Volunteers Community Week
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Registration is open until Monday 16 November, 12:30pm.
We're planning a week of connection, practice and offering at the Hermitage from Friday 20th - Thursday 26th November. You are warmly invited to join! Come for the full time, as a day visitor or anything inbetween. To ease things, we ask that everyone arrives between 9:00am - 5:00pm on the 20th if you're staying on site and between 9:00 & 10:00 if you're coming as a day visitor. We suggest those coming as day visitors have been to The Hermitage at least once before, if you'd like to arrange a visit contact [email protected]ku.gro.sha@egatimreh .
Gathering details
An opportunity to come together in open-hearted service of the Hermitage. The focus will be on joining as community, enjoying daily life at The Hermitage and offering our service each day to maintain the sacred space. Days will consist of outdoor and indoor work all geared around caring for our spiritual home. There will be plenty of ways in which you can get involved, connecting to the sacred space through the tending of the land and buildings. If you're new to the Hermitage this could be a wonderful way to engage with the place and meet more of our local sangha members, if you're an old friend we'd love to see you again!
Our Hermitage Manager, Tamsin, is hoping to work on specific projects during the time. Depending on the weather there will be a variety of indoor and outdoor projects to help with.
As we're all joining together as community, an integral part of this will be caring for each other, food central to this. Breakfasts will be self catered, lunch will be cooked by volunteers and we'll make sure a pot of soup is available in the evenings.
For this retreat your service is your offering, if you'd also like to offer a financial donation to The Hermitage you can do so here, your generosity is greatly appreciated.
Daily schedule
7:00 - 8:00am - Morning Puja
9:00 -10:00am - Shakyamuni Sadhana
10.30 - 1:00pm - Offering Service (tea breaks included)*
1:00 - 2:00pm - Lunch time
2:30 - 5:00pm - Offering Service (tea breaks included)*
6:00pm - Supper
7:00 - 8:00pm - Evening Puja (5:00pm on Sunday)
*times are approximate, the suggestion is 3 -4 hours a day