The Showers & Sauna Crew run the wood-fired sauna, showers and the relaxing and nourishing chill-out areas in the Showers and Sauna area at Green Earth Awakening Camp.
Typically, this involves:
- Meet and greet at reception
- Cleaning and maintaining the showers and saunas
- Chopping wood
- Tending the fires
- Keeping the area clean and tidy
- And doing everything we can to ensure visitors to the spa enjoy a relaxed, nourishing and revitalising visit.
You are asked to do one six-hour shift per day between 7am and 1am plus attend a mid-morning meeting of about one hour in length, where we will talk about the work, life in and around the spa, the universe and anything else that comes to mind as well as receiving some Dharma (Buddhist philosophy) input from, an order member with many years of experience in the Triratna Buddhist Community.
The role would suit someone outgoing, hard working, with a positive mental attitude. Someone who is used to camping and everything that might involve in the English 'summer', and has some interest in, or is open to learning about, Buddhism, meditation, nature connection (especially fire) and communal living.
In return, we offer:
- Free entry to the Green Earth Awakening Camp
- 3 delicious vegan meals a day, cooked and served with love
- Hot drinks & snacks
- A camping/live-in pitch
- Workshops, discussions, talks, music, meditation, yoga and dance and the opportunity to be part of a right livelihood community, creating something meaningful and beautiful.
Key Dates
- Arrive on site: Monday 8th September
- Event: Wednesday, 10th - Sunday, 14th September
- Leave Site: Monday, 15th September
There is an option to leave site on Sunday 14th after your shift, but ideally crew would stay on site until the morning of Monday 15th when we'll have a check-out and ritually close the space.
If you volunteer, you need to be able to commit to staying the whole week.
There is an option to volunteer for both the setup and the event itself and allow yourself to immerse in the Buddhist community and land-based Buddhist practice for three weeks and be part of creating the camp back to an empty field, leaving nothing behind but footprints. If you want to do this, you'll need to fill out an application for both the event (this form) and the set-up form here - please indicate on your application that you have done so.