Choose Your Karma Yoga

Karma Yoga is mandatory for all Solstice participants. You will sign up for Karma Yoga when you register. Your seva is deeply appreciated by all.

Karma Yoga Opportunities Include:

Divine Souls Foot Soaking Station: Summer in New Mexico is hard on our tootsies so we need many hands to refresh the water tubs, give people pumice stones, oils and creams for their feet and help set them up so they can work on reviving their feet.

Electrolyte Team: Altitude and a dry climate are conditions that make for very thirsty beings so help quench their thirst and keep them happy, healthy, holy and hydrated.

First Aid: Keep the first aid building tidy and clean so that medical professionals can assist those in need.

Green Team: Manage landfill bin removal as well as recycling and composting efforts.

Grounds: General maintenance, soap and hand sanitizer team, restocking toilet paper, bathroom cleaning, etc.

Kitchen:

  • Veggie Washers: Scrub-a-dub-dubbing the veggies prior to chopping. We love the Earth, too, but we can only eat so much.
  • Veggie Choppers: Aaaah, the joy of making bite-size portions for the ease of edibility and digestion.
  • Sadhana Soup Sevadars: Start to heat up the soups each morning at 5 am.
  • Bean and Rice Brigade: Tend the beans and rice to perfect completion. Sort and rinse rice, then follow the recipe to add veggies and spices. Set up and cook carrots and beets.
  • Hot Sauce : Make hot sauce. Rotate hot sauce and evaluate spices.
  • Dinner Setter Uppers and  Soup Starters: Come to the kitchen 1½ hours before dinner is served and transfer the food from pots to buckets and wash enough pots to get the soup started early. Cook the soup until the veggies are soft, then turn the soups off for what is left of a good night’s sleep. This may take place during the last exercise on White Tantric Yoga® days.
  • Tabouli Titans: On non-Tantric days, make our delicious lunch. Work on the langar and special meals and help out in any other area on Tantric days.
  • Outside Dish Washing: Setting up and tearing down the outdoor washing station for campers.
  • Kitchen Clean Up: Keep the kitchen as clean as possible all the time. Make a schedule to work throughout the day. God bless you.
  • Pot Washing: Feeding lots of people requires lots of big pots and clean pots at that.
  • Rock Reconnaissance Team: These mighty defenders of the purity of mung beans sort out rocks and soak beans in buckets every night for the next day’s dinner.
  • Meal Brigade: Transport and serve meals to the Siri Singh Sahib Cabin, Registration, Medical, and Security teams before each meal.

Meal Serving: Serving breakfast, lunch, or dinner daily.

Parking Team:   this team manages the parking areas, taking money, giving out vouchers, helping people fill out vehicle forms, directing parking are a few of the responsibilities of this new team.

Security: Various security duties, including monitoring the safety and policies of the camp.

Tantric Burgers: Preparing special vegetarian burgers in the early morning for lunches on the three White Tantric Yoga® days.

Watermelon: Cut and serve watermelon for participants.

Yogi Bhajan Living Legacy Center (Summer only): Keep the Yogi Bhajan Pavilion clean and welcoming to Solstice participants; maintain the altar; rotate the videos being shown as needed.

Yogi Tea and Golden Milk: Prep and serve Yogi Tea daily and Golden Milk during the Tantric days.

Solstice Youth Co-op: If you are a parent or guardian, your Karma Yoga will be to serve one Tantric day and 1/2  of a Non-Tantric Day in the area your child is participating in during the six days of SYC.

  • Baby Camp (0-2)
  • Toddler Camp (3 & 4)
  • Children’s Camp (5-7)
  • Youth Camp (8-11)
  • Teen Camp (12-17)