Team Changes and News

Community News April 2007

At present there are eight of us in the community, although we are without Parami this month as she is in Spain visiting the Valencia sangha.

Lindsay Hannah joined us in January and is working mainly on the "front desk" .... if you ring us, it will probably be Lindsay who answers.

Hazel and Sanghajivani have just led a weekend retreat on their favourite pastimes: vegetarian cooking and nutrition; and gardening. The cooking enthusiasts cooked for gardeners so everyone was happy.

Ratnasuri had her 84th birthday on 1st April.

Visitors to the community
We have a couple of people who are regular visitors to our community. Irene Maddocks works a day a week for us looking after the finances; and, every few weeks, Jan France comes all the way from Sheffield and spends a few days looking after the retreat centre gardens. And Sharon O'Brien from the Cardiff sangha is with us for six months till end of August .... she's a whizz with our DIY tools and is a big help with our maintenance jobs. Tarasiddhi contacted us recently to ask if she could stay for a few months this summer. She will be here in July and August (maybe September) helping Saddhanandi and Kulaprabha in the retreat team side of things and occasionally being called upon by our support team to help them out too. We're very happy to have her here with us - especially Kulaprabha who has a very long-standing friendship with Tarasiddhi.

Ordinations
Kulaprabha and Parami will both be on the first ever ordination retreat at Akashavana. Kulaprabha will go over to privately ordain Enid Park from Glasgow and Parami will be there to be the public preceptor for Enid and several others. Sadhu to the Akashavana Community for all their hard work in getting the place ready to welcome the ordinands!