By Jon, Laura and Joachim on the melody of “Banana Boat Song” from Harry Belafonte The Sadhana Boat Song Work all day on a drop of love Daylight come and me wanna plant trees Sweat like a pig and elbow grease Daylight come and me wanna plant trees Hey you kitchen team Cook me something…
By Nico The Ecodome is a structure built to use as a place for meditation and silence, set in the midst of Sadhana’s forest, next to the back mud pool. The past weeks we have been working on removing the old plaster, and since one month we are giving the dome a new cover. This…
Yeah ! The new huts are now happy homes ! Construction of individual huts for long term volunteers has been happening over the past few weeks. With the help of Manu, our good friend and architect, and a hard working team of Tamil builders, five huts are now fully complete. These huts are being built…
March 24, 2010
By Nico The ECO dome is an earthen dome that will be used as a place for silent contemplation and meditation. The dome is located next to the back mud pool, in the midst of Sadhana’s forest. It was built in 2009, with plastic bags filled with earth and lime in the method of CalEarth.org (organisation…
2nd April 2010 By Liz This was an exciting week for the Green Kindergarten project, as the children are beginning to recognize us and feel more comfortable playing and interacting with us. Also, as the project is growing the team is expanding and on Monday we brought the volunteers from Children’s Land along with us!…
26th March 2010 by Becky This week the Kindergarten project has pushed on with preparing the fence for the children’s garden. We loaded up a tractor trailer with solid granite posts, tools, 8 fence panels, 10 volunteers and headed off to the Kindergarten! Progress was fast, and after using a crow-bar and scooping out the…
19th March 2010, By Helen An exciting new development for Sadhana Forest in the past few weeks has been the Green Kindergarten Project. Always keen to develop and improve relations with local villages we have begun to work with a local kindergarten in Trichitambalam, Koot Road. A group of Israeli volunteers called Adam LeAdam noticed…
On a beautiful Wednesday Sadhana Forest welcomed for the second time a very special children’s performance. I actually want to tell you about the first time this happened, about a week and a half earlier. It was a surprise, at least for me. On Saturday night, our weekly open podium night had so far only…
