Jun 14, 2018
How to create an open sustainable living community, rooted in compassion and regeneration of the land.
"To come to a place where
people are willingly here to serve you, to give you a safe and
transformative experience, that by itself is healing." ~ Aviram
Rozin
In
this episode entitled Growing Forests and Community Off the
Grid, Amisha sits down with Aviram Rozin, founder of
Sadhana Forest - a reforestation project and sustainable living
community, which was established in 2003 on 70 acres of degraded
land just outside Auroville.
The
project is designed around the primary principle of compassion -
from the vegan organic food to the hand chiseled granite building
stone, everything is carefully and consciously chosen under the
criteria of compassion for all life and for the planet. Unschooling
and Gift Economy are some of the compassionate ideologies that
underpin the social aspects of the project, and the community
nurtures a culture of non violent communication and service. What
began as a way for a family of three to live in alignment with
their chosen principles, has blossomed quickly into a vibrant
transformational community with two further projects being
established in Haiti and Kenya.
Aviram shares stories of daily life at Sadhana
Forest and how the project brings people into greater contact with
what nourishes and supports them, both within and without -
carrying buckets of water for their daily use, charging their
phones and laptops with the midday sun and discovering lifelong
talents and passions. He goes on to explain some of the rituals and
practises that create the foundations for a thriving sustainable
living community and underpin the transformational effect reported
by visitors and volunteers at Sadhana Forest. Finally, he shares a
little about his newest project, the University of Compassion,
which launched in February of this year and aims to bring
compassion to the forefront of human thinking.
"I treat love as a resource that is never
depleted. So sharing my love with people, animals, plants, water,
this is the recharge- it is like a two way stream all the time. I
don't feel like there is energy flowing out of me that will finish
- it is all the time flowing in and flowing out." ~ Aviram
Rozin
Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2018/06/14/e17-aviram-rozin-on-reforestation-compassion-and-volunteering-growing-forests-and-community-off-the-grid/
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