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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 three or six months or longer.

Devoted to Altruistic Service of Nature, Humanity, and Community

We are looking for psychologically mature, humble, and generous souls with the capacity and desire to learn and grow, 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.

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.

To apply for this program, you must have a sincere yearning for Liberation, devoted to attaining the highest level of consciousness, be familiar with our core teachings, and participate in our online events and/or our Members Section.

For those interested in applying for permanent Ashram residency, the Sevadhari program acts as a requisite and portal to that process.

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 books.

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 3.5 – 4.5 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, at an extra cost. 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.

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 books.

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 3.5 – 4.5 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, at an extra cost. 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.

Karma Yoga is the Highest Practice

The highest and most important practice is karma yoga, meaning that we lead an active life of service to God, community, and world while in full realization that all is consciousness, nothing is outside consciousness, and thus no one is working and nothing is happening—only the manifestation of the free Self-expression of the Supreme Intelligence.

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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
5:00 – 8:00 am
Personal Time, Asanas, or Optional Outdoor Service
8:00 – 8:35 am
Breakfast
8:45 – 11:45 am
Class, Optional Service, or Atmanology Session
12:15 – 12:50 pm
Midday Meditation
1:00 – 1:45 pm
Lunch
2:30 – 5:30 pm
Personal Time
5:30 – 7:00 pm
Evening Class / Meditation
7:00 – 7:30 pm
Evening Meal
4:00 – 4:45 am   Morning Meditation
5:00 – 8:00 am   Personal Time, Asanas, or Optional Outdoor Service
8:00 – 8:35 am   Breakfast
8:45 – 11:45 am   Class, Optional Service, or Atmanology Session
12:15 – 12:50 pm   Midday Meditation
1:00 – 1:45 pm   Lunch
2:30 – 5:30 pm   Personal Time
5:30 – 7:00 pm   Evening Class / Meditation
7:00 – 7:30 pm Evening Meal

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. 

Farm-to-Table Team

Videographer / Editor

Web Developer

Cow Dairy

Healthcare

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

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 2024:

November 5, 2024

December 17, 2024

Sevadhari Program Start Dates 2025:

February 4, 2025

July 1, 2025

November 4, 2025

April 15, 2025

September 2, 2025

December 16, 2025

For more information, please email Amrita, our visitor coordinator, directly at [email protected].
If you are ready to take action now simply fill out the application below.

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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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.

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

Food Processing

Digital Media

Cow Dairy

Healthcare

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

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Farm-to-Table Team

Greenhouse and Food Preparation Assistants

We have an opening for an enthusiastic hard-working, physically fit, and community-minded volunteer to join our Farm-to-Table greenhouse and food preparation team. Team members must have at least one green thumb and be fit and comfortable in our – often humid – cloud forest environment. In the early morning, this role supports the greenhouse team with the daily tasks of bed and plant care: mostly planting, weeding and seed sorting. After breakfast, the focus shifts to supporting the ashram kitchen by transforming our harvest into ingredients we can easily use in the kitchen. This part of the day would involve preparing daily meals as well as processing large quantities of organic produce in our food processing station.

Requisites
  • Love for plant-based, locally grown healthy cuisine and organic farming
  • Conscientious attitude, with care for nature and the plants, ingredients, and tools we are working with
  • Physical fitness, with no health limitations and comfortable standing several hours a day with mild lifting
  • Some previous outdoor manual labor experience
  • Basic experience handling food, working in a kitchen, and following recipes
  • Content to work independently for several hours at a time, and as a team
  • Able to work at a safe, steady, and energetic pace
  • Devotion to egoless service, embodying the spirit of altruistic love and familiarity and resonance with Sat Yoga teachings

Desired Skills & Experience

  • Previous gardening experience
  • Knowledge of soil building and ecosystem growth
  • Seed saving experience
  • Experience with methods, materials, and practices of food preparation, including the safe use of a knife
  • Some knowledge of food preservation
  • Interest in food safety and sustainability
  • Experience with fermentation
  • Prior experience working in a professional kitchen
  • Previous experience working on a sustainable farm

Videographer & Video Editor

We are searching for an experienced professional videographer and/or video editor to work as an integral part of our Outflow team helping to create, film, and edit videos. We are in need of support with the filming and editing of our weekly satsangs, guided meditations, and classes; our bi-monthly multi-camera livestreamed Shunyamurti-led retreats; and more complex projects such as educational courses, interviews, and documentaries.​

Character Attributes

  • Ability to follow protocols
  • Ability to work carefully with delicate equipment
  • Ability to work independently and also to cooperate in a team
  • An attitude of service and friendliness
  • Willingness to change course at a moment’s notice when needed
  • Openness to receiving and integrating feedback
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • Creativity and an eye for detail

TECHNICAL SKILLS

  • Professional experience, preferably, or else a certificate in Videography or Cinematography
  • Knowledge of production modes (i.e., single-camera setup versus multi-camera setup)
  • Proficiency with lighting, audio, and camera equipment
  • Familiarity with an array of cameras, such as DSLR, digital camera, and digital camcorders (for filming, we currently use a Canon 4K XA50 and Canon HD XA11)
  • Knowledge of video shooting modes (automatic vs. manual, adjusting camera’s white balance, and other settings)
  • Proficiency with editing software (we currently use Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Audition)
  • Excellent computer literacy

RESPONSIBILITIES (Pre- to Post-Production)

  • Plan the shoot with the Outflow team
  • Ensure sound, lighting, and camera equipment for a shoot is in place and functioning
  • Consistency in filming from start to finish
  • Clean and disassemble hardware such as tripod, lighting, and gimbal
  • Edit footage in post-production

Additional Bonus Skills​: Photography; Drone Operation; Graphic Art/Design; Online Marketing

Web Developer

The Outflow team is looking for an experienced professional web developer to also work as a pillar of the team to update, maintain, and manage our websites. We are in need of someone ideally with extensive knowledge of Wordpress and related systems who can also help us strategize and optimize going forward.

Character Attributes

  • Ability to follow protocols
  • Ability to work carefully with delicate equipment
  • Ability to work independently and also to cooperate in a team
  • An attitude of service and friendliness
  • Willingness to change course at a moment’s notice when needed
  • Openness to receiving and integrating feedback
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • Creativity and an eye for detail

TECHNICAL SKILLS

  • Working knowledge of setting up and running a WordPress multisite using WooCommerce, Ultimate Membership Pro, and Learndash
  • Familiarity with server management (Digital Ocean), CDN’s & video hosting (Cloudflare), mailing & newsletter systems (SendGrid/Sendy)
  • Fluent in HTML, CSS, and PHP
  • Experience setting up and working with GitHub (or similar) repositories
  • Experience with re-writing and customizing WordPress plugins

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Routine Wordpress updates & management
  • Server access & management
  • Respond quickly to emergencies like gateway timeouts
  • Help with systems recommendations, strategize, and determine priorities
  • Insight into how to approach a re-design and optimizing our tablet/mobile responsive modes

Additional Bonus Skills​: Web Design; Online Marketing; IT Support

Cow Dairy

We are currently seeking applicants with experience in working with dairy cows. This position requires the daily undertaking of routines relating to a small dairy operation and a willingness to share your knowledge and teach other community members in this work.

The successful applicant for this role will have first hand experience with the following tasks:

  • Milking by hand.
  • Cleaning tasks to maintain a high standard of hygiene in the barn.
  • Tending to the health of animals and administering medications.
  • Delivering calves.
  • Operating a chipper for preparing feed.
  • Processing manure and managing the worm composting system.
  • Hygienic handling of dairy products.
  • Making cheese, yogurt and other products related to the processing of milk.
  • Organized work practices with an emphasis on clear communication with other team members.

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.

Food Preparation, Processing & Preservation Assistant

We have an opening for an enthusiastic and hard-working, community-minded volunteer to join our food processing team which supports the ashram kitchen by transforming our harvest – sourced from our land and local farms – into ingredients we can easily use in the kitchen. Your role would include washing, processing, and dehydrating large quantities of organic produce for culinary or medicinal use and working daily alongside our kitchen team.

Requisites
  • Love for plant-based, locally grown healthy cuisine
  • Basic experience handling food and working in a kitchen or cooking
  • Ability to prepare foods according to recipes and to follow instructions
  • Comfortable to be on your feet for several hours a day with mild lifting
  • Content to work independently for several hours at a time, and as a team
  • Able to work at a safe, steady, and energetic pace
  • Devotion to egoless service, embodying the spirit of altruistic love and familiarity and resonance with Sat Yoga teachings

Desired Skills & Experience

  • Some experience with methods, materials, and practices of food preparation, including safe use of a knife
  • Some knowledge of food preservation
  • Interest in food safety and sustainability
  • Experience with fermentation
  • Knowledge of medicinal plants
  • Prior experience of working in a professional kitchen
  • Previous experience of working on a sustainable farm

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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.

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.