New Life Foundation | Love Is All Around
by Roberta Margison
Carolina from Brazil is a volunteer at New Life Foundation with her husband Fernando. Carolina looks later on our duck family and has as well facilitated several workshops, including Brazilian trip the light fantastic and mantra meditation. To celebrate their second wedding anniversary they renewed their vows in a Thai wedding ceremony in the romantic setting of the Foundation'due south forest hall. The wedding was attended by the entire New Life customs including Thai staff and local villagers. Both communities watched with dearest and support in their hearts every bit the villagers guided Carolina and Fernando through the ceremony. Many people have or renew vows of abstinence at New Life, but this was the first time that New Life hosted a anniversary to renew wedding vows!
Tin you lot tell u.s.a. a bit well-nigh yourself?
I'm a volunteer at New Life Foundation. I'one thousand 29 and Brazilian. I have been married for ii years to Fernando who is also at NLF as a volunteer life coach. It was cute when we renewed our hymeneals vows. I felt really blest that the whole community including the Thai villagers came along. Our Thai cooks at new life, Pi Pen, Katae, and Jaeng, did my hair and makeup Thai-manner. Fifty-fifty although communication was difficult due to the language barrier, it really was heartwarming to feel loved and supported by everyone.
Fernando and I had been living in Commonwealth of australia for a year so traveling for 2 and a half months around Indonesia and Thailand before coming to NLF at the end of May.
In Brazil I am a training coordinator for civil servants who work for the court of justice. My volunteer role includes looking afterwards the ducks at NLF, which I honey. I've also been involved in running a Brazilian dance (forro) workshop, organising a community treasure hunt, game workshop and mantra meditation.
How did yous hear nearly New Life and what made you desire to come here?
We found New Life the help-X website when we were looking for volunteer opportunities in Thailand. Initially we planned to volunteer for 2 to iv weeks. However, nosotros've now been here for more than 3 months…my father has an booze addiction so when I heard that NLF was a recovery community, I thought by giving my time to others I might also exist able to heal myself. I liked the fact that people who come here are already on a path to be gratuitous of addiction and/or low.
Had you heard of mindfulness meditation earlier you came to New Life? What do you retrieve of it?
I had heard of the term mindfulness in the English language but it has never been translated to Portuguese. In Melbourne where I lived for a year the term 'mindfulness do' has go really trendy. I first heard well-nigh meditation when I was 13 and attended a holistic course for youths. At that time I used to take part in group meditation once a week. After the xviii months course I didn't meditate again for about ten years until I became a monitor in the same holistic course. I find it difficult to meditate daily but at NLF it is much easier and I really savour it. I oftentimes become to the 6am meditation session where nosotros practice sitting and walking meditation. Although I struggle to maintain a daily sitting meditation routine, I am sure I will continue to exist more aware and mindful in my daily activities including when I return to piece of work in Brazil.
What have been your greatest joys and challenges at New Life?
My greatest joy is related to the support network inside the customs. I felt welcomed and accepted from the beginning. I love being around people that testify they care about me and virtually how I am feeling. This has definitely been the best matter for me, although working with the ducks is a close second! I feel very useful taking intendance of them by cleaning their firm and feeding them twice a 24-hour interval. I accept learned so much almost ducks! They truly are interesting creatures. I love how they walk in line when they come across me coming with their food. I can at present recognize the different quacking sounds they make when waiting for food compared to when they are laying eggs. Information technology's amazing to see the hierarchy among them. They are all female merely some 'alpha' ducks adopt male person behaviours and try to mate with the more passive ducks!
My greatest challenge has been dealing with the impermanent nature of the community. I struggle to say goodbye when people I have adult friendships with leave. I similar it when new people join the community only the idea that I may non see someone I've connected with once again, is a claiming. I realise this is a style of learning more than most impermanence and as Julien would say, learning to 'only be with it'.
Source: https://www.newlifefoundation.com/th/love-around/
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