Unfolding As I Go - Carole's travel blog

I can't believe it is already over and I can't believe all the experiences and everything that I have done in these past 2 months in Chile. I arrived here not having more plans than the first 2 weeks on Edo's farm. The rest got planned as I went, according to ideas, wishes, needs as well as through discussions with the people I met. I discovered that Workaway volunteering isn't that 'easy' after all, living with families and people. Also with some emotional things going on and need for rest and healing. My initial intention was to be on farms to learn to grow food, this only happened at the very end. What have I learned in these 2 months in Chile: - that it is not so easy to find Workaways that fits what you are looking for! and that have vegetable gardens... - to make fire! a lot! - how to cremate a dead dog in the woods at night - what is needed before starting a vegetable garden: keep the animals away! building a fence - how to train a Malinois guard

As I look back, it seems like everything I did and everywhere I went in the past 2 months in Chile has been a hidden scavenger hunt with the final destiny here in this Ecological Yoga Farm and Ashram Ekachakra. As I entered this place and was welcomed by the Mothers Madhava and Sakhi, was shown the place where I would live and the whole grounds, I felt I had arrived where I was meant to be, like it was the end of the yellow brick road, although I didn't even know I was on that road. Or simply the stars had been aligning one by one at each place I stayed in Chile in order to take me here in the end. The community here is made of the devotees of the Indian God Krishna, usually called the 'Hare Krishnas', multiple communities living in Eco Yoga Aldeas mostly around South America. They do have specific clothing, rituals, prayers, songs and codes that they live by. As a volunteer, you can choose to participate in any of their rituals or not (if you wake up in time you can eve