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Mystical Yoga Farm is seeking a Garden an Facility Supervisor for their yoga retreat center and permaculture farm on Lake Atitlan in the highlands of Guatemala. The Garden Supervisor will be responsible for assisting the director of the in leading the small [...]]]> Opening: Now Hiring

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Mystical Yoga Farm is seeking a Garden an Facility Supervisor for their yoga retreat center and permaculture farm on Lake Atitlan in the highlands of Guatemala. The Garden Supervisor will be responsible for assisting the director of the in leading the small spiritual community in accordance with the intentions of the farm.

The perfect candidate will have experience in permaculture and organic, bio-dynamic farming. Experience in a yoga center, farm, or similar facility is necessary. The Garden supevisor must be capable of and have a willingness to step into any required role necessary to the functioning of the farm. Experience teaching yoga, meditation, cooking, and experience with guest services are also necessary.

Candidates for this position should be self motivated, organized, with good communication skills, and a strong interest in the healing arts. Moderate Spanish skills and basic computer skills are necessary.

The garden supervisor will have a positive attitude, a calm approach to challenging situations and leadership skills to guide the community in accordance with the intentions of the farm.

Expectations

• Maintain gardens: planting, harvesting, compost ad designing beds
• Teach courses in permaculture, bio-dynamics and organic gardening to the locals and to groups of farm visitors
• Oversee apprentices daily work schedule
• Give garden and farm tours.
• Couples welcome to apply

Required

• Work commitment of 3-6 months
• Must commit to living a yogic lifestyle while living at the farm
• Strong interest in community living with a community of 4 to 10 or more people
• Must agree to promote the vision and mission of the farm
• Previous experience in supervisory roles
• Strong involvement in your local or international yoga community
• Work day: 6-8 hours, One day off a week, One Rest day a week.

Desired Interests

• Yoga and Spiritual Leadership
• Cooking
• Organic, or bio-dynamic farming and permaculture
• Spanish language skills
• Carpentry/handyman skills
• First Aid

Benefits

• Free accommodations & food
• $150 monthly stipend
• 10% discount on any SYI Yoga Teacher training for each month you are at the farm. (3 months = 30% discount)

Mystical Yoga Farm is seeking a Kitchen and facility Supervisor for their yoga retreat center and permaculture farm on Lake Atitlan in the highlands of Guatemala. The kitchen supervisor will be responsible for assisting the director of the in leading the [...]]]>

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Mystical Yoga Farm is seeking a Kitchen and facility Supervisor for their yoga retreat center and permaculture farm on Lake Atitlan in the highlands of Guatemala. The kitchen supervisor will be responsible for assisting the director of the in leading the small spiritual community in accordance with the intentions of the farm.

The perfect candidate will have experience managing or operating a vegetarian kitchen for large groups of people.  Experience in a yoga center, farm, or similar facility is valuable. The kitchen supervisor must be willing and capable to step into any required role necessary to the functioning of the farm. Experience teaching yoga,meditation, and experience with guest services are also necessary.

Candidates for this position should be self motivated, organized, with good communication skills, and a strong interest in the healing arts. Moderate Spanish skills and basic computer skills are necessary.

The kitchen supervisor will have a positive attitude, a calm approach to challenging situations and leadership skills to guide the community in accordance with the intentions of the farm.

Expectations

• Coordinate to provide all meals to meet the varying needs of the community including residents and apprentices, and guest for workshops, retreats and trainings. Groups up to 30 people.
• Responsible for meal planning
• Responsible for buying and preparing the food
• Ensuring the cleanliness of the kitchen and dining area
• Maintains menu/recipe database (Provides written menu and recipes for meals)
• Work with guests to provide for special dietary needs
• Able to accommodate meal preparation to various size groups
• Experience in vegan, vegetarian cooking
• Farm harvesting
• Couples welcome to apply

Required

• Work commitment of 3-6 months
• Must commit to living a yogic lifestyle while living at the farm
• Strong interest in community living with a community of 4 to 10 people
• Must agree to promote the vision and mission of the farm
• Previous experience in supervisory roles
• Strong involvement in your local or international yoga community
• Work day: 6-8 hours, One day off a week, One Rest day a week.

Desired Interests

• Yoga and Spiritual Leadership
• Cooking
• Organic, or bio-dynamic farming and permaculture
• Spanish language skills
• Carpentry/handyman skills
• First Aid

Benefits

• Free accommodations & food
• $150 monthly stipend
• 10% discount on any SYI Yoga Teacher training for each month you are at the farm. (3 months = 30% discount)

Mystical Yoga Farm is seeking a Supervisor to oversee facility maintenance of their yoga retreat center and permaculture farm on Lake Atitlan in the highlands of Guatemala. The Facility Supervisor of the Mystical yoga farm will be responsible for assisting the [...]]]>

Opening: Now Hiring
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Mystical Yoga Farm is seeking a Supervisor to oversee facility maintenance of their yoga retreat center and permaculture farm on Lake Atitlan in the highlands of Guatemala. The Facility Supervisor of the Mystical yoga farm will be responsible for assisting the director in leading the small spiritual community in accordance with the intentions of the farm.

The perfect candidate will have experience managing a yoga center, farm, or similar facility and be capable of and have a willingness to step into any required role necessary to the functioning of the farm. Experience with marketing and finance, payroll, project coordination and guest services are also necessary.

Candidates for this position should be self motivated, organized, with good communication skills, and a strong interest in the healing arts. Moderate Spanish skills and basic computer skills are necessary.

The Facility Supervisor will have a positive attitude, a calm approach to challenging situations and leadership skills to guide the community in accordance with the intentions of the farm.

Expectations

• Oversee and participate in the various ongoing building projects on the farm with apprentices and farm staff
• Responsible for managing farm budget, finances, payroll and reporting to the SchoolYoga Institute Director
• Oversee and maintain facility functioning including grey water system, water filters, solar power system
• Regular upkeep of cleaning, and repairs of infrastructure
• Participate in the daily community activities of yoga, meditation and satsang
• Couples welcome to apply

Required

• Work commitment of 3-6 months
• Must commit to living a yogic lifestyle while living at the farm
• Strong interest in community living with a community of 4 to 10 people
• Must agree to promote the vision and mission of the farm
• Experience with a diversity of building construction methods required. Creativity and ingenuity a must.
• Experience with off-the-grid building techniques and solar power
• Experience with water and plumbing systems
• Previous experience in supervisory roles
• Work day: 6-8 hours, One day off a week, One Rest day a week.

Desired Interests

• Yoga and Spiritual Leadership
• Cooking
• Organic, or bio-dynamic farming and permaculture
• Spanish language skills
• Carpentry/handyman skills
• First Aid

Benefits

• Free accommodations & food
• $150 monthly stipend
• 10% discount on any SYI Yoga Teacher training for each month you are at the farm. (3 months = 30% discount)

Feb. TTC 2012

The Sun dawns over the Mystical Yoga Farm, rising up from behind the Atitilan and Toliman volcano’s, the rays of light glimmering across the morning sky, as the lake’s morning mist floats up to meet them. It is the first day of the cycle of the Eagle, the Condor. [...]]]>

Feb. TTC 2012

The Sun dawns over the Mystical Yoga Farm, rising up from behind the Atitilan and Toliman volcano’s, the rays of light glimmering across the morning sky, as the lake’s morning mist floats up to meet them. It is the first day of the cycle of the Eagle, the Condor. The one who teaches us to soar high above, spreading our wings to fly, while having a keen sense of the seen and the unseen.

It has been a magical experience assisting the Feb. TTC with Randi and Jed. Such a blissful blessing, to unify as one and share the joy and the beauty with our amazing trainees as they embark on such  trans-formative experience of Self; a process that occurs for all the souls that find their way to this place of the mystical abyss, where everything is nothing and nothing is everything, where all you need is all you have, and all you have is all you need.

Today marks the beginning of the last end, who opens each person here to the beginning of their own epic journey, into that unknown place, where all things can be dreamt into reality.

OM TAT SAT-Anjili

Mystical Yoga Farm is seeking a Director for their yoga retreat center and permaculture farm on Lake Atitlan in the highlands of Guatemala. The Director of the Mystical yoga farm will be responsible for leading the small spiritual community [...]]]> Farm Director

Opening: February 2013
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Mystical Yoga Farm is seeking a Director for their yoga retreat center and permaculture farm on Lake Atitlan in the highlands of Guatemala. The Director of the Mystical yoga farm will be responsible for leading the small spiritual community in accordance with the intentions of the farm.

The perfect candidate will have experience managing a yoga center, farm, or similar facility and be capable of and have a willingness to step into any required role necessary to the functioning of the farm. Experience in teaching yoga and meditation, marketing and financing, farming, gardening, cooking and experience with guest services are all necessary aspects of the functioning of the farm. The farm director will have a willingness to participate in any of these roles as required.

Candidates for this position should be self motivated, organized, with good communication skills, and a strong interest in the healing arts. Moderate Spanish skills and basic computer skills are necessary.

The farm director will have a positive attitude, a calm approach to challenging situations and leadership skills to guide the community in accordance with the intentions of the farm.

Expectations

• Will communicate with and report weekly to the SchoolYoga Institute Director
• Supervise all other staff members
• Supervise all residents and apprentices at the farm
• Create and Implement the farm’s daily schedule
• Be able to lead and participate in the daily meditation, yoga and satsang
• Manage/oversee the workshops, trainings and retreats
• Oversee all farm visits from first point of contact
• Organizes the advertising and promotion of the farm and farm events
• Couples welcome to apply

Required

• Work commitment of 6 months-1 year
• Must commit to living a yogic lifestyle while living at the farm
• Strong interest in community living with a community of 4 to 10 or more people
• Must agree to promote the vision and mission of the farm
• Previous experience in supervisory roles
• Strong involvement in your local or international yoga community
• Work day: 6-8 hours, One day off a week, One Rest day a week.

Desired Interests

• Yoga and Spiritual Leadership
• Cooking
• Organic, or bio-dynamic farming and permaculture
• Spanish language skills
• Carpentry/handyman skills
• First Aid

Benefits

• Free accommodations & food
• $300 monthly stipend
• 10% discount on any SYI Yoga Teacher training for each month you are at the farm. (3 months = 30% discount)

The 500-hr Mystical Yoga Teacher Training has given me the tools to connect with my highest self and my truest nature. I have learned to connect with my own inner wisdom and to allow that essence and knowledge to be my foundation for being a teacher to myself and to others. This is [...]]]>

The 500-hr Mystical Yoga Teacher Training has given me the tools to connect with my highest self and my truest nature. I have learned to connect with my own inner wisdom and to allow that essence and knowledge to be my foundation for being a teacher to myself and to others. This is a unique training that is based on co-creation and the sharing of knowledge. What you get out of it depends completely on how much you are willing to let go, shed the mind, embrace the journey and soar to meet your self as you’ve never seen before.

- Anjili

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Dear Finca Family,

I left the Mystical Yoga Farm early this morning. It was dark, silent and peaceful. The farewell vibrations of the singing bowl are still with me now. As I rode across the lake in the lancha with Guillermo, my attention was drawn to the powerful silhouette [...]]]>

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Dear Finca Family,

I left the Mystical Yoga Farm early this morning. It was dark, silent and peaceful. The farewell vibrations of the singing bowl are still with me now. As I rode across the lake in the lancha with Guillermo, my attention was drawn to the powerful silhouette of vulcan atitlan against the backdrop of the early morning starry sky.

I am so grateful to be a part of the finca (farm) family and to be able to spend time on the yoga farm. Everyday on the yoga farm is such a beautiful experience. Living simply, appreciating the small things. Loving being alive. Swinging in a hammock. Meditating on the dock. Practicing yoga in the shala. Gardening, cooking, cleaning, reading, creating. Satsang and sauna. Being part of a community, working together to sustain each other physically, emotionally and spiritually. This was my second visit and each time I leave a more conscious human being… mindful, compassionate and content with what is. Om Tat Sat.

Blessings of love and light to all who have visited the farm, who are there now and who will come in the future!

Sabrina

To try and put my experience into words like like trying to explain the concept of formlessness. As soon as you talk about it, you give it form and its just not something that can be [...]]]> As rainy season comes to an end, so does my stay at the farm for the time being,

To try and put my experience into words like like trying to explain the concept of formlessness. As soon as you talk about it, you give it form and its just not something that can be easily put into words, labels, and boxes (even though at the farm, thats what i love to do… label things!)I returned back to the farm in May and was set to stay until the end of the Yoga Teacher Training in August. After some time though, I quickly extended my stay until through September. The thought of leaving just was not an option.

I have been to the farm multiple times and have seen the place transition and  grow with every new energy that comes through it. People come and experience the joy and beauty of this land along with a like mind in organic farming and a yogic lifestyle. Nick Anderson, our project specialist and farmer,  Julia Randall, our garden goddess, and I, who looked over finances, guest relations, and spiritual facilitator, worked together over the last 5 months to really create this manifestation of a spiritual intentional community that people can come to and completely let go, be themselves, and transform to find their true essence.

Rainy season doesnt bring too many people around, but everyone who did has come through and touched our hearts and souls in one way or another and we have appreciated their presence and energy towards working together in community and making the farm a better place.

In August, we were full of action! I was lucky to have been there to facilitate the 200hr Yoga Teacher Training Course at the Mystical Yoga Farm. There were 12 students, one apprentice, Korken who quickly became part of the family, Julia who did all the cooking for us, and Nick, who maintained the farm while I was in teaching mode. It was such an incredible experience with incredible people. Again, words cant really describe and here I am trying to… We were lucky to have Vedantin with us for 10 days as well during the course sharing his love and light with us.

September came around, and it was quiet at the farm again. Heavy rains started to come down in the afternoons, cleansing our days with fresh summer rain. Bryan came down for a visit and that was great!

Experiences you will have at the farm are life changing, transformational ones, and it is just a beautiful space to come, relax, be surrounded by a loving, intentional, and spiritual community, who share the love and interest in farming and yoga!

Love and Light,
Randi
Mukshiya

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I had the great fortune to take a trip down to the Mystical Yoga Farm in Guatemala last week. I had 5 free days and I wanted thought, what better way than to spend it at the farm. It was so nice to see the progress that [...]]]>

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I had the great fortune to take a trip down to the Mystical Yoga Farm in Guatemala last week. I had 5 free days and I wanted thought, what better way than to spend it at the farm. It was so nice to see the progress that Randi, Nick, Julia  and Korken have made with the improvements to the farm.

It is such a peaceful place and such a rich spiritual community. Each morning, Nick woke us up with a song on his flute. We poured some tea and walked out onto the dock on the lake. It was hard to close my eyes to give up the view of mist over the water and the two volcanoes across the lake, but we eventually settled into beautiful silent meditations. Yoga classes were taught by Randi and Julia- such a pleasure to see SchoolYoga graduates sharing their practice of yoga with others. It is so nice to practice yoga with a group everyday.

I spent each day talking with a different person about their roll at the farm and what projects they are working on. Nick has built a new grey-water system, installed a professional composting system and created a gorgeous fish pond with native fish and plant species taken from the lake! His future projects are building a new floating dock, and a new composting toilet among other things.

Julia showed me around the garden. They have grown some amazing things such as passionfruit and pomegranates. She also shared about her experience cooking for the yoga teacher training course that we hosting in August. I heard nothing but great things about her cooking and we have decided to have her for all future groups at the farm. She is amazing. I hope she will post some of her recipes on the yoga cookbook site very soon.

Randi showed me around the farm as well and we talked about how we can continue to improve the reservation and booking system. We now have wifi at the farm, so she is able to Skype with people and to return calls and emails quite quickly. She has done such a great job over the past several month handling all the inquiries and greeting guests as they come. Not to mention, the many amazing yoga classes she has shared with visitors, apprentices and the other staff. If you have not taken a class with Randi, you are in for a treat. She really knows how to give you a workout and at the same time make you feel totally blessed out by the end of savasana.

Korken, one of the apprentices, share about his experience at the farm. He said that he has taken so much away from his time there and that he would not trade it for anything.  I did a video interview with him and hope to post it soon. He also did a little comedy talk on the farm (he is an actor from LA) and I may post that too once I edit out and of his non-pg segments. He is a funny guy and it was great to meet him during my stay at the farm.

Thanks everyone for making my stay a joy and a blessing. Such a beautiful would we live in! Thank you for making the farm a beautiful place and for sharing your energy with everyone who stops in.

I encourage everyone to take a trip to the Mystical Yoga Farm. It will be one of the best decisions can make. And, if you have visited the farm in the past, I encourage you to post about your experience below. I would love to hear about your stay.

Om Tat Sat.

-Bryan

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