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Natural Building Apprenticeship 2007
Lama Foundation is a “sustainable spiritual community”, founded in 1967, and one of the oldest communities in America. Located at 8600 feet on the western slop of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, 20 miles north of Taos, Lama is surrounded by Carson National Forest to the north, south and east, with a 100-mile panoramic view to the west.
The building apprenticeship program is a long-term retreat. During the time of the apprenticeship, Lama will also host a handful of additional retreats, some quite large, and while your days will be focused on natural building, the rest of the community will be focused on service for these events and caretaking Lama. With each visiting teacher, the feeling in the community changes. People will seem to be constantly coming and going, with the base community numbering anywhere from 25 to 50, and yet there is a regular weekly schedule of gatherings which is Lama’s gentle rhythmical heartbeat.
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Lama operates as a not-for-profit educational center in a wide range of spiritual subjects. At the same time, each community member has their own personal curriculum. There are year-around residents (ages 1 to 60), summer stewards, visitors, and retreatants. Daily life involves some fun activities as well as daily chores like kitchen-service work and also regular attendance at various community meetings over and above your apprenticeship time. Living in community, especially for the first time, can be quite thrilling, and you may make some wonderful new friends.
With all that said, Lama has been a place from the late 60’s where so many have felt “at home”, “in love”, “inspired by wonder”, “themselves”, “surrounded by beauty”, and even “a summer camp for kids of all ages”. Each summer community is a wide range of people, from all directions and all ages, from former resident members to first-time visitors, whose hearts seem to be pulling them up the mountain. Lama’s specific community flavor is prayer and spiritual practice from all spiritual traditions, as well as fun-loving and open-hearted. At the same time, the continuous physical demands of living off-the-grid keep the community grounded.
