A two-week work retreat is offered twice a year. This retreat includes in-depth practices such as council and ceremony as well as natural building workshops and personal alone time.
Please see our calendar for upcoming dates
$250 includes housing for 14 nights plus team oriented service projects
Step out of time for a moment to deepen your connection to yourself, community and our planet. This two-week program offers the opportunity to be of service to our 40 acres of beautiful semi-wilderness land and live close to nature as you deepen your relationship with yourself while exploring the Ojai Foundation's ceremonial practices and philosophies. Work retreatants live close to nature, in voluntary simplicity, creating an atmosphere of mindfulness and mutuality. Within the two week scheduled program, participants receive intensive instruction and guidance through natural building workshops and council practices and ceremony.
Our 40 acres of beautiful semi-wilderness land offers upscale camp kitchens with refrigerators and stoves, shared bathrooms with showers and many places for personal reflection. Participants provide their own food and bedding and stay in shared yurts and domes.
Offerings include:
- Land Walk and Orientation to The Foundation
- Natural Building and Permaculture Projects and Workshops
- The Way of Council Practice and teachings
- Medicine Wheel Teachings
- Sweat Lodge (Sacred Stone People Ceremony)
- Personal Ceremonial Visioning & Reflective Time
- Daily Meditation
- Co-Created Community Meals
To apply for our upcoming Work Retreat, please send your completed application to pathofservice@ojaifoundation.org or contact Leif Skogberg at (805) 646-8343 x134 for more information.
