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clare40
Review for Isha Foundation Inc, Mcminnville, TN, USA
Isha Foundation is a rare and unique organisation in that it offers volunteering as part of spiritual growth along side meditation and yoga training, so it offers practical ways of integrating 'service' into ones life. I am working to help plant 114 million trees in Tamil Nadu as part of a culture change project designed to reverse desertification, reduce poverty and end malnutrition. The project assists the most deprived villages in rekindling the energy to change their circumstances, empowering themselves to become self sufficient again whilst transforming their environments and rebuilding their relationship with the natural world. I put down my career to volunteer with this organisation as it is the only one I have found that deals with environmental sustainability, social justice and spiritual fulfillment as one complete holistic whole. I have benefited in every way from the experience, and would reccoment to anyone wishing to explore themselves through service to others and deep internal exploration, to engage with Isha.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
every area of my life.
If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
increase the number of paid employees so that there is more stability supporting the volunteer base.
What I've enjoyed the most about my experience with this nonprofit is...
the meditation I have learnt, the practices that anchor me in a new experience of myself, and the role I have taken with Project GreenHands that helps me to learn environmentally.
The kinds of staff and volunteers that I met were...
devoted, responsible, generous, kind and sincere people, offering themselves up to something greater than their own needs or status.
If this organization had 10 million bucks, it could...
If bucks are dollars then over 10 million trees could be planted to mitigate climate change, reduce poverty, malnutrition and desertification in southern India, schools could be built and hundreds of thousands of people could be treated for illnesses.
Ways to make it better...
I had been able to spend more time in India at the Ashram doing Yoga Marga to really work on my health.
In my opinion, the biggest challenges facing this organization are...
peoples closed mindedness about spiritual teachers, judgements and opinions that are not based in personal experience and fear of anything outside of the norm.
One thing I'd also say is that...
There is no substitute in life for a living spiritual teacher who has gone all the way, and who offers multiple paths of self exploration through which to begin to experience the truth of who you really are.
How frequently have you been involved with the organization?
About every week
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2010
