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Become a Sevadhari

Devoted to Altruistic Service of Nature, Humanity, and Community

The Sevadhari program is a residential curriculum in which serious seekers of Self-realization are invited to dive fully into our ashram energy field, classes, and community work projects for a period of six months or longer. 

A Precious Opportunity for Personal Transformation, and Self-realization

We are looking for psychologically mature, humble, and generous souls devoted to attaining the highest level of consciousness and willing to serve cheerfully in any capacity that is needed. Sevadharis become fully integrated into the Sat Yoga tribe, enjoying the esprit de corps, cultivating uplifting friendships, participating in meditation gatherings and theory classes, seminars and retreats, and all the many aspects of our unique community life. Most will be assigned to help in our kitchen, food processing department, organic food gardens, and housekeeping.

To apply for this program, you must have a sincere yearning for Liberation, be familiar with our core teachings, and participate in our online events and/or our Members Section.

Being a Sevadhari requires silence, solitude, serious study, deep meditation, inner work, one-to-one transformational sessions, and the moral strength necessary to uphold the Ashram Guidelines and the Yogic Vows. We are looking for individuated beings with the capacity and desire to learn, to grow, to follow instructions happily, yet to think independently and critically, always seeking to improve, and to work with care, attention to detail, and joyful participation.

What Will Qualify You to be a Sevadhari?

General requirements for prospective applicants:

Study: A strong appreciation for the teachings and philosophy of Sat Yoga and an ability to internalize the information and actualize it in your life. We trust that you are already regularly engaging with the teachings, participating in online retreats, and have joined our Members Section. If your application is approved, we ask that you read Shunyamurti’s book, “The Transformational Imperative” before arriving. Please also listen to as many online teachings as possible.

Meditation: A sincere interest in meditation and a genuine yearning to transcend the ego.

Service: A readiness to work zealously in whatever department you are needed, for 3 – 4 hours a day, with care and dedication to excellence.

Inner Work: A deep yearning for self-understanding and transformation that is accelerated by participating in one-to-one Atmanology sessions. Sessions may include free association, healing dialogue, symptom analysis, dreamwork, guided meditations, and other approaches to working through unresolved emotional issues. Individual Darshan meetings with Shunyamurti may also be scheduled from time to time.

Dharma: A commitment to uphold our Ashram Guidelines.

Finances: Access to sufficient financial resources to cover the cost of the program and to purchase your personal needs (including insurance, coverage of medical emergencies, transportation, immigration and visa costs, etc.) for the duration of your stay.

Diet: An ability to adapt to our current vegetarian/vegan diet, and to changes in the diet that may occur as we prepare to be ready to go off-grid, either during temporary emergency periods or eventually permanently, if world conditions make that necessary.

An ability to adapt to living in our remote location: we are a 45-minute drive from clinics, shops, and other services. We generally only encourage visits to town for urgent matters and emergencies.

Become a Greenhouse Sevadhari

Take a glimpse inside our ashram greenhouses where yogis are participating in the daily tasks of bed and plant care, watering, weeding, seeding, transplanting, planting, and harvesting.

We’re looking for highly skilled applicants!

The majority of our service opportunities are in our gardens, greenhouses, and kitchen helping to maintain the daily cycle of abundance from farm to table. Most of our sevadharis will be doing hands-on physical work that may require, in some instances, endurance and strong physical fitness. We also offer a very few select opportunities for highly skilled applicants in the areas of media/outreach and healthcare. 

Greenhouse

Healthcare

Digital Media

If you have professional experience and/or degrees in these fields, we encourage you to apply today!

Sample Daily Schedule

A typical workday for a Sevadhari is between 3.5 – 4.5 hours, 6 days per week, from the second month onwards. There is a lighter schedule in the first month. Start and finish times are specific to each department.
4:00 – 4:45 am
Morning Meditation
6:30 – 8:00 am
Personal Time / Seva
8:00 – 8:35 am
Breakfast
8:45 – 11:45 am
Seva
12:15 – 12:50 pm
Midday Meditation
1:00 – 1:45 pm
Lunch
1:45 – 2:30 pm
Clean up and chores
2:30 – 5:30 pm
Personal Time
5:30 – 7:00 pm
Evening Class / Meditation
7:00 – 7:30 pm
Evening Meal

How Will the Application Process Flow?

After our admissions committee reviews your application, if it is determined that you qualify, that there is a strong resonance, and that you would likely be happy here in this environment, we will set up a phone interview as soon as possible to get to know you better, and to discuss the program and ashram life in depth. We will try to answer all your questions and make sure you know the kind of lifestyle you are committing to, and that you understand about our rainy climate, our diet, our Dharma, our schedule (especially the early morning meditation), and our remote location. If you still want to come, the admissions committee will consider your application and make a decision as rapidly as we can. Because of potential travel difficulties, including vaccine passports, we do consider that time is of the essence. We hope you are not in denial of the gravity of the world situation.

What Happens If I Am Accepted?

If you are accepted, we will work out a date of arrival and help you with travel arrangements from the airport to the ashram.We consider the first month here to be a trial period in which you will decide if you enjoy being here and we will decide if you are a good fit as well. During this month, you will get to know the community, and especially those who will supervise your seva, and we will learn about your skills, attitude, and energy. At the end of the first month, we will sit together and assess how things are going and make any necessary adjustments.

Contribution

$2100 for the first month: This is a four-week introductory program that includes a 3 or 5-day retreat led by Shunyamurti plus a program of wisdom classes in the fundamental teachings of Sat Yoga to get you oriented to our way of life and approach to transformation. You will be immersed into our sangha’s daily activities including meals and seva in our clean-ups as well as other daily tasks as we get to know you. You will be staying in a private room with a shared or private bath in one of our charming cabins.

$1400 each additional month: Includes all Shunyamurti retreats and seminars, community classes and meditations, meals and accommodations in our cabins, plus a full seva schedule.

Sevadhari Program Start Dates: September 14, 2021; October 5, 2021; November 16, 2021; December 13, 2021

Sevadhari Program Start Dates: 

May 30, 2023

September 5, 2023

December 12, 2023

July 11, 2023

November 7, 2023

December 12, 2023

Before proceeding to fill in the application form please make sure that you have read the Ashram Guidelines and the Yogic Vows and are fully in resonance with them.

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Greenhouse & Organic Food
Growing Assistant

We have an opportunity for enthusiastic, botanically inclined and physically fit individuals to join our agricultural team. Food growing assistants must have at least one green thumb and be fit and comfortable in our – often humid – cloud forest environment. Your role would be to support the greenhouse team with the daily tasks of bed and plant care: mostly watering, weeding, and mulching. Other tasks include seeding, transplanting, planting, and harvesting.
Requisites
  • Appreciation and love for organic farming
  • Physical fitness, with no health limitations
  • Some previous outdoor manual labor experience
  • Conscientious attitude, with care for nature and the plants we are working with
  • Devotion to egoless service, embodying the spirit of altruistic love and familiarity and resonance with Sat Yoga teachings
Desired Skills & Abilities
  • Previous gardening experience
  • Familiarity with organic pest control
  • Knowledge of soil building and ecosystem growth
  • Seed saving experience

Healthcare Provider Role

We are actively seeking to attract doctors, nurses, paramedics, dentists, naturopaths, physical therapists, chiropractors, and those skilled in other healthcare professions, to join us either as sevadharis or as full members of our community.

Because our small and humble community is working hard to become reliably self-sustaining in all aspects of life, and because we are preparing for all possible scenarios that may arise in the near future, such a healthcare professional would have to:

Requisites
  • Be willing to adapt to practice in off-grid conditions, should they occur;
  • To work and live in a relatively undeveloped, and remote, rural area;
  • To offer emergency and infirmary services to members of our community and staff as well as offer, when needed, pro bono help to neighbors in our area;
  • To develop, or at least work congruently with, an integrative approach that includes an understanding and treatment of the underlying social, psychosomatic, karmic, bio-energetic, and spiritual dimensions of symptoms as well as the physiological and chemical determinants of illness and injury;
  • To learn to work with herbs and other elements of Nature, should a system collapse cut off supplies of pharmaceuticals and other taken-for-granted tools and materials;
  • To want to be part of a transformational community engaged in ongoing learning, growth, and relational deepening, as well as committed to the regular practice of meditation for Self-realization;
  • In sum, you must want to live in harmony with Nature, in truth, simplicity, authenticity, creativity, unconditional love, goodness, and joy.

Digital Media

The wisdom teachings that we share across many platforms requires the work of vibrant, imaginative, and organized people who can work in a team and independently.

Requisites
  • Ability to follow protocols and work carefully with delicate equipment.
  • Ability to work efficiently and independently for many hours at a time.
  • Understanding, resonance and appreciation of the teachings and the importance of our mission of sharing them with the world.
  • Cultivate an attitude of service, friendliness, cooperation and a willingness to change gears at a moment’s notice as needed.
  • Open to receive and integrate feedback
  • Ability to work and cooperate in a team.

Video Editor Role

We are looking for a professional video editor with at least 4 years of experience in the industry.

Web Developer Role

  • Working knowledge of setting up and running a WordPress website
  • Fluent in PHP, HTML and CSS
  • Experience with setting up and working with GitHub repositories
  • Experience with re-writing and customizing WordPress plugins

Additional Bonus Skills: Graphic Design; IT Support

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Brahmachari:

One whose consciousness has merged with Brahman, the Absolute, and thus has been liberated from all desire, fear, attachment, and material frames of reference. Thus, a Brahmachari naturally lives a life of celibacy, simplicity, and inner solitude.

Satsang:

Meditative meetings in which the highest teachings are shared. Shunyamurti also offers guidance during questions and answers to resolve the most difficult and delicate matters of the heart.

Teleological:

Information, energy, or nonlinear change that occurs as the effect of events that take place in the future and alter the past, which is perceived in the present as non-ordinary phenomena, synchronicities, unpredictable emergent properties or other notable explicate arisings. The source of such forces may also lie beyond chronological time, in higher dimensions of the Real.

The process of non-process:

Since awakening is instantaneous, along with the recognition that one was never really in the dream, but enjoying the creation of the dream, it must be understood that making awakening into a process can only be part of the dream, and has nothing to do with Awakening itself.

The Real:

When we speak of the Real, unless otherwise qualified, we mean the Supreme Real. The Supreme Real does not appear. Appearance is not Real. All that appears is empty of true existence. There are no real things. All that is phenomenal is temporary, dependent, and reducible to a wave function of consciousness. The world does not exist independent of consciousness. There is no matter or material world. All is made of consciousness. Pure consciousness is Presence. It is no-thing, non-objective, not in space or time. All that appears in Presence, or to Presence, is an emanation of Presence, but is not different from That. This is one meaning of nonduality.

The Real is also a term used in Lacanian psychoanalysis. What Lacan means by the Real is that aspect of phenomenal appearance which is overwhelming, traumatic, or impossible. We would call that Real One. It is a relative Real, not Absolute. We add that there is a Real Two, which consists of divine love. Love is not an appearance, but it changes appearance, through recognition of its Source, into a divine manifestation, a projection of God’s sublimely beautiful Mind as infinite fractal holographic cosmos. Real Three is the unchanging Absolute, beyond all conception or image.

Dharma and dharma:

When we use the term Dharma (capitalized), we refer to our dedication to living in accord with the timeless principles of impeccable integrity that keep us in harmony with Nature and our Supernatural Source.

When we use the term without capitalization, we refer to our acceptance of the community’s processes, protocols, and chain of command with the “Haji! Spirit” of going the “extra mile” and working overtime when necessary to make the impossible inevitable, as our unconditional act of surrender to Love.