My.name.is.Aviv: Volunteering in yoga retreats all over the world

15 dic 2019

Volunteering in yoga retreats all over the world

Yoga retreats paired with volunteering - it’s the ultimate travel experience to feed your soul! As our lives become increasingly busy with technology and social media feeds, we’re finding it harder to disconnect from these artificial platforms. Yoga has become the go-to practice to realign with our physical, mental and spiritual origins, and this has been amplified by more and more people traveling to yoga retreats to reconnect with nature and those around them. Some popular reasons to travel to a yoga retreat abroad include specific teachings, cultural understanding, setting tranquility, and family-friendly holiday flexibility.

Whatever the motivation for taking part in a yoga holiday, adding volunteer work to your itinerary elevates your personal growth and travel experience. Volunteering adds a fulfilling and deepened cultural exchange that puts you right at the heart of the community you’re working in. To combine a yoga retreat and volunteer work into one seamless trip abroad, I recommend figuring out your budget and what you want from the experience. It doesn’t mean that you need to know how to teach yoga. You can help in many ways from cooking breakfast, hiking with the guests, and maintenance work, etc.… Usually, you can also practice yoga with the guests and stay for a long time in the atmosphere of a yoga retreat or other community options.

Options for volunteering you can find on websites like Yogatrade, workaway, you can also write directly to the retreats and ask if you can help during the period you will be in that area.