🏔️🌿Help build a temple in the mountains: nature, purpose, and hands-on work
The experience
I am building a temple in the middle of the mountain and I’m seeking help with various tasks, since the physical work can be demanding 🌄.
You can help with whatever you feel comfortable with: painting, pruning, collecting stones, watering, cutting wood, building a cabin, or cleaning. It’s a life experience in the mountains, connecting with nature and a project with purpose.
What you offer
25 hours of help per week
Painting & Decorating:
Help with painting or decorating the property facilities.
Building & Repairing:
Help with a wide range of repairs or building.
Gardening:
Help grow plants and cultivate gardens
What you get
2 days off per week
Private Room:
You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.
Shared Dorm:
You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.
Team Dorm:
You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other people.
Tent:
You will sleep in a tent at a camping site.
Breakfast:
You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.
Lunch:
You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.
Dinner:
You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.
Free Hiking Tours:
We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!
Bikes at your disposal:
You can use our bikes any time you want.
Pick Up:
We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.
Yoga classes:
Take free yoga classes at our place.
Holistic Therapies:
You can take part in any of our therapeutic activities for free.
Use our equipped kitchen:
Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.
Requirements
Intermediate English or Intermediate Spanish
Between 21 and 35 years old
Only hosts solo volunteers (doesn’t accept couples or partners)
Academy Course Eco Certificate for Volunteers: Basic Concepts
Academy Course How to become an outstanding Worldpacker
European Union Passport
What's not included
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
Program Details
The program is that there is no program, each day is different or the same depending on your perception of reality.
Volunteers can stay in different options depending on availability: a room with a bed and a bunk bed, a sofa bed in the living room, a small tent or the 'forest room' (with a bed). There is also the possibility of bringing your own tent if you prefer. ✨
If insects bother you, bring your repellent or some essential oil. A flashlight or headlamp because outside there is no light. Old shoes, especially during the rainy season. Old clothes, you will surely get dirty.
When you want to take a day off you can walk along some of the trails to go down to the river and bathe, or pick aromatic herbs, the yoga room is not finished yet.
Rivers are dry in August...
Activities & Shift
Basically manual work with large or small stones, wood or firewood and gardening work such as pruning trees (olive trees) and cutting shrubs.
The chainsaw and the brush cutter if you have prior experience.
You can do 5 hours in a row or split them in the morning and afternoon.
Rules
The most important thing is that you don't waste my time, patience has limits. Right now I am very saturated.
I am looking for hardworking people who want to work and fulfill their tasks like an adult. I have had to throw out two volunteers and I would not like more people to be in the same situation.
You should know that you are not going to work for me, this is not "my" house either. You will work for a Vajrayana lineage.
If you decide to come, come without expectations. You come to give, not to receive.
There are hardly any comforts because it must be that way. A complacent mind is a captive mind. Freedom is achieved by reducing needs.
To ensure proper use of the facilities, a deposit of 30€, which will be returned on the day of departure if nothing is broken.
Suffering ends when you stop believing your own thoughts.
Buses do not run on weekends to go from Xativa to the pickup point that is in Navarrés.
If what you want is to retreat and not work, you only have to pay 10€ per day.