When we arrived in Buenos Aires we had to take a bus to the Plaza de Misere, another bus for one hour outside of the city and a taxi to get there. Also find more information on their web page:
There are more Eco Yoga places around the world even one in Berlin. We paid US$ 20.00 per person per day, the longer you stay the cheaper it gets. The price included accommodation, Breakfast, Lunch, Snack and Dinner. At 11:00 you could join for meditation and in the afternoon at 16:30 they offered Yoga. Also After dinner you could join for a movie at the movie house. We mostly watched social critical movies.
The volunteering was mostly weeding and garden work, but also helping in the kitchen, painting signs, any kind of handy work and once a week you can learn how to make mosaic. Robert together with a team of French, build a bench.
Every morning you would start working at 6:00 am until 8:00 am, then there is a breakfast break and continue working until 10:45 am. The rest of time is your free time where you can join activities or have your own plans.
The community at the Eco Yoga were followers of the Hare Krishna religion. They were not on top of you to convert everybody to their believes, but once a week the spiritual leader invites everybody to join him to ask questions about the religion. The get together is not mandatory, but we went as we are open to any believe and it was a way to learn something new.
On the last morning it was possible for us to join a ceremony at 5:00 am in the temple with some of the followers. It was mostly chanting and saying thank you to the five elements. The music was catchy and the lyrics like hieroglyphs to us. (hare hare...) They also had a holy plant that was blessed.
Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna.
Krishna, Krishna.
Hare Hare.
Hare Rama, Hare Rama.
Rama, Rama.
Hare, Hare.
When you become a Hare Krishna you automatically become a vegetarian, as they believe in not hurting animals. As the modern society also not allows animals to live a worthy live they also don't eat eggs or milk products. That meant for us that all the meals they cooked for us were vegan. We really enjoyed the food a lot and there was always enough for a second or third helping. A farmer close by sold great milk products like: natural yoghurt, chocolate milk and cheese. Guests were allowed to purchase the products and add it to their food. We decided to live vegan for the 4 days. The food was always very fresh, as most came from the own organic garden and very colorful at the same time.
After four days we had a different body feeling and I hope we can do something similar in Asia for longer.
We also met great people and it was fun just to hang out and talk. Heather really stayed in my memories, she is extremely talented and I wished I would have had more time with her, as I believe I could have learnt a lot from her. Her Yoga skills were amazing. She also has a web page:
www.dressednaked.net
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