Reforestation Volunteer Program in Southern India

Sadhana Forest has been an awakening to the absolute truth of conscious living, which created such an incredible sense of awe within me.

Here, I get to awaken my senses and use my eyes and ears to see the raw beauty of nature and to listen to the sounds of native wildlife and experience it by living in the present.

This creates such a sensation of amazement throughout your day and it gets your adrenaline pumping by doing seva.

One learns how to actually live their life to the fullest. This is something that I have always looked forward to, and now I have found a place where I can give all of me to Mother Nature.

At Sadhana you get to experience life at its purest form. I have always wanted to learn and understand the ways of living sustainably and with all of the constraints in a city life, I wasn’t very happy with the lifestyle I was leading. Sadhana has
taught me so many ways of making green choices while un-learning all the non-sustainable lifestyle choices that I had consciously and unconsciously made.

Life at Sadhana is very grounded. You work yourself, community and the nature. I wish to visit Sadhana again and contribute more towards projecting and nurturing nature.

Sadhana Forest was an amazing and unique experience where I got the chance to deepen my knowledge regarding sustainable living and also be surrounded by the kindness & wisdom of so many like minded people! The food is a dream and the community is based is amazing values such as non violence, compassion, gift economy and non competition.
I highly recommend to anyone interested in reconnecting back to Mother Earth and nourish it in a regenerative and sustainable way. I know I’ll be back for sure eventually one day and I’m so grateful that I had this experience.

Sadhana forest was an amazing experience for me. The lifestyle, food and volunteering here were all interesting and unique . From the Sadhana community, I have met many people from all over the world, that was an interesting experience for me. Sadhana forest was an alternative style of living. I was able to get more into nature. I loved how they prepared and served food, bringing people together. I had some very beautiful and unique days in the Sadhana community. I really recommend this place for those who want to do such service and volunteer work.

The woods are indeed lovely, dark and deep but why go miles before you sleep when you can experience sleeping in the woods in Sadhana Forest?

The program promises volunteers and visitors a unique experience of collaborative community living in a forest. With compassion at the heart of Sadhana Forest, the community sustains and consciously makes living choices with the specific goal of nurturing nature.

From the in-house soap to the bamboo huts and from the vegan diet to the compost toilet, everything at Sadhana Forest is aimed at bridging the man-made gap between man and nature.

The reforestation project offers all-comers a living experience which is likely to become more popular in a world inflicted by the tides of climate change. Sadhana Forest truly sees the forest for the trees.

The organisation does pretty good work with reforestation and caring for the immediate environment around.
It's a good place to slow down living and understand the difficulty and importance of manual labour.
The sustainable way of living also makes you think about your own lifestyle.
As a student of development and social science, this is not the place to learn much.
It is expensive and you can see that it is not that connected to the local community. It's a world of it's own, that is doing good work for itself.

This is a place for people who want to enjoy and experience a minimalist and forest life. You will get to work in the forest, goshala, kitchen. You will also get to stay in the huts. You can play in the mud pool that they have.

In order to experience these to the fullest, you will have to come here without any work commitments. This is because everyday you will be having community sevas for a minimum of 5 hrs a day. I feel like a week should be fine to experience the community. But you are free to extend your stay, here in Sadhana forest !!

I have been sent here by the University I'm studying in as a part of my minor in Development studies. This place provides with a rich source of information based on sustainable development, gift economy, co-living with sustenance of organic resources including Sevas, Vegan food and efficient child development which they refer as "unschooling." Although there isn't much scope for my political development research here, I highly recommend this place for someone looking for a lifestyle change and primitive experience.