up the heart, diminishes for a moment one's self-absorption and places value on the wellbeing of others. The simplest gesture of offering a flower, or a few hours of service, a kind thought, or a simple meal, is in fact, a sincere form of spiritual practice for a lay person. Love and compassion flow outwards and inwards at exactly at the same time. Regardless of the size or value of the gift, the act of giving itself generates a thought moment devoid of greed and full of loving kindness. This is spirituality in action.
In particular The Shanti Yoga Health Institute encourages and fosters within its membership:
The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service.
The application of the ideal of service in each member's personal, business and community life.
High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each member's occupation as an opportunity to serve society.
The advancement of international understanding, goodwill and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
Volunteer work and collaborating with others is a meaningful way of sharing your skills with others, and thus you are contributing to the further development of yourself, others and the organisation. There is no shortage of projects that need to be realised. Nirvana volunteers have the opportunity to immerse themselves in a variety of projects, including (but not limited to) organic gardening, renewable energy projects, wood cutting, trail making, guiding, small building projects, healing arts, marketing, community relations, events management and more. We request that volunteers observe the yamas and niyamas, do their yoga and meditation practices everyday and help out wherever it is needed. If you desire to offer a special skill to the centre, please email us.
As a sangha (community) we reach within to embrace humanity, cook and care for each other, sit (for meditation), eat and study together, enjoy outdoor adventures and usually work as teams. Sound physical and mental health is a basic requirement for the volunteer program. In order to maintain the quality at the centre, we accept only volunteers with serious commitment - to support an organisation they love. Come up with your way to contribute. Those volunteers who do not follow the guidelines at the centre and who do not meditate seriously will unfortunately be asked to leave.
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We look forward to hearing from you!
