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August 13, 2006

Lama Foundation Summer Stewards

The Lama Foundation, 20 miles north of Taos, New Mexico, was founded in 1967 and since has served as a sustainable spiritual community and educational center dedicated to the awakening of consciousness, spiritual practice with respect for all traditions, service, and stewardship of the land.

Each year Lama Foundation invites Stewards to come spend either all or part of the summer months to play, to grow, to be with the mountain, and to experience the magic and personal growth of spiritual community life.

Program details are as follow:

DESCRIPTION: The Summer Stewardship Program is an on-going summer retreat—an opportunity to take pause from ordinary life, to create and care for community and look at it through a number of lenses. Summer Stewards join with the year-round resident circle to actualize Lama Foundation’s summer community.

DURATION: The minimum enrollment is two weeks, but stewards may stay for any period of time beyond the initial two weeks until Closing Day, September 24. The Stewardship Retreat begins on May 21, which is also the beginning of Community Camp.

TUITION: Tuition is from $12-$22 per day, $300-$600 per month, sliding scale, with the intention that stewardship be as accessible as possible. Partial scholarships may be available.
Arrangement for youth under 18 will be made on an individual basis. This tuition may be applied to Lama Foundation’s lifetime tuition of $2000 for those seeking longer-term residence.

Stewardship is not considered “work exchange. Each of us comes to Lama to serve and, through that giving of ourselves, to support the Foundation and the ideals that we collectively hold. Most of us feel that what we have received from our stewardship experiences is actually priceless.

WHO ARE STEWARDS? Stewards represent a wide range of age, background, interest, life stage and life experience from many parts of the country and world—individuals, families, students, teachers, gardeners, builders and rebuilders, musicians, writers, artists, service and health care practioners, “wanderers, worshippers.”* The “thread” that connects us, like prayer beads, is the “call,” in whatever ways we have received it, to create a different way of being on the earth; to immerse our hearts and minds in a vision and task for a greater good; to explore the interface between our inner and our outer selves, our connection with others and with the natural world; to learn new skills and share in our work and our play.

*Although we hold the intention of accessibility, Lama is both rugged and remote and is unfortunately not accessible to individuals with some types of physical or other limitation. Please contact us if you have a concern.

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