The Sangha
Community Life & Wellness at Awakening Mountain
Are you looking to live lightly on the Earth? Do you feel ready to weave your meditation and wellness practices into your daily life? Do you want to co-create a resilient homestead and community filled with peace and consciousness?
Living on the land is best done with community and we are looking for like-minded folks that want to join the Sangha, a community of mindful practitioners who gather to meditate, share their joys and difficulties and to encourage each other on the path of mindfulness practice. To sit and share together is a powerful way to cultivate compassion and deepen our connection with each other and the Earth. Together, we will uncover the underlying links between ecology and dharma. We will talk about climate crisis, evaluate our personal carbon emissions and create our own compassionate climate action plan. Many of us feel that our individual efforts are tiny and futile in the face of the overwhelming problems of the climate crisis. Our individual efforts do matter, and our group efforts matter even more, If the idea of meditating together, working the land together and co-creating a conscious, mindful, resilient homestead in community resonates for you, get in touch.
Whether you have experience homesteading or not is less important than what calls you to this path and what you have to bring with you. In community, the whole is always greater than the sum of its parts, and your accountability, skill set, work ethic, emotional intelligence, maturity and desire to co-create will outweigh any experience you might be lacking in gardening or homesteading.
There is finite space for us to welcome individuals, couples or small families or units and we welcome hearing from you.
If you answer “No” to any of the following questions, this may not be your path:
Am I compassionate and patient with introverted people?
Am I willing to use a composting toilet or outhouse year round?
Am I ready to change my habits to consume less, produce less trash and commit to an organic and non-toxic way of eating, cleaning, bathing, gardening and working?
Am I interested to deepen my meditation practice and commit to a regular practice of wellness?
Do I enjoy being out in nature in all seasons - rain, bugs, snow, heat - and am I excited to hike, ski, garden, swim, explore and spend time outdoors?
Do I enjoy communal meals with people and will it be joyful for me to break bread together, help organize community meals and meal prep?
Have I the emotional maturity to be accountable to other people who depend on me? Can I do what I say I will do when I say I will do it?
Am I proactive and willing to take action without somebody directing me to do it? While simultaneously staying open to feedback and input?
There are other aspects to life here on the land that may not be fully reflected in this short survey. Living the “good life” is stunningly beautiful and also rugged and hard. It’s a lifestyle and it’s all-encompassing and we are really holding out hope to find those folks that hold this vision and want to bring it into reality.