Join our residential team

Current Opportunities

We are looking for positive, self-motivating individuals with a strong work ethic and relevant experience to apply for the following roles:

• Admin support - undertaking administrative tasks as needed to support the manager and director, which may include but is not limited to dealing with phone and email enquiries, managing course bookings and room allocation, ordering supplies including food, maintaining stock for the ashram shop and processing online orders
• Housekeeper - ensuring that the interior of the buildings is kept clean and tidy, preparing accommodation spaces for courses, allocating karma yoga tasks, deep cleaning during quiet periods, taking care of laundry and managing cleaning supplies. This is a really important (and physically demanding) role, and will require someone who takes pride in keeping a clean, uncluttered space, creating a supportive environment for spiritual practice
• Caretaker - liaising with tradesmen to ensure that all buildings are maintained to a high standard, carrying out weekly checks and addressing any issues, keeping gutters and drains clear, organising rubbish collection, overseeing heating controls and upkeep of our biomass boiler, updating COSHH reports, coordinating fire and electrical safety/checks, overseeing and allocating karma yoga
• Cook - preparing and cooking all retreat meals (breakfast, lunch and supper) for up to 35 people with support from karma yogis, allocating tasks, maintaining food hygiene standards and a clean kitchen, liaising with office re: stock levels and ordering
• Gardener - maintaining the grounds and our 3 large polytunnels, growing food for use in the kitchen, arranging lawn cutting and managing of trees as needed, maintaining all pathways, overseeing garden karma yogis and our woodland project.

Additional duties may include meeting and greeting guests, giving welcome talks, manning the library, helping other departments as needed etc. Many ashram tasks are physically demanding and a reasonable level of fitness is required.

What you will receive

• £665 monthly stipend, paid in arrears
• Your own room
• Healthy, balanced meals during courses (outside of courses, the team will prepare/cook their own meals from the food store)
• Your own departmental responsibilities, with flexibility to cover other departments as needed
• 2 days off per week (on average)
• 6 weeks annual leave, which will be agreed in advance, should not be taken during busy periods, and may include set mandatory weeks according to the course timetable
• 50% off one course a year (no more than 4 days long and to be taken as annual leave)
• Access to an extensive library of books on yoga, meditation, health and wellbeing
• Access to the sadhana hall for your own practice, whether it be asana, meditation or chanting (outside of working hours and courses)
• Access to spiritual guidance from the various visiting teachers
• Day-to-day support in your role from the Operations Manager

Who we are looking for

This is an ideal opportunity for those who have a regular yoga and/or meditation practice but it is not essential to applying for a role. Being able to live consciously (which includes not being under the influence of any non-prescription drugs or alcohol on site) with others from different backgrounds and having empathy for course participants is vital. You should also be:

• able to work responsibly, both alone and as part of a team
• able to take initiative and respond to issues as they arise
• willing to be flexible around days off, working hours and responsibilities, according to the needs of the ashram and the course timetable
• able to commit to one year of service, with an option to increase to two years by mutual agreement at the end of the initial year.

Application process

Please click on the button below to complete an application form. If you are successful, you will be asked to attend an initial Zoom interview, followed by a 3-4 day residential stay to meet the team and shadow appropriate team members.