Seva: Nourishment Team
NOURISHMENT TEAM DIRECTOR FOR KYTT
We are looking for a Nourishment Team Director who can oversee the planning, execution, and service of breakfast and lunch on each day of kundalini yoga teacher training (and optionally other trainings and courses).
This Nourishment is what sustains the trainees and the training team throughout the week and is a critical component of training that enhances the experience of this course as well as what makes our course unique.
Teacher Training occurs every other year in four one-week immersions (see dates on our site for the next training in 2021).
The Meals Director would need to be available in the mornings on the days of training up until the meals are ready to be served. She is always welcome to enjoy the meals with the students and trainers.
This volunteer position requires the ability to:
- Meal plan for each week within budget. Head count includes trainees, trainers, facilitators and any sevadars that are staying for the meal.
- Time the shopping and delivery to make sure everything is on hand
- Bring together sevadars (volunteers), communicate with, and coordinate their schedules making sure that two are available each day, and meal choices are scheduled based on availability. Note: this is not a cooking class, so sevadars should know cooking basics: how to chop, prep, and follow recipes. They should also be teachers who have had some training in meditation and holding space, because it’s what goes into the food.
- Think vegan, gluten-free, and seasonal. And food-allergy sensitive.
A book of vegan and gluten-free recipes will be available for you to menu plan. That said, we welcome new recipes (that are minimally processed, more easily digestible)!
Other tasks involved:
- Present the meal (or have a sevadar present it) on the island making sure that ingredient lists are prepared for each dish. Aesthetics matter, because that’s where good digestion begins!
- Set the table with the appropriate dishes, flatware, napkins, condiments, serving spoons & forks.
- Clean as you go.
- Communicate with Jodh and with sevadars in a timely manner as to reduce costly purchasing and coordination & collaboration stress and frustration.
This can be a co-directors position. While this option can be fun and ease some of the responsibility put on one person, it can also create more challenges in other ways, so please consider this carefully.
NOURISHMENT TEAM
We are looking for a nourishment team to help prepare breakfast and lunch on each day of kundalini yoga teacher training.
This Nourishment is what sustains the trainees and the training team throughout the week and is a critical component of training that enhances the experience of this course as well as what makes our course unique.
Teacher Training occurs every other year in four one-week immersions (see dates on our site for the next training in 2021).
The Meals Director would need to be available in the mornings on the days of training up until the meals are ready to be served. She is always welcome to enjoy the meals with the students and trainers.
This volunteer position requires the ability to:
Other tasks involved:
This Nourishment is what sustains the trainees and the training team throughout the week and is a critical component of training that enhances the experience of this course as well as what makes our course unique.
Teacher Training occurs every other year in four one-week immersions (see dates on our site for the next training in 2021).
The Meals Director would need to be available in the mornings on the days of training up until the meals are ready to be served. She is always welcome to enjoy the meals with the students and trainers.
This volunteer position requires the ability to:
- Stick to the schedule and work with others. Volunteer positions are incredibly important positions that exist in service of each other and in the community for a special cause. They require coordination, commitment, and trust in each other to support the intended purposes and outcomes in the most magnificent way. Invitations and agreements with volunteers are not made lightly; we seek high caliber, highly trusted individuals with training in yoga and meditation who have demonstrated some level of ability to clear the channel, hold the space, and honor the commitment despite the chaos of life. These are important traits because energy is an important ingredient in nourishment.
- Know the cooking basics. This is not a cooking class. Our nourishment team members should come with ability to prep, chop, follow recipes, and ask questions.
- Appreciate vegan, gluten-free, and seasonal. And food-allergy sensitive.
Other tasks involved:
- Present the meal on the island making sure that ingredient lists are prepared for each dish. Aesthetics matter, because that’s where good digestion begins!
- Set the table with the appropriate dishes, flatware, napkins, condiments, serving spoons & forks.
- Clean as you go.
- Communicate with others in a timely manner as to reduce coordination stress and frustration.