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"My volunteering experience and Ananda Gaorii was overwhelmingly positive and really quite transformational. As a place there is a special energy, which seemed to bring me into centre and wonderful people with whom I shared countless moments of laughter, love and wonder. I learnt more about working on a Permaculture farm, and grew more connected to the food I was eating on a daily basis. The Kirtan and Meditation for me were beautiful daily practices, and from the Dada's and the other Volunteers I learnt and experienced so much that I am deeply grateful for. This gave me my first taste of living in community for a longer period of time, enabling me to see a more conscious and authentic way of living with other people is indeed possible."

"Ananda Gaorii changed my life. I had some of the most beautiful experiences and I met some of the most important people I have in my life. There you get to experience a deeper connection with God, a deeper connection with yourself and with the people around you. The work, the spiritual practices and all the different activities that take place there are a lot of fun, and they show you the beauty of love and connection with the community. I would recommend this experience to everyone who would love to live in a community and want to experience something different in life."

"Volunteering at Ananda Gaorii was a truly life changing experience. Learning meditation and yoga gave me a completely new sense of inner peace, self-confidence and purpose, practices which still enrich my life in so many ways. Practicing, living and working together towards a thriving world, I experienced living in a community, as an incomparably great, most natural way of supporting and uniting each other. I also learned a lot from challenges- taking responsibilities, communicating authentically, being vulnerable- facing them together. Meeting inspiring people and having the opportunity to join and create various events and workshops, I gained many new skills and ways of thinking and I discovered my passion for theatre- which I now started doing professionally."

"I believe being in AG was one of the great step that I have done in my life. Beautiful transformation still happening to my due the amazing amount of information and knowledge I have to received from each amazing soul there. My first goal was to grow spiritually with my practice but due to the diversity of thinking and philosophy to each person I meet there it expanded my horizon in all ways. All this great seed are blooming now as I put them under practice I am so grateful to AG my family and all who helped me through this amazing journey."

"For me volunteering in Ananda Gaorii was a first experience of living in community and also living in eco-farm and the ashram. Combination of this two changed and empowered me dramatically throughout this 10 month. I got completely new daily routine, changed my eating habits, faced my inner “demons” and foldouts a way to connect and deal with them, learned a bunch of new skills in regards organic farming, sustainability, yoga philosophy and meditation. Additionally i met huge amount of inspiring young people from all around the world and took the part of them with me to my further journey."

"My journey in and through Ananda Gaorii was truly an adventurous one. Those adventures that you are guided into by a force beyond yourself and carried through in soft embrace, lovingly. A home, a transition, a portal, Ananda Gaorii is in my eyes a place where devotion and perseverance meet, where struggle dances with bliss in honor of a vision that beats inside of all of us, true human fellowship in harmony with nature. I was invited to expand, to grow, to take responsability, to tap into capacities latent in me ready to blossom, to jump into the unknown, to surrender, and rise and create, to find pauses, to comtemplate through the eyes of uncondition love. In gratitude to my time there, Matias."

"I spent almost one year at Ananda Gaorii as an EVS volunteer and I couldn't have chosen a better place for my project. Ananda Gaorii was the perfect nest to start my journey as a spiritually committed individual. There I found the time, the space, the people, and the environment that guided me into who I really am. It completely changed my life. I felt held in this phase of transition and I am absolutely grateful to the people that work hard to maintain the Ashram structure alive and meaningful. Everytime I go back to Ananda Gaorii, it feels like coming back home."

"I heard AG being called “the karma washing machine”, because it takes you and your weaknesses and strength and centrifugates until you learn the lessons. It was like that for me and I’ve learnt much about walking as an independent strong moral and compassionate woman on this earth. As many communities, AG provides the support and the joy of sharing life with like-minded people, but it’s focus on spiritual development makes it truly special and a jewel for whoever wants to go deeper inside. My time there wasn’t easy, but when I see who’ve I become and feel joy, I am grateful to this project. Karuna"

"I believe Ananda Gaorii is a magic place that gives everyone something they need to learn or discover, as long as you have an open and curious heart. There, I found God, I understood the importance of community, the blessings of nature and calm surroundings. I learnt to do a bit of everything, from construction to gardening, from teaching yoga to recording music. It changed me in so many different ways. It was very hard at times, but I still miss the lightness and joy I often felt there."

"My time as a volunteer at Ananda Gaorii has been truly transformative. At Ananda Gaorii, I found a sense of unity and compassion among residents and fellow volunteers, forming bonds that felt like family. The learning opportunities were abundant, with teachings on sustainable living, permaculture, yoga, and meditation that helped me find inner peace and a deeper connection with myself. I am deeply grateful for this life-changing journey and the invaluable experiences and lessons gained during my time at Ananda Gaorii, and I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone seeking personal growth and a profound sense of community."

"Our family of four (children of 3 and 7) arrived at Ananda Gaorii on a cloudy juli noon. The moment we stepped out of our car we were welcomed and offered a freshly picked cherry by a dada descending from a ladder leaning on one of the fruitful cherry threes. We encountered habitants from Ananda Gaorii some years back at another retreat. We were captivated by the joy and spirit these Kiirtan-singing and, dancing humans radiated. It took us some time to finally get around to visit the Ashram in Vig, but I wish we had went earlier. What a great experience. We spend a week at Ananda Gaorii. During the week we participated in daily kiirtans and meditations, helped out in the garden and dived into friendly, open and deep conversations with people who hours before had been strangers. We had been somewhat in doubt about how it would be bringing children along. We got a private room which gave us the option to retire, when stimulus had reached its max. Everybody was helpfull, warm and welcoming towards the children and we experienced a general understanding towards the limitations of communal work, when you also have to attend children’s needs. 
Having been meditating for some years and being curious investigating spiritual practice, the people of Ananda Gaorii were open to sharing their thoughts and insight in an open and non-judgmental way. We were also so lucky to get private one-to-one meditation lessons to further develop our pratice. 
As a Danish family we were astonished to find people from most corners of the world gathered outside the small town of Vig. For us, this has only been the beginning and we hope to come back again and again."