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Lohataona Yoga Retreats & Healing Project
To find all informations about our retreats please see our website, lohataona.com

Wwoofing is not only a way to help others. It´s kind of karma yoga. A way to help yourself as well. If you give, you´ll always get!
Wwoofing is a way to make travelling more interesting, but it´s not holiday.

You can find a lot more informations on our website lohataona.com
By the moment we are mainly interested in visitors which would like to stay longer than a week, and already got some experiences. There´s work to do like, to build up and repair old stone walls of our terasses. Set up a kitchen house. Cutting mimose trees. Doing fire wood. Producing kompost. Different gardenwork...

Our plan is to build a place for selfhealing and yoga retreat.
A place of nature, peace, love and light. With help of the four elements, fire, water, earth, air we are able to find our balance.
You as a voluntaire probably will find this as well as visiters of our project. We cook on fire and drink fresh springwater. Everyday we find contact to the earth and breath mountainair, while working, walking or just relaxing.

The place is situated in a valley near Lousa, east of Coimbra. We are surrounded by forrest of ancient nature, which become very, very rare in europe. We have to walk down from the village, through this beautiful forrest to get home.
We are around 800 meter high. Everything is about a month later growing like down. It´s a bit fresher like Coimbra. Thats very good in summer.

Isa and Philipp. Between 30 and 40 years old. We have been living very close to nature the last 15 years and one day we got this idea to share and show this way of live to others. As our guests we will ask you to understand, not to take any pictures of our place and to use mobile phones! To explain that it´s not enough space here.

By the moment it´s just us, who is trying to manage everything, by selve and help of voluntaires. With your help we are trying to realise a small but beautiful paradise. Still we are dependent of supermarkets, but our ecogarden is already growing... we produce lots of compost for next year.
We are planing a strawbale-yogahouse and a strawbale-mainhouse with indoor kitchen. There are projects like repairing walls, cutting and collecting compostmaterial or firewood. Building new garden terrasses. Cutting wood for buildings. Working in the garden and forrest... many more. Please bring clothes which can get dirty!
We want you to stay at least one week, longer would be nice. We work about 6h at 5days a week. Notice: In summer it get´s really hot. So we often start early in the morning. In winter we need help as well.

The Serra is a paradise for walking and relaxing. There is a lot of wildlife in and outside of the water, some little rivers and valleys.... just listen to the owls every night.
We have got a beautiful yogaplatform to practise yoga outside.

In advance for your help we provide breakfast every morning and lunch, or you just have some fruits, bread or muesli when you feel like. We cook for you every dinner. Trying to do it energetic and healthy, we are using biologic food if avaible. We use our own herbs for tee. We have got a nice wooden clay house whith fire ofen inside in winter and a tipi or tend in summer.

Please understand that you have to bring 100% biological soap, shampoo, toothpaste... only! There is a lot of wildlife in our water. In portugal it´s easier to find this products in bigger citys like lisbon, porto, or coimbra.

We don´t eat meat, drink alcohol and smoke, as it´s part of our healing project.
We are no religious people, but yoga and natural spirit is part of our dayly live.

If you feel like, you can ask for daly yoga lessons.

If you would like to come and help us you are very welcome all time until end of july and from the beginning of september.

It would be nice to know more or less the time you would like to come. So we are able to plan with other wwoofers. (max. 2 pers.) But flexibility is a must for everybody.