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International travelers very welcomed! Min 1 month, 2+ months higher priority Help 5 days/week, 5 hours/day Maintenance, renovation of house, campground Private trailer/camper NO utility hookups or private yurt tent with bed, have to use shared bathrooms and kitchen with WiFi hot water nearby, power box for lighting and charging phone, propane heater. Free vegan food. Cook your own meal (meat ok)
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6 Get in touch with nature
3 Meeting international travelers
2 Immersing in the local culture
2 Developing social awareness
2 Meeting locals
2 Practicing English
Chile
Jessica was a great support for me. Until the end she always had a lot of empathy with me and that is very much appreciated. I connected a lot with the nature of the place. And I took the opportunity to study English and meditate.
7 months ago
Colombia
Is a nice place, some things could be better, but is a good place to be in contact with nature and make some friends, jessica is a very kind person and very flexible
7 months ago
Mexico
Beautiful forest to connect with nature and do the Center by yourself. I wouldn't recommend this place to those travelers looking learn about the Center because they don't have anything to learn the Center. They don't provide food but you can go to a nearby church where they donate food, really amazing food. The others volunteers were amazing, friendly and helpful. Jessica was very attending with the cellphone. In my case, I didn't feel completely comfortable and I had been very nervous about the rats.
8 months ago
We have meditation class online (due to covid) every week but no volunteer ever attended these teachings. I used to go and give meditation teachings onsite but very few volunteer were interested so I stopped. We got a Buddhist nun living onsite to teach meditation to our staff and volunteer every day since Oct 2022 right after Andrea left, but participation from the volunteer in the teaching is low, sometimes no volunteer attending at all.
We do provide the vegan food as our listing says, but volunteers don't like those vegan food, for example they told me that the bread and buns we brought no one eat them and they got bad so don't bring them any more. The church provides more variety of food including meat so the volunteers like to get the food from church. We are Buddhist center and are supposed to be vegan or at least vegetarian, not supposed to provide meat.
We are in the forest/woods, there are all kinds of animals including not only deer and turkey but also rats, and this is their homeland, we are not here to kill them.
United States
Jessica was communicative throughout the application process, and she welcomed my daughter to participate in an on-site youth leadership camp as part of our stay. I really appreciate that. I enjoyed opportunities to get out and explore the culture of the area as well as get to know other volunteers from around the world. That said, the accommodations offered more of a third world experience than anything thoughts of Silicon Valley may conjure up. For me, it furthered my awareness of the dichotomies of our lives and helped me see others with more insightfully.
8 months ago
We are in the Santa Cruz mountains, in the middle of redwood forest/woods with all kinds of animals around, not any city. This is the homeland of animals of the forest and we as humans are not here to kill or drive away any animals.
The Santa Cruz mountains area is very dry. All other retreat centers in this area get water from the wells and have signs of conserve water in all the bathrooms, some even suggest not to flush the toilet every time after use to save water.
Having said that our campsites are award winning, ranked top 5 in all campsites in CA on Hipcamp. We are very lucky to have abundant water from a natural spring and no need to put signs of conserve water in all bathrooms. And we provide unlimited free hot water shower which is a luxury in this area. Our trailers are dry camping experience. If one is expecting standard city facility, it's the total wrong expectation.
Los Gatos is also a very expensive city with medium house price $2.7M. One small campsite for 4 people without even a tent is $80/day on weekends and $40/day on week days. So a private trailer should cost around $100/day on weekends and $50/day on week days. This is nothing cheap by any means.
China
Jessica is very kind hearted and she has been very helpful.
12 months ago
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