Yoga Instructor Position: Buddhist Nunnery (&Orphanage) during annual meditation retreat
Om & Roam’s Burma Love: Yoga Seva Project 2020
April 9 – 18, 2020 in Yangon, Myanmar (Burma)
Opportunity for female yoga instructors, to join team of teachers offering a yoga program at Buddhist Nunnery (& Orphanage). Week long program, living at the nunnery, teaching ages 4-65 (approx.), about 4 classes per day.
The yoga program is part of the annual meditation retreat held at the nunnery in alignment with Thingyan – the annual New Year water festival celebration. Thingyan is a time for cleansing ceremonies, deep meditation, community, and transition into the new year. The leaders of this nunnery made the progressive decision to incorporate a physical yoga practice into the annual Thingyan retreat. This relationship was born of the intention to provide the nuns and orphans with an outlet for physical activity, body awareness, and self-embodiment.
We are so humbled by this unique opportunity to offer yoga at this Theravada Buddhist Nunnery & Orphanage in the Yangon Region. We feel extremely fortunate to be invited back into this community to share yoga with hundreds of nuns and orphans. Our passion and purpose is to foster self-empowerment and connection through yoga.
*If this teaching opportunity calls to you, please be in touch! We would love to connect! carly@omandroam.com*
Our days will consist of teaching yoga asana together for about 4.5 hours a day to hundreds of nuns, teachers, and orphans (broken up into smaller groups). We join in the daily meditation schedule observed at the retreat, as well as the new year ceremonies that take place. This is a sacred opportunity to both be in service and deepen your own meditation practice. Out of service to the nunnery, we are meant to be flexible. We commit to offering as many yoga classes as requested throughout the meditation retreat schedule. This program is organized with a group teaching model. Depending on each teacher’s specific strengths and skills, we will assign a rotation of roles for each class (roles include: lead teacher (s), demo, assist, observer). Please note that each role in this group teaching approach is equally important as we offer yoga to this community. We ask for a commitment to flexibility as the week unfolds.
Learn more: www.omandroam.com
Participant cost: $700
(Collected when participation is confirmed.)
OM & ROAM is honored to curate this annual program in Myanmar. The BURMA LOVE program requires funding to support to sustain itself. Areas of support include: (not limited to) program fees and incidentals, in-country transportation, supplies, administration fees, budgeting for unforeseen expenses, as well as donation to the this nunnery community. Participant fee contribution from each participant ensures the continued success and possibility of both this program and opportunity. Participant cost also includes the Om&Roam Shwedagon Pagoda excursion in Yangon on Thursday, April 9th.
Om&Roam has established a scholarship fund, which receives a contribution annually. This fund is generated by Om&Roam and managed by the nunnery. A portion of the entire group participation fee is allocated to this scholarship fund. The scholarship fund can include things such as: tuition fee for schooling/education, and medical/health care.
Please note: Each participant is responsible for purchasing their own airfare, travel insurance, visa, and all accommodations outside of their time at nunnery (including evenings spent in Yangon prior to arrival at nunnery on April 10th).
To learn more & apply, visit www.omandroam.com
If this opportunity makes your heart sing, we can’t wait to hear from you!
With immense gratitude,
The Om & Roam Team
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Testimonials by former participants:
“The Om & Roam team are inspiring, wild, free and wise women, who graciously open their hearts and arms to anyone who wishes to join them in sharing yoga, awareness and love. Be brave and proud in your decision to join this team and be ready for an amazing experience that can shift the trajectory of your life forever!”
“This experience has changed my life in so many beautiful ways. I am forever grateful for my time spent in the company of my wonderful co-teachers, and the beautiful nuns. Burma has a special place in my heart forever.”
“The perfect balance of reciprocity unfolded in real time in Burma and reminded me of the importance and beauty of both giving and receiving. My body, mind and spirit were nurtured in a way I have never experienced before.”
“This experience changed the way that I see the world. I cannot encourage you enough to enter wholeheartedly into this project. It is one of service to a community that cherishes the yoga that is offered, and that can also offer you so much. It is the most intriguing and soul-awakening experience I have had. It has taught me to put into practice wisdom that I had been thinking about a lot, but it is only in living it, experiencing and feeling it, not through thinking it, that real change happens, and this opportunity provides an opportunity to do just those things.”
“Taking part in the Seva project for me was like a kind of homecoming, the nuns, the meditations and the innocent energies all very special. The week was a lot more energy demanding that I had ever expected but it also gave me so much in return. Working with these amazing women and girls was a truly enlightening and humbling experience and I feel incredibly grateful for having been offered the opportunity.
Sharing space and practice with the other Seva volunteers was also very special, lasting friendships were born. We all supported one another so naturally and, as a collective really lifted one another up in so many ways.”
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