Living in a forest can be pleasant, if you live with 54 people in a community in South India...
You don't even care about mosquito biting you all the time, or bed bugs creeping on your sheets...
You only care about watering the garden and mulch the trees in the forest, and prepare lunch and doing the laundry... Sadhana Forest is like this, she wants you whole and all. But in exchange of your commitment she rewards you with a bunch of great feeling to be good, and pure, and connected with the nature. And this is not so easy when you have the habit of living in a apartment in a Western city...
Sadhana Forest is a volunteers based community, part of Auroville, the Universal City in the making (see my last post; http://couchsurfingexperience.blogspot.com/2010/07/auroville-city-of-dawn.html).
The project was started in 2003 by a family of three people, that decided to settle here to escape to the vicious circle of selling and consuming, and to establish a community based on no profit work, or re-foresting a deserted area. They wanted the community to be vegan, and to be committed to sustainable living. Just after their starting, the volunteers began to arrive, and in the past this community has hosted a variable number of volunteers between 13 and 109, coming from all over the world. They want the volunteer to share their lifestyle, and to learn as much as possible about sustainable living, organic farming, permacultur, ecology and vegan cooking.
Here we live a communal life, wake up together and have a morning circle when we decide which job to do during the day, we work from 7 to 9, have breakfast together, then work again from 10 to 11,30. Then we are free to do whatever we want, but still there are many communal activities and seminars like permaculture, capoeira, african dance, yoga, meditation.
We dispose of water with permaculture methods like in this shower that uses bananas to suck the water of the shower.
Like always here are some drawbacks: here you have no privacy at all, and you have to share your space with many people. Anyway, living here is very quiet and makes you feel happy and tuned to the nature, so many time thank you Sadhana Forest, “may there be more forests to grow people!”
We dispose of water with permaculture methods like in this shower that uses bananas to suck the water of the shower.
Like always here are some drawbacks: here you have no privacy at all, and you have to share your space with many people. Anyway, living here is very quiet and makes you feel happy and tuned to the nature, so many time thank you Sadhana Forest, “may there be more forests to grow people!”
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